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Maggie Evans Receives a 2012 OHC Dissertation Fellowship

Meagan “Maggie” Evans, a PhD candidate in the UO Department of English, has been awarded a Fall 2012 Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation “Sounding Silence: Twentieth-Century Feminist Poetic Innovation.”

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UO Symposium on African American Literature Featured Outstanding Scholars

More than a hundred students, faculty and community members attended the symposium “Place and Displacement in African American Literature,” which took place in the Browsing Room of the UO Knight Library on March 2. Courtney Thorsson, a University of Oregon assistant professor of English, organized the group of scholars, who gave talks about their research. Presenters included faculty from Vassar College, University of Massachusetts, University of Pennsylvania, Goucher College, Duke University, and the UO.

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Visiting Criminologist Examines Feminicide and Gender Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border in UO Talk

Speaking “first and foremost as a social activist,” New Mexico criminologist and university professor Cynthia Bejarano examined the unsolved murders of girls and women in the region of Ciudad Juárez-El Paso before a gathering of more than 80 students and faculty at the UO Knight Library. Bejarano showed images of some of the activist mothers who seek justice for their missing and/or murdered daughters as she presented her research on “Terrorizing Women: Feminicide and Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.”

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McKinley Receives 2012 ACLS Fellowship

Professor Michelle McKinley

February 21, 2012—University of Oregon associate professor Michelle McKinley, School of Law, has been awarded a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.

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Former CSWS Fellowship Winner Barbara Sutton Wins Book Prize

Winner of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s (CSWS) 2004 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, Barbara Sutton is now an assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of Albany, SUNY, affiliated with the departments of sociology and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S.

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Markets and Bodies—new book by Eileen Otis

Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China by Eileen M. Otis (Stanford University Press, October 2011, 232 pp.)

Eileen Otis is an assistant professor in the University of Oregon Department of Sociology and a CSWS faculty affiliate.

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Memoirs of Scandalous Women: edited by Dianne Dugaw

Dianne Dugaw’s Memoirs of Scandalous Women (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), a five-volume annotated edition of life-writings by 18th-century British women, surveys the period from 1740 to 1808 in six narratives that span social class from subaltern to aristocratic milieus.

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