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March 19, 2015—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded about $111,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2015-16 Academic Year.  The funded scholars come from across the university, representing a number of departments in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as the School of Journalism and Communication and the School of Law.

Mia Tuan

Editor’s Note: has been both a CSWS faculty affiliate and a CSWS Women of Color Project affiliate.

Article Source: Tuan to become education dean at the University of Washington | Around the O

In the mid-1980s, CSWS awarded Eileen Kearney the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship to help with her doctoral work and research on the 1930s Irish playwright, Teresa Deevy.

Winter 2015 CSWS Research Matters

March 11, 2015—A book authored by Professor Lynn Stephen, director, UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, has been named the recipient of the 2015 Delmos Jones and Jagna Scharff Memori

March 3, 2015— Broad plan to address sexual violence discussed at forum | Around the O.

Public Lecture: Allen Hall 221 1020 University St. UO campus Poster PDF

Clinical Services Bulding (CLS) 220 901 E. 18th St. PART OF WGS 199

Shifting Poetics: Trans of Color Movement in Digital Media, with micha cárdenas

This Oregon Quarterly article provides an update on campus sexual assault. Go to: It’s On Us

Goodman named a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study | Around the O.

Bryna Goodman, professor, UO Department of History, is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

February 18, 2015—Journalism graduate student Sarah T. Hamid and international studies graduate student Tariq L.

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From the ASUO Women Center’s recent issue of The Siren, here’s a Kale Smoothie Recipe for “Racial Tension Headaches in a ‘Post-Racial’ USA” from Dr. Amie “Breeze” Harper, who will be delivering a lecture, participating in a panel discussion, and leading a workshop at the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium, which runs May 7 - 9, 2015.

Graduate Student Lounge Susan Campbell Hall 1431 Johnson Lane

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.

Talk Title: “It Takes More Than Profits to Make a Man: Historical Understandings of Success Amongst Tanzanian Entrepreneurs”

Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall UO campus printable flyer PDF

Breeze Harper

UO campus Gerlinger Alumni Lounge 1468 University St.

Watch this videotaped interview with the director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS). Michael Hames-García, professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, talks about his role as the first male director of CSWS.

Eugene Public Library 100 W. 10th St. (10th and Olive) Eugene, OR

Novella Carpenter

Eugene Public Library 100 W. 10th St. (10th and Olive) Eugene, OR

Diana Abu-Jaber / photo by Scott Eason

Eugene Public Library 100 W. 10th St. Eugene, OR 97401

Novella Carpenter

UO Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.

UO Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.

“We're still trying to figure out what Diana Abu-Jaber does NOT do; she's good at so many things. Novelist, cookbook author, teacher, speaker... and there...”

You can listen to this May 6 interview with Diana Abu-Jaber at: http://ijpr.org/post/diana-abu-jaber-large    /  Source: Diana Abu-Jaber At Large | Jefferson Public Radio

January 5, 2015—The Fembot Collective released the latest edition of its online open-access, peer-reviewed journal.

Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St. printable flyer PDF

 375 McKenzie Hall 1101 Kincaid St. UO campus Free public lecture

January 7, 2015—Science envoy Richmond now in Southeast Asia on official visit | Around the O.

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Queens and Amazons in Renaissance Art and History

Global Scholars Hall 1710 E. 15th Ave. UO campus

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Free & open to the public

December 1, 2014—Architecture graduate students Roxy Robles and Nicolette Stauffer are the coordinators of a new research interest group (RIG) at the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society.

The research for this new book by Alaí Reyes-Santos, assistant professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, was supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant.

November 15, 2014—Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for November 2014 is now uploaded on the Fembot website.