Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP) and the UCSB History Associates will host a lecture on Women and the Mexican Revolution, presented by UCSB professor Verónica Castillo-Muñoz.

The free talk will be 5:30-7 p.m. April 24 at the Alhecama Theatre, 215A E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara.

The Mexican Revolution (1910-20) led to the deaths of over one million people and the mass migration of approximately one million refugees from rural Mexico to the United States.

Castillo-Muñoz will examine how Mexican women negotiated war, violence, and family separations to give new insights into the lives of women, families and children who escaped the brutality of war and were detained at refugee camps along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Castillo-Muñoz is an associate professor in UCSB’s Department of History. She has written widely in English and Spanish on the intersections between gender, family migration, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Castillo-Muñoz is the author of “The Other California: Land Identity and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands,” published by the University of California Press (2017).

Recently, she collaborated on a binational exhibit of Pancho Villa with the National Museum of the Mexican Revolution in Mexico City.

Her new book project “Her Stories of the Mexican Revolution” looks at border women’s experiences with war and exile between 1910 and 1920.