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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 PsychologyPsychology 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 McKinleyUniversity 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.”
Joan AckerJoan 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.
Filmmaker Gabriela Martínez with Juana Vásquez Vásquez
