Laura Briggs
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Feminist scholar and historian
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Laura Briggssociology Degrees
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Women's Studies
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Gender Studies
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Laura Briggs's Degrees
- Masters Women's Studies Stanford University
- Bachelors Gender Studies University of California, Santa Cruz
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Why Is Laura Briggs Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Laura Briggs is a feminist critic and historian of reproductive politics and US empire. She works on transnational and transracial adoption and the relationship between race, sex, gender, and US imperialism. Her 2012 book Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption won the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for best book on the history of US race relations and has been featured on numerous college syllabi in the US and Canada. Briggs serves as professor and chair of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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