I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity at the University of California, Riverside. Prior to that, I taught History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia. I was also a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I received my PhD in Latin American History with a Concentration in Gender Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016. My book, titled A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2020), examines reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Brazil’s then-capital city. It won the 2021 Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize from the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association. See the Miscarriage of Justice section of the website for more information.
In addition to my teaching at UCR, I have taught Latin American and gender history at UGA, UCLA, Occidental College in Los Angeles, and the University of Edinburgh. At UGA, I was the faculty adviser to the Demosthenian Literary Society, UGA’s oldest student club, from 2019 to 2024.
My research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Fulbright Foundation, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Citizens and Scholars Foundation (formerly Woodrow Wilson Foundation), the American Historical Association, the Coordinating Council for Women in History, UCLA, UGA, and the European Union.
Currently, I am working on a project entitled “Birthing Abolition: Enslaved Women’s Reproduction and the Gradual End of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.” See the Birthing Abolition section of the website for more information.
I am also completing my Master’s in Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology with a Certificate in Global Health at the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia. For products related to that training, see my data analysis website.
Email: cassia.roth@ucr.edu
GitHub Profile: https://github.com/cp-roth
University website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/cassia.roth
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8084-3355