Editor’s Note: Erin Beck is a long-time CSWS affiliate and co-coordinator of the CSWS Américas Research Interest Group.

Source: Study finds microfinance can help, even if goals aren't met | Around the O

Don’t forget! CSWS has air-conditioned space to offer our faculty affiliates for their writing projects on these hot summer days. Pictured here, Kemi Balogun (WGS / Sociology) and Habib Iddrisu (Ethnomusicology and Dance) hard at work on their book projects in one of our CSWS meeting rooms.

CSWS operations manager Dena Zaldúa Frazier is one of about two dozen campus figures featured in a continuing online photography exhibit, “Our Stories, Our Communities: UO Diversity,” a project of the Division of Equity and Inclusion.

Our Stories, Our Communities: UO Diversity

Operations Manager for the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS)

Source: Provost announces interim dean for Clark Honors College | Around the O

August 7, 2017—“Karen Ford, divisional dean for humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve in a dual role for the next year after accepting the interim deanship in the Clark Honors College.

Congratulations to members of the CSWS community who earned promotions effective 2017-18 AY.

Among those moving into full professor status are Krista Chronister in counseling psychology, CSWS director Michelle McKinley in law, Kate Mondloch in the history of art and architecture, and Erin McKenna in philosophy.

in education studies, Michael Najjar in theatre arts, Atika Khurana in family and human services, and Daisy-O’lice Williams in architecture and interior architecture are now associate professors, with tenure.

Condon Hall 260 1321 Kincaid St. UO campus

Source: 'Our Stories, Our Communities' puts UO's diversity on display | Around the O

July 26, 2017—“A continuing online photography exhibit, ‘Our Stories, Our Communities: UO Diversity,’ is giving the campus community an opportunity to reflect on the powerful and unique stories of UO members who come from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences.

Gerlinger 302 University of Oregon Morning Session: 9 am - 12:30 pm Afternoon Session: 2 pm - 5 pm

This event is free and open to the public. If you have questions about the event, please contact Kaley McCarty at kaleym@uoregon.edu for more details. For the detailed schedule, go to: https://mena.uoregon.edu/news-events/

Middle East and North Africa Studies Program Presents:

Islam, Feminism, and the Women’s Mosque Movement

Care Across Generations: Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families by CSWS faculty affiliate Kristin E. Yarris is due out in August from Stanford University Press. An assistant professor in the UO Department of International Studies, Yarris has been an active member of the CSWS Narrative Health and Social Justice Research Interest Group.

Erb Memorial Union (EMU) Diamond Lake Room Room 119

Faculty Research Series: Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS)

“Cultural Adaptation of Career Development Intervention for Latina Immigrant Partner Violence Survivors”

Dr. Krista Chronister, Professor, Counseling Psychology, School of Education, and Yolanda Valenzuela, doctoral student, Counseling Psychology, will present on their research in their talk “Cultural Adaptation of Career Development Intervention for Latina Immigrant Partner Violence Survivors.”

June 6, 2017—Students, faculty, staff, and community members packed the UO Knight Library Browsing Room to hear Rinku Sen talk about “The Big Picture: Structural Racism, Equity & Intersectionality.” This was Professor Dan HoSang’s final event in the “Imagining Freedom Teach-In Series” not only for the year, but for good, as he heads off to the Ivy League to continue his career. A long-time CSWS faculty affiliate, Dr. HoSang served as head of the UO Department of Ethnic Studies during the 2016-17 AY.

Photographs by Jack Liu

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June 12, 2017—CSWS faculty affiliate Anita M. Weiss recently received a Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Award in the amount of $34,000 to support research for her book project Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices. The research will be conducted September 2017 - March 2018.

June 9, 2017—CSWS faculty affiliates Kari Norgaard (sociology), (philosophy), and Gyoung-Ah Lee (anthropology) are among 16 recipients of UO’s 2017-18 Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards, announced June 9 by Provost Scott Coltrane.

Editor’s Note: Monique Balbuena is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus

Mary Kathryn Nagle: “Sovereignty in the Law, Sovereignty in Our Stories”

May 25, 2017—With panel discussions, a keynote, and a festive reception, CSWS celebrated the release of Director Michelle McKinley’s book, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700, at the Knight Law School on the UO campus.

Editor’s Note: The Food Studies Program was incubated in part through the CSWS Food in the Field Research Interest Group.

Source: Table is set for the inaugural graduation of food studies minors | Around the O

June 9, 2017—“Eight undergraduate students will graduate this spring and summer with a minor in food studies, the first such degrees awarded in the program’s history.

Rm 110 Knight Law School UO campus

Professor Leigh Goodmark, University of Maryland, will speak at the UO School of Law’s Domestic Violence Clinic on November 10, 2017 at 12 pm in room 110. Her talk is titled, “Intimate Partner Violence, Transgender People, and the Legal System.”

She is one of several speakers invited this year by the Domestic Violence Clinic to address legal issues faced by LGBTQ survivors of domestic and sexual violence. 

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

June 6, 2017—In a ceremony on the UO campus on Tuesday, the UO Graduate School awarded its Excellence Award for Outstanding Mentorship in Graduate Studies. Herrmann, a CSWS faculty affiliate, is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages. This award goes to “honor faculty and staff who provide the strong mentorship that is essential to strong graduate programs.”

June 6, 2017—CSWS faculty affiliate is one of two UO faculty members selected to receive 2017-18 Williams Fellowships for commitment to undergraduate education.

From Around the O:

330 Hendricks Hall Jane Grant Conference Rm 1408 University St.

Join CSWS director Michelle McKinley and operations manager Dena Frazier as they discuss the grant application process for CSWS faculty and graduate student research grants, including the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Condon Hall Room 260 1321 Kincaid St. UO campus

Teach-In

Professors Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel (Romance Languages), Rocío Zambrana (Philosophy), and Alaí Reyes-Santos (Ethnic Studies) will lead a teach-in to engage in conversation about Puerto Rico and its place in the contemporary colonial history of the United States.

Sponsored by the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.

Leslie Steeves

May 30, 2017—Congratulations to CSWS faculty affiliate H. , who recently received the International Communication Association’s Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship.

Source: Eleven faculty members receive UO’s highest teaching honors | Around the O

May 23, 2017—Two CSWS faculty affiliates are among those to receive UO’s highest teaching honors.

How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs by Erin Beck. Duke University Press (May 2017)

Erin Beck is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon, a CSWS faculty affiliate, and co-coordinator of the CSWS Américas Research Interest Group.

Publisher’s Synopsis

Honored for both her teaching and her research, University of Oregon Knight Law School professor and the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s very own director Michelle McKinley is a multiple award winner this spring season. In short order, Dr. McKinley has racked up a teaching award, a book award, and an honorable mention.

Location: TBD Time: TBD

Save-the-Date

Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance will be the 2018 Margaret Hallock Program speaker for the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. She’ll be visiting on May 2-3, 2018 and giving talks in both Eugene and Portland about the NYTWA as well as immigrant workers’ rights broadly.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society

“2017-18 CSWS Research Awards: Jane Grant Fellowship, Graduate and Faculty Research Grants, and the Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship”

CSWS faculty affiliate was notified recently of an appointment as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at The Huntington for a period of two months.

She also learned that she is the recipient of a UCLA Clark Memorial Library fellowship.

Both awards are for her new book project, “Autotopography: Place and Commonplace in Romanticism and After.”

Roundtable will address immigrant and refugee rights issues | Around the O

April 10, 2017 (From Around the O) — With plight of immigrants and refugees an issue of rising concern, the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society will host a roundtable bringing together academic experts and Oregon-based immigration lawyers.

Editor’s Note: Lynn Stephen is a member of the CSWS Advisory Board and a former associate director of CSWS. She is the founding director of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, which was incubated at CSWS.

March 31, 2017 (from Around the O) — “UO anthropology professor Lynn Stephen, an internationally known Latin America scholar, is in line to lead the largest association of researchers in the field after being elected vice president of the Latin American Studies Association.

Source: First Acker-Morgen Lecture will honor two UO feminist scholars | Around the O

See also: http://csws.uoregon.edu/evelyn-nakano-glenn/

March 6, 2017 — University of Oregon professor , founding director of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, was elected vice-president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for the term beginning June 1, 2017 and ending May 31, 2018. On June 1, 2018, she will assume the presidency of LASA for a 12-month period, until May 31, 2019. Dr. Stephen holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology.

On May 25, CSWS will celebrate the release of Director Michelle McKinley's book, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 (Cambridge Un

2017, Winter: CSWS Research Matters

“Beauty Diplomacy: Culture, Markets, and Politics in the Nigerian Beauty Pageant Industry,” by Oluwakemi M. “Kemi” Balogun, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology

February 2, 2017—Cultural anthropologist Aletta Biersack, whose research in Papua, New Guinea, has been supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant, has two new volumes just out.