Lina-Maria Murillo
Assistant Professor of Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies, and History, University of Iowa
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About Lina-Maria
Murillo focuses on the history of reproduction and race in the United States. Overarching themes in Murillo's writing include the history of the birth control movement, abortion, immigration, eugenics, and population control, as well as issues pertaining to gender, sexuality, and race.
Contributions
In the News
"Before Roe v. Wade, U.S. Residents Sought Safer Abortions in Mexico," Lina-Maria Murillo, Perspective, The Washington Post, September 3, 2021.
"In the Service of White Supremacy: Immigration and Reproductive Violence," Lina-Maria Murillo, Notches, December 8, 2020.
Publications
"Chapter 48: Reproductive Justice in the Heartland: Mothering, Maternal Care, and Race in Twenty-First Century Iowa" (with ), in Maternal Theory: The Essential Readings, edited by Andrea O’Reilly (Demeter Press, 2021).
Explores inequities wrought within motherhood one year into the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Birth Control, Border Control: The Movement for Contraception in El Paso, Texas 1936–1940" Pacific Historical Review 90, no. 3 (2021): 314-344.
Places the birth control movement’s attention to overpopulation within the context of immigration restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border, reminding us that birth control movements offer a paradox of coercion and choice.