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Pictured from left, panelists Sangita Gopal, Michael Hames Garcia, Michelle McKinley, Vickie DeRose, Ernesto Martinez, Ellen Herman, Margaret Hallock, Priscilla Ovalle, Tannaz Farsi, and Marilyn R. Farwell discuss what over time has shaped the identity of CSWS as a feminist research center.

Past Lessons, Future Visions: CSWS 50th Anniversary Alumni Symposium

by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English

On May 10, 2024, three panels of faculty affiliates, former grant fellows, and friends of the Center for the Study of Women in Society participated in our 50th Anniversary Alumni Symposium.

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Jenée Wilde

Publication Year

2024

Publication type

Annual Review

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Apr 30

CSWS Noon Talk: Sammy Plezia

“‘Girls should be like this’: Impacts of Beauty Standards on Adolescent Girls in Goa, India” — Body dissatisfaction is a well-established risk factor for eating disorders, depression, and substance use, especially during adolescence. Body dissatisfaction is unusually prevalent among Indian adolescent girls—a high concern considering India is home to one-fifth of the world’s adolescent population (25 years or younger). Yet what we currently know about body dissatisfaction in India mainly comes from research with adults in urban areas using quantitative methods.

Apr 30 - 12:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

May 21

CSWS Noon Talk: Gretchen Nihill

Save the date! CSWS research fellow Gretchen Nihill discusses her project, "Compounding Safety Cues for Women of Color." Nihill is a psychology doctoral student at the University of Oregon.

12–1 p.m. Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | 330 Hendricks Hall | 1408 University Street, Eugene

May 21 - 12:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

May 30

CSWS Noon Talk: Yuan Fang

Save the date! CSWS research fellow Yuan Fang discusses her project, "Bronze Mirrors: Serving the Beautiful or the Powerful? Viewing Bronze Mirrors in Ancient China from a Gender Archaeology Perspective." Fang is an anthropology graduate student at the University of Oregon.

12–1 p.m. Friday, May 30, 2025 | 330 Hendricks Hall | 1408 University Street, Eugene

May 30 - 12:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

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Apr 14, 2025

Susan Sokolowski named a 2025 Women of the Year

Story by Capi Lynn. Photo by Kevin Neri. Published Feb. 27, 2025 by the Salem Statesman Journal. Sokolowski is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Susan Sokolowski remembers the ill-fitting uniforms when she played youth and high school soccer as a Title IX athlete in New York state.

Apr 14, 2025

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.

Apr 4, 2025

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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Past Lessons, Future Visions: CSWS 50th Anniversary Alumni Symposium

CSWS Noon Talk: Sammy Plezia

CSWS Noon Talk: Gretchen Nihill

CSWS Noon Talk: Yuan Fang

Susan Sokolowski named a 2025 Women of the Year

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

Faith Barter explores antebellum Black authorship in new book