Darci Walton is a historian of medieval and early modern Iberia, specializing in women’s health care concerning midwifery, pregnancy, and childbirth. She joined the graduate program after completing her B.A. at the University of Arkansas.
Darci’s work traces how the professionalization and institutionalization of university medical education affected the policing and politicizing of women’s bodies. Further, Darci is interested in how interfaith relations played into the trajectory of women’s health care in the multireligious peninsula during a time of strife.