CSWS Offers $1,000 Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship

Applications now being accepted
Deadline: February 10, 2012
Funding Amount:  $1,000
Students Must Meet Financial Need Criteria in Order to Apply
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For the third straight year, CSWS invites UO undergraduates to compete for the $1,000 Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship. This award is intended to support students at the University of Oregon who are preparing a senior thesis in any department on campus on issues related to women and/or gender. CSWS will also consider projects with either the scholarly rigor or a research component comparable to that of a thesis. Students must meet financial need criteria in order to apply. CSWS is now accepting applications. The application deadline is February 10, 2012.

See news about previous awardees. continue reading….

Microfinance: Assessing the Economic and Cultural Implications of Microfinance on Poverty from Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Research Team Short Seminar

September 25–27, 2012
School of Advanced Research (SAR)
Santa Fe, N.M.

Milford Bateman, Chair, Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Juraj Dobrila Pula, Croatia and Freelance Consultant

Lamia Karim, Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon

This is an international research team of nine scholars representing six countries–Bangladesh, Bosnia, Bolivia, India , Kenya and Uganda.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

330 Hendricks Hall
Jane Grant Conference Room
UO campus

FITF Works-in-Progress Series

Lorane Valley, Oregon—wine country

Jim Meacham, Senior Research Associate and Administrative and Research Director, InfoGraphics Lab, “A New Epicurean Atlas of Oregon” roundtable.

Join us for a lively discussion at a roundtable with Jim Meacham (director, UO InfoGraphics Lab) and Lindsay Naylor (PhD candidate, UO Department of Geography) to discuss budding plans for a new epicurean atlas of Oregon. continue reading….

Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema

a new book by Sangita Gopal

Sangita Gopal is an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her research was supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant. An interview with Dr. Gopal—Studying Bollywood: Globalization, Isolation, Couples, and Changing Gender Roles—appeared in the 2011 CSWS Annual Review.

Conjugations is now available from The University of Chicago Press. continue reading….

The Laundry Day issue of Fembot focuses on Breaking Dawn Part 1. Fembot, a scholarly collaboration promoting research on gender, media, and technology, offers a new model for open access, multimodal publishing that will provide a prototype for collaborative research, publication, and pedagogy in the humanities. Fembot is a CSWS Research Interest Group.

The article “The Female Programmer: Gender Stereotypes & Computers” discusses a trend of female disinvolvement in the field of computer programming. The article describes how modern stereotypes have discouraged women from becoming programmers, and calls readers to change the way we think of computer programming. “The profession was at first heavily dominated by females,” notes the graduate student who first alerted CSWS to this article.