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2020-21 academic year at University of Oregon was like no other. With campus shut down due to COVID-19, faculty, staff, and students with families juggled caregiving responsibilities alongside working from home. With travel curtailed or impossible, researchers postponed or changed their projects to suit our new pandemic reality. The 2021 [embeddoc url="https://wordpress-2-csws.ddev.site:8443/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2021_CSWS_Annual-Rvw_FINAL_WEB.pdf" download="all" viewer="google"] reflects these changed conditions and the impacts they have had on the life of our community.

As the 2022-23 grant funding cycle rapidly approaches, CSWS will be hosting information sessions and a grant writing workshop to support graduate students and faculty through the funding application process. University of Oregon graduate students can apply for up to $3,000 and faculty/staff can apply for up to $6,000 to support research and/or creative work on women and gender from a range of disciplines.

Courtney Thorsson, associate professor of English, has been named a Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellow in the Liberal Arts for 2021-2023. The Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellows are awarded by the Collage of Arts and Sciences on the basis of their demonstrated excellence in teaching and their capacity for superior scholarship.

Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun, associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies, has won the 2021 Aidoo-Snyder Prize for best scholarly work from the African Studies Association Women's Caucus for her first book, Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation.

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From Around-the-O: The blood supply in the Eugene/Springfield area is critically low, and UO community members can help out by donating blood at an upcoming campus event.

Bloodworks, which provides blood to all area hospitals, will be on campus Oct. 19 to accept donations. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the basement of Gerlinger Annex.

This academic year, the Inclusive Pedagogies RIG will be reading about and discussing what it means to be an antiracist teacher.

Lynn Stephen, professor of anthropology, has a new book coming in October, Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas.

For three decades, CSWS Research Interest Groups (RIGs) have fostered collaborations among faculty members, staff, graduate students, and community members at the University of Oregon. A primary goal of our RIGs is to bring people together for a shared project, idea, or vision around CSWS’s mission: to generate, support, and publicize research on the complexity of women’s lives and the intersecting nature of gender identities and inequalities.

CSWS is thrilled to extend congratulations to those members of the community who have received tenure and promotion, and especially to faculty in our CSWS community:

Three outstanding CSWS affiliates have been selected to receive the prestigious 2021-2022 Fund for Faculty Excellence Award. Tannaz Farsi, professor of art; Joseph Lowndes, professor of political science; and C.J. Pascoe, associate professor of sociology were among the 20 tenured faculty selected for the honor.

Psychology professor Dare Baldwin was one of four faculty members honored by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement for excellence in mentoring students as they ask questions and seek answers.

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL THE CURRENT COVID WAVE HAS DECLINED. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Mark you calendars for the 2021 New Women Faculty Welcome, to be held Wednesday, Oct. 6, 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Ford Lecture Hall and North Courtyard of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. This annual event is sponsored by CSWS and the Office of the Provost.

Lara Bovilsky, associate professor of English, has a edited a new edition of John Webster's 1612 play, The White Devil (Methuen Drama/Bloomsbury).

After more than four years of litigation, Jennifer Freyd and the University of Oregon announced on Friday that they have settled the psychology professor's pay equity lawsuit.

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Bryna Goodman, professor of history, has a new book out at Harvard University Press, The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic.

Episode 3 of Kitchen Table, a feminist podcast that aims to nourish the soul in troubled times, is now available.

From Around the O—When it comes to women entrepreneurs and innovators, the numbers speak for themselves and the story they tell is not always an encouraging one.

Philosophy professor Erin McKenna has a new book out, Living with Animals: Rights, Responsibilities, and Respect.

Carol Siverman has a new book out in Bloomsbury's Global 33-1/3 series, Ivo Papzov’s Balkanology.

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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.

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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.