Frontera Madre(hood): Brown Mothers Challenging Oppression and Transborder Violence

Dr. Cynthia Bejarano, a native of southern New Mexico, is a Regents Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences Stan Fulton Endowed Chair at New Mexico State University. Since joining the faculty of NMSU in 2001, her research has focused on embodied border experiences with violence, immigration and migration, and gender-based violence and feminicidios at the U.S.-Mexico border. With Rosa-Linda Fregoso, she co-edited Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas (2010). Cynthia has written extensively on feminicides and other forms of violence in El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and southern New Mexico. She is also the author of Que Onda: Urban Youth Culture and Border Identity (2005), and recently co-edited with Cristina Morales, Frontera Madre(hood): Brown Mothers Challenging Oppression and Transborder Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border (2024).

Please be sure to join us for a book presentation and lecture by Dr. Bejarano on April 8th at 6:00 PM. This event is brought to you by MSU’s Office of the President, Women’s Center, Access and Success, the Office of the Dean of Students, and the HEART Initiative at MS