Briggs' book on adoption wins James A. Rawley Prize

Professor Laura Briggs, chair of the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Department, has been awarded the James A. Rawley Prize, given annually by the Organization of American Historians to the author of the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States. Her book, "Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption," was published last year by Duke University Press.

The prize is given in memory of James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

The award will be presented in April at the OAH annual meeting in San Francisco.