CSWS Annual Review

Margaret Hallock spoke from the audience at the opening ceremony of the CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration in November 2013 / photo by Jack Liu.

A Fruitful Collaboration

by Margaret Hallock, Director, Wayne Morse Center

The Center for the Study of Women in Society has been a big part of my career at the University of Oregon. I had the honor and pleasure of working with nearly all of the center’s directors—Joan Acker, Cheris Kramarae, Sandra Morgen, and Carol Stabile in particular. 

Gabriela Martínez talks about the making of the documentary Agents of Change at the opening ceremony of the CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration in November 2013 / photo by Jack Liu.

Retrospective

by Gabriela Martínez, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication

I am honored to have served as the associate director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society for the past three years (2012-2015). CSWS has been, for me, one of the most intellectually nurturing places on campus, a place where I was allowed to explore and learn about the significance and complexities of running a research center at a university. 

Students, faculty, and staff jammed the lobby of Johnson Hall and spilled onto the front steps to protest reporting on sexual assault allegations / May 2014.

Facing Up to Institutional Betrayal

by Michael Hames-García, CSWS Director 2014-15, Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies

I am sitting in my therapist’s office. Long after my first women’s studies course, after learning the basic tenets of feminist critique, I hear myself say the words, “I mean, I really shouldn’t have had so much to drink. I should have known better than to get into his car. It was partly my fault for being so stupid.” She interrupts me: “It wasn’t your fault, Michael.” The exchange is so clichéd. Bad dialogue from an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

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