Archive for the ‘Gender’ Category
American Marriage—Priscilla Yamin’s new book
American Marriage: A Political Institution
by Priscilla Yamin
University of Pennsylvania Press
July 2012
Priscilla Yamin is an assistant professor of political science at the Unversity of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. CSWS helped support Yamin’s research for this book with faculty research grant.
Jenée Wilde Selected for Fellowship and Research Grant
Jenée Wilde has been selected to receive the 2012-2013 Norman Brown Graduate Fellowship, which was established by alumnus Norman Brown (’68) to support graduate student excellence. A PhD candidate in the UO Department of English (Folklore Program), she has also been selected to receive a 2012 Folklore Summer Research Grant to conduct archival research, oral history interviews, and related fieldwork within the bisexuality/science fiction communities in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
Queer Experiments in Pedagogy, a Roundtable
| October 25, 2012 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 1:30 pm |
Graduate Student Center
111 Susan Campbell Hall
UO campus
The Queer RIG Roundtable Series presents:
“Queer Experiments in Pedagogy”
Guest speakers:
- Chicora Martin, Assistant Dean of Students and Director, LGBT Education and UO Support Services
- Mary Wood, Associate Professor, UO Department of English
- Drew Beard, Postdoctoral Instructor, UO Department of English
GUEST VIEWPOINT: Is it fair to use hormone levels to determine athletes’ sex?
June 3, 2011—Eugene Register-Guard
GUEST VIEWPOINT: Is it fair to use hormone levels to determine athletes’ sex?.
by Elizabeth Reis, Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies
New Book on Gay Latino Studies
Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader
edited by Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez
Duke University Press
(April 2011)
384 pages
Michael Hames-García is professor of Ethnic Studies at UO. Ernesto Javier Martínez is assistant professor of Ethnic Studies and of Women’s and Gender Studies at UO. Both are CSWS faculty affiliates.
Publisher’s Synopsis
Ernesto Martínez Lecture
Gender, Race, Culture, History Colloquium
| April 6, 2012 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 5:30 pm |
McKenzie Hall 229
1101 Kincaid St.
UO campus
“Re-enacting Race, Re-enacting Gender: Crossdressing & Embodied Memories of Terror”
A talk by Dr. Mark Auslander
Professor of Anthropology & Museum Studies, Central Washington University
Discussants:
- Dr. Melissa Stuckey, UO Professor, History
- Dr. Robert Thompson, OSU Professor, Ethnic Studies
- Dr. Aletta Biersack, UO Professor, Anthropology

HASTAC Seminar: “Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia”
Room 122
UO Knight Library
Please join CSWS as we live-stream HASTAC’s seminar “Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia” in the Collaboration Center in Knight Library (122).
This important conversation between “some of the nation’s most urgent thinkers on race theory and gender and sexuality studies,” Jack Halberstam, Marlon Ross, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Mark Anthony Neal, and Sharon P. Holland, will be hosted by HASTAC at Duke University and streamed live. HASTAC Scholars (including those on UO’s campus) will micro-blog and live-tweet the event using the hashtag #everydayism.
Come hear the conversation live and join in with us at any time between 10am-1pm.
For any questions, or if you would like to bring your class (for whatever length of time), please contact Chelsea Bullock (HASTAC Scholar and CSWS GTF) at cbullock(a)uoregon.edu.