Monique Laney

Monique Laney is an Associate Professor of History at Auburn University (Alabama, USA) and studies the impact of government policies that favor skilled migrants on the affected migrants, the societies they leave, and the societies they join. She is the author of German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past during the Civil Rights Era (Yale University Press, 2015), and she has published multiple articles on the development of preference systems for migrants with skills in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Recently, she completed a book manuscript, titled Brain Gain: Bringing Scientists and Engineers to the United States.