Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies 

Keynote title: 

On Reproductive Sovereignty: Histories of Abortion Networks in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands by 

Bio:

Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UT Austin. She was hired as a scholar of Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice in 2025 to help expand these areas of study at UT. She's a feminist historian writing at the intersections of race, gender, class, immigration, white supremacy, and reproduction. Her first book, titled Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands, was published in 2025 by the University of North Carolina Press. She has written over half a dozen peer-reviewed articles and has received research funding from ACLS, the Ford Foundation, and the American Association of University Women.