Adapted from Oregon News – CSWS affiliate Lynn Stephen was elected in April to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with 250 other leaders in academia, industry, the arts and more.
Stephen is Philip H. Knight Chair and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences. She focuses her research on immigration and asylum, gender-based violence, race, and Indigenous communities in Mexico, Guatemala and the diaspora in California and the Northwest. She emphasizes Indigenous epistemologies, or theories of knowledge, and public accessibility through films, websites and scholarly publications. She is the author of 15 academic books and over 100 articles and chapters.
She founded the UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, which began as an special project under CSWS, and served as director for nine years. Currently a fellow at the Stanford University Humanities Center, Stephen is also exploring the mobilization of Mesoamerican Indigenous languages and knowledges for health and socio-environmental justice, a project for which she received a $575,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Stephen's latest book, which will be published in September with coauthor Erin Beck, is Seeking Justice for Gendered Violence: Courts, Communities, and Care in Guatemala. Beck is an associate professor of political science at the UO. Together, Stephen and Beck coordinated the CSWS Amerícas RIG for more than a decade.
Read the full story at Oregon News.