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2025 CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Research Fellow Sophia Foerster and faculty mentor Nick Willett speak about the importance and impact of funding for undergraduate student research.

CSWS Spotlight: Undergraduate Fellow Sophia Foerster

2025 CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Research Fellow Sophia Foerster and faculty mentor Nick Willett speak about the importance and impact of funding for undergraduate student research.

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Faculty Funding

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New CSWS fellowship offers a course release for research on gender

For AY 2026-27, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) is launching a new research fellowship that provides University of Oregon faculty with one course release for a term of reduced or no teaching to pursue work on any aspect of the study of women and/or gender.

Graduate Funding

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Worried About Graduate-level Writing? You’re Not Alone

Writing is a foundational skill for success in graduate school. Unlike undergraduate writing, which often focuses on summarizing research, graduate-level writing asks students to develop and articulate new knowledge, adding to scholarship and inspiring change. Many incoming graduate students, even at top institutions, are not prepared for this level of academic writing. Innovative and accessible writing resources address this disconnect, strengthening essential writing skills and expanding meaningful mentorship opportunities.

Undergraduate Funding

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Students and faculty mentors invited to Feb 18 info session

CSWS is hosting an Information Session for students an faculty mentors interested in applying for our newest research initiative—the CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowship.

Over summer, undergraduate fellows collaborate with University of Oregon faculty mentors to develop interdisciplinary research and creative projects that engage with STEAM fields—science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Our STEAM fellows approach their inquiry with gender and intersectionality as an analytical framework. 

RIG Funding

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CSWS announces 2025-26 Research Interest Groups

CSWS is awarding grant support to four new and three renewing Research Interest Groups (RIGs) spanning the social sciences, humanities, law, and education for the 2025-26 academic year.

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2024 Graduate Student Research Fellows

Each year, CSWS awards research grants to graduate students and faculty for projects related to women and gender. Over five decades, CSWS has awarded more than $3 million in research grants. Here, three 2024 grantees talk about the impact of the CSWS research grant on their research.

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Jon Jaramillo, 2022 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow 

CSWS alumni Jon Jaramillo won the prestigious 2022 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship. In this video, Jon discussed the impact of that award on his research and career.

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Reflections: CSWS Graduate Student Affiliates

Panelists for the “Gender as Target” event were, from left, Anita Chari, Alison Gash, Kaito Campos de Novais, and Brennan Fitzgerald / photo by Cing Dim

Gender as Target: US 2024 Elections and Aftermath

On Feb. 28, 2025, CSWS hosted “Gender as Target: US 2024 Elections and Aftermath,” a teach-in featuring University of Oregon faculty and Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF) representatives discussing how gender and race discourses informed the 2024 election cycle and ways we can collectively respond to the barrage of policies impacting immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities today.
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Reflections: UO Graduate Students Share How Works by WOC Faculty Changed Them

CSWS events have always served as informal sites for networking, support, and mentorship among women faculty and graduate students across campus. When the pandemic shut down our regular programming last year, the Women of Color (WOC) Project filled this need with a virtual books-in-print event series celebrating recent monographs by WOC faculty affiliates. Below are some personal reflections by current graduate students who have been impacted by the work and words of these faculty.
Bryant Taylor invites attendees to play a Bingo icebreaker at the 2023 New Faculty Welcome Reception / photo by Jack Liu

Q&A: Bryant Taylor

For two years, Bryant Taylor, a PhD candidate in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, had a special appointment working as a Graduate Employee (GE) on our 50th anniversary events and projects. I had the opportunity to chat with Bryant about his time at CSWS before he left for a summer internship on an African American archival history project at Harvard University.

Alumni Updates: Jane Grant Dissertation Fellows

Baran Germen

Catching up with Baran Germen

Baran Germen is an assistant professor of film and media studies at Colorado College. In 2018, he graduated with a PhD in comparative literature from University of Oregon, where he also completed a certificate degree in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and specialized in film studies. His research and teaching focus on global cinema and comparative media studies, cutting across melodrama, queer theory, and Islam and secularism.
Washington, DC, Sept. 30, 2022—A protester carries a sign at a protest for Mahsa Amini, freedom in Iran, and solidarity with Iranian protesters.

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.