2024 CSWS Research Grant and Fellowship Awardees

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow

  • Rhiannon Lindgren, Philosophy, “Revolutionary
    Love and Reproductive Struggles: Feminist
    Politics of Care for the Queer Future.”

Graduate Writing Completion Fellows

  • Sarah Agou, Romance Languages, “Narrative
    Sovereignty in Contemporary Cuba, Haiti,
    and Indigenous Quebec: Exploring forms of
    Inhabiting Against Geographical, Political,
    Economical, and Identitarian Forced
    Enclosures.”
  • Olivia Wing, History, “Common and Contested
    Ground: Chinese and Japanese American Youth
    Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1920s–1960s”
    (Giustina Fund).

Graduate Student Research Grants

  • Tal-Hi Bitton, Philosophy, “Steadfast
    Watermelons: Social Reproductive Struggle and
    Colonialism in Palestine/Israel.”
  • Malvya Chintakindi, Anthropology, “Chasing
    the Good Life: Caste, Class, and Dalit Women
    in India’s Informal Economy”
  • Liesl Cohn De Leon, Anthropology, “Migrant
    Memories of Guatemalan Maya Women in
    Oregon: Community and Identity Building in a
    New Territory” (Giustina Fund).
  • Yalda Eskandari, Art, “Between the Two Trees.”
  • Yuan Fang, Anthropology, “Bronze Mirrors:
    Serving the Beautiful or the Powerful? Viewing
    Bronze Mirrors in Ancient China from a Gender
    Archaeology Perspective.”
  • Madison Fowler-Niblock, Environmental
    Science, and Moe Gamez, English, “Queer
    Resistance, Abolition, and American (Homo)
    National(ist) Narratives: Reading the 2016
    Designation of Stonewall National Monument.”
  • Margaryta Golovchenko, History of Art and
    Architecture, “Strange-Kinship: WomenAnimal Relationships in British and French Art,
    1700–1900.”
  • Megan Hayes, Environmental Studies, “How
    to Love an Oyster: Chemistry, Attachment,
    Slippage.”
  • Nat Ivy, Folklore and Public Culture, “‘This is
    traditional song; we can’t let you stay happy
    long’: Murder Ballads, Gender, Race, and Crime
    in 19th Century America.”
  • Bex Macfife, Sociology, “Gen(der)italia: Pelvic
    Physical Therapy and Feeling in the Shadow of
    Biomedicine.”
  • Gretchen Nihill, Psychology, “Compounding
    Safety Cues for Women of Color.”
  • Ruby Oboro-Offerie, Sociology, “Economic
    Values, Ethical Norms, and Gender Stereotypes
    as Predictors of Trust in Women’s Movements:
    A Multi-level Approach.”
  • Sammy Plezia, Family and Human Services,
    “Exploring the Relationship Between Gender
    Identity, Culturally Relevant Gender Roles, and
    Body Dissatisfaction among Goan Adolescent
    Girls: A Qualitative Investigation.”
  • Raechel Root, History of Art and Architecture,
    “Future Objects: Building Queer Feminist
    Worlds in the Photography of Oregon’s Lesbian
    Lands” (Giustina Fund).
  • Haifa Souilmi, Political Science, “Democratic
    Backsliding and the Ebbs and Flows of Gender
    Equality in Tunisia.”

Faculty Research Grants

  • Corinne Bayerl, Clark Honors College,
    “Gendered Practices in Early Modern
    Cryptography.”
  • Marjorie Celona, Creative Writing, “The Year of
    X: A Novel.”
  • Miriam Chorley-Schulz, German and
    Scandinavian Studies, “A Queer History of
    Yiddish.”
  • Alisa Freedman, East Asian Languages and
    Literatures, “Telling the Stories of Vietnamese
    Women Educators and Their New Academic
    Fields.”
  • Judith Raiskin, Women’s, Gender, and
    Sexuality Studies, “Outliers and Outlaws: A
    Documentary Film” (Giustina Fund).
  • Julie Weise, History, “Guest Worker: Lives
    Across Borders in an Age of Prosperity