Jane Grant Fellows
Rhiannon Lindgren, 2024 Jane Grant Fellow
Rhiannon Lindgren, Philosophy, "Revolutionary Love and Reproductive Struggles: Feminist Politics of Care for the Queer Future."
Summary: As noted in her abstract, Lindgren’s project examines the failures of Care Ethics to articulate a notion of care as political praxis in marginalized communities. To address this gap, she proposes a concept of “reproductive struggle” to identify “the development of collective, conscious action which intervenes in the conditions under which caring labor is demanded and performed.”
Marena Lear, 2023 Jane Grant Fellow
Marena Lear, Comparative Literature, “Their Bodies, Our Selves: Posthuman Embodiment in Latin American Speculative Cinema.”
Summary: Lear’s project argues that “the ‘monstrous’ or cyborg bodies within a recent archive of Latin American and Latinx cinema critiques essentialist notions of race, gender, sexuality, and social identity, while providing avenues for audiences to see and feel otherwise, in ways that circumvent hegemonic forces,”
Parichehr Kazemi, 2022 Jane Grant Fellow
Parichehr Kazemi, Political Science, “Visual Protest Movements: How Social Media Images Challenge Authoritarian State Power in Iran’s ‘My Stealthy Freedom’ Movement.”
Abstract: "Since 2014, women have challenged Iran’s strict modesty mandates by unveiling in public spaces to document and share their acts of defiance across social media,” Kazemi says in her project abstract.
Jon Jaramillo, 2021 Jane Grant Fellow
Jon Jaramillo, PhD candidate in romance languages, “Viral Bodies: AIDS and Other Contagions in Latin American Narrative.”
Abstract: The HIV/AIDS crisis in Latin America was overshadowed by the late phase of the Cold War, while authoritarian governments promoted discourses reflecting moral and ethical exceptionalism. People with AIDS (PWAs) experienced multiple crises—moral excision by the state, marginalization, and the certainty of death...
Cristina Faiver-Serna, 2020 Jane Grant Fellow
Cristina Faiver-Serna, Department of Geography, “Geographies of Environmental Racism and the M(other)work of Promotoras de Salud.”
Abstract: Promotoras de salud (community health workers) are central to a public health model of care that addresses asthma in Southern California’s Latinx communities. Toxic effects of pollution are countered through state-based programs that use promotoras to teach families home environmental management and proper medication technique.
Celeste Reeb, 2019 Jane Grant Fellow
Celeste Reeb, Department of English, “Closed Captioning: Reading Between the Lines.”
Abstract: Closed Captioning (CC) is a series of rhetorical choices that are influenced by concepts of normalcy. Examining CC exposes the way language attempts to contain, mark, and categorize bodies based on gender, disability, sexuality, and race.
Laura Strait, 2018 Jane Grant Fellow
Laura Strait, Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, “Occupying a Third Place: Pro-Life Feminism, Legible Politics, and the Edge of Women’s Liberation.”
Abstract: This dissertation reads pro-life feminism as a break from traditional public perceptions of feminist thought. Through a variety of methodological analyses, it engages three case studies to answer (1) How does pro-life feminism persist as a movement and idea? And (2) What does the existence of pro-life feminists mean for the discursive boundaries of pro-choice feminism?
Yi Yu, 2017 Jane Grant Fellow
Yi Yu, Department of Geography, “Institutional Mother, Professional Caregivers: Biopolitics of Affective Labor in Chinese State-owned Social Welfare Institutions.”
Abstract: Feminist scholars have highlighted the potential of care ethics to challenge the neoliberal social paradigm by underscoring the power of emotion and affect in shaping intersubjectivity. In a similar vein, Hardt and Negri (2001, 2005) stressed the power of affect to challenge capitalism. Other scholars, however, have challenged these positive aspects of emotion in care practices, citing the potential harm caused when affective ties to care recipients or the obligation to provide emotional care exploits workers.
Baran Germen, 2016 Jane Grant Fellow
Melodramatics of Turkish Modernity: Narratives of Victimhood, Affect, and Politics
by Baran German, PhD candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
Reprinted from the 2016 CSWS Annual Review
Iván Sandoval Cervantes, 2015 Jane Grant Fellow
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes, PhD candidate, UO Department of Anthropology, "Gendered Internal Migration in Oaxaca, Mexico"
Abstract: The relationship between migration and gender roles has received increased attention in recent decades but most of the literature has focused on transnational migration while the relationships between transnational and internal migration, and gender roles and internal migration have not been widely studied.
Jenée Wilde, 2014 Jane Grant Fellow
Jenée Wilde, PhD candidate, UO Department of English (Folklore), "The BiSciFi Project: Researching Speculative Fictions and Bisexual Lives"
Abstract: The dissertation is concerned with bisexuality on three cultural levels—bisexual identity and community, bisexual representation and interpretation, and bisexuality as a category of knowledge. On the level of group identity, I am not so much interested in understanding how bisexuality is defined by individuals but rather why some people choose to self-identify as bisexual rather than (or in addition to) queer, pansexual, fluid, genderqueer, or other terms that resist binary categorization or refuse them outright.
Miriam Abelson, 2013 Jane Grant Fellow
Complex Lives: Interviews with Transmen in the Southeastern United States
by Miriam Abelson, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology
When I told people of my proposed research project with transgender people in the Southeast I met with disbelief from many quarters. That disbelief stemmed from the idea that there were few, if any, transgender people in the Southeast and that those that lived there must live in such constant fear that they would never expose themselves by consenting to an interview. This was one of the many previously unexamined ideas held by colleagues, friends, family, and myself that I encountered when I started talking with others about the Southeast...
Easther Chigumira, 2012 Jane Grant Fellow
Easther Chigumira, PhD candidate, UO Department of Geography, "Change is Slow to Come for Women in Zimbabwe."
Summary: "My project asks who counts as “legitimate recipients” under the FTLRP across race, class, ethnic, and gender divides, and assesses the impact of this program on gender equity and on the physical environment in Zimbabwe’s rural landscapes. My field-based project, at one level, generates work on gender identities and inequalities and documents the daily lives of women on newly resettled farms.
Meagan Evans, 2011 Jane Grant Fellow
Maggie Evans, PhD candidate, Department of English, "Strategies of Silence in American Women’s Poetry."
Summary: "My work on silence in Niedecker’s poetry is part of a more wide-ranging project exploring how 20th-century American women use innovative forms to manage conflicting desires for speech and silence. I argue that women poets often seek both to extend and to limit language, and I investigate how their poetic experiments allow them simultaneously to achieve these contradictory goals.
Ingrid Nelson, 2010 Jane Grant Fellow
Fighting for Forests: Gendered Conflicts in Mozambique’s Forest Landscapes
by Ingrid L. Nelson, Department of Geography
Reprinted from the 2011 CSWS Annual Review (pp. 14-15)
Jennifer Erickson, 2009 Jane Grant Fellow
Social Citizenship in a Neoliberal Era
by Jennifer Erickson, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology
Reprinted from the 2009 CSWS Annual Review (p. 18)
Alison Altstatt, 2008 Jane Grant Fellow
Alison Altstatt, “The Music and Liturgy of Kloster Preetz: Ritual Practice in a North German Women’s Community, 1350-1550.”
Abstract: This dissertation investigates the music and liturgy of the German Benedictine convent of Kloster Preetz as reflected in three fifteenth-century manuscripts: the Buch im Chor of prioress Anna von Buchwald, an antiphoner and a gradual.
Courtney Smith, 2007 Jane Grant Fellow
Courtney Smith, Department of Political Science, "Who Defines "Mutilation"? Challenging Imperialism in the Discourse of Female Genital Cutting"
Abstract: The article is situated within the academic feminist movement that questions universalizing approaches to understanding oppressions of women. It seeks to challenge the hegemony of traditional Western feminist discourse in framing the debate surrounding female genital cutting (FGC).
Mandolin R. Brassaw, 2006 Jane Grant Fellow
Mandolin R. Brassaw, Department of English, “Divine Heresy: Feminist Revisions of Sacred Texts."
Abstract: This dissertation argues that American women writers have revised sacred texts to challenge patriarchy, racism, and colonialism and rewritten American history to reveal how biblical scripture has been implicated in these processes.
Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, 2005 Jane Grant Fellow
Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, “Speculative Fiction and the Spectacle of Race: The Nation as Utopian Be/longing in the 20th Century Asian-American and African-American Futurist Narratives.”