Laury Oaks

Professor
she/her/hers

Contact Phone

(805) 893-8444

Office Location

4714 South Hall

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)

Publications

Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality by Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks

Smoking & Pregnancy by Laury Oaks

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


Select Articles and Book Chapters:

"Inclusive Reproductive Knowledges: The Feminist Potential of Advocating the Fertility Awareness Method," work in progress

(2022). “Black Box”: Student-Generated Solutions to Improve Sexual Violence Response and Prevention Efforts for Undergraduates on College Campuses,” Brittnie E. Bloom,+ Eunhee Park,+ Dallas Swendeman, Laury Oaks, Stephanie Sumstine, Claire Amabile, Stoddy Carey, Jennifer Wagman, Violence Against Women

(2021). "Employees, Advisees, and Emerging Scholars: A Qualitative Analysis of Graduate Students’ Roles and Experiences of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment on College Campuses.” Brittnie Bloom, Cierra Sorin, Jennifer A. Wagman and Laury Oaks, Sexuality & Culture. Open access,http://https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-021-09841-w">

(2021). “Graduate Students’ Knowledge and Utilization of Campus Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Resources.” Brittnie E. Bloom,+ Cierra Raine Sorin,+ Laury Oaks, and Jennifer A. Wagman, Journal of American College Health

+shared first authorship

(2021). “Assessing Student, Staff and Faculty Perspectives on Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence on Three University of California (UC) Campuses: The UC Speaks Up Protocol,” Jennifer Wagman et al. JMIR Research Protocols

(2019). “CBPR within Invisible, Geographically-Dispersed Communities: Partnering with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Communities on the California Central Coast,” with Tania Israel, Kristin J. Conover, Alise Cogger, Kristin Conover, and Todd Raymond Avellar. JSACP 11(1):14-32.

"Manhood and Meaning in the Marketing of the 'Male Pill.'" In The Second Sex in Reproduction: Men, Sexuality and Masculinity, eds. Marcia C. Inhorn, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Helena Goldberg, and Maruska La Cour Mosegaard. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009.

“What are Pro-Life Feminists Doing on Campus?” NWSA Journal 2009 21(1): 178-203.

“The Gendered Social Politics of Health Issues: Review Essay,” Journal of Women’s History 2008 20(3):188-196.

"Genetic Cancer Risk Perceptions & Access to Cancer Information and Services in Santa Barbara."  A report to the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, July 2008. 

"Catholic Church." In Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy, eds. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor, ABC-CLIO, eds. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor, ABC-CLIO, 2004.

with Jo Murphy-Lawless, and Clare Brady. 2004. "Understanding how Sexually Active Women Think about Fertility, Sex, and Motherhood." Dublin, CPA. Report No. 6. Available at: www.lenus.ie/handle/10147/305349">https://www.lenus.ie/handle/10147/305349">www.lenus.ie/handle/10147/305349">https://www.lenus.ie/handle/10147/305349

"The Social Politics of Health Risk Warning: Competing Claims about the Link between Abortion and Breast Cancer." In Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame, eds. Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.