Allyson M. Poska

About The Author

Allyson M. Poska is a professor emerita of history at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Her most recent book is Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire, which was awarded the Best Book Prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

Books by Allyson M. Poska

Maternal Judgments

Women, Children, and Smallpox Vaccination in Spain and Its Empire

By Allyson M. Poska
Maternal Judgments examines the role of race and gender in the responses to the world’s first vaccination campaign, helmed by the Spanish Crown in the early nineteenth century.
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Gendered Crossings

Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire

By Allyson M. Poska
Winner of the Best Book Prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. The story begins as th...
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