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About Leah Cargin
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Oklahoma. My research interests are women's reproductive and sexual health, gender, sexuality, and Latin American during the Cold War. My dissertation forefronts Mexican women's embodied experiences during Cold War era reproductive health and family planning reforms.
NBN Episodes hosted by Leah:
January 8, 2026
Suffering Sappho!
An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her conv…
December 6, 2025
The Nursing Clio Reader
The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice (Rutgers UP, 2025) brings together essays that examine reproductive health throug…
October 15, 2025
The Women Who Threw Corn
The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2025) tells the stories of women from Spain, North Afr…
July 5, 2024
Surgery and Salvation
In Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), Elizabeth O’Brien foregro…
September 12, 2022
Workers Like All the Rest of Them
Leah Cargin (Ph.D student, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Elizabeth Quay Hutchison (Professor, University of New Mexico) about Hutchison’s recent…