As part of Women’s History Month, Laura Shelton, associate professor of history at Franklin and Marshall University, will present “No Madness in Mexico: Understanding Infanticide Trials in the Nineteenth Century.” The lecture will take place Monday, March 12th at 7 p.m. in the Nicholson Library Reading Room.
Dr. Shelton’s topic for her presentation is part of her larger research examining midwives and motherhood in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century. She is particular interested in understanding how the daily lives of these resourceful women changed dramatically against a backdrop of ethnic conflict, rapid modernization, and increasing international interaction among people of the United States and Mexico.
The lecture is sponsored by the Departments of History, Global Languages and Culture, and SOAN, as well as the Gender Studies and Latin American Studies programs. It is free and open to the Linfield campus community and the public. For more information please contact Sharon Bailey Glasco, associate professor, at (503) 883-2306.
