Affiliate News
Burkert's London Stage Datatbase project featured in CAS Connection
Excerpted from June 9 CAS Connection, story by Jenny Brooks — Going to the theater in London in the 18th century was a good time—and a transformative time. Playhouses across the city were bursting with activity as crowd-pleasing favorites from the heyday of Shakespeare mixed with slapstick entertainments and boundary-pushing artistic experimentation. These shows drew lively, often raucous audiences from a mix of social and economic classes that seldom crossed paths elsewhere.
Affiliate Awards
Guillemin named as 'Emerging Inventor'
From Oregon News — CSWS affiliate Karen Guillemin, Biology, has been named to the National Academy of Inventors, a designation that recognizes visionaries and innovators whose technologies brought, or aspire to bring, a real impact on society.
Center News
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.
Research Spotlight
Faith Barter explores antebellum Black authorship in new book
A new book by CSWS affiliate Faith Barter, assistant professor of English at the UO, explores Black writers as architects of legal possibility in the antebellum South. Her book, Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (2025) was published by University of North Carolina Press. She received a 2019-20 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for this project.
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Features: CSWS Campus Collaborations

Exhibition: Ghost Forest + Wildfire
Ghost Forest was an exhibition by Eugene photographer Sarah Grew, featuring Jon Bellona’s sound installation Wildfire on view April 24–May 4, 2023, at the LaVerne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon. This exhibition was part of “Haunting Ecologies: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist and Indigenous Approaches to Forest Fire,” a CSWS and UO Environment Initiative partnership.

Feminist Futures: An Evening of Song and Dance by SOMD Faculty
Interviews with faculty at the School of Music and Dance about their work for this performance, which took place on March 8, 2024. The collaboration with SOMD was part CSWS's 50th anniversary celebration.

Exhibition: Feminist Futures at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
This video features interviews with UO faculty artists and curators of the exhibition Artists, Constellations, and Connections: Feminist Futures, which was on view from January 27, 2024, to June 17, 2024. Placing current work by studio art faculty alongside works they selected from the JSMAs permanent collection, the exhibition explored critical questions about artmaking, history, the future, and feminist models of intersectional inquiry in the current moment of great social, political, and environmental change.
CSWS Research Publications
2024 Annual Review
- Anita Hill: Reflections on the 2024 Lorwin Lecture
- A Message from the CSWS Director by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
- Feminist Futures: Moments from the CSWS 50th Anniversary by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
- Past Lessons, Future Visions: CSWS Alumni Symposium by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
- Q&A: Bryant Taylor by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
Newsletter Archives
From the Center and Margins
CSWS Newsletter, Spring 1997 — Spring 2008
Spring 1997
Pg 1 CSWS Research Initiatives Launched
Pg 6-7 Third Annual RIG-A-Fair: Engaging Feminisms
Pg 8-9 Medieval Designs
Pg 10 Sex Differences in Workplace Dispute Resolution
Pg 10 The New Woman and the New Writing
Pg 11 Exploring Scholarships and Activism