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Courtney Smith (graduate student, political science) attended the FOKO Conference 'Female Genital Cutting in the Past and Today' in Helsinki where she presented the paper "The Politics of the Marked Body: An Examination of Female Genital Cutting and Breast Implantation." This paper will be published in the Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration in January 2008.

Lynn Stephen (professor, anthropology) received the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America, 2007 from the Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA).

Anita Weiss, (professor, International Studies Program), was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and other newspapers as well as interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered," "The Voice of the Cape " (Capetown, S.A.), Tehran Radio, "The Breakfast Club" (Jamaica), KPFA, KLCC "Sunday at Noon" and other radio stations to share her expertise on the turbulent political situation in Pakistan in November and December 2007.

Jennifer Ablow (assistant professor, Psychology) received a 2-year NSF grant for her work “Biobehavioral Coordination in Infant's Response to Social Stress.” The project is study of first-time mothers who, prior to entering the study, were screened for being at risk.

Alison Altstatt (doctoral student in musicology) was selected as an alternate for the Fulbright award, and received the highly competitive German Academic Exchange Service scholarship. Altsatt will conduct archival research in Erlangen, Bavaria, for her dissertation on the music of late medieval convents. She was a recipient of a CSWS research award.

Monique Balbuena (assistant professor, Clark Honors College) will teach a COLT graduate seminar this winter term titled “Multilingualism of the Self: Writing Identity in the Maghreb.” She will explore cultural and linguistic diversity in the region, assign English translations of French and Arabic to guide explorations of the Maghreb, an African region ( Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) whose multilingualism and cultural hybridity predate colonialism. Balbuena’s study of Arabic was enabled by a CSWS/Yamada Center-sponsored Curland Grant for Language and Gender Studies.

Louise Bishop’s (assistance professor, Clark Honors College) new book Words, Stones and Herbs: The Healing Word in Medieval and Early Modern England was published by Syracuse University Press (2007). Her work was funded, in part, by a 2001 CSWS grant.

Jenifer Freyd (professor of Psychology) had two papers published that were made possible by CSWS support:
Cromer, L.D. & Freyd, J.J. (2007). “What influences believing abuse reports?
The roles of depicted memory persistence, participant gender, trauma history, and sexism,” in Psychology of Women's Quarterly, 3, 13-22.

Becker-Blease, K.A., & Freyd, J.J. (2007). “Dissociation and Memory for
Perpetration among Convicted Sex Offenders,” co-published in Brown, L.S. &
Quina, K. (Eds.). Trauma and Dissociation in Convicted Offenders: Gender,
Science, and Treatment Issues. New York: Haworth Press, and a special issue of the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 8(2), 69-80.

Printable full text pdf versions of these two papers are available at:
http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/traumapapers.html#2007

Lynn Fujiwara (assistant professor, Women and Gender Studies and department of Sociology) will soon have her book Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform , published by University of Minnesota Press, (expected April 2008).

Gina Herrmann ( assistant professor, Romance Languages) has her new book Written in Red: The Communist Memoir in Spain forthcoming with the University of Illinois Press.

Dorianne Laux (professor, English) won the Oregon Book Award for her fourth book of poetry, Facts about the Moon. It was also chosen as one of the top ten books of 2006 poetry by the Kansas City Star. New poems from a fifth book have been published in magazines such as the Columbia Poetry Review, Orion, Portland Review, Mipoesias, The Pedestal, The Quirk and Triquarterly Review. Her work has been included in recent anthologies such as Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry. Laux is on sabbatical for 2007-2008.

David Li (professor, English Department) has his article, "Capturing China in Globalization: Autonomy, Dependency, and Equality in Zhang Yimou's Cinema" published in Texas Studies in Language and Literature49.3 (Fall 2007).

Peggy McConnell (CSWS Accountant) was honored by the Register-Guard and the United Way as Eugene’s December Volunteer of the Month for her work at the Cascade Raptor Center. Peggy has been their animal care volunteer since May 2003 and she contributed over 800 hours of time in 2006 alone! Because Peggy is “a wonderful model of dedication, compassion, humor, generosity and is just plain fun to have around,” the Raptor Center awarded her $500 to re-give to the charity of her choice.

Amanda Powell (senior instructor of Romance Languages) directed the workshop on literary translation, "World to World / Mundo a Mundo" at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ), Mexico, in July 2007. With 20 participants from Mexico, the U.S., El Salvador and Costa Rica, this workshop of writers, professional translators, university professors, high-school teachers, and graduate-level students engaged in questions of how cultural and political meanings shape texts, how works for theater can be brought to life in new languages and nationalities, and how poetry lives when moved from one linguistic and lyrical structure and set of sound-relationships to another. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Interamerican University Studies Institute, the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon, and the UAQ. For information see http://www.iusi.org/programs/workshops/worldtoworld.html

Elizabeth Reis ( assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies ) will have her article, "Divergence or Disorder? The Politics of Naming Intersex," published in the October 2007 issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Reis also published "Hermaphrodites and 'Same-Sex' Sex in Early America" in Thomas Foster's new anthology, Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexualities in Early America (New York University Press, 2007).

Judith Raiskin ( associate professor and director of Women's Studies ) had her chapter “Telling Tales Out of School: Sia Figiel and Indigenous Knowledge in Pacific Island Literature,” published in Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific, edited by Kathy Ferguson and Monique Mironesco ( Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008).

Lynn Stephen (Distinguished professor of Anthropology) announced that her latest book, Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon was published by Duke University Press (June, 2007).

Joan Acker (professor emerita of Sociology) will be a keynote speaker at the biennial conference on Gender, Work and Organization in Keele University, England in June 2007. She will also be the keynote speaker at the inauguration celebration of a new Center for Research on Equality and Diversity at Queen Mary College, University of London. In the spring of 2007, Joan will speak at the University of Texas, Emory University, and at St. Mary's University, Nova Scotia. Her book Class Questions: Feminist Answers will be discussed at the critics’ session at the Southern Sociological Society annual meeting in April.

Carol Ann Bassett (associate professor in the School of Journalism) is the new Program Director for an on-going course through UO International Programs, "Environmental Writing in the Galapagos." This intensive four week summer course involves field work throughout the archipelago, resulting in works of literary nonfiction suitable for publication in national magazines. The program is open to students in Environmental Studies. Applications can be found online at: http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/galapagos

Jennifer Freyd, (professor of Psychology) published her CSWS funded study in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly (March 2007), in which she found that males who have never been traumatized and have high sexism beliefs think that child sexual abuse are not harmful to the victim and have trouble believing a person’s recounting of such incidents.

Shirley Marc (staff in CSWS) gave a reading at the "Voices Conference" in Santa Cruz in March 2007 sponsored by the International Women's Writers Guild. Later that month she gave a poetry reading locally at Mother Kali's Books reading from her 2005 book Life Sat Up One Night and Caught Me, published by Flowing River Books, as well as excepts from a forthcoming book of poetry and memoir, "In the Light of Trees."

Julie Voelker-Morris (adjunct faculty in Theater Arts) will present "Something of Herself to Be Remembered: Doris Smith and the Performance of Gender as Director of the Oregon Trail Pageants, Eugene, Oregon, 1926 – 1950," at the Art of Gender in Everyday Life Conference IV at Idaho State University in April 2007.

Dorothee Ostmeier ( associate professor of Germanic Languages and Literature) was awarded a spring 2007 research fellowship from CSWS, for her research “Gender Constructs in German Literature of the Early Twentieth Century.”

Amanda Powell (senior instructor of Romance Languages) was an invited panelist for the special session “Untold Sisters: Hispanic Women Writers and the Canon (pre-1800),” which honored the contribution of the book Untold Sisters: Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works, edited by Electa Arenal & Stacey Schlau; Amanda Powell, translator. (U. New Mexico Press, 1989). At the biennial meeting of GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en Espana y Latino America, pre-1800), Amanda presented “Queering the Quarrel: Contexts and Conflicts in Sapphic Verse,” from the CSWS-funded research that she will present this month at CSWS. At the same conference, she took part in a plenary roundtable session exploring Feminist Approaches to Collaboration.

Ellen Rees (associate professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures) was promoted to associate professor with tenure, and received the Oregon Humanities Center Ernest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies. She published three articles: "Holy Witch and Wanton Saint: Gothic Precursors for Isak Dinesen's 'The Dreamers.'" Scandinavian Studies 78.4 (2006). Originally presented as a CSWS work-in-progress talk during 2004, Rees published “What is a Woman?': The (Trans)Gendered Body in Contemporary Norwegian Documentary Cinema," in Scandinavica (2006). Also, she published an article on the role of cinema in contemporary Norwegian political consciousness in Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema, edited by C. Claire Thomson (Norvik Press, 2006).

Priscilla Southwell (professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences)and graduate student Courtney Smith had their article, "Equity of Recruitment: Gender Parity in French National Assembly Elections," published in the Social Science Journal (Vol. 47, 2007).

Lynn Stephen (professor of Anthropology) has published a new book titled Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon (Duke University Press, 2007). She also published a number of articles, among them – “Rural Women's Activism, 1980-2000” in the book Reframing the Nation From Below. In Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico, edited by Jocelyn Olcott Mary Kay Vaughn, and Gabriela Cano (Duke University Press, 2006).

Stephanie Wood (senior research associate, CSWS) co-edited with James Lockhart and Lisa Sousa the e-book, Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory. It was published on line in January 2007 by the Wired Humanities Project. To see the project, go to: http://whp.uoregon.edu/Lockhart/index.html

Joan Acker, professor emerita, sociology, was a speaker at a European Science Foundation conference on Intersectionalities in Sweden in October 2006. She also gave seminars at Gothenberg University and Lund University in Sweden and Aalborg University in Denmark. She presented a paper at the American Anthropology Association meeting in November.

Ina Asim associate professor, history, has co-edited a new volume with Dieter Kuhn ( Würzburg University) on the history of the Chinese Song Dynasty (960-1279). The volume 'Contributions to the Study of Song History' complements previous works of a group of researchers dedicated to the study of historical and archaeological sources from the Song period. The volume has been published in the series 'Würzburger Sinologische Schriften' in summer 2006.

Monique R. Balbuena, assistant professor, Clark Honors College, has her essay, “Sepharad in Brazil: Between the Metaphorical and the Literal,” accepted for publication in Modern Jewish Studies Winter 2006. Also forthcoming is her text “Is There a Jewish Brazilian poetry?,” in NOAJ Revista Literaria (Published in Israel by the International Association of Jewish Writers in the Spanish and Portuguese Languages). Her chapter titled “Spanyolit in Latin America: An Old Language in the New World” has been accepted for the book Sephardic Identity in the Americas: A Handbook of History and Literature , edited by Edna Aizenberg and Margalit Bejarano, forthcoming by The Harman Institute for the Study of Contemporary Jewry/Magnes University Press, in Jerusalem.

Gaylene Carpenter, professor emeritus, arts and administration, presented two invited papers, "Added Value: Measuring the Social Benefits of Community Festivals" at the Northwest Festivals & Events Conference, March 2006, and "The Social and Economic Benefits of Festivals and Events" at the Governor's Conference on Tourism, April 2006.

Cheris Kramarae , visiting professor, CSWS, presented “Minding Our Bodies,” at the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender ( St. Louis, October 2006). She also has three publications currently in press: “Cyberfeminist Practice: An Afterword Leading to the Future.” in Kristine Blair, Radhika Gajjala, and Christine Tulley, eds.; “Gender Matters in Online Learning,” in Michael G. Moore and William G. Anderson, eds. Handbook of Distance Education; “Gender Equity in the Use of Educational Technologies.” in Susan Klein, ed. Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity Through Education.

Dorianne Laux, professor, English, fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the best book of poems published in 2006, and is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.

Debra Merskin, associate professor, School of Journalism & Communication, published with co-editor Mary-Lou Galician of Arizona State, Critical Thinking About Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media: Media Literacy Applications, in LEA's Communication Series, November, 2006.

Dorothee Ostmeier, associate professor, German and Scandinavian languages, was invited to give two invited lectures in Europe "Probleme des Dialogischen im Werk Nelly Sachs. Ethik der Apostrophen," at the Nelly Sachs Conference, Freiburg, Fall 2006; and "Collaboration or Exploitation? Maragarete Steffin and Bertolt Brecht," at the 10th ISSEI conference, Malta, July 2006. She also presented the paper "Facing Death in Dialogic Encounter and Collective Work: Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin" at the International Brecht Symposion in Augsburg, July 2006.

Carol Silverman professor of anthropology, wrote the article “Trafficking in the Exotic with ‘Gypsy’ Music: Balkan Roma, Cosmopolitanism, and ‘World Music’ Festivals,” is appearing in Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse, ed. Donna Buchanan. (Scarecrow Press, 2007). In September 2006 she delivered the paper “Gypsy Music as World Music: Authenticity and Identity Issues among Balkan Romani Performers,” at the University of Greenwich, England. In January 2007 Carol is traveling to Leiden, Netherlands to deliver the paper "Balkan Romani Migrants to New York: Transnational Gender, Family, and Education Issues" at the invited conference Gender and Irregular Migration in Global and Historical Perspective.

Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of anthology, recently published two books: Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas, co-edited with Aida Hernández Castillo and Shannon Speed ( University of Texas Press, 2006). Her second book, Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon was published by Duke University Press, March 2007.

Analisa Taylor, assistant professor of Spanish, published “Malinche and Matriarchal Utopia: Gendered Visions of Indigeneity in Mexico” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Vol. 31 No 3 Special Issue: New Feminist Theories of Visual Culture, Spring 2006). She also published “The Ends of Indigenismo in Mexico” in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, (Vol 14, No 1, March 2005). In July, 2006, she traveled to Seville, Spain to participate in the 52nd Congreso de Americanistas, where she presented “Malinche y matriarcado en el México post-nacional” in a symposium titled "Transgressing Genders and Sexualities: (Re)Writing and Teaching the History of the Americas."

Stephanie Wood, senior research associate at CSWS and co-coordinator of the Americas RIG, received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grant, "The Kislak Techialoyans at the Library of Congress: Digital Facsimiles with English and Spanish Translations," 2006-08, together with Judith Musick and the Wired Humanities Project team.

Karen McPherson, associate professor, Romance languages, has a new book, Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future: Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing, forthcoming in November 2006 from McGill Queen’s University Press.

Louise Bishop, Clark Honors College, has a new book under contract with Syracuse University Press, entitled Words, Stones, and Herbs: Healing and Reading in Late Medieval England. Research for the book, which will appear in 2007, started with a Feminist Humanities Project /Reclaiming the Past RIG research trip to England.

Naomi Zack, philosophy, was recently honored at a celebration for the publication of her book Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave of Women’s Commonality. The June 1 gathering was sponsored by the philosophy department and included remarks by Judith Baskin and Scott Pratt. Zack has also had an article published recently in The Journal of Homeland Security Affairs. The piece is entitled “Philosophy and Disaster.” If you’d like a copy, contact Naomi Zack directly at nzack@uoregon.edu

The Oregon Child Advocacy Project, directed by Leslie Harris, law, sponsored its first conference, called Protecting Children’s Need for Nurturance, in March of 2006. Thirteen academics from around the country presented research papers during the conference, and seven prominent Oregon attorneys commented on the papers and related them to local issues. Harris’ own paper was entitled, “Involving Noncustodial Parents in Welfare Cases.” More than 60 people from around the state attended the conference.

Reimagining Political Ecology, a volume Aletta Biersack, anthropology, co-edited with James Greenberg, will be published by Duke University Press in fall 2006. Biersack was the plenary discussant at the international conference Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania, hosted by the Honolulu Academy of Arts in February 2006.

Mary Anne Beecher, architecture, received the 2006 Dean’s Fellowship in the History of Home Economics at Cornell University. She’ll be conducting research on domestic students’ approaches to storage design and the impact on the modern American interior.

Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, English, presented a paper entitled “Film as Cultural Antidote: Thirteen, an Anti-Epic” at the national meeting of the Society for Cinema Studies held in Vancouver BC this past March. Rowe’s article “Feminism in the Classroom: Teaching Toward the Third Wave” was published in Feminism in Popular Culture, edited by Joanne Hollows and Rachel Moseley ( Oxford: Berg, 2006). She was also an invited respondent to Tom Wartenberg, “Film as Argument,” at the meetings of the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts and the American Philosophical Association, held in Portland in March 2006. Karlyn also spoke at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, in May. Her lecture was titled, “Unruly Girls and Film Genres: Into the Third Wave.” And her article, “Scream, Popular Culture and Feminism’s Third Wave,” originally published in Genders On-line Journal (2003) was translated into Spanish and reprinted in Lectura: Journal of Women and Textuality (2006), a special issue on women and popular culture.

Amalia Gladhart’s (Romance languages) translation of Ecuadorian novelist Alicia Yánez Cossío’s The Potbellied Virgin was published in June by University of Texas Press.

F. Regina Psaki, Romance languages, is this year’s recipient of the Herman Award, the university’s senior teaching prize. She was recognized at spring commencement, on June 17.

Barbara K. Altmann, Romance languages, has published a new book entitled An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry, jointly prepared with R. Barton Palmer of Clemson University. The book came out with the University Press of Florida in 2006.

Barbara Sutton, CSWS, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at the State University of New York-Albany.

Anne Dhu McLucas, professor of music, recently published a book chapter entitled, “Silent Music: The Apache Transfomation of a Girl to a Woman” in Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth, ed. Susan Boynton and Roe-Min Kok, ( Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006), pp. 49-66.

Elizabeth Reis (Women's and Gender Studies) received the Sherl K. Coleman and Margaret E. Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities from the Humanities Center. As part of the fellowship, she will teach a new course in Winter 2007 called "Sex and Medical Ethics" and host a one-day conference on intersex issues that spring.

Gina Herrmann (Romance Languages/Spanish Literature) was invited to teach a doctoral seminar on Feminist Oral History in the Women's Studies Program at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in April 2005. She also delivered a public lecture on her research project on Working Class Spanish Women's Oral testimonies.

Madronna Holden (Linfield College), has had a poem selected for the chapbook being put out by Lane Literary Guild and the Eugene Concert Choir entitled Dona Nobis Pacem. She will be reading this and other poems at a windfall reading series in the Eugene library on April 18. She also published a review of two books on women and folklore for Parabola (following up on five articles she has published recently in that journal).

Lise Nelson, assistant professor of geography, has two articles coming out this spring 2006: "Geographies of state power, protest, and women’s political identity formation in Michoacán, Mexico, in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96(2): 365-388; and "Artesanía, mobility and the crafting of indigenous identities among Purhépechan women in Mexico," in the Journal of Latin American Geography 5(1): 51-77.

Elizabeth Wheeler (English) gave a talk entitled, "Disabled Bodies in the Landscape" at the Society for Disability Studies annual meeting at San Francisco State, and also at UO for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.

Cai Emmons (Creative Writing) has a novel called The Stylist (the title may change) is coming out next January from William Morrow (HarperCollins), and has an excerpt in a forthcoming book from Tarcher Publications called, Write Now: Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers. Also look for a story by Cai in the upcoming issue of Narrative Magazine.

Liz Bohls (English) recently edited Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology with Ian Duncan of UC Berkeley (Oxford World's Classics, 2005), and has published “Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Novel” in A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture, ed. Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia (Blackwell, 2005). She gave a lecture at the University of Kobe, Japan, in November 2005 on “Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Three Scientists In Search of the Self.”

Gaylene Carpenter (Arts & Administration) recently had a chapter published in Introduction to Recreation and Leisure, Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc. Her recent juried publications include “Linking Research and Practice: A Case Study in Arts Programming for Adults,” in Informed Leisure Practice, and she presented the talk, “Leisure As A Cultural Mirror,” at the Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference, Eugene, October, 2005.

Barbara Altmann (Romance Languages) was promoted to full professor in May 2005 and became chair of Romance Languages as of September. She has just published a book, co-produced with R. Barton Palmer of Clemson University, entitled An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry, (University of Florida Press, 2006).

Carol Ann Bassett (School of Journalism and Communication) will be teaching an ongoing course on Environmental Writing in the Galapagos beginning this summer. The new class is part of UO's International Programs.

Anita Weiss (International Studies) has been invited to be an Advisory Editor for [the Oxford] Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. She has also received a Humanities Center Teaching Fellowship for Summer 2006, and has also been awarded a Humanities Center Wulf Professorship for 2006-07 for a new 300-level course she is developing entitled “Islam and Global Forces.”

Lynn Stephen (Anthropology) recently published a new book, Zapotec Women: Gender, class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca, from Duke University Press, 2005. You can find a description and photo of the book on the Duke web site.

Amanda Powell (Romance Lanuages) delivered a keynote address for the Renaissance & Baroque Hispanic Poetry Society entitled, “Sapphic Satire within a Feminist Premodern: The Case of Sor Juana” at the University of Miami (November 2005). She also has these forthcoming articles and book chapters: Amanda Powell and Dianne Dugaw. “Sapphic Self-Fashioning in the Baroque Era: Women’s Petrarchan Parody in Spanish and English 1550-1700,” in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture , (April, 2006); “Teaching Sor Juana’s Love Poems to Women,” Emilie Bergmann and Stacey Schlau, eds.; and Approaches to Teaching Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. (Modern Language Association, forthcoming 2006). Look also for Amanda Powell’s “¡Oh qué diversas estamos, / dulce prenda, vos y yo!’: Multiple Voicings in Love Poems to Women,” by Marcia Belisarda, Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán and Sor Violante del Cielo in En desagravio de las damas: Studies on Women’s Poetry of the Golden Age. Julián Olivares, editor. (Forthcoming, Pegasus Press, 2006).

Joan Acker’s (Sociology) book, Class questions: Feminist Answers was published at the beginning of January, and a collection of her articles called Gendering Social Theory will be published soon. She will be a keynote speaker at a conference "Revisioning Gender" at Braunschweig University in Germany in May, and will teach on a graduate course in Norway in April. Also, Joan will be a key note speaker at the Critical Organization Studies conference at the Academy of Management annual meetings in August. In the meantime, Sandi Morgen, Jill Weigt andJoan are making good progress on their book on welfare restructuring in Oregon.

The educational CD Ina Asim (History) and Garron Hale (Social Sciences Instructional Laboratory) produced of the Chinese 17 th-century scroll of the Lantern Festival in Nanjing, which has been exhibited in the Focus Gallery of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art from January to March 2005, has recently been published. It is available at the Museum bookstore or from the SSIL. The CD has received enthusiastic praise from China historians. Peter Bol, professor of pre-modern Chinese history at Harvard University called it "a superb piece of work,” and Susan Mann, head of the history department of the University of California, Davis, called the work “fabulout.” The reproduction of the scroll is currently on display at the Classical Chinese Garden in Portland, and Ina Asim will introduce the CD to several Chinese schools in California in the spring. Ina and Garron are planning to produce a DVD with more background information as well as the only other cityscape scroll of the city of Nanjing that today is in the National Museum of History in Beijing.

Lowell Bowditch (Classics) has published “Hermeneutic Uncertainty and the Female Subject in Ovid’s Art of Love ,” in eds. R. Ancona and E. Greene, The Gendered Dynamics of Latin Love Poetry ; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

Evlyn Gould (Romance Languages) has been invited to present a paper, “Levinas, Mallarmé and the Ethics of 'swarming possibles',” at an international colloquium held March 1-3 in Mexico City. Called Lecturas levinasianas, this colloquium will focus on the legacy of the late French philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas, and will gather scholars from France, Mexico, and one from the US. Her paper will be published in Spanish translation. Named College of Arts and Science Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Gould will also deliver a UO address in March titled, “Secularism and Tolerance in European Affairs: From Dreyfus to the Headscarf Incident.” A shorter version of this paper will be featured at the Western Jewish Studies Association Conference in California later in the year. With colleague Karen McPherson, Gould has been awarded a Wulff Teaching Fellowship from the UO Humanities Center to prepare a year-long reading course on Marcel Proust’s several-volume epic, In Search of Lost Time, during 2006-07. Gould's co-edited volume, Engaging Europe: rethinking a Changing Continent (Rowman and Littlefield), will be reissued in paperback this Spring.

Naomi Zack , a professor in the Philosophy Department, published a new book in April entitled Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave Theory of Women’s Commonality. A second edition of her short textbook, Thinking About Race, was published by Thompson Wadsworth in May 2005. She also gave the Munroe Beardsley Lecture at Philadelphia’s Temple University in April. The title was, "Girl with a Pearl Earring and Janet Jackson."

Shoshana Kerewsky, assistant professor of Family and Human Services in the Department of Education, as been named Director of the Northwest Human Services Association for 2005-2007. Also, she and Linda Forrest were named co-recipients of the 2005 Lane County Psychologists' Association's Psychologist of the Year Award.

Janet Lee , Professor of Women Studies at Oregon State University, has a book forthcoming from Manchester University Press (Palgrave in the U.S.). Its title is War Girls: The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) in the First World War.

Julie Novkov , director of Women’s and Gender Studies and associate professor of Political Science, published a book chapter on the regulation of child labor in Creating Constitutional Change ( University of Virginia Press) and has another forthcoming in The Supreme Court and American Political Development ( University of Kansas Press). She also had two book reviews out this summer, and she delivered a lecture to the US District Court of Oregon Historical Society as well as two conference papers at professional meetings. Julie was also recently selected for the advisory board for the Consortium of Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs.

Bryna Goodman , professor of history, recently published an article entitled "The New Woman Commits Suicide: The Press, Cultural Memory and the New Republic," in the Journal of Asian Studies (February 2005), and "The Vocational Woman and the Elusiveness of 'Personhood' in Early Republican China," in Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005, Bryna Goodman and Wendy Larson, eds.

Courtney Smith , political science, co-wrote an article, along with Priscilla Southwell, entitled "Equality of Recruitment: Gender Parity in French National Assembly Elections,” which was published in Social Science Journal. Courtney also recently presented two papers: one entitled, “Women, Ritual and Identity: Challenging Ideological Hegemony,” at the University of Missouri Gender and Development Conference, and the other entitled, “Transforming Cultural Identities: The Eradication of Female Genital Cutting,” at the Association of Political Theory Conference.

Jennifer Freyd , professor of Psychology, had a paper published in the journal Science that led to a flurry of media attention and an interview on NPR's Talk of the Nation/ Science Friday.

Evlyn Gould , Romance Languages, has been named CAS Distinquished Professor in the Humanities and will deliver a conference paper on the Dreyfus Affair during Fall 2005. With co-editor, George Sheridan, History, she has just published Engaging Europe: Rethinking a Continent in Change, ( Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), a volume of thirteen essays featuring UO professors.

Recent articles by Judith Baskin, Head of the Department of Religious Studies and Knight Professor of Humanities, include “Approaches to the Representations of Women in Rabbinic Literature,” in Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues 9 (Spring, 2005): 191-203; and “Bolsters to their Husbands: Women as Wives in Rabbinic Literature.” In European Judaism 37:2 (Autumn, 2004).

Leontina Hormel , 2004 Ph.D. graduate from the Sociology Department at UO, has completed her first year as assistant professor at Worcester State College. She was selected to join a fact-finding delegation for the parliamentary elections in Nagorno Karabagh that took place on June 19, 2005. The delegation included members from the NGO Global Exchange and Worcester State College’s Center for the Study of Human Rights. Members of the delegation collected information concerning the political and economic climate shortly before, during, and after the territory’s elections. Worcester State College recently awarded her a mini grant toward continuing her research on gender and the informal economy in Ukraine. She plans to return to Ukraine during spring and summer 2006. In addition to the research grant, Leontina and two of her colleagues at Worcester State College received a mini grant toward developing a team-taught, interdisciplinary course titled, “Race/Nation/Class/Gender/Sexuality: Concepts, Reality, and Representation.”

The third edition of Leslie Harris’ (professor of law) textbook, Family Law, co-authored with the late Lee Teitelbaum and June Carbone, was published by Aspen in spring 2005. This summer the Oregon Law Review published "Tracing, Spousal Gifts, and Rebuttable Presumptions: Puzzles of Oregon Property Division," and the professional magazine Trial Lawyer published "Marriage, Civil Union, Domestic Partnership: What in the World in the Difference?" During fall 2004 she co-authored a brief to the Oregon Supreme Court on behalf of the Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force and others in the case of Li v. State, the litigation concerning the validity of the same-sex marriages that were conducted in Oregon before the state constitution was amended to prohibit them. Throughout 2004 she served on a task force of the Oregon Law Commission that developed a proposal regarding the rights of unmarried fathers whose children are the subjects of juvenile court proceedings and wrote a report to the legislature about the proposed legislation, which has been enacted. Harris also testified about the bill during the 2005 legislative session.

By invitation of Dumbarton Oaks, a Precolumbian Studies research institute of Harvard University located in Washington, D.C., Stephanie Wood, CSWS research associate, and Judith Musick, CSWS associate director, gave a presentation on their Virtual Mesoamerican Archive web project in May 2005.

Barbara Setsu Pickett , Associate Professor of Art, presented a work entitled Girandola II, a handwoven polychrome velvet, at Crafts National 39, an annual national juried show held in conjunction with the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and Penn State University. She was also one of eighteen artists invited to show in “Pushing the Margins: An Exhibition of Northwest Book Arts” at the White Lotus Gallery. Barbara exhibited five of her miniature books with handwoven velvet covers and stitched text and image interiors. Her artists’ books were also exhibited in “Lead Thread,” at the Tacoma Public Library in conjunction with the ANWG conference, and she presented a paper, “The Velvet Traditions of Zoagli, Italy” at the Ars Textrina International Textiles Conference at the University of Leeds in England. Another paper was presented at Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science at the Banff Center in Calgary, Canada. On October 1, Barbara will be the keynote speaker for the Costume Culture Association in Korea. The title of her talk is “Velvet: A Worldwide Passion.”

Linda Kintz , Professor of English, received the Thomas F. Herman Distinguished Teaching Award in the spring of 2005. She recently published “God Goes Corporate,” in the New Labor Forum and a book review in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Linda was an invited speaker at Ohio State University’s Fundamentalism and the Media Speakers’ Series. Her topic was “Commodifying the Phobic Real: Literalism, Media, and Religion.” She also spoke at a symposium entitled Violence and the Changing Geopolitical Order in Literature and the Arts, at the University of Oregon. Her topic was “Aesthetics, Politics, and the Commodification of Invisible Violence: Caryl Churchill’s Far Away.” Linda remains active in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

Gaylene Carpenter, Associate Professor of Arts and Administration, published "Linking Research to Practice: A Case Study in Arts Programming for Adults" in Informed Leisure Practice and presented a research paper titled "Reinvesting in Arts Participation: A Longitudinal Examination of Leisure and Life Perceptions Associated With A Mid-Life Decision to Retire Early” at the Canadian Congress on Leisure Research. She published "Research Update: Appreciating the Value of Arts and Cultural Programs" for Parks & Recreation and was Visiting Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo Department of Natural Resources Management, Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration.

Lynn Fujiwara, Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, will have her article, "Mothers Without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant and Refugees Negotiate Poverty and Hunger in Post Welfare Reform" published in Race, Gender & Class: Volume 12, Number 2, 2005.

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