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Asunción Lavrin

  • M.A. Radcliffe College
  • Ph.D. Harvard University.
  • Dissertation Title: Religious Life of Mexican Women in the Eighteenth Century

TEACHING POSITION

  • Full Professor: Arizona State University
  • Emerita

AWARDS, GRANTS AND ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS

  • Guest and honoree of La experiencia Intelectual de las Mujeres en el Siglo XXI, CONACULTA Mexico, March 7-11, 2011.
  • Guest Keynote Speaker at the AEIHM conference on Women’s History—Bilbao, Spain, November 11-12, 2010.
  • 2010 Presidential Panel Honoree. The Pacific Coast Brand of the American Historical Association
  • Premio Reseña Siglo XX, conferred by Comité Mexicano de Ciencias Históricas, 2010. For the review of Jocelyn Olcott, Mary K. Vaughn and Gabriela Cano, eds. Sex in Revolution. Gender, Politics and Power in Modern Mexico. Reviewed in Historia Mexicana, LVIII, No. 2, Vol. 230 (Octubre-Diciembre 2008), 924-932.
  • Distinguished Service Award, Conference on Latin American History, January 2009. Thomas Mc Gann Prize, [for best book, 2008] awarded by Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) March 2009 For Brides of Christ. Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2008)
  • Honorary Lifetime Membership, Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (GEMELA), October 2008.
  • Nominated to present a lecture as part of ASU “Last Lecture Series.” 2005.
  • ASU Graduate College Mentorship Appreciation Certificate “Preparing Future Faculty” May 2003
  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002-2003. Elected President of the Conference on Latin American History, (CLAH) Tenure: 2001-02. Co-Director NEH Summer Institute “Hispanic Gendering of the Americas: Beyond Cultural and Geographical Boundaries.” June 17-July 19, 2002
  • Co-Director, NEH Summer Institute for High School Teachers, “Converging Cultures: Native America, Europe and the Encounter.” Summer 2000.
  • Harold Eugene Davis Memorial Prize, 1999.
  • Awarded by the Mid-Atlantic Conference on Latin American Studies (MACLAS). For “Indian Brides of Christ: Creating New Spaces for Indigenous Women in New Spain,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), 225-260.
  • Women’s Studies, Arizona State University, Research Grant, Summer 1997.
  • Arthur P. Whitaker Memorial Prize, 1996. Awarded by the Mid-Atlantic Conference on Latin American Studies (MACLAS). For Women. Feminism and Social Change: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay 1890-1940 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995).
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1993-94: Mexican Nunneries: Spiritual, Social and Economic Roles in a Colonial Society.
  • Visiting Faculty for NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers, “New Societies in a New World,” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, June-July 1992.
  • Guest Lecturer at the Summer School of the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Course on Sources and Methods in the Study of Women in Spain and Latin America.  Held in Sigüenza, July 9-13, 1990.
  • Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor to the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol, England, October-December, 1988. Social Science Research Council, 1985
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution,1984-85
  • Organization of American States, Travel Grant, 1981. Research in South America
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1980-81
  • Howard University Department of History, Summer Research Grant, 1979
  • American Philosophical Society, Summer Grant, 1978
  • Social Science Research Council, Summer Grant, 1974
  • American Council of Learned Societies, Summer Grant 1973
  • American Philosophical Society, Summer Grant 1968
  • James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize, Granted by the Conference of Latin American History, 1967. For the best article published in The Hispanic American Historical Review
  • Ann Radcliffe Fellow. For graduate study at Radcliffe-Harvard. I also received a State Department Exchange Scholarship to travel to the U.S. to carry out graduate studies at Radcliffe.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

  • Brides of Christ. Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008).
  • Diálogos espirituales: Letras femeninas Hispanoamericanas, Siglos XVI-XIX, coedited with Rosalva Loreto. (Puebla: Benemérita Universidad de Puebla/ Universidad de las Américas, 2006).
  • Monjas y Beatas: La escritura femenina en la espiritualidad barroca novohispana, Siglos XVII y XVIII. Co-editor with Rosalva Loreto López. (Mexico: Archivo General de la Nación / Universidad de las Américas, 2002).
  • Women, Feminism and Social Change: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, 1890-1940 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995). Available in paperback, 1998.
  • Translated into Spanish as Mujeres, feminismo y cambio social en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay 1890-1940 (Santiago de Chile: Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana, 2005)
  • Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1989). Editor and co-author.
  • Translated into Spanish as: Sexualidad y matrimonio en la América hispánica (Mexico: Editorial Grijalbo, 1990)
  • Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978). Editor and Co-author.
  • Translated into Spanish as: Las mujeres Latino-Americanas. Perspectivas Históricas (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1985).

Articles in Journals

  • “Masculine and Feminine. Construction of Gender Roles in the Regular Orders in Early Modern Mexico.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 34:1 (Summer 2008), 1-26.
  • “Recuerdos del siglo XX”. In Revista de Historia Social y de la Mentalidades, (Santiago de Chile) año VIII, Vol.1-2, (2004), 11-33. Appeared in 2006, despite it being counted as 2004. Also available in Internet—CEHMAL-Peru and Blog Frentes Avanzados de la Historia (Spain)
  • Spanish American Women, 1790-1850. The Challenge of Remembering,” Hispanic Research Journal,” Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 2006), 71-84.
  • “La madre María Magdalena Lorravaquio y su mundo visionario.” Signos Históricos Vol. 7, No 3 (Enero-Junio 2005), 22-41.
  • “Los hombes de Dios. aproximación a un estudio de la masculinidad en Nueva España. Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, 31 (2004). 283-309. Available in Internet, Blog Frentes Avanzados de la Historia. (Spain)
  • “La autoridad cuestionada: epístolas de una crisis.” Historias. (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico). Vol. 55 (Mayo-Agosto 2003), 59-69.
  • “Creating Bonds and Respecting Differences among Feminists” Latino(a) Research Review, 5: `1 (Spring 2002), 37-50.
  • «La escritura desde un mundo oculto: espiritualidad y anonimidad en el convento de San Juan de la Penitencia,” Estudios de Historia Novohispana, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Vol. 22, (2000) pp. 49-75.
  • “Indian Brides of Christ: Creating New Spaces for Indigenous Women in New Spain,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 15:2 (Summer 1999), 225-260
  • Interview by Roger Adelson, The Historian, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Fall 1998), pp. 1-14.
  • “International Feminisms: Latin American Alternatives,” Gender and History, 10:3 (November 1998), 519-34.
  • “Cambiando actitudes sobre el rol de la mujer: Experiencia de los países del Cono Sur a principios de siglo.” European Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, amsterdam, 62 (June 1997), pp. 71-92.
  • “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Obediencia y autoridad en su entorno religioso”. Revista Iberoamericana Vol.s 172-73 (Julio-Diciembre, 1995), 602-622.
  • “Espiritualidad en el claustro novohispano del siglo XVII.” Colonial Latin American Review 4:2 (1995), 155-179.
  • “La Vida femenina como experiencia religiosa: Biografía y hagiografía en Hispanoamérica colonial,” Colonial Latin American Review 3-4 (1993): 27-52.
  • “Women, Labor, and the Left: Argentina and Chile, 1890-1925,” The Journal of Women’s History I:2 (Fall 1989), 88-116. Reprinted in Cheryl Johnson-Odim and Margaret Strobel, eds. Expanding the Boundaries of Women’s History: Essays on Women in the Third World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992), 249-277.
  • “Misión de la Historia e Historiografía de la Iglesia en el Período Colonial Americano,” Historiografía y Bibliografía Americanista, Suplemento del Anuario de Estudios Americanos (Seville, Spain), Vol. XLVI, No. 2 (1989), pp. 11-54.
  • “Female, Feminine, Feminist. Women’s Historical Process in Twentieth Century Latin America.” Occasional Paper. University of Bristol, School of Modern Languages and Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. Fall 1989.
  • “Anthologies,” in Lynn Stoner, ed. Latinas of the World (New York: Garland, 1988), 3-26.
  • “Women, the Family, and Social Change in Latin America,” World Affairs 150:2 (Fall 1987), 109-28.
  • “Sources for the Study of Women in Latin America,” in Dan C. Hazen, ed. Latin American Masses and Minorities: Their Images and Realities. Papers of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Seminar on Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. (Madison, 1987), 177-191.
  • “The Ideology of Feminism in the Southern Cone, 1900-1940.” Working Paper 169, The Latin American Program, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 1986.
  • “El Capital Eclesiástico y las Elites Sociales en Nueva España Fines del Siglo XVIII,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos I:1 (Winter 1985), 1-27.
  • “Aproximación histórica al tema de la sexualidad en el Mexico colonial,” Encuentro, 2:1 (Octubre-Diciembre 1984), 23-40.
  • REVIEW ESSAY “Recent Studies on Women in Latin America,” in Latin American Research Review XIX:1 (1984), 181-189.
  • “Unlike Sor Juana? The Model Nun in the Religious Literature of Colonial Mexico,” University of Dayton Review, 16:2 (Spring 1983), 75-92. Reissued in Stephanie Merrim ed. Towards a Feminist Understanding of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990), 61-85.
  • “Perfil histórico de la población negra, esclava y libre, en Guadalajara, 1635-1699,” Boletín del Archivo Histórico de Jalisco VI:1 (Enero-abril 1982), 2-7.
  • “Women in Latin American History,” The History Teacher, 16:3 (May 1981), 387-400.
  • With Edith Couturier: “Las mujeres tienen la palabra: Otras voces en la historia colonial de Mexico,” Historia Mexicana 31:2 (Octubre-Diciembre, 1981), 278-313.
  • “La Congregación de San Pedro. Una cofradía urbana de Mexico colonial, 1640-1730,” Historia Mexicana 29:4 (abril-junio 1980), 562-601.
  • With Edith Couturier, “Dowries and Wills: A View of Women’s Socioeconomic Role in Colonial Guadalajara and Puebla, 1640-1790,” Hispanic American Historical Review 59:2 (May 1979), 280-304.
  • “La iglesia en la economía novohispana,” in Elsa C. Frost, Michael Meyer and Josefina Z. Vásquez, eds., El trabajo y los trabajadores en la historia de Mexico (Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico and the University of Arizona Press, 1979), 874-878.
  • “Latin American Women’s History,” REVIEW ESSAY in Latin American Research Review XIII: 2 (1978), 314-318.
  • “Mexico: General and Colonial, Annotated Bibliography, with Edith Couturier, in Dolores Moyano Martin, ed., Handbook of Latin American Studies. I was a Contributing Editor for Vols. 36 through 60. Produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, and published by the University of Florida Press, and the University of Texas Press.
  • With Susan Soeiro, “Approaches to the History of Women in Latin America,” in Teaching Latin American History, eds. Bradford Burns, Eduardo Hernández, and Mary Karash (Los Angeles: Office of Learning Resources, University of California, 1977), 18-25.
  • “El Convento de Santa Clara de Querétaro: la administración de sus propiedades en el siglo XVII,” Historia Mexicana No. 97 (July-September 1975), 76-117.
  • “Historia y Mujeres en América Latina,” Boletín Documental sobre las Mujeres CIDAL, Cuernavaca, Mexico, IV:4 (December 1974), 9-18.
  • “La riqueza de los conventos de monjas en Nueva España: Estructura y evolución en el siglo XVIII,” Cahiers des Ameriques Latines LIII (February 1973), 27-49. This essay has also appeared as “Los conventos de monjas en la Nueva España,” in A.J. Bauer, comp., La iglesia en la economía de América Latina: Siglos XVI al XIX (Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1986), 193-222.
  • “The Execution of the Law of Consolidación in New Spain: Economic Aims and Results,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 53:1 (February 1973), 27-49.
  • “Values and Meaning of Monastic Life for Nuns in Colonial Mexico,” Catholic Historical Review, 63 (October 1972), 367-387.
  • “Mexican Nunneries from 1835 to 1860: Their Administrative Policies and Relations with the State,” The Americas XXVIII (January 1972), 288-310.
  • “Problems and Policies in the Administration of Nunneries in Mexico, 1800-1835,” The Americas XXVIII (July 1971), 57-77.
  • “The Role of the Nunneries in the Economy of New Spain in the Eighteenth Century,”Hispanic American Historical Review 46:4 (November 1966), 371-393.
  • “Ecclesiastical Reform of Nunneries in New Spain in the Eighteenth Century,” The Americas XXII (October 1965), 182-203.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • Senior Editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Editor-in-Chief, Bonnie Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008)
  • For this publication I wrote twenty-one entries in addition of rendering services as editor.
  • Senior Editor of Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina, 4 Vols. Coordinated by Isabel Morant, [Director of the Project.] G. Gómez Ferrer, G. Cano, D. Barrancos and A. Lavrin, (Madrid: Cátedra, 2006
  • “Sexuality in Spanish America.” In José Moya, ed. The Oxford Handbookof Latin American History (New York: Oxfod University press, 2010)
  • «El más allá en el imaginario de las religiosas novohispanas.» In, Muerte y vida en el más allá. España y América, Gisela von Wobeser and Enriqueta Vila, coordinators (México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), 2009, p. 181-201.
  • “Devocionario y espiritualidad en los conventos femeninos novohispanos: siglos XVII y XVIII.” In Maria Isabel Viforcos Marinas and Rosalva Loreto López, coords, Historias compartidas. Religiosidad y reclusión femenina en España, Portugal y América. Siglos XV-XIX (León:  Universidad de León, /Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades “Alfonso Vélez Pliego” and Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. 2007), 149-162.
  • “Seventeenth Century New Spain: A Historical Overview: In, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Edied by Emilie L. Bergman and Stacey Schlau. (New York: Modern Language Association, 2007), 28-36.
  • “La construcción de la niñe z en la vida religiosa. El caso Novohispano.” In Pablo Rodríguez and María Emma Manarelli, coords. Historia de la infancia en América Latina (Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2007), 121-144.
  • “Female Visionaries and Spirituality.” In Religion in New Spain, edited by Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007, 160-178.
  • “María Marcela Soria: un Capuchina Queretana.” In Diálogos Espirituales: Letras femeninas Hispanoamericanas, Siglos XVI-XIX, coedited with Rosalva Loreto. (Puebla: Benemérita Universidad de Puebla/ Universidad de las Américas, 2006, pp. 74-92.
  • “Ciudadanía y acción política femenina en Chile y Perú hasta mediados del siglo XX.”: In Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina. Isabel Morant, Dir. and G. Gómez Ferrer, G. Cano, D. Barrancos y A. Lavrin, Coord. Vol. IV (Madrid: Cátedra, 2006), 577- 595.
  • “Mujeres rebeldes: El Salvador, Nicaragua y Guatemala.” In Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina, Vol. IV, Coordinated by Isabel Morant, [Dir.] G. Gómez Ferrer, G. Cano, D. Barrancos y A. Lavrin, (Madrid: Cátedra, 2006), 737-750.
  • Eight articles in Vicki Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korroll, eds. Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)
  • “Las esposas de Cristo en Hispanoamérica.” In Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina.Vol. II. Coordinated by Margarita Ortega, Asunción Lavrin and Pilar Pérez Cantó, (Madrid: Cátedra, 2005), 667-693. For this publication I also co-wrote the Introduction to the Section El Mundo Moderno en la América Colonial. Also wrote the Introduction to the Section on América Precolombina, Vol.I.
  • “Latin American Women’s History: The National Period.” in Bonnie Smith, editor, Women’s History in Global Perspective, 3 Volumes, Urbana, and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005.). Vol. 3, pp. 180-221. Re-Issued by the American Historical Association in its series on Teaching Women’s History, 2007.
  • “La sexualidad y las normas de la moral sexual.” In Antonio Rubial, coordinator, La ciudad barroca, Vol. II of Historia de la vida cotidiana en Mexico, (6 vols) coord. By Pilar Gonzalbo aizpuru. Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, /Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2005. (Vol. 2, pp. 489-
  • 518 (ISBN 968-12-1086).
  • Mexico: General and Colonial Sections. Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 60., pp. 176-211. Twenty years as editor of the Section:Mexico—Generaland the Colonial Period.
  • “Confraternities in Colonial Spanish America.” In Barry D. Sell, translator and editor, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, O.F.M. Berkeley: academy of Franciscan History, 2002, 23-40.
  • “La celda y el convento: una perspectiva femenina.” In Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, coordinator, Historia de la literatura mexicana, Vol. 2. Mexico: Siglo XXI, 2002, pp. 372-410.
  • “La génesis del sufragio en América Latina” in Eugenia Rodríguez Saénz, ed. Un siglo de luchas femeninas en américa Latina (San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2002), 3-22.
  • “Sor María de Jesús Felipa: un diario espiritual de mediados del siglo XVIII (1758)”. In Asunción Lavrin and Rosalva Loreto L. eds. Monjas y Beatas: La escritura femenina en la espiritualidad barroca novohispana. Siglos XVII y XVIII (Mexico: Archivo General de la Nación/ Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, 2002), pp. 111-160.
  • “Women in Colonial Mexico,” in Michael C. Meyer and William H. Beezley, eds. The Oxford History of Mexico (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 245-273.
  • “La religiosa real y la inventada: diálogo entre dos modelos discursivos,” In La creatividad femenina en el mundo barroco hispánico. Maria de Zayas-Isabel Rebeca Correa-Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Edited by Monika Bosse, Barbara Potthast and André Stoll, (Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 1999), 535-558. ALSO published by Historia y Grafías (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City), Vol. 14, May 2000, pp. 185-206.
  • “Historiografía de la Mujer y el Género en Hispanoamérica Colonial: Pasado, Presente y Futuro, in Autoras y Protagonistas, edited by Pilar Pérez-Cantó, ed. (Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, 2000), 159-192.
  • “Cofradías Novohispanas: Economías Espiritual y Material,” in Pilar Martínez López-Cano, Gisela VonWobeser and Juan Guillermo Muñoz, coords. Cofradías, Capellanías y Obras Pías en la américa Colonial (Mexico: UNAM, 1998), pp. 49-64.
  • “Género e Historia: Una Conjunción a Finales del Siglo XX.” Keynote Address, 49th Congreso de Americanistas In Memorias (Colección 49o International Congress of Americanistas) No. 1 (Quito: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador/Ediciones abya-Yala, 1997), 57-90. Reissued in Cuadernos de Instituto by the Instituto Interdisciplinario de la Mujer, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, La Pampa, argentina. Vol. 1 (1998).
  • “Alicia Moreau de Justo: Feminismo y política: 1911-1945,” in Cuadernos de Historia de America Latina published by the European Association of Historians of Latin America (AHILA), editors: Barbara Potthast and Susana Menéndez, (Málaga: AHILA\Algazara, 1997), 176-200.
  • “Intimidades” in Alain Musset and Thomas Calvo, eds. Des Indes Occidentales a L’Amerique Latine (Paris: CEMCa/Ens Editions/IHEAL, 1997), Vol. 1, 195-218.
  • “Viceregal Culture, “In Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker, eds. The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature 3 Vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Vol. 1: 286-335.
  • “La Celda y el siglo: epístolas conventuales” in Mabel Moraña, editora, Mujer y cultura en la Colonial hispanoamericana (Pittsburgh: Biblioteca de América; Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 1996), 139-159.
  • “Conclusiones y reflexiones finales,” in María del Pilar Martínez López Cano, coordinadora. Iglesia, estado y economía: siglos XVI al XIX (Mexico: UNaM and Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, 1995), 295-311.
  • “De su puño y letra: Epístolas desde el claustro.” Actas del Segundo Congreso Internacional Sobre el Monacato Femenino en el Imperio Español (Mexico: Centro de Estudios de Historia de Mexico CONDUMEX, 1995), 43-62.
  • “Cotidianidad y espiritualidad en la vida conventual novohispana: siglo XVII.” In Memoria del Coloquio Internacional Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y el Pensamiento Novohispano, 1995 Toluca: Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura y Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico, 1995), 203-19.
  • “Vida Conventual: Rasgos Históricos.” In Sara Poot Herrera, ed. Sor Juana y su Mundo: Una Mirada actual (Mexico: Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, 1995), 33-91.
  • “Unfolding Feminism: Spanish American Women’s Writing, 1970-1980.”  In Domna Stanton and Abigail J. Stewart, eds. Feminisms in the Academy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), 248-273.
  • “Women in Twentieth Century Latin American Society.”  In Leslie Bethell, ed., Cambridge
  • History of Latin America, Vol. VI. (1994), 483-544.
  • “Suffrage in South America: arguing a Difficult Cause.” In Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan, eds. Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives (Auckland: Auckland University Press–Pluto Press, 1994), 184-209.
  • “La niñez en Mexico e Hispanoamérica: rutas de exploración.” In La familia en el mundo iberoamericano, edited by Pilar Gonzalbo aizpuru and Cecilia Rabell (Mexico: Universidad Nacional autónoma de Mexico, 1994), 41-69.
  • “Lo Femenino: Women in Colonial Spanish American Sources.”  In Nina M. Scott, J. Cevallos, J. Cole and N. Suárez Araúz, eds. Coded Encounters: Writing, Gender, and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America. (Amherst: New England University Presses, 1994), 153-176.
  • “Paulina Luisi: Pensamiento y escritura feminista.” In Lou Charnon-Deutsch, ed. Studies on Hispanic Women Writers in Honor of Georgina Sabat-Rivers (Madrid: Castalia, 1992), 156-172.
  • “Women’s Studies,” in Paula H. Covington, ed. Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Sources (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992), 743-54.
  • “Women in Latin America: Current Research Trends.” In Perspectives and Resources: Integrating Latin American and Caribbean Women into the Curriculum and Research, compiled and edited by Edna Acosta Belén and Christine E. Bose albany: CELAC/IROW, 1991, 5-25. Reprinted in Edna Acosta-Belén and Christine E. Bose, eds. Researching Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993), 7-36.
  • “Unlike Sor Juana? The model nun in the religious literature of Colonial Mexico,” University of Dayton Review, 16:2 (Spring 1983), 75-92. Reissued in Stephanie Merrim ed. Towards a Feminist Understanding of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990), 61-85.
  • “Mexico.”  In N. Ray Hiner and Joseph M. Hawes, eds. Children in Comparative and Historical Perspective: An International Handbook (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1991), 221-245.
  • “Perfil histórico de la población negra, esclava y libre.”  In José María Muria and Jaime Olveda, comps. Sociedad y costumbres: Lecturas históricas de Guadalajara, II (Mexico: INaH/Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco/ Universidad de Guadalajara, 1991), 35-46.
  • “Rural Confraternities in the Local Economies of New Spain: The Bishopric of Oaxaca in the Context of Colonial Mexico.”  In Arij Ouweneel, ed. Studying the Indian Community in New Spain. (Amsterdam: Centrum Voor Studie Documentatie van Latijns Amerika, 1990), 224-249.
  • “La mujer en Mexico: Veinte años de estudio, 1968-1988.  Ensayo Historiográfico.” In Simposio de Historiografía Mexicanista (Oaxtepec, Mexico, 1988), (Mexico: UNAM, 1990), 545-79.
  • “Female Religious,” in Louisa Schell Hoberman and Susan Migden Socolow, Cities and Society in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 165-195.
  • “Worlds in Contrast: Rural and Urban Confraternities in Mexico at the End of the Eighteenth Century,” in Jeffrey “. Cole, ed., The Church, and Society in Latin America (New Orleans: Tulane University Center for Latin American Studies, 1984), 99-117. This essay has appeared in a longer Spanish version as, “Mundos en contraste: cofradías rurales y urbanas en Mexico a fines del siglo XVIII,” in A.J. Bauer, comp., La iglesia en la economía de América Latina: Siglos XVI al XIX (Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1986), 235-276, and in a revised and longer version as “Diversity and Disparity: Rural and Urban Confraternities in Eighteenth Century Mexico,” in alfred Meyers and Dianne E. Hopkins, eds. Manipulating the Saints: Religious Brotherhoods and Social Integration in Postconquest Latin America (Hamburg: Wayasbah, 1988), 67-100.
  • “Women in Spanish American Colonial Society,” in Leslie Bethell, editor, The Cambridge History of Latin America Vol. 2 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984), 321-355, 843-848.
  • “Women and Religion in Spanish America.” In Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Skinner Keller, Women and Religion in America. The Colonial and Revolutionary Period Volume 2 (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1983), 42-78
  • “Women in Convents.  Their Economic and Social Role in Colonial Mexico.” In Liberating Women’s History, ed. Berenice Carroll (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976), 250-277.

Essay Reviews and Book Reviews published in Colonial Latin American Review, Latin American Research Review, The Hispanic American Historical Review, The American Historical Review, The Americas, Revista Interamericana de Bibliografía, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Americas, anthropology Quarterly, Red River Valley Historical Journal, Western Historical Review, International Migration Review.

  • PROLOGUE to Pilar Foz y Foz, ODN, Archivos Históricos. Compañía de María Nuestra Señora 1921-1936. Vol. 2 (Roma: Tipografía Vaticana, 2006), XVII-XXII.
  • PROLOGUE to: Pilar Foz y Foz, Fuentes primarias para la historia de la educación de la mujer en Europa y América: archivos Históricos: Compañía de María de Nuestra Señora, 1607-1921 (Roma: Tipografía Políglota Vaticana, 1989) XIII-XVII.
  • PROLOGUE to Rosalva Loreto López, Los conventos femeninos y el mundo urbano de la Puebla de los Angeles del siglo XVIII (Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 2000).
  • PROLOGUE to Elia J. Armacanqui-Tipacti, Sor María Manuela de Santa ana. Una Teresiana Peruana (Cuzco: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas, 1999.)

Special Activities

  • Keynote speech, Conference of the Asociación Española de Investigaciones sobre la Mujer. Bilbao, Spain, November 11-13, 2010
  • Guest lecturer at Brandon University and the University of Manitoba, Canada, September 2009.
  • Keynote Speech, GEMELA Conference [Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en Espaňa y America] California State University at Long Beach, October 2008.
  • Keynote Speech South Central Renaissance Conference at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, March 2007. Masculine and Feminine. Construction of Gender Roles in the Regular Orders in Early Modern Mexico.”
  • Keynote Speech, Western Association of Women Historians, University of San Diego, California, May 3-6
  • Franklin Pease Prize Committee 2007. Sponsored by the Colonial Latin American Review
  • Keynote Speaker, “History Without Frontiers? Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Scripts College, Pomona, June 2005.
  • Keynote Speaker, twenty-six annual Mid-America Conference on History, Southwestern Missouri State University” Colonial Mexican Friars: Approaches to Understanding Masculinities in New Spain.”
  • Keynote Speaker, “Recuerdos del siglo XX, “Keynote Speech presented at the VI Congreso Iberoamericano de Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, May 19-23, 2003
  • Organized a session for the XI Annual Arizona Center of Mediecal and Rennaisance Studies (ACMRS) Conference, February 17-19, 2005. “Material and Spiritual Nourishment in the Spanish Empire.”Also presented a paper in that session.
  • Keynote Speaker in 51st Congress of Americanistas, Santiago de Chile. “La literatura testimonial de mujeres en Latinoamérica.”  July18, 2003. Guest Lecturer, Graduate Seminar, Universidad de Chile (Santiago de Chile), June-July 2003.
  • Keynote address, 49th International Congress of Americanistas, Quito, Ecuador, July 7-11, 1997, “Género e Historia: Una Conjunción a Finales del Siglo XX.”
  • Keynote Speaker in the Primer Encuentro Internacional sobre Autoras y Protagonistas, (First International Congress on Women Authors and Protagonists):  Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, April 13-15, 1999.
  • Keynote Speaker, Thirty-First Annual Rocky Mountain Medievalist and Renaissance Association, Tempe, Arizona, May 20-22, 1999. Essay entitled, “The New World as Wonder: Physical and Spiritual Encounters in the New World.”
  • Keynote Speaker Inaugural and Closing Sessions, the University of Costa Rica’s Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, June 20-26, 1999.
  • Keynote address, XI Conferencia Internacional de la Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Arizona State University, September 16-19, 1998, Sexuality, and the Brides of Christ: New Spain as the Scenario
  • Keynote Speaker. Educación y Mujer: Hacia un Nuevo Milenio,” IV Congreso Iberoamericano de Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana, Santiago de Chile, May 25-29, 1998.
  • Seminar for University Professors, Members of International Organizations and Centers for the Study of Women, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, June 2, 1998.
  • Seminar and Workshop for Students of History, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, June 4, 1998.
  • Keynote address. “Women Studies in Latin “America: Not quite There Yet”, Institute for Research on Women, State University of New York, Albany, June 5-8, 1997
  • Keynote address “Latin American Women: Voices, Thoughts, Actions.,” Southern Connecticut State University Seventh Annual Women’s Studies Conference, October 3-5, 1997.
  • Keynote Address Conference on Reflections of Social Reality: Writings in Colonial Latin America, Amherst University, Five College Symposium Honoring Lewis Hanke, April 19- 21, 1990.” Lo femenino: Women’s Images and Realities in Colonial Historical Sources”

PANEL PRESENTATIONS, TALKS, CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS

  • “La fiesta epistolar de la Madre María Ignacia del Nino Jesús.” Presented at the IX Jornadas Históricas, Universidad de Guanajuato, August 23-24, 2011, Guanajuato, Mexico.
  • “Family in Religious Contexts: Notions and Practices in Female and Male Convents in Colonial Mexico.” Paper given at AHA meeting in Boston, January 2011.
  • “Religión, devoción y comunidad espiritual en Hispanoamérica y España. Siglos XVI y XVII. Keynote speech at the meeting of the Asociación Española de Investigaciones sobre la Mujer. Bilbao, Spain, November 11-13, 2010.
  • “Gender and Empire in Colonial Spanish America.” Paper presented at the Conference on Gender and empire organized by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 26-27, 2010
  • “Faith, Disease and Cure. The Mendicant Orders’ Experience in colonial Mexico.” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, April 9, 2010.
  • “Religion and the Construction of Gender in Colonial Mexico” Paper presented at the Colloquium on “Religious Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas”, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, November 2009.
  • “Masculinity and Femininity as Religious Constructions in Colonial Mexico.” Paper given at the Thirteenth Annual ACMRS Conference. Tempe, Arizona, 15-17 February 2007.
  • “El “más allá” en el imaginario de las religiosas novohispanas.” Paper presented at the Coloquium “El más Allá Cristiano. Siglos XVI al XVIII,” held at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Center for the Studies of Mexican History CONDUMEX, Mexico City, November 7-9-2006.
  • “Devocionario y espiritualidad en los conventos novohispanos.” Presented at the 52 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, 17- 21 July 2006, Sevilla, Spain.
  • Round Table on Gender in Spanish American History, RMCLAS, Denver, February 24-06 “Food and Religion in New Spain: Matter or Spirit?” Paper delivered at the XI annual ACMRS Conference, Tempe, Arizona, February 19, 2005. (Session Material and Spiritual Nourishment in the Spanish Empire. (Organized by A. Lavrin)
  • “Spanish American Women 1790-1850: The Challenge of Remembering.”  Conference on Gender and Race in Spanish America, 1790-1850, University of Warwick, Great Britain September 14-16, 2004.
  • “Men of God in New Spain: An Approach to Masculinity, 1580-1753.” Keynote speech delivered at the Twenty-Six Annual Mid-America Conference on History, Southwestern Missouri State University (See above)
  • “Men of God in New Spain: An Approach to Masculinity, 1580-1753.” Paper given at the University of Washington, Seattle, May 29, 2003, as part of the Departmental Farewell to Prof. Dauril Alden.
  • “Vidas y el reino de Dios: Interpretaciones Femeninas en el Mexico Colonial.” Presented at the XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, Monterrey, Mexico, October 1-4, 2003
  • “Recuerdos del siglo XX, “Keynote Speech presented at the VI Congreso Iberoamericano de Historia de la educación Latinoamericana, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, May 19-23, 2003
  • Coloquio Escritura y Espiritualidad Femenina: Semejanzas y Diferencias en el mundo Iberoamericano, siglos XVI-XIX,” Oaxaca, Mexico, May14-16, 2003
  • “Globalization of Women’s History: Latin America.” American Historical Association, Session on Globalization of Women’s History, San Francisco, January 2002.
  • “The Search for Self in Twentieth-Century Women’s History.” Opening Panel at XLVI SALALM Conference, May 26-29, 2001, Arizona State University.
  • “Converging Cultures: An NEH Institute,” Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, April 26-29, 2001.
  • “Female Visionaries and Spirituality in New Spain”, Paper given ant the France V. Scholes Conference on Colonial Latin American History, Tulane University, March 30-31, 2001.
  • “Sexuality and the Brides of Christ: an Enquiry”. American Historical Association, Boston, January 4-7, 2001. CLAH Program
  • “La autoridad cuestionada: epistolario de una crisis.” Conference: Mujeres Escritoras. Mexico: Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Centro de Estudios de Historia de Mexico CONDUMEX, October 5-7, 2000.
  • “Intimidades: Mexico Colonial y la Inquisición.” Paper given at the Cuarto Congreso de Cultura Popular Mexicana, Arizona State University, 7-8 April, 2000.
  • “Gender and the Promise of Self: History and the Challenge of the Twentieth Century” Paper presented at the 114th annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago 2000.
  • “Transferencias culturales y religiosas en la hagiografía femenina: De España a Nueva España.” Fourth Annual Conference on Women Writers of Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Latin America, Tucson Sept. 16-18, 1999.  This paper was also given at the X Reunion of Mexican Historian of Mexico and the U.S., Fort Worth, November 19-22, 1999.
  • “Women and Gender History in Spanish America: Past, Present, and Future.” Keynote address at the I Encuentro Internacional Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-New York University, Madrid, April 13, 1999.
  • “Latin American Feminisms: Past and Present.” Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series: Latin American Women as Feminists, Activists, and Agents. Rutgers University at Newark, March 11, 1999.
  • “Writing from a Hidden World: Spirituality and anonymity,” Paper given at the Third Annual Conference on Women Writers of Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America, Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles, October 22-24, 1998.
  • “Educación y Mujer: Hacia un Nuevo Milenio”, III International Congress on Education, Santiago de Chile, June 1998.
  • Invited Lecture, Universidad de Chile, June 5, 1998.
  • “Creating Bonds and Respecting Differences,” Paper presented at the Encuentro Feminista: Defining a Research and Teaching agenda for the New Millennium, Inter-American University, San Germán, Puerto Rico, sponsored by State University of New York, Albany, April 22-25, 1998.
  • Commentator, Session “Enriching Latin American History. A Look at Ways to Combine Social and Economic Perspectives,” 1998 “American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.
  • Member in Special CLAH Roundtable, “Secret and not so Secret Histories of Gender: New Trends in Latin American Gender and Sexuality Studies.” 1998 American Historical Association annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.
  • Cofradías Novohispanas: Economías material y espiritual. Presented at the Coloquio Internacional: Cofradías, capellanías y obras pías en la América colonial, UNAM, Mexico, 19-21 February 1997.
  • “Domesticity and Daily Life in Colonial Spanish America,” Symposium Converging Cultures: Art and Identity in Spanish America, Phoenix Museum of Art, January 25, 1997.
  • “Cambiando actitudes sobre el rol de la mujer: Experiencia de los países del Cono Sur a principios de siglo.a  CEDLA, Center for the studies of Latin America and the Caribbean, Amsterdam, International Workshop on “Making Sense of the World,” June 1996.
  • “The State of the Art in International Women’s Studies on Latin America,” at the 1996 Conference of The Netherlands Association on Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Leiden, June 13-14, 1996.
  • “La religiosa real y la imaginada: Dos modelos discursivos,” Interdisciplinary International Congress on Feminine Creativity and the Traps of Power, Zentrum fur Interdisziplinare Forschung der Universitat Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, September 11-14, 1996.
  • “De su puño y letra: Epístolas desde el claustro,” II Congreso Internacional “El Monacato Femenino en el Imperio Español.” Centro de Estudios de Historia de Mexico, CONDUMEX, 29-31 March, 1995.
  • “Cotidianidad y Espiritualidad en la Vida Conventual Novohispana,” Coloquio Internacional Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,” Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, April 17-21, 1995
  • “Espiritualidad en el claustro novohispano del siglo XVII,” at “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Her Worlds: International Symposium.”  The Graduate School and the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY), 27-28 april, 1995.
  • “Sor Juana, Nuns and Nunneries in Baroque Mexico,” Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Baroque Theatricality, UCL”, May 17-19, 1995.
  • Commentator, CLAH Program 1994, Session “What Difference Does Gender Make.”?
  • “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Obediencia y autoridad en su entorno religioso.” Delivered at the Modern Language Association meeting, Toronto, Canada, December 30, 1993.
  • Commentator, Seminar on “Contemporary Gender Studies in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Perspective,” Woodrow Wilson Center, October 29, 1993.
  • “Suffrage in South America: Arguing a Difficult Case,” in Suffrage and Beyond, Suffrage Centenary Conference, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, August 27-29, 1993.
  • “Women in Early Twentieth Century Industrial Labor: “Neglected Chapter in Latin American History,” presented at the Conference on Rediscovering the Americas: Women in the Building of the New World,” held at SUNY, Albany, New York, November 5, 1992.
  • “The Roles of Women in Latin American Societies,” Presented at the Conference on Finding the Americas, 1492-1992, Delaware Heritage Commission, October 12, 1992.
  • “Women in Latin American Economic Development: Past and Present.” Lecture given for The Latin American Round-table and the Women in Development Work Group, April 23, 1992.
  • “The Encounter of the Genders: Remembering and Re-Reading,” presented at “Beyond 500 Years in the Americas: Multicultural Perceptions and Perspectives on the Quincentennial of Christopher Columbus’ Arrival,” Yale University, April 17-18, 1992.
  • Commentator for the session “Rural Women, Ideology, and Culture, 1940-1992,” in “Crossing Borders, Creating Spaces: Mexican and Chicana Women, 1848-1992,” held at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, April 9-11, 1992.
  • “Mexican Women: Twenty Years of Memory.” Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland. “pril 1, 1992
  • “A Visual Memory of Latin American Women’s History”, Oakland University, Michigan, March 25, 1992, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
  • “The Worlds of Women at the Encounter,” Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York, March 17, 1992.
  • “Childhood in Spanish America: Historical Overview and New agenda.”  Hispanic Cultural Society, Library of Congress, January 8, 1992.
  • “Siervas de Dios: la Biografía Femenina en las Crónicas Religiosas.” Given at the 47th International Congress of Americanistas, July 7-11, 1991, New Orleans.
  • “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: A Woman among Women.” Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1991.
  • “Unfolding Feminism: Spanish-American Women’s Writings, 1970-1990,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 9, 1991.
  • “Sexualidad y Género: Debates del Siglo XX,” Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras and Cayey campuses, March 4, 7, 1991.
  • “Feminism in Latin America: Meanings and Objectives in the Southern Cone Countries, 1900-1940,” American Historical Association, New York, 1990.
  • “Gender and Latin American Studies: Problems and Directions,” Midwest Association for Latin American Studies, Cincinnati, October 12-13, 1990.
  • “Colonial Women in Spanish America,” Quincentenary Program, Summer Institute for Educators sponsored by the Library of Congress and National History Day, July 23, 1990.
  • Guest Lecturer at the Summer School of the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Course on Sources and Methods in the Study of Women in Spain and Latin America.  Held in Siguenza, July 9-13, 1990.
  • ““The Construction of a Memory: Women in Early Twentieth Century South America.” Lecture given at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts , Women’s History Week, March 12, 1990.
  • “A Dream for the Future: South American Women’s Look Into the Twentieth Century.” American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, November 2-4, 1989.
  • “Gender and Social Legislation in the Southern Cone, 1900-1940.”  Read at the LASA meeting, Miami, Dec. 3-5, 1989.
  • “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: A Woman among Women,” Pomona College, Pomona, California, March 3-4, 1989, Conference on “Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz: Portraits and Perspectives.”
  • “Latin American Women: A Visual Memory,” University of Bristol, October 27, 1988.
  • “Female, Feminine, Feminist. Women’s Historical Process in Twentieth Century Latin America.” University of Bristol, November 10, 1988.
  • “Gender Issues in Latin American Society,” Seminar given at the University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies, November 29, 1988.
  • “Research Trends in Latin American Women’s Studies.” American Library Association, New Orleans, July 9, 1988. Session on Women in Third World Countries.
  • “Incorporating Gender in Latin American History,” Yale University Workshop, March 31, 1988. “Women Workers and the Left. Genesis of Praxis: Chile and Argentina, 1900-1930.” 11th Irvine History Symposium, University of California, Irvine, May 1988
  • Charles Griffin Memorial Lecture, 1986. Vassar College. Theme: Feminism, Socialism and anarchism in the Southern Cone, 1900-1940. April 23, 1986.
  • “Feminism in Latin America: Past and Present.” University of Minnesota, May 7, 1986. “Women, the Family and Social Change,a Georgetown University Latin american Studies Program: Conference on Latin American Politics and Society: a Cultural Research agenda?, May 15-17, 1986.
  • Socialists, Anarchists, and Working Women in Argentina, 1900-1930, XIII International Congress, Latin American Studies association, Boston, October 1986.
  • Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America. John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island. Sponsored by the Center for New World Comparative Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies at Brown University, and the Herbert Goldberger Lecture Fund. February 6, 1986.
  • “Marriage and Sexuality in the Colonial Experience,” Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS), George Mason University, March 21-22, 1986.
  • ‘Ideological Currents of Feminism in Southern South America in the Early Twentieth Century,” 45th International Congress of Americanists, Bogotá, Colombia, July 1-7, 1985.
  • “Women,” in Research Panel II: Masses and Minorities through Time, XXX Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Material, (SALALM), Princeton University, June 19-23, 1985.
  • “Feminism in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay: 1880-1940,” Chicano Latino Colloquia, 1984-85, University of California, Irvine.
  • “Feminism in the Southern Cone, 1930-1940,” Rocky Mountain Conference for Latin American Studies, Tucson, Arizona, February 1984.
  • “Sexuality in Colonial Mexico,” Berkshire Conference of Women’s History, Smith College 1984.
  • “South American Feminists as Social Redeemers and Political Pioneers: Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, 1900-1940, American Historical Association, San Francisco, 1983.
  • “Feminism in the Southern Cone, 1870-1940,” MACLAS, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, April 1983.
  • “Unlike Sor Juana? The Model Nun in the Religious Literature of Colonial Mexico,” Symposium on aSor Juana y la Cultura Virreinal,a State University of New York, Stony Brook, May 1982.
  • “Worlds in Contrast: Rural and Urban Confraternities in Mexico at the End of the Eighteenth Century,” Conference on the Church and Society in Latin America, Tulane University, April 1982.
  • “The Congregation of San Pedro.  A Colonial Urban Confraternity in Mexico City, 1640-1730,” Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1979.
  • “El capital eclesiástico y las élites sociales en Nueva España a fines del siglo XVIII,” V Symposium of Economic History, CLACSO, Lima, Peru, 1978.
  • “La iglesia en la economía novohispana,” V Conference of Historians of the U.S. and Mexico, Patzcuaro, Mexico, November 1977.
  • “Dowries and Wills. A View of Women’s Socioeconomic Role in Colonial Mexico,” with Edith Couturier, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. 1976.
  • “Women in Colonial Spanish America,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Radcliffe College, 1974.
  • “The Feminine Orders in Mexico,” American Historical Association, New Orleans, 1972.
  • “Visual Sources for the Study of Latin American Women’s History,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Pittsburgh, 1979.
  • Lectures on several aspects of my research have been given at: Emory University; the University of Calgary, Canada; Simon Frazer University, British Columbia; The University of Washington, Seattle; the University of California, Irvine; the University of Pennsylvania, University Park; Miami University, Ohio; Iowa State University, ames, Iowa; Towson State University, Maryland; Wesleyan University, Connecticut; University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; Saint Olaf and Carleton Colleges, Minnesota; Shippensburg State College, Pa., Harvard University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Vanderbilt University, Rutgers University (Newark); Vassar College, the University of Minnesota, Minnesota; Rhode Island College, Wellesley College, Yale University, Harvard University, Mary Washington College, Swarthmore
  • College, Georgetwon University, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University. Chairperson and Commentator: Centennial Session on Women’s History, aHa, 1984.
  • Panel Presentations: SID-WID, (Society for International Development-Women in Development), Panel Discussion on Education or Training of women, January 1987; UNESCO: Dialogue on 1980 World Conference on Women. (September 1979)

Symposia:

  • Colloquium on Women in Latin America, Miami University, Ohio, Feb. 1982.
  • Howard University Inter-American Forum: “U.S.-Caribbean Relations in the 1980’s: Issues and Initiatives,” November 1980 (Interrogator)
  • “Hispanic Women: Literature, History and Anthropology,” The University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, March 1979.
  • V Simposio de Historia Económica de América Latina, Lima, Peru, April 1978.
  • Conference on Women: Human Potential and Human Use, Ohio Wesleyan University, April 1972.

Lecture Series:

  • 1991 Feminist Scholarship: Thinking Through the Disciplines, University of Michigan, “Ann Arbor. Women’s Week Program, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras and Cayey campuses. aGénero, Familia y Mentalidades en america Latina,” March 4-8, 1991.
  • Spring Seminar and Public Lecture Series on Women in Latin America, University of Minnesota, 1986.
  • The Charles Griffin Memorial Lectures, 1986, Vassar College.
  • John Carter Brown Library Lecture Series, 1986, Brown University.
  • Latin America in the 80s, Carleton College and ST. Olaf College, Minnesota, 1979.

MEMBERSHIP AND OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND MEMBERSHIP ON EDITORIAL BOARDS

  • Member: Program Committee, Catholic Historical Association, AHA- Atlanta 2007.
  • Senior Editor, Encyclopedia of Women’s History, edited by Bonnie
  • Smith, Oxford University Press, 2002-08.
  • Senior Editor: Historia de las Mujeres en España y Latinoamérica. Two volumes published in 2005 and 2006.
  • Editorial Board: Latin American Research Review (1989-1993)
  • Editorial Board, Hispanic American Historical Review, 1982-1988
  • Editorial Board: Women’s History Review (U.K.)
  • Editorial Board: Journal of Women’s History (1997-2002)
  • Editorial Board: Handbook of Latin American Studies, 1999-2006.; Advisory Board, 2006 to the present.
  • Advisory Board: Feminist Studies (1990-1998)
  • Advisory Board: Westview Press, Dellplain Latin American Studies Advisory Board: Hispanic American Historical Review (1997-2002) Advisory Board: Colonial Latin American Review (1997-2000) Advisory Board: Gender and History
  • Advisory Board: Anuario de Estudios Americanos (Seville, Spain, ongoing).
  • Advisory Board, The Americas, 2000-02
  • Advisory Board, Guadalajara Censuses Project (1791-1930) Florida State
  • University and NEH.
  • Editorial Board with Donna Guy and Mary Karasch of the University of Nebraska Press Series, “Engendering Latin American History.” Organized in 1990.
  • Member: American Historical Association (AHA)
  • Offices: Member Haring Prize Committee, 1985-86
  • Member Haring Prize Committee, 1974-75
  • Member, Program Committee, 1992 AHA annual Program
  • Member: Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Elected President, 2001-02.
  • Offices: Executive Committee, 1974-75
  • Member: Bolton Prize Committee 1973-4
  • Member: James Alexander Robertson Prize Committee, 1977
  • Member: Publications Committee, 1980-84
  • Chairperson: Conference Prize, 1981
  • Member: Program Committee, AHA annual Meeting, 1985
  • Member: Committee on Relations with Foreign Scholars, 1988-1990
  • President (1987-88) and Secretary (1986-87): Colonial Studies Committee.
  • Member: Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) Offices: Executive Council, 1980-82; New England Council for Latin American Studies; Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies.
  • Member: Berkshire Conference on Women’s History
  • Offices: Chairperson, Berkshire Conference on Women’ History, article
  • Prize, 1981 Book Prize Committee, 1981
  • Program Committee, 1981, 1984, 1990
  • Member: American Historical Association
  • Conference on Latin American History
  • Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies
  • Outside Examiner Honors Program, Swarthmore College, Spring 1992, 1994.

REVIEW PROCESSES FOR JOURNALS, PUBLISHING HOUSES AND GRANT AWARDING INSTITUTIONS

  • Manuscript Review for the University of Alabama Press, 2006.
  • Main Editor for the Colonial Mexico, Section, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Library of Congress; Member of the Editorial Council of the Handbook, as well. National Endowment for the Humanities, Panels: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1998. Review of other projects by mail. Tinker Foundation: 1986, 1984, 1983
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • The MacArthur Foundation
  • The National Museum of American History
  • University of California at Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History
  • Social Science Research Council, U.S. Department of Education
  • Field Reader for FY 1976 Centers (NDEATitle VI), Department of Health, Education and Welfare, March 1976
  • Tinker Foundation Research Grant for Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University, 1987
  • Ad Hoc Committee, Search for Director of Latin American Studies Program, Brandeis University, 1991 Search for Director Latin American studies, ASU, 2005.
  • Manuscript Reviewer for:
  • Heath and Co., Greenwood Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., Oxford University Press, Temple University Press, The University of Nebraska Press., The University of Arizona Press, The University of Alabama., Penn State University Press.
  • The Hispanic American Historical Review, American Historical Review, Signs, Feminist Studies, Latin American Research Review, Gender and History, The Americas, Journal of Women’s History, Estudios Mexicanos/Mexican Studies, The International History Review, American Indian Quarterly, Journal of Latin American Studies (London)
  • Lectures at the Foreign Service Institute, Area Studies Program (Latin America): 1981, 1982,1984, 1985.
  • Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University: Personnel Committee and Affiliate Member, 1996-97.
  • Latin American Studies Center, Arizona State University, Advisory Board, since 1998. Departmental Service: PAC Committee (Internal Evaluation) 1997-98; Graduate Policy Committee, 1999; Curriculum Committee, 1998-99.  Service in several other departmental committees.
  • Book Reviews are not listed in this CV.