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2025 CSWS Research Grants Announced

The Center for the Study of Women in Society awarded $80,000 in grant funding for research, scholarship, and creative work on women and gender at the University of Oregon for 2025-26. A total of 17 grants were given to 12 graduate students and four faculty members. 

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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

Bryant Taylor

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

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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

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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.

Malvya Chintakindi

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.”

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Parichehr Kazemi

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.

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Student Affiliates Reflect on CSWS Events...

Anita Hill and Ellen Herman

Anita Hill: Reflections on the 2024 Lorwin Lecture

In 1991, Anita Hill started a national conversation on sexual harassment when she testified that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had subjected her to unwanted sexual advances years earlier. Today, Hill is a leader in the fight against gender-based violence. A professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies at Brandeis University, Hill presented the 2023-24 Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, held in partnership with the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. The event was held May 9, 2024, as part of CSWS’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Hill was introduced by political science major Lierta Nako, president of the UO Undergraduate Law Association.
A clip of the poster for Arlene Stein's talk "The Right's Gender Wars and the Assault on Democracy"

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”

Cover of Ana-Maurine Lara's "Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic"

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

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.