Asunción Lavrin is an award-winning historian and author with more than 100 publications on topics of gender and women"s studies in colonial and contemporary Latin America and religion and spirituality in Colonial Mexico.
Education
After entering the United States for a Master of Arts at Radcliffe College (completed in 1958), Lavrin completed her Doctor of Philosophy dissertation at Harvard University in 1963, entitled: "Religious Life of Mexican Women in the XVIII Century".
Career
She is professor emerita at Arizona State University. Lavrin is the daughter-in-law of the artist Nora Fry Lavrin. Lavrin was in the first class of women who received a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.