Laura Briggs

Laura Briggs is Chair and Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption (Duke University Press, 2012), Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2002), and coeditor of International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children (NYU Press, 2009). Her areas of research include studies of US empire, US women’s history, politics of reproduction, gender and science, and US and Latin America.