2025-26 CSWS Research Interest Groups Announced
The RIG program help to fulfill feminist research, education, networking, and collaboration needs on campus by providing support for reading groups, guest speakers, workshops, symposia, and more. Seven RIGs received CSWS funding for this year.
Women of Color Project
Women of Color
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 who represent all the colleges and schools within the UO.
Research Interest Groups
Research Interest Groups
About RIGs
CSWS Research Interest Groups (RIGs) are collaborations among faculty members, staff, graduate students, and community members at the University of Oregon. A primary goal of our RIGs is to bring people together for a shared project, idea, or vision around CSWS’s mission: to generate, support, and publicize intersectional research on women and gender.
Student Opportunities
Student Opportunities
CSWS offers a variety of opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to contribute to our mission and participate in the Center.
I. Undergraduate Opportunities
STEAM Summer Research Fellowships
Deadline: 5 p.m. Monday, March 31, 2025
Women in the Northwest
Women in the Northwest
Programming Spotlight: Undergraduate Support
Starting in Spring 2025, CSWS is sponsoring Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing on gender-related topics across several departments at the University of Oregon. Hear student experiences and instructor insights about these intensely rewarding workshop-style courses that strengthen student writing, editing, and revision skills for audiences beyond academia.
Programming Spotlight: Graduate Student Support
Since 2022, CSWS has taken steps to increase support for graduate students through grant writing workshops, student-led research interest groups (RIGs), internships, information sessions, networking events, and more.
Highlights from CSWS Programming
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.
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.
The Collaboration Continuum
by Michael Hames-García, Director, CSWS; Professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies
I am aware of the irony of writing a column by myself on collaborative scholarship. Most likely, any insights contained here would have been strengthened by the participation of others in the writing process. And yet, part of what I would like to say is that in some sense all scholarship is collaborative...