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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).

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.

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.

From Around the O — The University of Oregon’s Deconstructing Whiteness Working Group has partnered with the Accessible Education Center to offer faculty members an opportunity to participate in a book club focused on the intersections of disability and other marginalized identities. 

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. 

From Around the O, Sept. 21, 2020:  

CSWS faculty affiliate Tara Fickle, associate professor of English, has been named a 2020 American Book Award winner for her first book, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (New York University Press).

Aug. 13, 2020 — UO Provost Patrick Phillips and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, vice president for the Division of Equity and Inclusion, announced yesterday several new measures that address faculty concerns during the pandemic including caregiver support; service and time limitations; impacts on promotion and tenure; equity, anti-racism, and faculty support; and access to campus spaces.

The Eugene Register-Guard today published an op-ed piece by the leaders of the CSWS Campaign for Caregivers. Please click here to read the full article and share widely!

Recently, CSWS sent an urgent request to University of Oregon leadership asking for action to alleviate labor inequities for faculty, staff, and GEs that have arisen from the coronavirus pandemic.

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:

The CSWS Advisory Board has approved a new Graduate Writing Fellowship for doctoral students who are in the early stages of dissertation writing. The intent of the fellowship is to provide a summer writing stipend to top finalists for the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship.

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

Great research is not limited to eureka moments, and inspiring such research isn’t done only by scientists in a laboratory. That’s clearly demonstrated by three faculty members who received the CURE Faculty Research Mentor Award.

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.

University of Oregon psychology professor Jennifer Freyd has launched a new research and educational organization dedicated to institutional transparency and equity. The non-profit organization is called the Center for Institutional Courage.

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

Each issue features a selection of new books by faculty who research women and gender. We are especially interested in books by those who have received CSWS research grants to support their research.

Professor Bryna Goodman, history, has been awarded a residential fellowship grant from the National Humanities Center (NHC) in North Carolina for her book project, Finance and Fortune: Economics, Calculation, and the Fate of the Chinese Republic.

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.