Affiliate news

Affiliates win 2025 UO Distinguished Teaching Awards

Adapted from Oregon News.

Four CSWS affiliates — Lana Lopesi, Adell Amos, Corrine Bayerl, and Amanda Wojick — have been selected to win this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, which recognize exceptional teaching at the University of Oregon. 

2025-26 CSWS research grant awards announced

The Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) is pleased to announce funding awards for AY 2025-26 totaling $80,000 for scholarship, research, and creative work on women and gender at the University of Oregon. A total of 17 grants were given to 12 graduate students and four faculty members.

Back at the UO, Geri Richmond looks back on her federal service

Story by Matt Cooper. Photo by Nicolas Walcott. Published April 9, 2025 in OregonNews. Geri Richmond is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

After serving four years as undersecretary for science and innovation at the U.S. Department of Energy, chemistry professor Geraldine “Geri” Richmond is back at the University of Oregon’s Eugene campus.

Julie Weise receives NEH grant

CSWS research fellow Julie Weise, associate professor of history, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. Her project "Guest Worker: Lives across Borders in an Age of Prosperity, 1919-75" examines the experiences of guest workers in the middle of the twentieth century, focused on three cases—Mexicans in the U.S., Spaniards in France, and Malawians in South Africa. 

Weaver receives OVPRI award for houselessness study

CSWS affiliate Jo Weaver from the Department of Global Studies has received a 2023 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives (I3) award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI). Weaver is an associate professor and director of the Global Heath Program.