Feminist Futures
Past Lessons, Future Visions: CSWS 50th Anniversary Alumni Symposium
by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
On May 10, 2024, three panels of faculty affiliates, former grant fellows, and friends of the Center for the Study of Women in Society participated in our 50th Anniversary Alumni Symposium.
Community Collaborations
Haunting Ecologies
by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
Advocacy
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?
Our Mission
Supporting Women of Color at UO: A Look into the Center's Long-Running Faculty Mentorship Program
by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
The Women of Color (WOC) Project has been a special project under the auspices of CSWS since 2005. The program is comprised of tenure-track women faculty, and our collective has approximately 50 participants, of whom about 30 are active constituents. We represent all the colleges and schools within the UO.
Faculty Highlight: Ernesto Martinez
CSWS affiliate Ernesto Martinez, associate professor and head of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at University of Oregon, talks about the impact CSWS has had on his career at the University of Oregon.
Alumni Highlight: Envisioning Feminist Futures
For our 50th anniversary, we invited CSWS research grant alumni to give testimonials about the impacts of CSWS on their lives and their careers, and to answer the question: What do Feminist Futures mean to you?
Graduate Student Highlight: Funding Research on Gender
Each year, CSWS awards research grants to graduate students and faculty for projects related to women and gender. Over five decades, CSWS has awarded more than $3 million in research grants. Here, three 2024 grantees talk about the impact of the CSWS research grant on their research.
Feminist Futures: CSWS Graduate Student Research Fellows
"The Struggle Continues": Gender-Based Violence and the Politics of Justice and Care in Brazil
by Emily Masucci, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
The Rise of Witch-Hunting & Witch-Killing in Assam, India
by Daizi Hazarika, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Examining Gendered and Racialized Violence Toward the Black Community
by Melissa L. Barnes, PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology
CSWS Faculty Fellows: Research and Creative Work
La Serenata
Directed by Adelina Anthony Written by Ernesto Javier Martínez 2019 | Short Film / Aderisa Productions
Synopsis: A Mexican-American boy learns from his parents about serenatas, and why demonstrating romantic affection proudly, publicly, and through song is such a treasured Mexican tradition. One day, the boy asks his parents if there is a song for a boy who loves a boy. The parents, surprised by the question and unsure of how to answer, must decide how to honor their son and how to reimagine a beloved tradition.
Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children's Literature
"Coloring into Existence documents the emergence of a North American queer of color children’s literary archive, focusing on the creation, distribution, and potential impact of picture books by and about queer and trans of color authors. This comparative study across Canada, the United States, and Mexico from 1990 to 2020 fuses literary criticism and close readings with historical analysis and interviews.
Unhomely Life: Modernity, Mobilities and the Making of Home in China
"Unhomely life, different from houselessness, refers to a fluctuating condition between losing home feelings and the search for home—a prevalent condition in post-Mao China. The faster that Chinese society modernizes, the less individuals feel at home, and the more they yearn for a sense of home. This is the central paradox that Xiaobo Su explores: how mobile individuals—lifestyle migrants and retreat tourists from China’s big cities, displaced natives and rural migrants in peripheral China—handle the loss of home and try to experience a homely way of life.
How a Woman Becomes a Lake: a novel
"It’s New Year’s Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew. Leo takes his two young sons out to the lake to write resolutions on paper boats. That same frigid morning, Vera sets out for a walk with her dog along the lake, leaving her husband in bed with a hangover. But she never returns. She places a call to the police saying she’s found a boy in the woods, but the call is cut short by a muffled cry. Did one of Leo’s sons see Vera? What are they hiding about that day?