16 Facts About Marysa Navarro

Marysa Navarro Aranguren was a Spanish-American historian specializing in the history of feminism, the history of Latin American women, and the history of Latin America.

Marysa Navarro occupied a prominent role as a promoter and activist in the areas of women's studies and women's history.

Marysa Navarro lived in the United States, and had dual citizenship, Spanish and US.

Marysa Navarro Aranguren was born in Pamplona, Navarre, Basque Country, Spain on 12 October 1934.

Marysa Navarro had lived most of her life outside of Spain.

The Spanish Civil War of 1936 forced her family to go into exile for political reasons as her father, Vicente Marysa Navarro, was an education inspector and a militant of the Republican Left.

Marysa Navarro's family sought refuge in France but given the evidence that Franco's regime was going to last longer than they thought, in 1948, they emigrated to Uruguay.

In 1955, after obtaining a Bachelor's degree from the Liceo Instituto Batlle y Ordonez in Montevideo, Marysa Navarro decided to study History and began her training at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas.

Marysa Navarro died in Boston, Massachusetts, on 2 March 2025, at the age of 90.

Between 1963 and 1967, Marysa Navarro worked as a professor at different university institutions, Rutgers University, Yeshiva University, Kean University, and Long Island University.

Marysa Navarro worked at Dartmouth College for 42 years, serving as director of the History Department, associate dean of Social Sciences, and director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.

Marysa Navarro was part of numerous associations and editorial committees in feminist-themed journals and was very involved in the Latin American Studies Association, of which she was vice president and president.

Since the beginning of her studies, Marysa Navarro had received numerous research grants.

Marysa Navarro continued her research through the grant received in 2009, the Amelia Lacroze de Fortabat scholarship from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Marysa Navarro has taught as a professor, visiting professor, or guest at universities in the United States, Spain, Mexico, Uruguay, and England, and had actively campaigned to popularize gender studies through articles, meetings, and conferences at universities in different countries.

In 1982, Marysa Navarro published her biography, Evita, to publicize the dimensions of this woman who became a part of the power and a symbol of Peronism, and whose image presented two opposite faces according to the ideological lens with which one looked at her.