2020 CSWS Research Grant and Fellowship Awardees

Tiffany Lethabo King delivered a lecture titled "The When and Where of Our Talk: The Shoals of Black and Native Feminisms" to a full house in the Knight Library Browsing Room on Oct. 3. / photos by Jack Liu.
Tiffany Lethabo King delivered a lecture titled "The When and Where of Our Talk: The Shoals of Black and Native Feminisms" to a full house in the Knight Library Browsing Room on Oct. 3. / photos by Jack Liu.

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship

Faculty Research Grants

  • Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies, “Mixed Media: A History of Women’s Filmmaking in India.”
  • Helen Huang, Career Instructor, English, “‘Yes! We Have No Bananas’: Cultural Imaginings of the Banana in America, 1880-1945.”
  • Theresa May, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Theater Arts, “WaterWays: Native Women’s Story Circle” (Mazie Giustina Fund for Women in the Northwest).
  • Jennifer O’Neal, Acting Assistant Professor, Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, “Beyond the Trail of Broken Treaties.”
  • Jenifer Presto, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Director of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, “East Meets West: ‘Nina Fedorova’ and the Making of an Émigré Blockbuster” (Mazie Giustina Fund for Women in the Northwest).
  • Judith Raiskin, Associate Professor, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, “Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project Website” (Mazie Giustina Fund for Women in the Northwest).
  • Ellen Scott, Professor, Sociology, “Comprehensive Study of the Effects of Oregon’s Fair Scheduling Legislation” (Mazie Giustina Fund for Women in the Northwest).
  • Arafaat A. Valiani, Associate Professor, Associate Department Head, Director of Undergraduate Studies, History, “Aspiring to Good Fortune: Chinese Mothers and the Biosocial Construction of Reproductive Care and Birth Tourism in the Pacific Northwest and California.”

Graduate Writing Fellowship

  • Melissa Barnes, Psychology, “Gendered and Racialized Political Violence Towards the Black Community: Feminist Integration of the Concepts of Betrayal Trauma, Collective Trauma, and Vicarious Trauma.”

Graduate Student Research Grants

Graduate Student Travel Grants

  • Polet Campos-Melchor, Anthropology, “LGBTQ+ Migrants: Strategizing Survival and Love at the U.S.-Mexico Border” at the Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) conference in Washington, D.C.
  • Nino Dgebuadze, International Studies and Nonprofit Management, the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights annual workshop on migration and forced displacement.
  • Lola Loustaunau, Sociology, “Assessing the Initial Impacts of the First Statewide Fair Scheduling Law in Oregon” at the Advancing Equality at Work and at Home conference in New York.
  • Carla Osorio-Veliz, Geography, “A Case Study of two Guatemalan Organizations Demanding Justice for 41 Girls” at the American Geographers Association Annual Meeting in Denver.
  • Aiden Pang, English, “Three Minute Wo/men: Female masculinities on Japanese Music Television” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Denver.