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CSWS Initiates the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties with a Series of Lectures, Workshops and Symposia Focused on Women’s Rights

Peggy Pascoe

, whose research and teaching focused on the history of race, gender and sexuality, was the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. With family and friends at her side, she died from ovarian cancer on July 23, 2010, at home in Eugene, Oregon.

Cultural anthropologist Lamia Karim, author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Banglade

Place: Gerlinger Alumni Lounge

This event will honor University of Oregon women of color faculty whose articles and books were published from 2008 - 2010.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Women of Color Project.

“Teaching Feminist Technology Design" by Frances Bronet and Linda L. Layne is the title of a chapter (Ch 7: p. 179) in the newly released book Feminist Technology. Frances Bronet is dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon.

CSWS Executive Committee member Lynn Stephen recently appeared on the CNN program “Men, Women, Muxe” in the series “The World’s Untold Stories.” Stephen—director of the University of Oregon’s Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) and distinguished professor of anthropology and ethnic studies—provided background and commentary on the Muxes of Juchitán, Oaxaca. The Muxes are a Zapotec indigenous third gender who have a long history in southern Mexico. Stephen has conducted research on gender and sexuality in southern Mexico and published an article in 2002 on this topic.

Digital Scholars 2010 Collaboration Center, 22A (part of the Computer Lab suite) Erb Memorial Union (EMU), UO campus

“An Update: Are Women Getting All the Jobs?”

A preprint of this article, submitted to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, can be viewed on Vitulli’s Women in Math website.

Sutton, Barbara. 2010. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press).

News: Local | "Students examine nature of beauty" | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon.

Click on the above link to read an article about a Women’s History Month presentation in a Eugene School District 4J middle school by UO graduate student Mickey Stellavato.  The talk was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society through its graduate Road Scholars Program.

Browsing Room, Knight Library A moderated talk and book celebration with authors Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt

Sociologist Scott Coltrane, dean of the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences, spoke about research on parenting, gender equity and the evolving role of fathers to a noon-time audience of about 75 people Wednesday, January 13, at a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Oregon Daily Emerald story

Dorothy Smith

“Institutional Ethnography,” a talk by (delivered November 13, 2009), is now available online.

Jennifer Freyd, UO Department of Psychology

Psychology professor Jennifer Freyd’s paper “Exposure to Betrayal Trauma and Risks to the Well-Being of Girls and Women” is now available online in the Fall 2009 issue of CSWS Research Matters.

Editor’s Note: is one of eight UO students to receive a U.S. Student Program Fulbright award this year.  She has also received funding from CSWS for her research in Mozambique. This story is used by permission of the author and taken from her personal blog.

CSWS was awarded a Ford Foundation grant in March 2008 from the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW). “Diversifying the Leadership of Women’s Research Centers,” was meant to promote the leadership of women of color from historically underrepresented groups in the United States within NCRW and within its women’s research, policy, and advocacy member centers. CSWS and the UO Office of the Vice President for Research provided matching funds.

Actress Amami Yuki (left) accepts an award for helping to popularize “Ara-fo.”

by Alisa Freedman, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Film

UO law professor Michelle McKinley

University of Oregon law professor Michelle McKinley has been awarded a Newberry Library Short-Term Resident Fellowship for Individual Research for her work-in-progress titled “Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1700.”

Ingrid Nelson, at the Centro de Formação Jurídica e Judiciária in Matola, Mozambique.

Graduate student Ingrid Nelson is one of eight UO students to receive a U.S. Student Program Fulbright award this year. The grant will support her doctoral dissertation research, “Gender Equity and Rural Sustainable Development in Zambézia, Mozambique.”

Joan Acker

Joan Acker is one of eight people who will be honored during Lane County's Sixth Annual Older Americans Month celebration on May 6. The theme this year is “Lane County Honors Older Americans Who Capture the Spirit of Oregon.” Following is the nomination letter submitted by the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

From the Field: Americas Research Interest Group

From the Field: Americas Research Interest Group

Filmmaker Gabriela Martínez with Juana Vásquez Vásquez

From the Field: Americas Research Interest Group