Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens

Award-Winning Author & Historian; Reproductive Rights Advocate; Medical Racial Justice Warrior

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Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens Biography

Deirdre Cooper Owens is an award-winning historian, popular public speaker on reproductive rights, and a professor of history in New England. Politically, she proudly works to advance reproductive justice.

As a teacher and public speaker, Cooper Owens credits where she was raised as key factors in her love for weaving together history and storytelling. She remembers vividly sitting on the front porch with her granddaddy in SC’s Low Country listening raptly to the ghost stories he told about the enslaved in his Gullah tongue. She was influenced by these experiences and similar ones that centered oral history. It is what ultimately led her to devote her life to become a professional historian.

Cooper Owens is a proud graduate of two historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), the all-women's Bennett College and Clark Atlanta University. She earned her Ph.D. in history at UCLA and has had a number of prestigious fellowships at the University of Virginia, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society. As one of the country's most "acclaimed experts in U.S. history," according to Time Magazine, Cooper Owens is steadily working towards making history more accessible and inspiring for all.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/28/2025.

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens Videos

  • Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens - Black History Month 2025 Speaker
    Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens - Black History Month 2025 Speaker Introduction.
  • Racial Justice Initiative Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens
    Racial Justice Initiative Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens. 492 views · Streamed 3 years ago ...more. Pitzer College. 1.93K.
  • Deirdre Cooper Owens on "Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and ...

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens Books

  • Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

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