CSWS has a rich history of faculty, graduate student, and community collaboration across disciplines. Below is a list of past RIGs and their membership and run dates, where available. See the Current RIGS page for active groups.

Recent RIGs:

Exploring Black Feminist Ecologies 

This new RIG seeks to create a space to reimagine the natural world through the lens of black feminism in art, literature, critical geography, environmental education, and environmental racism. RIG members plan to discuss books on black feminist ecology, workshop graduate student projects, organize a panel discussion, and establish a Black Ecologies Lab within the UO’s environmental studies program. For more information, contact Jessica T. Brown at jtbrown@uoregon.edu.

Care, Equity, and Social Justice 

This new RIG seeks to foster connections among scholars examining how ordinary citizens, activists, and organizations in the Global South use practices of care in order to resist processes of exclusion, violence, and vulnerability. To build an intellectual community, CESJ will organize meetings every other month to discuss academic articles and present work in progress from faculty and students. They also will organize two public roundtable discussions during the year, inviting local and international scholars, researchers, and activists to participate. For more information, contact co-organizers Kristin Yarris at keyarris@uoregon.edu or Maria Fernanda Escallón at mfe@uoregon.edu.

Wellbeing: Studies and Practices 

This new RIG seeks to foster a space of intellectual and supportive community among faculty, staff, and students interested in the field of wellbeing studies and praxis at UO. As a field of transdisciplinary study, wellbeing studies bridges the human sciences with the humanities, asking key questions about the social and subjective nature of health, humanistic questions about what it means to live well, and political questions about the ways in which social life can be structured to support human flourishing. RIG participants will meet at least twice per term to focus on community-building and providing a space of community and support for their inquiries and practices in wellbeing studies. For more information, contact Kristin Yarris at keyarris@uoregon.edu.

Inclusive Pedagogies 

This ongoing RIG meets twice per term to discuss current research in composition studies and its intersections with gender, race, sexuality, ability, and other aspects of identity and social justice. Unique to their reading group format is that no preparation is required for the two-hour sessions. Instead, members read together for the first 30 minutes then discuss the selected article or book chapter in relation to their teaching praxis. Faculty, graduate student educators, and writing support specialists from across disciplines are invited to participate. In addition, the Inclusive Pedagogies website serves as a clearinghouse for readings, research and criticism, teaching materials, podcasts and videos, and other resources that support inclusive/antiracist pedagogy and praxis at the UO. For more information and to join the mailing list, please contact Jenée Wilde at jenee@uoregon.edu or go to blogs.uoregon.edu/iprig for upcoming meetings, reading selections, and resources for antiracist teaching.

See also: Past RIG Descriptions

Starting from 1994 to present # = total members

• Américas RIG
• Collaborative RIG Projects: Service and Servitude -- 2011-12
• Disability Studies
• Feminist Environmental Research - #7 (2001- )
• Feminist Philosophy RIG
• Feminist Postcolonial Studies - (2000-2002) #26
• Food in the Field RIG (2011-13)
• Gender, Families, and Immigration in the Northwest (2006 - 2008)
• Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora - #8
• Gender in Historical and Transnational China - (1997- 1998) #13, (1998-99) #20, (2000-2001) #18, (2001-2005)
• Gender, New Media, and Technology RIG—During Academic Years 2010-12, CSWS’s Gender, New Media, and Technology RIG worked on the Fembot Project, which became redefined as a CSWS Special Project rather than a RIG.  Fembot Website
• Gender, Place and Identity (1995-96)
• Girls Group (subgroup of Women's Health (1996-1998)
• Global Asia RIG (2011-14)
• Globalization & Alterity RIG (2013-15)
• Healing Arts RIG
• Indigenous Women of the Northwest
• (International) Women and Leadership in Education RIG - (1997- ) #29, (1999)
• Jewish Feminist Reading Group - (1997- ) #18, (2000 - 2004)
• Law, Culture, and Society RIG
• Medieval and Early Modern Inquiries into Gender and Sexuality (MEMIGS) RIG -- AY 2013-14
• Mid-life and Menopause (second subgroup of Women's Health - 1998) #10, (Became a RIG in 1999) #13, (2000) #9
• Narrative Health and Social Justice
• Native American Communities (1994-1997) #31, (1997-99) #30, (2000-2001) #32, (2002- 2005) #22
• Queering Academic Studies: Intersections, Contestations, and Reconfigurations (2010-2013)
• Race and Transnationalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Rationality, Intuition, and Gender (RIG Squared) - (1994-2000) #9
• Reading Empires - (2005-07) #7
• RIG on the Right - (1994-96)
• Sex, Gender and the Law - (1998-2000) #18, (2001-02) #15
• Social Sciences Feminist Network
• STAnDD RIG
• The Projects of Queer Studies: Race, Pedagogy, and Social Theory (2006-2008)
• UO Coalition to End Sexual Violence (UO-CESV) RIG (2013-14)
• Unfree Labor in the Americas Reading Group
• Welfare, Work and Economic Restructuring (1997-2006) #10, formerly Women, Work and Economic Restructuring (1994-1997) #12)
• Wired (1997-98) #16, (1999-2003) #9 (2004-2009) virtual group
• Women and Environment (1994-2000)
• Women and Gender in Vietnam (1994- 1999) #12
• Women in Media (1997-2000) #12
• Women's Health and Development (1995-96) #29, (1997-99)
• Women Creative Writers (2005-06) #5
• Women Writer's of Science Fiction - #6 (2000-2001)