Interviewed by Alice Evans, CSWS Managing Editor; Gabriela Martínez, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication; and Dena Zaldúa Frazier, CSWS Operations Manager
by Michelle McKinley, Director, CSWS, and Dena Zaldúa Frazier, Operations Manager, CSWS
What a year…in many ways for CSWS and for the UO campus community as a whole, this past year was the best of times and the worst of times.
Coauthored by Kenneth Surles, Anniston Ward, and Ryan Murphy
Commentary presented by Miriam Gershow, Novelist & Associate Director of Composition, Department of English
I come to The Moor’s Account as a novelist, so my expertise is in fiction writing. What I’m most interested in is the part of the story that was not shaped by the historical record but instead came straight from Laila Lalami’s imagination—Mustafa’s back story and characterization, and how it undergirds the larger structure of the book. In this scene, we have the start of a series of choices that will lead to Mustafa’s slavery. We have a character who turns away from family and tradition and spirituality.
Reported by Alice Evans
by Katie Warden, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology
by Amanda Morris, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Physiology
At conferences, I am often asked, “Why are you interested in studying older adults?” My answer is simple; I believe aging is the future.
by Alia Yasen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Human Physiology
By Margaret Bostrom, PhD candidate, Department of English
by Lacey M. Guest, Master’s Student, Department of History, and Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
