TAMIU History Professor Lectures Friday on Women, Challenges of Patriarchy

In commemoration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) is hosting a lecture celebrating women overcoming challenges Friday, March 8 at 3 p.m. in the Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library Archives Reading Room.

The lecture, aptly titled, “Gender Norms: Women and the Challenges of Patriarchy in Colonial Latin America” is presented by Dr. Aaron Olivas, TAMIU associate professor of History.

Admission to the lecture is free and open to the community.

Sponsored by the Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library’s Special Collections and Archives and the University’s Intercultural Events and Education committee, the lecture focuses on how multi-ethnic, Hispanic women adapted and defied social pressures in México, Peru and the Caribbean.

Established in 1911, International Women’s Day is a global celebration of women and their achievements. Each year, the day is commemorated with events celebrating strides made to empower women.

Olivas joined the University’s faculty in 2014 and offers courses on the history of the Hispanic World, Spain and Latin America. He holds his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He earned two master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and UCLA, respectively.

A former Fulbright Fellow and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, he is also a UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. 

For more information, contact the Special Collections librarian Jeanette Hatcher at jhatcher@tamiu.edu or 956.326.2404. 

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