Several CSWS faculty affiliates are recipients of the 2021 Faculty Research Awards, given by the Office of the Vice President of Research and Innovation. Recipients include:

• Annelise Heinz, Assistant Professor, History, “Book project: Collective: How Lesbian Feminists Reimagined Society”
• Maile Hutterer, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, “Architecture in the Medieval Imagination—Chapter 2, ‘Place’”
• Masami Kawai, Assistant Professor, Cinema. Studies, “Feature Film: Valley of the Tall Grasses”
• Leah Lowthorp, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, “Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and National/Global Heritage in Kerala, India”
• Johanna Richlin, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, “Fear, Hope, and Potentiality: An Ethnographic Study of Vaccine Hesitancy in the time of Covid-19”
• Yvette Saavedra, Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, “Living La Mala Vida/Living the Bad Life: Transgressive Femininities, Morality, and Nationalism in Nineteenth Century California, 1800-1850”
• Courtney Thorsson, Associate Professor, English, “The Sisterhood: Black Women's Literary Organizing”

A total of 26 proposals were submitted and underwent careful review by a Senate subcommittee of nine faculty, representing all the schools and colleges of this institution. The top 12 recommended proposals were funded. For more information about the VPRI program, please review this website: https://research.uoregon.edu/apply/apply-internal-funding/faculty-research-awards.