Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship
- Bex McFife, Sociology, “Gen(der)italia: Pelvic Physical Therapy, Genital-focused Interactions, and Liberatory Embodiment in Healthcare.”
Graduate Writing Completion Fellowship
- Maia Welborn, Philosophy, “Disclosure: On the Lived Experience of Revealing Trans Existence.”
Graduate Student Research Awards
- Oscar Boakye, Communication and Media Studies, “Chills from the Labor Ward: Rethinking Culture and Religion as Underlying Barriers to Maternal Healthcare in Ghana.”
- Jolly Dee, Anthropology, “Embodied Inequities: Gendered Experience, Inflammation, and Chronic Pain Among Transgender and Nonbinary People in the United States.”
- Anantaa Ghosh, Comparative Literature, “Life Narratives and Archival Silences: Reconstructing the Histories of Kotal, Ao, and Rathnamal.”
- Sabina Mensah, Environmental Studies, “Women, Food Sovereignty, and Postharvest Management in Northern Ghana.”
- Gowri Nair, English, “Precarious Girlhood: Reading Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass.”
- Gretchen Nihill, Psychology, “Towards a Gender Diverse Social Vision: Gender Identity and Expression Outside the Gender Binary.”
- Alajandra Pedraza, Sociology, “Borderlands of Belonging: The Mobility Pathways of Latinas in Oregon's Racialized Spaces” (Giustina Fund).
- Sanjula Rajat, Philosophy, “Hindu Nationalism, Reproductive Justice, and the Politics and Possibilities of Trans Reproduction in India.”
- Mariana Rivera, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, “Embodying Excess, Resisting Colonialism: The Art of Aesthetics of Excess.”
- Hulda Sakyi, Global Studies, “Women, Food Sovereignty, and Postharvest Management in Northern Ghana.”
- Julie Williams-Reyes, Philosophy, “Technoscience and Feminist Metamorphoses of Fanon’s Historical Racial Schema.”
- Asako Yonan, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, “Objects of Kinship: Soft Power, Hardbodies, and the Recoding of Fetish with/in the Nikkei Diaspora and Asian American Visual Culture.”
Faculty Research Fellowships
- Smadar Ben-Natan, Global Studies, “Truth and Weaponization: The Polarization over Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Palestine/Israel after October 7.”
- Hannah Thomas, Dance, “Joy in the City” (performance and workshop).
Faculty Research Awards
- Erin Beck, Political Science, “Engaging Men and Shifting Masculinities to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls.”
- Nissryne Dib, Cinema Studies, “Natural” (short film).
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CSWS Congratulates 2026–27 Research Award Winners
The Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) awarded $94,000 for scholarship, research, and creative work on women and gender at the University of Oregon for AY 2026–27. A total of 20 grants and fellowships were given to 16 graduate students and four faculty members.