Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture, by Annelise Heinz (Oxford University Press, 2020, 360 pages)
From the publisher—How has a game brought together Americans and defined separate ethnic communities? This book tells the first history of mahjong and its meaning in American culture.
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.
From Around the O—Geraldine Richmond, the UO’s Presidential Chair in Science and a much-honored professor of chemistry, has been nominated to serve in the Biden administration as undersecretary for science in the Department of Energy.
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. Jackson Jr., Stephanie McClure, and Yolanda Moses.
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.
Sabzalian is an assistant professor of Indigenous Studies in Education and co-director of the Sapsik’wałá (Teacher) Education Program at University of Oregon. Her book uses story telling to document the ways colonialism continues to shape educational policy and practice, and foster educators’ anticolonial literacy and commitment to supporting Indigenous students in public schools.
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.
CSWS affiliate and professor of anthropology Lynn Stephen has published a new book, Indigenous Women and Violence: Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice (University of Arizona Press, 2021, 280 pages). The volume is co-edited with UCLA gender studies and anthropology professor Shannon Speed. Here is the publisher's description:
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.
Among OHC's research grant recipients is CSWS Director Michelle McKinley, Law, who received the Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship for “Bound Biographies: Transoceanic Itineraries and the Afro-Iberian Diaspora in the Early Modern World.” Additional members of our community who received OHC Research Fellowships include:
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).
Professor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and a Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy.
The first episode of CSWS's new Kitchen Table podcast is now available.
Over the summer, CSWS began work on a new podcast series called Kitchen Table, hosted by CSWS Director Michelle McKinley and Shoniqua Roach, assistant professor of African and African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University. The podcast is intended as an alternative to in-person events, which are not possible during pandemic conditions.
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.
Editor's note: Several CSWS faculty affiliates are involved in the new institute, including Laura Pulido, Alaí Reyes-Santos, Franny Gaede, Ana-Maurine Lara, and Marsha Weisiger.
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.
