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Women’s Rights in a Global World: 2010-11 CSWS Series
CSWS Initiates the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties with a Series of Lectures, Workshops and Symposia Focused on Women’s Rights
In Memoriam: 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.
UO Anthropology Professor to Be Interviewed on The Jefferson Exchange
Cultural anthropologist Lamia Karim, author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Banglade
CSWS Grantee Jennifer Erickson Interviewed
Celebrating Research by Women of Color
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.
Feminist Technology
Michelle McKinley: CSWS Research Matters Spring 2010
Men, Women, Muxe: Mexico’s Third Gender
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.
Lamia Karim Named CSWS Associate Director
Console-ing Passions Conference
Animating the Archive—Tara McPherson
Digital Scholars 2010 Collaboration Center, 22A (part of the Computer Lab suite) Erb Memorial Union (EMU), UO campus
Gender Differences in First Jobs for New Ph.D.s in Mathematics
“An Update: Are Women Getting All the Jobs?”
by Mary E. Flahive, Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, and Marie A. Vitulli, CSWS faculty affiliate and professor, UO Department of MathematicsA preprint of this article, submitted to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, can be viewed on Vitulli’s Women in Math website.
Bodies in Crisis—new book from CSWS fellowship winner
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
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.
Welfare Reform in a Time of Crisis
Browsing Room, Knight Library A moderated talk and book celebration with authors Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt
Scott Testifies Before Oregon Legislative Committees
CAS Dean Talks About Fatherhood
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
Conference: “Modern Girls on the Go”
CSWS Names Higdon Scholarship Winners
Michelle McKinley Awarded NEH Fellowship
Institutional Ethnography: Dorothy Smith

“Institutional Ethnography,” a talk by (delivered November 13, 2009), is now available online.
Major Feminist Sociologist to Speak
Jennifer Freyd on Betrayal Trauma

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.
Mozambique: News from the Field
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.
Women of Color Project
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.
Changing Images of Japanese Workingwomen

by Alisa Freedman, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Film
Michelle McKinley Wins Newberry Fellowship

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.”
CSWS-Supported Student Wins Fulbright

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.”
Women, Media, and Rebellion in Oaxaca
Joan Acker—Capturing the Spirit of Oregon

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.
An Old Map, Little Black Fruits, and Female Spirits
From the Field: Americas Research Interest Group
by Gabriela Martínez, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication and Stephanie Wood, Senior Research Associate, CSWSMonoliths, Silk Worms, and Scholarships
From the Field: Americas Research Interest Group
by Stephanie Wood, Senior Research Associate, CSWS
Reconstructing the Lives of Zapotec Women

From the Field: Americas Research Interest Group
by Gabriela Martínez, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication and Stephanie Wood, Senior Research Associate, CSWS