Assistant Professor Ana-Maurine Lara, Department of Anthropology, and Associate Professor Alaí Reyes-Santos, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, have received an external grant due to work made possible by CSWS, CLLAS, UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Center, and VPRI’s research awards.

The first stage of their Caribbean Women Healers Digital Humanities Project was completed on April 2020 with seed funding from CSWS and other units. The second stage is a Spanish version currently in progress.

Lara and Reyes-Santos have now received Mellon funding of approximately $150,000 to undertake interviews with Black and Indigenous healers and traditional ecological knowledge keepers throughout the Pacific Northwest, and host them in a new section of the current website that already has an international and national following. The Mellon grant includes the women healer project among others constituting the Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Climate and Racial Justice at UO.