University of California, Santa Barbara
   

Specialization

Sexual and reproductive politics; health advocacy movements; feminist analysis of public health, medicine and science; qualitative research methods

Education

1998 Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
(Anthropology & Population Dynamics)

1994 M.A. Johns Hopkins University
(Anthropology)

1988 B.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Anthropology and Women’s Studies)

1988 Certificate in Women’s Studies (Women’s Studies Program in Europe,
administered through Antioch University, Ohio)

Dr. Oaks is currently a professor with Department of Feminine Studies and a committee member in the Health Justice & Community initiative.

 

 


Books:

The Salley Gardens: Women, Sex, and Motherhood in Ireland, with Jo Murphy-Lawless, Peter Lang Publishers, Reimagining Ireland series, 2022

Giving Up Baby: Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice, NYU Press, 2015

Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame, eds. Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003

Smoking and Pregnancy: The Politics of Fetal Protection. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2001