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Assistant professor Maria Fernanda Escallón, anthropology, was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to complete her book project Excluded: Black Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Diversity in Colombia.

CSWS faculty affiliate Marie Vitulli flew solo during her 35 years as the only female research mathematician at the University of Oregon. Last month she became the ninth UO faculty member to be named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Faculty and staff are invited to add their signatures to an open letter in support of psychology professor Jennifer Freyd's pay equity complaint against the University of Oregon.

Professor Dare Baldwin, Department of Psychology and Clark Honors College, posted the letter as a petition on change.org. “We are hoping to garner a groundswell of support within UO and across the county,” she said.

October 31, 2019—Professor and CSWS faculty affiliate Kate Mondloch of the UO College of Design has been named interim dean and vice provost of the Graduate School. Currently, Mondloch is head of the College of Design’s history of art and architecture department. She has been at the UO since 2005.

A recent podcast highlights the research of Diana Garvin, Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Romance Languages at the UO.

2019 CSWS Annual Review
see also: https://issuu.com/csws/docs/2019_csws_annual_review

Editor’s Note: Several faculty who are CSWS faculty affiliate and / or whose research has been supported previously by CSWS are among those selected for Resiliance Initiative seed funding. They are Alai Reyes-Santos, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; Kari Norgaard, Department of Sociology; and Yizhao Yang, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management.

Source: AAUP Supports University of Oregon Faculty Member's Claims Of Gender-Based Pay Disparity | AAUP

Freyd v. University of Oregon, No. 19-35428 (9th Cir. 2019)(appeal pending)

Celeste Reeb, a PhD candidate in the Department of English and the 2019-20 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship awardee, published an article related to her dissertation research in the summer issue of Disability Studies Quarterly.

A request from Equal Rights Advocates and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein.

Tatiana Bryant, then at UO Libraries, received a 2017-18 CSWS Faculty Grant Award as well as a CSWS Travel grant in support of research for the project “Gender Performance and Identity in Librarianship.”

She recently coauthored an article that is the first in a series based on the study this grant supported. Bryant is now an assistant professor, University Libraries, at Adelphi University.

Ford Lecture Hall
JSMA
UO campus

Lorwin Lectureship Series

August 16, 2019—CSWS faculty affiliates Erin Beck, associate professor, political science; Sharon Luk, associate professor, ethnic studies; and Kate Mondloch, professor, art history, are among the first ten recipients of the UO’s Presidential Fellows in Humanistic Studies awards. Each recipient will receive $13,000 to support research and creative projects.

Editor’s Note: Ernesto Martínez is a member of the CSWS Advisory Board. His creative work has been supported in part through CSWS Faculty Research Grants and CSWS Special Project funding.

Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St., UO camp

Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium

Lecture:  “Witnessing Violence in These Migratory Times”

Ford Lecture Hall, JSMA

Lorwin Lectureship Series

Applications for Academic Year 2020-21 research grants, including the prestigious Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, are due Jan. 27, 2020.

On Wednesday, Feb. 5, Jane Junn, University of Southern California, will be giving a talk on "Women Voters: Race, Gender, and Dynamism in U.S. Presidential Elections" from 6:30–8 p.m. in the William W. Knight Law Center, Room 175, 1515 Agate Street, Eugene.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society invites applications for grants that provide partial support for travel expenses for University of Oregon graduate students for a presentation at a conference or a workshop related to women and gender.

330 Hendricks Hall
Jane Grant Conference Rm
1408 University St.

Join CSWS Director Michelle McKinley as she discusses the grant application process for CSWS faculty and graduate student research grants, including the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship.

University of Oregon faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to attend an information session about research grants and fellowships available from the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Noon talk, Jane Grant Room, Hendricks 330
Celeste Reeb, English, 2019-20 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow

Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St., UO campus

Lorwin Lectureship Series 

“Finding ‘Light born in darkness:’ The Urgency of Feminist Activism in These Times”

Ernesto Martínez’s short film, La Serenata, is a finalist in the Imagen Foundation Short Film and Web Series Awards.

You can support this film by voting below and inviting friends and family to vote as well (one vote per 24 hours). You could also watch the film at this site: https://www.imagen.org/vote/short-films/

Editor’s Note: Congratulations to CSWS faculty affiliates Krista Chronister, Ellen Hawley McWhirter, and Linda Forrest.

From Around the O, Aug. 22 – Krista Chronister, Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Linda Forrest have been recognized by the American Psychological Association.

Erb Memorial Union EMU 230, Swindells Room

Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium

Speaker: Renisa Mawani, Professor, Sociology Chair, Law and Society Minor Program, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia

Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall
1468 University Street, UO campus

Hendricks Hall 330
Jane Grant Conference Room
UO campus

CSWS Noon Talk
Subject: Women’s Mosque Movement of the 21st Century
Speaker: Dr. Irum Shiekh, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

Congratulations to all faculty, and especially to our CSWS faculty affiliates and WOC affiliates who received promotions, with several earning tenure. They include:

Gerlinger Lounge, 1468 University St.

Lorwin Lectureship Series

Caroline Forell, Professor Emerita, UO School of Law, received the 2019 UO Law School Meritorious Service Award at law school graduation. 

Knight Library
Browsing Room

https://around.uoregon.edu/content/faculty-books-be-featured-uo-authors-book-talks-series

Around the O, October 17, 2019—Kristin Yarris will be the first faculty member featured in the inaugural “UO Authors, Book Talks” series that begins next month.

CSWS and the Women of Color Project joined the Department of Ethnic Studies in celebrating Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics, a new anthology edited by Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan. The panel discussion and book celebration took place May 22, 2019, in the Alder Building Conference Room near the UO campus.

Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus

Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium

“The When and Where of Our Talk:
The Shoals of Black and Native Feminisms”
Tiffany Lethabo King, Georgia State University