RIG funding applications are due by May 1 for the following academic year. For more information on applying for RIG grants, go to our RIG Funding page. Please reach out to RIG coordinators below to learn more about how to participate in a group.
2026-27 Research Interest Groups
Pedagogistas: Feminist Pedagogies Lab (Kristin Yarris, WGSS, keyarris@uoregon.edu) – a space for sharing resources, collective support, and collaborative knowledge production through co-written articles and podcasting.
Decolonial, Feminist Futures of Comics Studies (Anu Sugathan, English, asugatha@uoregon.edu) – a reading group to discuss texts that support the inquiry into the future of comics studies through antiracist, feminist, ecocritical, and interdisciplinary approaches, as well as hosting guest speakers and panels in collaboration with community partners.
Beyond the Muse: Women, Music, and Authorship in the Baroque (Joyce Wei-Jo Chen, SOMD, jwchen@uoregon.edu) - a research and performance initiative devoted to studying and presenting music by women composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Democracy in Practice: Youth and Educator Collaboration in Lane County Civic Learning (Mariah Kornbluh, Psychology, mkornbl2@uoregon.edu) - a Lane County Research Interest Group (RIG) focused on strengthening civics education through collaborative, evidence-based practice among educators across the county. The primary goal of the RIG is to support educators who are invested in civics education in identifying, adapting, and implementing best practices for engaging students in meaningful, rigorous, and culturally relevant civic learning experiences.
Feminist Science & Technology Studies (Olivia Matsuoka, English, onm@uoregon.edu) – a reading group for literature, comics, digital humanities projects, video games, and other texts related to feminist science and technology studies.
Feminist Violence or Violent Feminisms? : Militant Feminist Responses to Authoritarianism and Patriarchy (Jasmine Chorley-Schulz, Political Science, jach@uoregon.edu) - a group that examines the relations between anti-authoritarian revolutionary theory and practice from the late 20th-century to the present from a uniquely feminist perspective, and, beginning with the Rote Zora, it aims to broaden scholarship on feminist revolutionary violence.
The Racial Ecologies Lab (Lana Lopesi, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, llopesi@uoregon.edu) - the Racial Ecologies Lab seeks to create a space for BIPOC scholars working across the environmental humanities and social sciences at the University of Oregon. This care-oriented space fosters intergenerational mentorship across disciplines and cohorts where scholars share and contribute institutional memory about navigating UO as BIPOC scholars.
War and Bodies: Sexual and Reproductive Violence in Armed Conflicts (Smadar Ben-Natan, Global Studies, smadar@uoregon.edu) - a reading group to discuss scholarship on conflict-related sexual and reproductive violence.