2021 Annual Review

Faculty Research

Graduate Student Research

Highlights from the Academic Year

  • News & Updates                                                      
  • 2021-22 CSWS Research Grant Award Winners    
  • Charise Cheney Named Black Studies Director    
  • Thank You to CSWS Donors                                    
  • Looking at Books       
Publication Year
2021

Articles

Articles
Law professor and former CSWS director Michelle McKinley started the Caregiver Campaign in response to community need / photo by Jenée Wilde.

New Special Project Advocates for Institutional Change: CSWS Leads an Effort to Redress Pandemic Impacts for Faculty who are Caregivers

by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English, CSWS Dissemination Specialist

Last year, in the early stages of pandemic lockdown, then-CSWS director and law professor Michelle McKinley began receiving panicked emails from faculty friends and Center affiliates who are caregivers. With 4J schools and childcare facilities shut down, as well as shortages in long-term elder care services, how were they supposed to fulfill their teaching and research commitments at the university while also meeting the labor-intensive care needs of others?  

Author
Jenée Wilde
Publication Year
2021
Publication type
Annual Review
Sangita Gopal / photo by Jack Liu.

An Interview with Sangita Gopal: Interim Director Seeks to Strengthen CSWS Infrastructure

Interview by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English, CSWS Dissemination Specialist

With a background in comparative media studies and postcolonial theory, Associate Professor Sangita Gopal came to the University of Oregon in 2004 to teach cinema studies in the Department of English. Over time she saw the popular program grow from an English concentration into a unique tri-school major, then into its own department housed in the College of Arts and Sciences.  

Author
Jenée Wilde
Publication Year
2021
Publication type
Annual Review
Cover of Ana-Maurine Lara's "Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic"

Reflections: UO Graduate Students Share How Works by WOC Faculty Changed Them

CSWS events have always served as informal sites for networking, support, and mentorship among women faculty and graduate students across campus. When the pandemic shut down our regular programming last year, the Women of Color (WOC) Project filled this need with a virtual books-in-print event series celebrating recent monographs by WOC faculty affiliates.  

Author
Polet Campos-Melchor
Kiana Nadonza
Roshelle Weiser-Nieto
Teresa Hernández
Publication Year
2021
Publication type
Annual Review
With funding from CSWS, the Fair Scheduling Law Study research team reached out to retail, food service, and hospitality workers across Oregon to learn how pandemic conditions affected their work choices / photo provided by Ellen Scott.

#ForeverEssential: What does it mean to be a low-wage essential worker in the age of COVID-19?

by Lina Stepick, Lola Loustaunau, Larissa Petrucci, and Ellen Scott 

Despite the continuing threat of COVID-19, and after token efforts such as “hazard pay” to recognize the threat to frontline workers, life in grocery and other retail stores has returned to a new normal of work during a pandemic. Work continues to be dangerous for “essential workers.” 

Author
Lina Stepick
Lola Loustaunau
Ellen Scott
Publication Year
2021
Publication type
Annual Review
Lara Boyero Agudo

“Soy mujer, latina e inmigrante”: An Intersectional Study of Linguistic Capital among Latina Women Immigrants in Oregon

by Lara Boyero Agudo , PhD Candidate,  Department of Romance Languages 

“If you are white and speak Spanish, people say: ‘Wow, that’s awesome, you speak two languages’; but if you are Hispanic, speaking Spanish, it’s more like: ‘Oh, another wetback’... and people don’t recognize you as bilingual.” —Luz, Mexican woman resident in Springfield, OR  

Author
Lara Boyero Agudo
Publication Year
2021
Publication type
Annual Review