She has contributed significantly to the history of Roman Catholicism in Mexico, beginning with a number of her early articles drawn from her dissertation on nuns and nunneries, culminating in her monograph Brides of Christ.

[4] She also has interests in more general topics of colonial Mexican economic history such as her analysis of the relation between the social elites and ecclesiastical wealth.

A review of this work by Virginia Leonard notes "Asunción Lavrin is ... a pioneer in Latin American women's history.

"[6] Lavrin has also edited several books on women, including Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives (Greenwood Press, 1978) and two volumes co-edited with Rosalva Loreto, Diálogos espirituales: Letras femeninas Hispanoamericanas, Siglos XVI–XIX, and Monjas y Beatas: La escritura femenina en la espirtualidad barroca novohispana.

She has also co-edited a book with Rosalva Loreto on the colonial theatre written for religious women, El universo de la Teatralidad en Nueva España.

[8] Lavrin worked as senior editor of the four volume Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina (Cátedra, 2006), to which she contributed two chapters.

[9] Currently, she is interested in the history of friars in the Mendicant Orders of colonial Mexico and has finished a book manuscript on that topic to be published by The University of Nebraska Press.

Additional recent publications include: Books: Maria Casilda del Pozo y Calderón Autobiografía de una devota secular en Nueva España.

El universo de la Teatralidad Conventual en Nueva España, Siglos XVII-XIX.

Articles in Academic Journals: “Franciscan Missionaries as Witnesses of Nature in Colonial Mexico.” Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 2022, Vol.

Sandra Olivero Guidobono, Juan Jesús Bravo Caro, Rosalva Loreto López, Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2021.

V Centenario de la Presencia Franciscana en Mexico, edited by Sergio Rivera Guerrero and Fr.

[10] She became a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of History in 2013.In 2015, she received the Academic Distinction Award from the American Historical Association.

According to the official website, the award is "named to honor two pioneers in the history of the Spanish American empire, the first working in the early days of the field [Fannie Bandelier], the second who forged a path in colonial history and served as a model for female historians in the profession [Asunción Lavrin]."