Faculty Funding
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
Q&A with Bryant Taylor
For two years, Bryant Taylor (PhD candidate, 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. Click this video link to watch a clip from our interview, and read the full conversation below. —Jenée Wilde
Undergraduate Funding
CSWS launches undergraduate fellowship
University of Oregon undergraduate students have a new way to participate in the research mission of CSWS.
Launching this year with funding from the Center's 50th anniversary Duckfunder campaign, the CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowship is intended to create opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaborations among science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) faculty and students on campus and to enhance pathways for underrepresented students in STEAM to succeed.
RIG Funding
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.

2025 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow: Malvya Chintakindi
Anthropology doctoral candidate Malvya Chintakindi was awarded the prestigious CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship for her project, “Pursuing the ‘Good Life’: Intersections of Caste, Class, and Gender in Urban Slums of India.”

Q&A: Parichehr Kazemi, 2022 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow
CSWS interviews the 2022 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship recipient Parichehr Kazemi, who 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.
Student Affiliates Reflect on CSWS Events...
Anita Hill: Reflections on the 2024 Lorwin Lecture
Reflections on Gender, Sexuality, and Power
CSWS sponsored three talks during winter and spring 2023. We invited five of our graduate student affiliates below to share some thoughts on the talks’ themes.
February 16: “Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America”
March 13: “The Right’s Gender Wars and the Assault on Democracy”
April 21: “Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics”
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.
Alumni Updates: Jane Grant Dissertation Fellows
Catching up with Baran Germen

Women’s Visual Protest Movements in Iran: A Conversation with Parichehr Kazemi
CSWS Jane Grant Fellow Celeste Reeb publishes research article
Celeste Reeb, a PhD candidate in the Department of English and the 2019-20 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship awardee, published an article related to her dissertation research in the summer issue of Disability Studies Quarterly.
Jane Grant Fellow publishes article on internal migration of Oaxacan indigenous women
July 12, 2016—Iván Sandoval-Cervantes, the 2015-16 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship recipient, completed his PhD in anthropology at the University of Oregon in 2016 and is now a visiting assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, at the University of Texas at El Paso.