2024 CSWS Research Grant and Fellowship Awardees

2024 CSWS Alumni Symposium
2024 CSWS Alumni Symposium

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow

  • Rhiannon Lindgren, Philosophy, “Revolutionary Love and Reproductive Struggles: Feminist Politics of Care for the Queer Future.”

Graduate Writing Completion Fellows

  • Sarah Agou, Romance Languages, “Narrative Sovereignty in Contemporary Cuba, Haiti, and Indigenous Quebec: Exploring forms of Inhabiting Against Geographical, Political, Economical, and Identitarian Forced Enclosures.”
  • Olivia Wing, History, “Common and Contested Ground: Chinese and Japanese American Youth Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1920s–1960s” (Giustina Fund).

Graduate Student Research Grants

  • Tal-Hi Bitton, Philosophy, “Steadfast Watermelons: Social Reproductive Struggle and Colonialism in Palestine/Israel.”
  • Malvya Chintakindi, Anthropology, “Chasing the Good Life: Caste, Class, and Dalit Women in India’s Informal Economy”
  • Liesl Cohn De Leon, Anthropology, “Migrant Memories of Guatemalan Maya Women in Oregon: Community and Identity Building in a New Territory” (Giustina Fund).
  • Yalda Eskandari, Art, “Between the Two Trees.”
  • Yuan Fang, Anthropology, “Bronze Mirrors: Serving the Beautiful or the Powerful? Viewing Bronze Mirrors in Ancient China from a Gender Archaeology Perspective.”
  • Madison Fowler-Niblock, Environmental Science, and Moe Gamez, English, “Queer Resistance, Abolition, and American (Homo) National(ist) Narratives: Reading the 2016 Designation of Stonewall National Monument.”
  • Margaryta Golovchenko, History of Art and Architecture, “Strange-Kinship: WomenAnimal Relationships in British and French Art, 1700–1900.”
  • Megan Hayes, Environmental Studies, “How to Love an Oyster: Chemistry, Attachment, Slippage.”
  • Nat Ivy, Folklore and Public Culture, “‘This is traditional song; we can’t let you stay happy long’: Murder Ballads, Gender, Race, and Crime in 19th Century America.”
  • Bex Macfife, Sociology, “Gen(der)italia: Pelvic Physical Therapy and Feeling in the Shadow of Biomedicine.”
  • Gretchen Nihill, Psychology, “Compounding Safety Cues for Women of Color.”
  • Ruby Oboro-Offerie, Sociology, “Economic Values, Ethical Norms, and Gender Stereotypes as Predictors of Trust in Women’s Movements: A Multi-level Approach.”
  • Sammy Plezia, Family and Human Services, “Exploring the Relationship Between Gender Identity, Culturally Relevant Gender Roles, and Body Dissatisfaction among Goan Adolescent Girls: A Qualitative Investigation.”
  • Raechel Root, History of Art and Architecture, “Future Objects: Building Queer Feminist Worlds in the Photography of Oregon’s Lesbian Lands” (Giustina Fund).
  • Haifa Souilmi, Political Science, “Democratic Backsliding and the Ebbs and Flows of Gender Equality in Tunisia.”

Faculty Research Grants

  • Corinne Bayerl, Clark Honors College, “Gendered Practices in Early Modern Cryptography.”
  • Marjorie Celona, Creative Writing, “The Year of X: A Novel.”
  • Miriam Chorley-Schulz, German and Scandinavian Studies, “A Queer History of Yiddish.”
  • Alisa Freedman, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “Telling the Stories of Vietnamese Women Educators and Their New Academic Fields.”
  • Judith Raiskin, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, “Outliers and Outlaws: A Documentary Film” (Giustina Fund).
  • Julie Weise, History, “Guest Worker: Lives Across Borders in an Age of Prosperity