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Professor James N.  Giglio, Conference Coordinator
Mailing address: History Dept., SMSU, 901 S. National, Springfield, MO 65804-0089
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Voice: (417)
836-5378
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  Asunción Lavrin

Asunción Lavrin, Professor of History at Arizona State University, received her Ph.D from Harvard University. She won the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002–2003. Her main area of research is in the study of women in Latin American history. She has penned 36 articles in journals and 30 chapters in books. Her publications include Women, Feminism and Social Change: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940 (1995) and Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America (1989).

Her most recent publications include “La escritura desde un mundo oculto: Espiritualidad y anonimidad en el convento de San Juan de la Penitencia” in Estudios de Historia Novohispana 22 (2000), 49–75, and “Women in Colonial Mexico” in Michael C. Meyer and William H. Beezley, eds., The Oxford History of Mexico (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). She is the author of the forthcoming Latin American Women in the National Period, one of the titles in the series Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective published by the American Historical Association.

Professor Lavrin will speak on “Colonial Mexican Friars: Approaches to Understanding Male Masculinities in New Spain” at the conference luncheon, Friday, October 1.

12:10 PM  Luncheon in Hawthorn II-III
12:45 PM  Public Seating for the Speech
1:00 PM  Luncheon Speech

 


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