Lina-Maria Murillo

As a feminist historian who has found an intellectual home in women's and gender studies, Murillo has forged a path uniting some of the most challenging topics of today and reexamining complex historical narratives that undergird our understanding of the past. Drawing from her training in borderlands and women's history, cultural and ethnic studies, regional studies, resistance studies, and women's and gender studies, Murillo deftly connects the past to the trials and tribulations of today to examine how we got here. Her attention to white supremacist movements and changing demographics, as well as resistance movements for reproductive health and liberation, shows how she connects seemingly inchoate networks that reveal a much more intertwined reproductive world. 

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Her fierce critiques of those attacking reproductive justice and the freedom of gender expression to foment hate and score political leverage, of those peddling eugenics and racist ideologies to stall and reverse so-called population decline, and of those nurturing nativist sentiments to quell the appetites of the aggrieved masses, all aid in achieving a more rounded understanding of some of the most charged contemporary issues we face today.