2025 Schocket Lecture: Save the date and spread the word!

We are pleased to announce the Fifteenth Annual Eric N. Schocket Memorial Lecture on Class and Culture:

“LA NUEVA MARGARET SANGER OF THE BORDER: POPULATION CONTROL, CONTRACEPTION, AND LABOR IN THE US-MEXICO BORDERLANDS”

Lina-Maria Murillo

Director of Graduate Studies in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies 

and Assistant Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, History, and Latina/o/x Studies at the University of Iowa

Monday, March 31, 2025

5:30 – 7 PM

Main Lecture Hall

Franklin Patterson Hall (FPH)

Hampshire College

Lina-Maria Murillo is Assistant Professor in the departments of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, History, and Latina/o/x Studies at the University of Iowa. Her first book titled Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S-Mexico Borderlands is out now with UNC Press. Murillo’s latest article, “Espanta Cigüeñas: Race and Abortion in the U.S-Mexico Borderlands,” won the 2023 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship in Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture in Society. Her research is supported by several grants and fellowships, including from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Ford Foundation. Murillo also co-directors the Maternal Health and Reproductive Politics Obermann collaborative at UIowa with Professor Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz.

Professor Eric Schocket taught American literature at Hampshire College from 1996 until his death in 2006. A much-admired teacher and colleague, his courses inspired a generation of students. Nationally, he was a leading figure in working-class studies. His writings on figures like Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, and Langston Hughes engaged the important relationship between class and culture. His book, Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature, was published in 2006.

For more information, please contact Lise Sanders (lsanders@hampshire.edu) or Caoimhe Harlock (charlock@hampshire.edu). 

We hope you will join us!