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31: 147:(Nebraska Press, 1995). A review of this work by Virginia Leonard notes "Asunción Lavrin is ... a pioneer in Latin American women's history. ... The publication of this book marks a watershed for Latin American studies: It is difficult to conceive that there will be any more books on politics and political parties in the Southern Cone that ignore women and feminist issues." 236:“La pluma conventual de las franciscanas novohispanas.” In Historia Franciscana. V Centenario de la Presencia Franciscana en Mexico, edited by Sergio Rivera Guerrero and Fr. Octavio Luna Alvarez, OFM. 3 Vol.s, Querétaro: Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro/Provincia Franciscana de San Pedro y San Pablode Michoacán, 2017. I: 243-57. 275:
In honor of Professor Lavrin and Fannie Bandelier, the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) has funded an annual award, the Bandelier/Lavrin Award for the Best Book in Colonial Latin American History. According to the official website, the award is "named to honor two pioneers
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in the history of the Spanish American empire, the first working in the early days of the field , the second who forged a path in colonial history and served as a model for female historians in the profession ." Lavrin is pictured on the RMCLAS website with the first winner, Ann Twinam (2016).
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In 2008, she received the CLAH Distinguished Service Award. She became a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of History in 2013.In 2015, she received the Academic Distinction Award from the American Historical Association. She has been the recipient of grants from the
230:“Sororidad conventual en Nueva España. Debate de conceptos y realidades.” En Angela Atienza López, editora, Historia de la sororidad, historias de sororidad. Manifestaciones femeninas y formas de solidaridad femenina en la edad Moderna. Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2022, 429-464. 239:“La visión de la historia entre las órdenes mendicantes novohispanas: el cronista religioso en la cultura urbana.” In Francisco Cervantes Bello, coord., Libros y lectores en las sociedades hispanas: España y Nueva España (S. XVI-XVIII), Puebla: BUAP, 2016, 25-55. 124:(Stanford, 2008) She also has addressed the economic issues of elite secular women in colonial Mexico, in her co-authored work on dowries and wills of women in Mexico City and Guadalajara. She also has interests in more general topics of colonial 255:
Lavrin received the MACLAS (Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies) Harold Eugene Davis Prize (1998–99) for best article published by a MACLAS member: “Indian Brides of Christ: Creating New Spaces for Indigenous Women in New Spain.”
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Brides of Christ. Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008). Translated into Spanish as Las Esposas de Cristo. La vida conventual en Nueva España. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016.
76:) is a historian and author with more than 100 publications on topics of gender and women's studies in colonial and twentieth century Latin America and religion and spirituality in Colonial Mexico. She is professor emerita at 181:
Currently, she is interested in the history of friars in the Mendicant Orders of colonial Mexico and has finished a book manuscript on that topic to be published by The University of Nebraska Press.
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in 1963, entitled: "Religious Life of Mexican Women in the XVIII Century". Lavrin was in the first cohort of women who received a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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El universo de la Teatralidad Conventual en Nueva España, Siglos XVII-XIX. Coauthored with Rosalva Loreto López. San Antonio, Texas: UNAM /San Antonio, 2022.
213:“Un intento de autobiografía: la aspiración truncada de María Ignacia del Niño Jesús.” En Relaciones, Revista del Colegio de Michoacán, 2017, 13-45. 365:
Lavrin, Asuncion; Couturier, Edith (1979). "Dowries and Wills: A View of Women's Socioeconomic Role in Colonial Guadalajara and Puebla, 1640-1790".
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El Capital Eclesiástico y las Elites Sociales en Nueva España a Fines del Siglo XVIII,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos I:1 (Winter 1985), 1-27
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Maria Casilda del Pozo y Calderón Autobiografía de una devota secular en Nueva España. San Antonio, Texas: UNAM-San Antonio, 2023.
247:“Historian with a Double Major: The Church and Feminism.” The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 107. No. 4, Autumn 2021, 460-481. 210:“Franciscan Missionaries as Witnesses of Nature in Colonial Mexico.” Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 2022, Vol. 115:4, 237-286. 166:(Greenwood Press, 1978). She has also co-edited a book with Rosalva Loreto on the colonial theatre written for religious women, 120:, beginning with a number of her early articles drawn from her dissertation on nuns and nunneries, culminating in her monograph 731: 656: 117: 546: 497: 269: 666: 260: 272:, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. In 2019 she was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 716: 676: 711: 448: 340: 264: 681: 661: 419:"Review of Lavrin, Asuncion, Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940" 686: 671: 696: 222:“Lay Brothers: The Other Men in the Mendicant Orders of New Spain.” The Americas, 72:3, 2015, 1-28. 160:
Monjas y Beatas: La escritura femenina en la espirtualidad barroca novohispana. Siglos XVII y XVIII.
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Forthcoming 2025: Men of God. Mendicant Friars in Colonial Mexico. (University of Nebraska Press).
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such as her analysis of the relation between the social elites and ecclesiastical wealth.
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Diálogos espirituales : manuscritos femeninos hispanoamericanos siglos XVI-XIX
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Women, Feminism and Social Change: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, 1890–1940
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Lavrin has published extensively on women in Latin America, especially on
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Diálogos espirituales: Letras femeninas Hispanoamericanas, Siglos XVI–XIX
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Her interest in women's history includes the history of feminism,
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El universo de la Teatralidad en Nueva España. Siglos XVII-XIX
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Lavrin has also edited several books on women, including
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Religious Life of Mexican Women in the XVIII Century
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Brides of Christ. Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico
250: 539:Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina 176:Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina 490:The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history 172:The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History 648: 487: 439:Lavrín, Asunción; Loreto López, Rosalva (2006). 291: 289: 87: 364: 259:In 2001-02, Lavrin served as President of the 92:After entering the US for a Master of Arts at 80:. Lavrin is the daughter-in-law of the artist 587:"CLAH » The Distinguished Service Award" 286: 164:Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives 152:Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives 536: 116:. She has contributed significantly to the 29: 297:"ASU Directory Profile: Asuncion Lavrin" 184:Additional recent publications include: 96:(completed in 1957), Lavrin completed a 416: 367:The Hispanic American Historical Review 649: 118:history of Roman Catholicism in Mexico 316: 270:National Endowment for the Humanities 261:Conference on Latin American History 727:21st-century American women writers 417:Leonard, Virginia W. (April 1996). 13: 14: 743: 722:Arizona State University faculty 251:Awards and academic distinctions 692:American historians of religion 629: 600: 579: 541:(in Spanish). Madrid: Cátedra. 265:American Historical Association 107: 530: 481: 432: 410: 401: 358: 333: 310: 206:Articles in Academic Journals: 170:. She was a senior editor of 1: 732:21st-century Cuban historians 657:20th-century Cuban historians 537:Morant Deusa, Isabel (2005). 279: 143:, developed in her monograph 88:Education and academic career 7: 667:Historians of Latin America 492:. Oxford University Press. 41:1935 (age 88–89) 10: 748: 717:Howard University faculty 677:American women historians 488:Smith, Bonnie G. (2008). 343:. Sup.org. Archived from 55: 37: 28: 21: 712:Radcliffe College alumni 637:"Bandelier/Lavrin Award" 126:Mexican economic history 78:Arizona State University 662:Historians of Mexico 687:Feminist historians 421:. H-LatAm, H-Review 682:Women's historians 672:Latin Americanists 639:. 16 October 2015. 612:members.amacad.org 133:women in Argentina 102:Harvard University 697:Social historians 548:978-84-376-2262-0 499:978-0-19-514890-9 299:. Webapp4.asu.edu 243:Academic Profile: 94:Radcliffe College 63: 62: 59:Historian, author 739: 641: 640: 633: 627: 626: 624: 623: 614:. 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Havana
Cuba
Havana
Cuba
Arizona State University
Nora Fry Lavrin
Radcliffe College
PhD
Harvard University
women in Mexico
history of Roman Catholicism in Mexico
Mexican economic history
women in Argentina
women in Chile
women in Uruguay
Conference on Latin American History
American Historical Association
National Endowment for the Humanities


"ASU Directory Profile: Asuncion Lavrin"
OCLC
004797616
"Brides of Christ: Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico - Asunción Lavrin"
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10.2307/2514415
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0018-2168

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