Margaret Jane Slaughter, Professor Emerita at The University of New Mexico, died June 4. She was 82. Slaughter was a celebrated founding mother of the international and interdisciplinary field of Women’s and Gender Studies, a scholar of women in the Italian Resistance, and a longtime pillar of the Department of History and academic leader at UNM.

A Celebration of Life will be held at The University of New Mexico Alumni Memorial Chapel on Saturday, Aug. 24 from 3 to 5 p.m. A gathering will be held afterward at the University Club from 5 to 7 p.m. 

Known as Jane by friends and family, she was born Sept. 5, 1941, at the Moravian missionary hospital in the city of Bilwaskarma, Nicaragua, to Winifred Mildred Whaley Slaughter and Thomas Nolan Slaughter.

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