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CSWS Congratulates 2026–27 Research Award Winners
The Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) awarded $94,000 for scholarship, research, and creative work on women and gender at the University of Oregon for AY 2026–27. A total of 20 grants and fellowships were given to 16 graduate students and four faculty members.
RIG info session set for April 8
Graduate students and faculty are invited to apply for up to $1,000 in funding to organize CSWS Research Interest Groups (RIGs) for the 2026-27 academic year. An info session for prospective and returning RIG applicants will be held 4–5 p.m. Wednesday, April 8 in the CSWS Acker Room (340A Hendricks Hall).
2025 Annual Review
- A Year in Review by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
- Encountering Women's History in a CSWS Calderwood Seminar by Jenée Wilde, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of English
- Personal Stories Inspire Summer Undergraduate Research Projects by Jenée Wilde, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of English
- Multimedia Spotlight
- Gender as Target: US 2024 Elections and Aftermath reflections by Sofia Vicente–Vidal, Liesl Cohn De León, and Vasil A. Arangelov
Burkert's London Stage Datatbase project featured in CAS Connection
Excerpted from June 9 CAS Connection, story by Jenny Brooks — Going to the theater in London in the 18th century was a good time—and a transformative time. Playhouses across the city were bursting with activity as crowd-pleasing favorites from the heyday of Shakespeare mixed with slapstick entertainments and boundary-pushing artistic experimentation. These shows drew lively, often raucous audiences from a mix of social and economic classes that seldom crossed paths elsewhere.
New CSWS fellowship offers a course release for research on gender
For AY 2026-27, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) is launching a new research fellowship that provides University of Oregon faculty with one course release for a term of reduced or no teaching to pursue work on any aspect of the study of women and/or gender.
Guillemin named as 'Emerging Inventor'
From Oregon News — CSWS affiliate Karen Guillemin, Biology, has been named to the National Academy of Inventors, a designation that recognizes visionaries and innovators whose technologies brought, or aspire to bring, a real impact on society.
Faith Barter explores antebellum Black authorship in new book
A new book by CSWS affiliate Faith Barter, assistant professor of English at the UO, explores Black writers as architects of legal possibility in the antebellum South. Her book, Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (2025) was published by University of North Carolina Press. She received a 2019-20 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for this project.
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Oct. 18 talk to explore a decolonial reading of Antigonas
Yale Professor Moira Fradinger will be presenting "A Decolonial Reading: The Case of Latin American Antígonas" on Friday, October 18, 2024. The event will be held 3–5 p.m. in 182 Lillis Hall, 955 E 13th Ave, University of Oregon.
2024 Annual Review
- Anita Hill: Reflections on the 2024 Lorwin Lecture
- A Message from the CSWS Director by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
- Feminist Futures: Moments from the CSWS 50th Anniversary by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
- Past Lessons, Future Visions: CSWS Alumni Symposium by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
- Q&A: Bryant Taylor by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English