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CSWS Kitchen Table podcast now available

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.

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CSWS funding applications due Jan. 29

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.

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Study finds obstacles for women and minorities in chemistry

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.

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WOC launches Books in Print events on Jan. 29

The Women of Color Project is launching a Books in Print event series featuring recent monographs by CSWS affiliates. The first event is a panel discussion of two recent works by Ana-Maurine Lara, assistant professor of anthropology and women's, gender, and sexuality studies, University of Oregon. In addition to Lara, guest panelists include: Professor Vanessa K. Valdés, Black Studies, CUNY, and series editor, Afro-Latinx Futures, SUNY University Press; and Professor Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Modern Languages, University of Miami, and series editor, Critical Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University Press; moderated by Associate Professor Alaí Reyes-Santos, Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon.

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Escallón to present CAS Interdisciplinary Research Talk on Feb. 3

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.

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Melissa Graboyes discusses life in Italy during its coronavirus peak

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.

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Wheeler receives CHOICE award for book

Professor of English and CSWS affiliate Betsy Wheeler, author of Handiland: The Crippest Place on Earth (2019, University of Michigan Press) has been selected for a Choice Outstanding Academic Title honor by the American Library Association.
 
This honor is awarded to "outstanding works for their excellence in presentation and scholarship, the significance of their contribution to the field, their originality and value as an essential treatment of their subject, and significance in building undergraduate collections." Additionally, the CHOICE review for

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AAUP report shows challenges faced by women in academia

In December, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) released an in-depth look at the makeup and salaries of full-time faculty members in US higher education. Using data collected by the US Department of Education, this snapshot provides an updated demographic profile of full-time faculty by academic rank and institution type, highlighting disparities among women and people of color.

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Fund for Faculty Excellence recipients announced

The Office of the Provost has selected 15 faculty members as the 2020-21 Fund for Faculty Excellence recipients. This year's winners include CSWS affiliates Associate Professor Kemi Balogun, sociology and women’s, gender and sexuality studies, and Professor Bryna Goodman, history.

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Book club focused on disability justice seeks faculty members

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. 

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CSWS Kitchen Table podcast coming soon

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. 

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Ana Lara wins Ruth Benedict Prize

Assistant Professor Ana-Maurine Lara, women's, gender, and sexuality studies, has been awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize of the Association for Queer Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association for her book Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty (SUNY Press 2020), out this month. Congratulations to Ana!

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NYT interviews Escallón about pandemic's effects on female faculty

Maria Fernanda Escallón, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and mother to a 3-year-old daughter, is featured in an Oct. 6 New York Times story about how the pandemic is impacting women in academia who already faced obstacles on the path to advancing their research and careers.

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Caregiver networks available to UO community members

From Around the O, Sept. 21, 2020:  

The University of Oregon has launched two new caregiving resources, Care Provider Network and Shared Care Network, exclusively for the UO community to help faculty members, staff and students meet caregiving needs while balancing school and work responsibilities.

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Tara Fickle Wins American Book Award

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).

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CoDaC Writing Circles Return in Fall

CoDaC is ready to support your research, writing, and sense of faculty community and support as we begin Fall Term. The center has a robust schedule of Faculty Writing Circles set to start in Week 1 of Fall term. 
Nine writing times are available, including Parent/Caretaker circles designed to meet the needs of those of you with parenting and/or caretaking responsibilities. Parents and caretakers are welcome and present in all of our circles and will find supportive colleagues.

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Black studies minor launched at UO

It’s been a long time coming, but UO students can now minor in Black studies. The university finalized the new minor, which has been in development for more than two years, last spring. However, its roots extend to 1968, when members of the Black Student Union protested and asked for programs recognizing their needs. That effort finally gained traction in 2015, when members of the Black Student Task Force rallied on the steps of Johnson Hall with a list of 12 demands that included a Black studies program.

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Provost, DEI respond to caregiver concerns

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.

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New UO COVID-19 Relief Fund includes support for caregivers

July 28, 2020 — The University of Oregon announced today a new Relief Fund to support employees facing financial hardships during the pandemic. According to a UO Human Resources webpage, the emergency financial assistance is intended to provide aid with specific needs related to the COVID-19 crisis.

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CSWS launches the Campaign for Caregivers

"Our campaign makes visible and legitimate costs and responsibilities of caregiving that are viewed as private and extrinsic to the academic mission of the University of Oregon. We cannot and should not make decisions about teaching, research, and service based on a model of a celibate, nonreproductive man sequestered in an ivory tower. We have to look at our colleagues in their labs, their classrooms, and their communities and distribute our responsibilities with equity and dignity. I invite all of you to look at these six strategies in the Campaign for Caregivers in that spirit."

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Braun and Raiskin earn mentorship awards for work with students

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.

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Research productivity and gender in the time of COVID

A recent story in The Guardian explores how female academics are struggling to keep up with teaching and care-giving responsibilities during lockdown. According to the report, women in higher education say that prioritizing their students' and family's needs during this crisis has meant allowing research projects, article submissions, and funding proposals to fall by the wayside.

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Freyd launches the Center for Institutional Courage

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.

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Goodman receives NHC fellowship

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.

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UO Research Awards go to 23 faculty scholars

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.

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CSWS announces research grant awardees for AY 2020-21

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.

A total of 22 grants were awarded to 12 graduate students, seven tenure-track faculty members, and one career faculty member. Moreover, given the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the Center is extending flexibility in the grant funding period so that researchers may conduct their project fieldwork and travel when conditions permit.

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