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Emeritus Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies.!
Asunción Lavrin (born in Havana, Cuba) is a historian and author with more than publications on topics of gender and women's studies in colonial and.
Asunción Lavrin
Cuban academic
Asunción Lavrin | |
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Born | 1935 (age 89–90) Havana, Cuba |
Occupation(s) | Historian, author |
Asunción Lavrin (born 1935 in Havana, Cuba) 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.[1] She is professor emerita at Arizona State University.[1] Lavrin is the daughter-in-law of the artist Nora Fry Lavrin.
She has two children, Cecilia and Andy, and two grand children, Erik and Nora.
Education and academic career
After entering the US for a Master of Arts at Radcliffe College (completed in 1957), Lavrin completed a PhD dissertation at Harvard University in 1963, entitled: "Religious Life of Mexican Women in the XVIII Century".[2] Lavrin was in the first cohort of women who received a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Science