Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow

• Yi Yu, Department of Geography: “Institutional Mother, Professional Caregivers: Biopolitics of Affective Labor in Chinese State-owned Social Welfare Institutions.”

Undergraduate Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship Awardee

• Delaney Swink, Department of International Studies, “Social Change in Morocco: Islamic Feminism and Women’s Rights to Education.” Faculty Adviser: Yvonne Braun.     

Graduate Student Grantees

• Camila Alvarez, Department of Sociology: “Hyper-exploitation of Immigrant Women of Color: Thinking intersectionally about gender, race, and nation in the study of unpredictable scheduling practices.”
• Margaret Bostrom, Department of English: “Are you sure, Sweetheart, that you want to be well?: Feminisms, Fitness, and the Politics of Wellness and Welfare in the 1980s.”
• Anna Cook, Department of Philosophy: “Settler Denial as an Epistemology of Ignorance.”
• Lacey Guest, Departments of History and Women’s and Gender Studies: “Magic and Power: Educating African-American College Students in the Science of Marriage, 1920s-1960s.”
• Lola Loustanau, Department of Sociology: “Incomprehensible Working Experiences: Hyper-exploitation, Quiescence and Resistance among Immigrant non-English Speaking Workers in Portland, Oregon.”
• Amanda Morris, Departments of Human Physiology: “The Effect of Mental Fatigue in Postural Stability in Women and Men.”
• Angela Rovak, Department of English: “Toward the Genomics Era: Speculative Heritages in Kindred and Dawn.”
• Katie Warden, Department of Sociology: “Advocacy Strategies of Mothers of Children with Disabilities.”
• Alia Yasen, Department of Human Physiology: “Physiological Consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Women and Men.”

Faculty Research Grantees

• Tatiana Bryant, UO Libraries: “Gender Performance and Identity in Librarianship.” This article is the first in a series based on the study this grant supported: Tatiana Bryant, Hilary Bussell, and Rebecca Halpern. “Being Seen: Gender Identity and Performance as a Professional Resource in Library Work.” College & Research Libraries, Vol. 80, No. 6 (2019).
• Michelle Byrne, Department of Psychology: “Interactions of Abuse and Mental Illness in the Development of Girls’ Immune Health.”
• Dyana Mason, Department of Public Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM): “Institutional Logics, Hybridity and Women’s Empowerment in an International Development Program.”
• Eileen Otis, Department of Sociology: “Women, Wal-Mart and Labor Resistance in China.”