The Matilde Moros Annual Lecture honors the life and work of Matilde Moros, Ph.D., a beloved faculty member of the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies who passed away in 2023.

This lecture brings scholars, activists, and community members to campus to address topics and themes that were deeply important to her— including Latinx studies, social transformation and justice, ethics, and spirituality and theology.

2027 Speaker

Ashley Coleman Taylor, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of religious studies and women’s and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. As an interdisciplinary ethnographer of circum-Caribbean descent, she specializes in the intersecting lived experiences of embodiment, Black genders, and Africana religions in Puerto Rico and her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Her book-in-progress is tentatively titled “Majestad Negra: Race, Class, Gender and Religious Experience in the Puerto Rican Imaginary.” It is an intersectional Black feminist approach to race, class, gender, and coloniality in Puerto Rico. The manuscript was a finalist for the University of Illinois/National Women’s Studies Association First Book Prize.