Funding

CSWS Spotlight: Research Interest Groups

Hear the goals and activities of our 2025-26 CSWS Research Interest Groups and learn why you should get involved!

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Faculty Funding

Graduate Funding

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2026 Grant Writing Workshop
CSWS is hosting our 2026 Grant Writing Workshop with Michael Murashige, writing consultant for the Center on Diversity and Community (CoDaC), at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2026 in the Knight Library DREAM Lab (Room 122). AY 2027–28 graduate student research grant applications are due Monday, Jan. 25, 2027.
Dec 08 - 12:00pm
Knight Library

Undergraduate Funding

Claire Jones and Michelle Rogers

Ducks Rise to Support Undergraduate STEAM Fellowships at CSWS

Fundraising on the 2026 University of Oregon annual day of giving surpassed our $5,000 goal to support Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowships, which create opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaborations among science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) faculty and students on campus and enhance pathways for underrepresented students in STEAM to succeed. Through a competitive application process, CSWS selected biochemistry major Claire Jones and dance major Michelle Rogers as our 2026 STEAM Fellows.

RIG Funding

RIG Funding

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A stock image of metalic stars laid out, with 5 prominent gold ones resting on top.
CSWS offers small grants to faculty and graduate students to organize interdisciplinary Research Interest Groups (RIGs) and working groups that explore and examine the complex nature of gender identities and inequalities for the academic year. RIG applications are due by May 1 for the following academic year.

2025 Graduate Student Research Fellows

Malvya Chintakindi

Malvya Chintakindi: 2025 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow

The 2025 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow Malvya Chintakindi talks about her anthropological research on women in India's informal labor markets and the impact of the CSWS fellowship for her work.

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Precious Adejumobi

2025 Research Fellow: Precious Adejumobi

Precious Adejumobi is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Oregon. She received a 2025–26 CSWS Graduate Student Research Award for her project "Negotiating Health and Gender: Women's Experiences of Endometriosis in Nigeria."

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Ogbonnaya Okoro

2025 Research Fellow: Ogbonnaya Okoro

Ogbonnaya Okoro is an MA student in Folklore and Public Culture at the University of Oregon. He was awarded a 2025–26 CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant for his project "The Impacts of Colonialism on Changing Gender Relations in Igboland through the Lens of Folklore and Storytelling."

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Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship

Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship: An Interview with 2014 Fellow Kathryn Allan

CSWS interviewed Kathryn Allan, inaugural winner of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, during her May 2014 visit to do research at the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives. Allan immersed herself in the archives, reading the letters of Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ, and other feminist science fiction authors, seeking out conversations about disability and utopia, and delighting in her discoveries.
A report from Andrew Ferguson, 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow.

A report from Andrew Ferguson, 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow

When Andrew Ferguson came to campus to explore UO’s superb collection of feminist science fiction, he wasn’t expecting to uncover an original manuscript of Ursula Le Guin’s Tehanu hidden away in the archives. Ferguson, one of two winners of the 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, was in Eugene for ten days in early April 2015 to conduct research in the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives for the final chapter of his PhD dissertation.

Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship

The Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Research Fellowship supports travel for the purpose of conducting research using the papers of feminist science fiction authors housed in the UO Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives.

Research Funding Reports