Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow
- Parichehr Kazemi, Political Science, “Visual Protest Movements: How Social Media Images Challenge Authoritarian State Power in Iran’s ‘My Stealthy Freedom’ Movement.”
Graduate Writing Completion Fellow
- Holly Moulton, Environmental Studies, “Futuremaking in a Disaster Zone: Indigenous Women, Climate Justice, and the Everyday Politics of Climate Change in Peru.”
Graduate Student Research Grantees
- Alexis Adams-Clark, Psychology, “Sexual Violence, Institutional Betrayal, and Institutional Courage: Capturing Student Perspectives through a Qualitative Interview Study.”
- Bobbie Bermudez Bonilla, Critical and Socio-Cultural Studies in Education, “Pero Con Ganas: Latina Testimonios on Cultural Wealth and Overcoming Microaggressions in Schooling.”
- Brooke Burns, Philosophy, “Sylvia Wynter’s Humanist Appraisal.”
- Kaito Campos de Novais, Anthropology, “Visualizing Mourning: Activist Mothers of LGBTQ+ People in Brazil.”
- Jeongon Choi, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “Tune Korean Television to Women.”
- Isabella Clark, Sociology, “Too Sensitive? Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.”
- Leticia Garcia, Psychology, “Surviving Racism from Womb to Cradle: Assessing Parent of Color NICU Experience in Oregon.”
- Mushira Habib, Comparative Literature, “Thinking through the Skin: Affective Literacy and Literary Orientations.”
- Daizi Hazarika, Anthropology, “Witch-hunting: Gendered Violence Against Indigenous Hindu Women in Assam, India.”
- Gloria Lizette Macedo Janto, Romance Languages, “Gender Roles in the Testimonial Narrative of Andean Women from Peru (1980–2000).”
- Kiana Nadonza, Anthropology, “Crowning Community: The Cultural Politics of Beauty Pageantry in Postcolonial Philippines.”
- Michele Pflug, History, “‘In Pursuit of Butterflies’: Gender, Madness, and Science in the English Countryside 1655–1715.”
- Olivia Wing, History, “Common and Contested Ground: Chinese and Japanese Youth Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1920s–1960s.”
Graduate Student Travel Grantees
- Ronja Behrends, School of Journalism and Communication, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference.
- Jaclyn Bogner, Counseling and Human Services, Society of Research on Adolescence Conference.
- Emily Milius, Music Theory, Mississippi University for Women.
- Zeinab Nobowati, Philosophy, PhiloSOPHIA: Society for Continental Feminism Conference.
- Annalee Ring, Philosophy, American Psychological Association Convention.
- Cornesha Tweede, Romance Languages, Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry Conference.
Faculty Research Grantees
- Joyce Cheng, History of Art and Architecture, “Hello Kitty’s Kunstwollen: Kitsch, Ornament, Allegory.”
- Annelise Heinz, History, “Collective: How Lesbian Feminists Reimagined Society.”
- Lesley Weaver, Global Studies, “A Multi-Stakeholder Analysis of Women’s Houselessness in Eugene, Oregon.”
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Women’s Visual Protest Movements in Iran: A Conversation with Parichehr Kazemi
Parichehr Kazemi is a political science PhD candidate at the University of Oregon. She received a 2019 Graduate Student Research Award from CSWS and was the Center’s 2022 Jane Grant Dissertation fellow. Kazemi researches women’s resistance efforts, social media, and social movements across the Middle East, focusing on the ways that women use social media images as a means of protest in Iran. As a CSWS Advisory Board member last year, she drafted the Center’s statement declaring solidarity with demonstrators in Iran who protested the tragic death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iranian morality police.
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