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.

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

A teach-in and poetry slam on the UO campus

CLLAS Teach-In: Language and Poetry as Resistance, October 9, 10am-11am, Knight Library Browsing Room

CLLAS Latinx Heritage Month Poetry Slam by Melissa Lozada-Oliva, October 9, 4pm-5pm, 240C McKenzie Hall

253 Straub Hall

“Making a Case for Ecofeminist Theology in Islam:
The Process and Application of Synthesizing Islam Feminist Longings and Ecological Concerns”

by Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad

OHC Conference Room, 159 PLC

2019-20 Faculty Research Fellow
Sangita Gopal, Cinema Studies

“Coalition as Possession: Gender, Ecology, and the
Indian New Wave Cinema”

https://provost.uoregon.edu/2019-distinguished-teaching-awards#michelle-mckinley

Thomas F. Herman Award for Specialized Pedagogy in Undergraduate Legal Studies

Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)

Joseph E. Lowndes is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon.

A committee of feminist faculty members unanimously selected Celeste Reeb as the recipient of the 2019-20 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, awarded annually by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society to support a PhD candidate already advanced to candidacy in writing their dissertation on women and gender.