CSWS faculty affiliate Leilani Sabzalian is one of three Tom and Carol Williams Fund for Undergraduate Education fellowship winners for 2021.

The Williams Fellowship honors those who challenge their students, create inclusive environments, innovate the learning process, and create a collaborative learning experience. The winners receive a $5,000 award and a separate $5,000 is given to support innovative undergraduate learning experiences in the recipient’s department.

Several CSWS faculty affiliates are among the winners of seed funding for the 2021 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives awards, known as I3 awards, from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.

Note: Tara Fickle is a CSWS faculty affiliate. From the Oregon Humanities Center Newsletter – Tara Fickle, associate professor of English, has been awarded a 2021 NEH fellowship for her project “Behind Aiiieeeee!: A New History of Asian American Literature.” The fellowship will fund the research, writing, and digital development of a book examining the publication history of ​one of the first anthologies of Asian American literature, Aiiieeeee!

In the current Oregon Quarterly, CSWS faculty affiliate and assistant professor Kate Kelp-Stebbens, English, talks about her role in a new program that pairs undergraduate artists with faculty researchers to create science comics.

According to the article, "Since its launch in spring 2020, the partnerships have given rise to a growing stack of brightly illustrated and entertaining comics that are remarkably effective vehicles for science communication."

Episode 2 of Kitchen Table, a feminist podcast that aims to nourish the soul in troubled times, is now available.

The CSWS Women of Color Project presents a discussion of Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools (Routledge, 2020) by Leilani Sabzalian, 3-4:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, 2021.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) is pleased to announce funding awards for AY 2021-22 totaling $108,000 for scholarship, research, and creative work on women and gender—our largest funding year in well over a decade.

Since the pandemic has interrupted the center’s regular programming, the center decided instead to increase this year’s grant funding to support faculty and graduate student research. A total of 26 grants were awarded to 16 graduate students, nine tenure-track faculty members, and one career faculty member.

On Tuesday, April 13, from 12-2 p.m., the Wayne Morse Center presents, "A Democracy Worth Fighting For: A Conversation with Erica Smiley, Lisa Hubbard, and Margaret Hallock."

In this conversation, longtime social and economic justice organizer Erica Smiley will explore how the pandemic has left millions of people behind—especially women and people of color—while wealth grows even more concentrated in the hands of the few. She will explain why more political and economic democracy is necessary to lessen poverty and racism.

Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that psychology professor Jennifer Freyd had sufficient facts to proceed with her pay discrimination suit against University of Oregon. The suit alleges that Freyd is paid substantially less than male colleagues in the psychology department who hold the same full professor position, have less seniority, and are no more accomplished.

Assistant Professor Ana-Maurine Lara, Department of Anthropology, and Associate Professor Alaí Reyes-Santos, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, have received an external grant due to work made possible by CSWS, CLLAS, UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Center, and VPRI’s research awards.

The Women's Foundation of Oregon's Board of Directors is launching a national search for a new Executive Director to advance our mission to dismantle sexism, racism, and structural oppression through the movement of resources and ideas in our region.

On March 8 at 10:30am, the Department of Sociology is hosting Professor Christy L. Erving for a talk titled “Black Women’s Health Matters: Theoretical, Conceptual, and Empirical Considerations.” Erving is a candidate for an opportunity hire in the Department of Sociology at UO.

The CSWS Women of Color Project presents a discussion of Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation (Stanford University Press, Globalization in Everyday Life Series, 2020) by Oluwakemi “Kemi” Balogun, 3-5 p.m. Friday, March 5, 2021. Registration is required for this event.

Award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will be talking about The 1619 Project on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, from 4:30-6 p.m. As the lead writer for New York Times Magazine’s “The 1619 Project,” a major viral multimedia initiative observing the 400th anniversary of the first African slaves arriving in America, Hannah-Jones explores the lasting legacy of black enslavement on the nation—specifically, how black Americans pushed for the democracy we have today.

The 2020-2021 African-American Workshop and Lecture Series presents author and UO leader Kimberly Johnson on the topic, "How Far Do You Have To Go For Justice? Acting beyond the vote," 5:30 - 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021.

The Wayne Morse Center presents Françoise Baylis, 2020-21 Wayne Morse Chair, in the annual Mayne Morse Chair Public Address to be held 1-2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 10. The talk is titled, "Designer Babies: All You Ever Wanted to Know (and More)."

Nine CSWS affiliates are among those who have been selected to be Oregon Humanities Center's 2021-22 Faculty Fellows.

During Winter 2021, UO Common Reading will focus on the "Learn" portion of the theme for the year: Listen. Learn. Act. As part of the program, the UO community has been invited to read Assistant Vice Provost Kimberly Johnson's new book, This is My America.

After 33 years at University of Oregon, psychology professor Jennifer Freyd will be able to retire and keep her pay equity law suit against the university alive. Initially, UO officials said she had to drop her suit in order to accept a retirement incentive package.

UOTeach has announced the schedule for their 2021 Educational Equity and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy TeachIN. Postponed from last March due to the pandemic, this online event features a series of evening workshops during the week of Feb. 22-27, 2021.

Annually, the Oregon UOTeach teacher licensure program collaborates with national scholars of educational equity in teaching and learning to provide ongoing professional development on culturally responsive and culturally sustaining pedagogies.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society (University of Oregon) and the Tanner Humanities Center (University of Utah) present "Black Americans and the Borders of Belonging": A Conversation with Martha S. Jones on February 18 at 11 a.m. PT (Noon MT).

The first episode of CSWS's new Kitchen Table podcast is now available.

The application deadline for all 2021-22 faculty, staff, and graduate research grants is January 29, 2021, by 5 p.m.

CSWS maintains a number of grant programs to support the work on women and gender initiated by University of Oregon faculty, staff, and graduate students. By providing these highly competitive grants and fellowships, CSWS consistently has supported many important research projects at various stages of development and enriched programs in all sectors of the university.

Editor's Note: Study co-author Geraldine Richmond is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

From Around the O — Insufficient interactions with advisers and peers, as well as financial problems, are derailing career aspirations of women and minority groups pursing graduate degrees in the nation’s highest-funded chemistry programs.

The Women of Color Project is launching a Books in Print event series featuring recent monographs by CSWS affiliates.

The first event is a panel discussion of two recent works by Ana-Maurine Lara, assistant professor of anthropology and women's, gender, and sexuality studies, University of Oregon. The event takes place 3-5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, on Zoom. Registration is required for this event (see below).

The 2020-21 CAS Interdisciplinary Research Talk series presents Maria Fernanda Escallón, assistant professor of anthropology, in a talk titled "Cultural Heritage Declarations and The Trap of Exclusion" on Thursday, Feb. 4, 3:30–5:00 p.m. The CAS IR talks are 35-45 minutes followed by a Q&A session. Since teaching and research in the liberal arts is often multidisciplinary and collaborative, the talks are meant to encourage conversation, interest, and understanding across divisional lines in the college.

CSWS affiliate Melissa Graboyes is an associate professor of Medical History and African History in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. In this UO Today interview, Graboyes talks about her experience living in Italy when COVID-19 hit, and shares her perspectives as a public health expert. "It's good the vaccine is not available to the mass public for another few months.

In early January, psychology professor Jennifer Freyd posted the following open letter addressed to the University of Oregon Board of Trustees:

Dear Trustees,

Last week, psychology professor posted the following open letter addressed to the University of Oregon Board of Trustees:

Jennifer Freyd

Dear Trustees,

In December, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) released an in-depth look at the makeup and salaries of full-time faculty members in US higher education. Using data collected by the US Department of Education, this snapshot provides an updated demographic profile of full-time faculty by academic rank and institution type, highlighting disparities among women and people of color.

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Interview by Ulrick Casimir, Department of English

Kemi Balogun

The Office of the Provost has selected 15 faculty members as the 2020-21 Fund for Faculty Excellence recipients.

From Around the O — The University of Oregon’s Deconstructing Whiteness Working Group has partnered with the Accessible Education Center to offer faculty members an opportunity to participate in a book club focused on the intersections of disability and other marginalized identities.

From Around the O — The University of Oregon’s Deconstructing Whiteness Working Group has partnered with the Accessible Education Center to offer faculty members an opportunity to participate in a book club focused on the intersections of disability and other marginalized identities.