Jennifer Freyd, UO Department of Psychology

Psychology professor Jennifer Freyd’s paper “Exposure to Betrayal Trauma and Risks to the Well-Being of Girls and Women” is now available online in the Fall 2009 issue of CSWS Research Matters.

“Women are diagnosed with a host of mental health problems, including depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) more often than men,” Freyd writes. Her article explores the “whys.” Click here to access a PDF of Freyd’s article.

Freyd is the breakthrough researcher who developed Behavior Trauma Theory. She is the author of the award-winning book Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse (1996) and numerous other publications. See her website for more information. CSWS has supported Freyd’s work through faculty research grants.

Place: 330 Hendricks Hall,  Jane Grant Conference Room

Get a head start on your CSWS Research grant applications.

Jennifer Erickson, 2009 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship Winner

Carol Stabile, director, Center for the Study of Women in Society, will facilitate a CSWS Grants Question and Answer Session related to the upcoming January 15, 2010 application deadline for CSWS research-related grants for UO faculty and graduate students. Click here to access CSWS grant guidelines and applications.  Please note that all application proposals must have a women and gender related component.

Click here to read about the proposals of past grant awardees.

UO scholar and CSWS Executive Committee member Louise Bishop explores the healing power of words in her recent book, Words, Stones & Herbs (Syracuse University Press).  In a presentation sponsored by the CSWS Healing Arts Research Interest Group, Bishop will talk about her book, which looks at the role of word and gender in healing, healing and the vernacular, and other aspects of poetry, language and metaphor in the healing arts of medieval and early modern England.

Louise Bishop is associate professor of literature and associate dean, Clark Honors College.

Place: Center for the Study of Women in Society

330 Hendricks Hall

Jane Grant Conference Room

Professor Bishop will trace the medical, theological, and popular uses of noli me tangere, “touch me not,” to situate and unmoor the phrase from its place on a remedybook’s page.  She  argues for a discursive relationship—highly material, eminently bodied, fully social, narratively pious, complexly gendered—between the disease name as it appears in a remedybook and the cultural resonances afforded by the phrase’s Biblical echo.  A Latin phrase can take on a range of meanings in vernacular contexts. Catching the shadow of Mary Magdalene, patron saint of apothecaries, in Bodley 591’s recipe opens a space for other ways to read and contextualize Middle English remedybooks.  Read in this fashion, the phrase noli me tangere enacts one of Rubin’s “creative moments” that “allows us to touch medieval bodies” (Miri Rubin) that were themselves touched by reading that heals.

Read the story about Professor Bishop in the Daily Emerald.

“Institutional Ethnography” — A Talk by Dorothy Smith

Friday, November 13   Lillis Business Complex, room 285

Dorothy Smith

Dorothy Smith is a major feminist sociologist, theorist, and methodologist. Among her many books are: The Everyday World as Problematic; Conceptual Practices of Power; and Institutional Ethnography: A sociology for people.

Dorothy Smith received the American Sociological Association’s Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award (1999) and its Jessie Bernard Award for contributions to feminist sociology (1993). She earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, taught at the University of British Columbia and was a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto) for 25 years. At present she teaches at the University of Victoria.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the Social Sciences Feminist Network Research Interest Group at CSWS.

Cosponsored by the UO Department of Sociology and the UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

Peggy Pascoe

Peggy Pascoe, UO professor of history, continues to win honors for her book, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America.  After winning two of the major annual prizes from the Organization of American Historians earlier this year, she has repeated this feat. Pascoe learned in mid-October that she is the winner of two of the major annual prizes given by the American Historical Association. They are the John H. Dunning Prize, given for the best book in U.S. history (any field, any period) and the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History. The award ceremony will take place at the annual meeting of the AHA in January in San Diego. Pascoe is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society invites applications from University of Oregon undergraduate students 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. The deadline is November 16, 2009.

This award honors the life and work of Jane Higdon, a faculty researcher at the Linus Pauling Institute at OSU and an avid endurance athlete.  The financial support for this scholarship is provided by the Jane Higdon Foundation, which is dedicated to encouraging and empowering young people to pursue healthy and active lifestyles and academic excellence.

Awards are subject to conditions set by CSWS, which falls under the purview of the UO Office of the Vice President for Research. For more information on how to apply for the scholarship, students should refer to the application guidelines. Please click here to go to the guideline and application form links.