Women and Revolution: War, Violence, and…..

Join us for a special evening lecture with UCSB professor Verónica Castillo-Muñoz. The Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) led to the deaths of over one million people and the mass migration of approximately one million refugees from rural Mexico to the United States. This talk examines how Mexican women negotiated war, violence, and family separations to give us new insights into the lives of women, families, and children who escaped the brutality of war and were detained at refugee camps along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Verónica Castillo-Muñoz is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at UCSB. She has written widely in English and Spanish on the intersections between gender, family migration, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Castillo-Muñoz is the author of ‘The Other California: Land Identity and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands,’ published by the University of California Press (2017). Recently, she collaborated on a binational exhibit of Pancho Villa with the National Museum of the Mexican Revolution in Mexico City. Her new book project, ‘Her Stories of the Mexican Revolution,’ examines border women’s experiences with war and exile between 1910 and 1920. She is also a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of the American Historians.

This lecture is free for SBTHP members and there is a $5 suggested donation for nonmembers.