Lina-Maria Murillo (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Her research interests include the borderlands, women’s health and reproductive justice, Latina/o/x studies, and social justice movements. She is the author of Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands (University of North Carolina Press, 2025). Her other projects include a study of how “fears of white demographic decline” have translated into a hostile legal and social environment for pregnant women and people in the last two centuries, and a biography of the little-known abortion rights activist Patricia Maginnis, who in the years before Roe v. Wade established an organized abortion network across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Research Area: Immigration and Migration
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- Bluesky: @drlmmurillo.bsky.social
