CSWS faculty affiliate and assistant professor Courtney Cox, Department of Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, is profiled in the current issue of Oregon Quarterly.

A recent survey shows UO faculty and staff who care for children, elders, and other dependents are very concerned about available caregiving support for the upcoming academic year during the COVID-19 crisis.

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

By Michelle McKinley, CSWS Director

A recent article by CSWS affiliate Sarah Stapleton, assistant professor of education studies, profiles a local group of Eugene women who have been activists for school food for many years and finally saw major success, yet didn’t receive any credit. Stapleton's article redresses that through a gendered analysis of their story and struggles.

How are immigrant-rights organizations in Oregon responding to the public health crisis around COVID-19?

Editor's note: See comments below for responses to this open letter. Click here for information and updates on the Caregiver Campaign.

Dear Colleagues:

Editor's Note: This article was published in Around the O on June 5, 2020. Yvonne Braun and Judith Raiskin are CSWS faculty affiliates.

Three years ago, professor Jennifer Freyd sued the University of Oregon for violating federal law by paying her less than her male colleagues in the Psychology Department. In May 2019, a federal judge granted the University’s request to dismiss the case without trial.

How has the COVID-19 crisis impacted research productivity?

CSWS congratulates three faculty affiliates who have won the UO’s prestigious Distinguished Teaching Awards. The awards are presented every spring to faculty members who are nominated by the campus community based on their demonstration of exceptional teaching that is inclusive, engaged and research-led.

On April 22, the Caribbean Women Healers: Decolonizing Knowledge in AfroIndigenous Traditions Digital Humanities Project launched the first phase of their website to an enthusiastic online audience. The project's social media reached around 5,000 people in one day and RSVPs to the Zoom launched after only five days of publicity were in the hundreds and from all over the world, exceeding all expectations.

CSWS is now collecting materials for our 2020 edition of the Annual Review.

Editor's Note: This article was originally published April 24, 2020, in Around the O. Karen Guillemin is a CSWS Faculty Affiliate.

Editor's Note: This story was originally published April 20, 2020 in Around the O. Lynn Stephen and Gabriela Martínez are CSWS Faculty Affiliates.

“Rich and crazy” is how Sergio B. Sanchez describes the street art he observed growing up in his Chicano community of Santa Ana, California.

NOTE: This story was originally published April 20, 2020, in Around the O. CSWS congratulates awardees who are also our Faculty Affiliates and/or Research Grant recipients!

UO researchers and scholars examining everything from international indigenous activism to creative aging to the creation of original electroacoustic music have received 2020 Faculty Research Awards.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) is pleased to announce awards of more than $86,000 for scholarship, research, and creative work on women and gender for AY 2020-21.

How do you get information about CSWS news and events? What changes would make the website more useful to you?

After a three-year hiatus, Research Matters is back in print with a fresh approach to the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s mission to create, fund, share, and support research on gender.

Rather than sharing the end results CSWS faculty affiliate research, the new issue aims to support faculty and graduate students at the beginning of their projects by looking into the challenges and opportunities of “Diving into Big Data.”

CSWS offers small grants to faculty and graduate students to organize interdisciplinary Research Interest Groups (RIGs) and working groups that explore and examine the complex nature of gender identities and inequalities for the academic year.

Editor’s note: To celebrate Women’s History Month, Around the O is celebrating 10 extraordinary UO faculty members including Adell Amos, Clayton R. Hess Professor of Law. See the full article here. Amos is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Editor's note: To celebrate Women's History Month, Around the O is celebrating 10 extraordinary UO faculty members including political science professor Erin Beck. See the full article here. Beck is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Julie Wise is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in Around the O. Leah Lowthorp is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

A University of Oregon cultural anthropologist is among a 21-member group of international researchers and public-interest advocates who have published a strong, cautionary statement about the use of genome editing in human embryos.

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Geri Richmond is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Geri Richmond is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Ellen Peters is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

NOTE: This event was reschedule due to COVID.

 “Masculinity and Capitalism: A Brief History of the
Rise and Fall of a Foundational Relationship”
Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley

Note: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.

Note: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.

Queer Studies Lecture

“Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance”