Nazanin Sullivan
A native Texan, Nazanin graduated with an honors degree in History and Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. She studies maternal infanticide in early modern Europe, focusing primarily on Spain and its colonial empire. She plans to examine the pressures that drove women to commit infanticide, the judicial reaction and progression of infanticide legislation, and cultural variations of infanticide across the Hispanophone world. Her work includes cultural responses to child death and illness, as well as shifting views of child worth and the definition of childhood throughout the course of the early modern period and across geographic boundaries. She also has a keen interest in folklore studies and fairy tales – and not just those that involve imperiled infants!
