María Dolores Gómez Molleda was Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Salamanca, having also held chairs at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Madrid. Dr. Gómez Molleda specialized in the history of reform in education, culture and politics and published widely. She dedicated herself to research of Pedro Poveda, Spanish pedagogue and initiator of a reform movement in education, which in the early years of the Twentieth century crystallised as the Teresian Association, an association of lay christians. Dr. Gómez Molleda was also the General editor of the critical edition of the Works of Poveda, in eight volumes, the first of which, Creí, por esto hablé (“I believed and therefore I spoke”), was published by Narcea, s.a. de Ediciones in 2005.