August 22, 2012—Brian Guy is one of seven University of Oregon students awarded a Fulbright scholarship for study abroad. A recipient of a 2012 CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant, Guy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on “ Code Violations: Men, Gender Inequality, and the Contentious Politics of Senegal’s Family Code.”

Two years ago, Xiaobo Su, an assistant professor in the University of Oregon Department of Geography, was awarded a CSWS faculty grant to support fieldwork in China. Recently, Professor Su published an article that came out of this fieldwork.

Abstract

(2012): “‘It is my home. I will die here’: tourism development and the politics of place in Lijiang, China,” Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 94 (1): 31–45.

ABSTRACT. Although “home” is an established topic in the literature, what home means for an in situ, non-travelling population that nevertheless is confronted by the influx of great numbers of tourists and migrants is an important question that has not been widely researched. This article examines the construction and practice of home in a highly mobile world

2012 CSWS Grant and Fellowship Awardees

March 30, 2012, Eugene, OR—For the 2012-13 academic year, the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon has awarded more than $65,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender. Ten UO graduate students will receive awards ranging from $1,250 to $12,000. Six faculty scholars will receive awards ranging from $5,792 to $6,000.

Easther Chigumira

Easther Chigumira, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography, received the prestigious Jane Grant Dissertation Award. Her field-based research will look at land reform issues pertaining to women in Zimbabwe. Two graduate students in the Department of Psychology—Rosemary Bernstein and Brianna Hailey—are doing research on preventing depression and enhancing confidence in pregnant women in recovery from substance dependence. Jessica Cavas, a graduate student in the Department of International Studies and in Planning, Public Policy and Management will be traveling to Delhi, India, to do research on how an NGO’s literacy program is working as an intervention program to transition women out of sex work and helping prevent sex trafficking of girls and women. (See story in InsideOregon)

Awardees include:

Winner of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s (CSWS) 2004 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, Barbara Sutton is now an assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of Albany, SUNY, affiliated with the departments of sociology and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies. Born and raised in Argentina, Dr. Sutton recently was named the recipient of the National Women’s Studies Association 2011 Gloria Anzaldua Book Prize for Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (Rutgers University Press, 2010). The book is based on research that was supported by CSWS, among others.

Based primarily on women’s experiential narratives, Bodies in Crisis looks at the complex, often hidden, bodily worlds of women in Argentina during a time of intense social upheaval, post-2001.

Tina Boscha, instructor of composition in the University of Oregon Department of English, recently took matters into her own hands and self-published her novel as an e-book.

“A few years back, I was a very fortunate recipient of a CSWS Faculty Research Grant (and before, of a CSWS Graduate Research Grant) for my novel River in the Sea. Well, after years of frustration with trying to get published the traditional route (culminating in an ‘almost’ sale but in the end, no dice), I went ahead and put my book out myself,” she told CSWS. “I have included CSWS in the acknowledgements page and was more than happy to do so. The funding made this work possible.”

Her book is available now for e-readers via Amazon and Barnes & Noble, with a print edition coming soon. Her facebook page is <www.facebook.com/tinaboschawriter> and her website is <tinaboscha.com>. Boscha is an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship recipient and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. For her next novel, she is working on a good old-fashioned ghost story.

The spring 2011 issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (volume 36, number 3), includes an article coauthored by University of Oregon graduate Jennifer Erickson, now an assistant professor of anthropology at the Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Erickson was the recipient of the 2009 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship.

“We want empowerment for our women”: Transnational Feminism, Neoliberal Citizenship, and the Gendering of Women’s Political Subjectivity in Postconflict South Sudan(pp. 627-652), Jennifer Erickson, Caroline Faria. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/657494

Editor’s Update: Homefront Heroines reached its funding goal on June 29

June 2011—Kathleen M. Ryan, Ph.D., received a CSWS graduate student research grant in 2007 while working on her doctorate in the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Her project, “When Flags Flew High: Propaganda, Memory and Oral History for World War II Female Veterans,” was an oral history on the WAVES of World War II.

“The money,” Ryan says, “was used to travel to archives on the east coast for research, which were crucial in the project’s research and development phase.”