"Where did Trump come from? Reproductive Politics, Whiteness, and Neoliberalism"

Laura Briggs is professor and chair of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts and an interdisciplinary scholar of reproductive politics and the U.S. relationship to Latin America. Recent articles have been published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics; Feminist Studies; Radical History Review; Scholar and the Feminist Online; American Indian Quarterly; and Scripta Nova (Barcelona), on topics ranging from Puerto Rico and debt imperialism to Central American child migrants to how to think sexuality and gender in relation to US imperialism. Her new book is entitled How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump (University of California Press Reproductive Justice Series). She is the author of Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption (2012), which won the Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best book on US race relations, and Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico.  Her Ph.D. is from Brown University's Department of American Studies, 1998.