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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.

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.

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.

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.

Food in the Field—a new CSWS Research Interest Group

“Food in the Field” is a new CSWS interdisciplinary research interest group (RIG) that investigates ideas in the field of food studies, the operations of cultural fields related to food consumption, and the gendered labor that takes place in the farm fields of food production.

CSWS Faculty Affiliates Win Awards

The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors its faculty affiliates who are among those named as University of Oregon Award Winners 2010–11.

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Jane Grant Fellowship Awardee Wins Additional Honors

The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors 2010 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship awardee Ingrid Nelson, geography, who in 2010-11 received these additional awards:

  • Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Commission
  • Society of Woman Geographers Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research