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CSWS faculty affiliates Erin Beck, associate professor of political science, and Theresa May, professor of theatre arts, have received 2021 Distinguished Teaching Awards—UO's highest teaching honor. The Office of the Provost selected a total of six outstanding faculty members to receive the prestigious awards.

From Around the O —

Seven CSWS faculty affiliates have been awarded the Presidential Fellowships in Humanistic Studies for their contributions to the arts and humanities. A total of 16 UO faculty members were honored as “highly productive or highly promising tenure-track faculty working in humanistic areas.”

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the College of Arts and Sciences recognized and celebrated both the 2020 and 2021 fellows together.

Affiliates who won the 2021 Presidential Fellowships in Humanistic Studies include:

Assistant professor Ana-Maurine Lara, women's, gender, and sexuality studies, has received the 2021 Early Career Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. The award is UO’s highest honor to recognize and celebrate an emerging and significant record of scholarship and research on our campus.

The VPRI website provides the following details on Lara and the award:

A new book by CSWS faculty affiliate Alisa Freedman, professor of Japanese literature, cultural studies, and gender, will be published by the Association for Asian Studies/Columbia University Press between June and September 2021. Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Form Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost explores issues of gender in Japanese popular culture in the United States, especially Chapter 6 on Marie Kondo and Queer Eye. The cover was designed by UO student William Bolls.

Around The O has published an in-depth feature story, "Roots of Wellness," on the Caribbean Women Healers project—the brainchild of CSWS affiliates Ana-Maurine Lara, assistant professor of anthropology, and Alaí Reyes-Santos, associate professor of Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies.

Editor's note: Alison Gash and Maile Hutterer are CSWS faculty affiliates.

From Around the O, May 10, 2021 — Four UO faculty members will serve as the inaugural participants for teaching, mentorship and leadership positions in the new Provost Fellows Program.

The Institute for Citizens & Scholars has named Assistant Professor Isabel Millán, women's, gender, and sexuality studies, as one of 39 Career Enhancement Fellows for the 2021–22 academic year.

The Career Enhancement Fellowship, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Citizens & Scholars, seeks to increase the presence of underrepresented junior and other faculty members in the humanities, social sciences, and arts by creating career development opportunities for selected Fellows with promising research projects.

CSWS affiliate Judith Raiskin, associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and UO Libraries special collections librarian Linda Long have received the 2021 Oregon Heritage Excellence Award for the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project. The oral history project documents and preserves the contributions of the Eugene lesbian community to Oregon’s enduring cultural, political, and social innovations.

Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards recognize action taken to preserve and share Oregon’s heritage over and above the call of duty.

The CSWS Women of Color Project presents a discussion of The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (NYU Press, 2019) by Tara Fickle, 3-5 p.m. Friday, May 7, 2021.

What does it mean to “decolonize” teaching and scholarship? Why would we want to do that? And how? The hosts of the Speaking of Race podcast take on these questions and more in a panel discussion with social scientists and established scholars of race Lance Gravlee, John L.

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.