2014 Annual Review

Feature

Special Section: Collaborative Research

Research and Interviews

Highlights from the Academic Year

Looking at Books

Publication Year
2014

Articles

Articles
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The Collaboration Continuum

by Michael Hames-García, Director, CSWS; Professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies

Author
Michael Hames-García
Publication Year
2014
Publication type
Annual Review
International Leadership Research Interest Group, circa 2005-06 / photo by Jack Liu

Collaboration Through Conversation: How CSWS Developed the Research Interest Group Model

by Jenée Wilde, PhD candidate, English

In 1994, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) launched a bold new vision—to foster scholarly collaboration through research interest groups, or RIGs. While the center had primarily funded individual research in earlier decades, the RIG model was designed to support a variety of intellectual and social connections among scholars working on gender in broadly related fields. 

Author
Jenée Wilde
Publication Year
2014
Publication type
Annual Review
A graphic for “"The Status of Women in Philosophy at the University of Oregon and Beyond"

Creating Visibility for Feminist Philosophy

by Megan M. Burke, PhD candidate, UO Department of Philosophy

In the world of academic philosophy, feminist philosophers occupy a marginalized space. This, of course, is not unique to philosophy as most academic disciplines give marginal status to those working on issues of gender and its intersections with sexuality, class, and race. 

Author
Megan M. Burke
Publication Year
2014
Publication type
Annual Review
Gabriela Martínez speaks at the CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration

Media, Democracy, and the Construction of Collective Memory: A Conversation with Gabriela Martínez

by Alice Evans, CSWS Dissemination Specialist

CSWS last interviewed Gabriela Martínez for the Annual Review in summer 2012, when she was the incoming associate director of CSWS. Now entering her third and final year as associate director, Martínez talks about her research, documentary filmmaking, and teaching; her tenure at CSWS; and her upcoming year as a resident scholar at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.

Author
Alice Evans
Publication Year
2014
Publication type
Annual Review
Two women in a literacy class.

Women, Development, and Geographies of Insecurity in Post-conflict Southeast Turkey

by Jessie Clark, Instructor, UO Department of Geography

The landscape of Southeast Turkey today looks starkly different than it did fifteen years ago. From 1984 to 1999, much of the Southeast region was caught up in a civil war between the Kurdish-separatist group the PKK and the Turkish military. Approximately 4,000 villages were burned, 40,000 people killed, and approximately 900,000–4 million individuals displaced (numbers vary depending on the source). 

Author
Jessie Clark
Publication Year
2014
Publication type
Annual Review
Jenée Wilde

The BiSciFi Project: Researching Speculative Fictions and Bisexual Lives

by Jenée Wilde, PhD candidate, UO Department of English (Folklore)

As a PhD candidate, my research has resulted in part from frustrations I have felt with the lack of serious treatment given to bisexuality as a position from which to theorize sexual knowledge within humanistic scholarship. While studies of gay, lesbian, and transgender communities and cultural production have dramatically increased over the past two decades, research on bisexuality remains highly undervalued in much of the humanities and social sciences.

Author
Jenée Wilde
Publication Year
2014
Publication type
Annual Review
Kathryn Allan (l) chats with Jenée Wilde, then-CSWS development GTF, at the CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration in Nov. 2013

“The Other Lives”—Locating Dis/Ability in Utopian Feminist Science Fiction

by Alice Evans, CSWS Dissemination Specialist

CSWS interviewed Kathryn Allan, inaugural winner of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, during her CSWS-supported visit to do research at the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives. Allan immersed herself in the archives, reading the letters of Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ, and other feminist science fiction authors, seeking out conversations about disability and utopia, and delighting in her discoveries.

Author
Alice Evans
Publication Year
2014
Publication type
Annual Review