The Alaska Mental Health Act: Tracing the Development of Public Health and the Nation-State
by Kristin Yarris, Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies
CSWS Annual Review
Reflections on Gender, Power, and Grief: The 2019-2020 Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Introduction by CSWS Director and Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law Michelle McKinley, School of Law
Writing A Death in Harlem: A Conversation with Karla FC Holloway
Interview by Ulrick Casimir, Career Instructor, Department of English
Nella Larsen’s classic novel Passing (1929) features one hell of an ending. We know that one of its main characters, Clare Kendry, lies dead after falling from a window, but we don’t know whether she was pushed by her friend Irene Redfield or simply slipped and fell. We know what may have led Irene to do what she may or may not have done, but we don’t know whether the betrayal Irene suspects, between her husband and Clare, even occurred. We know the broad strokes and terminus of the connection between these two women—but the novel ends without the hinted-at intimate dimensions of their relationship ever finding air.
“She Was a Terrific Advocate”: Joan Acker Inspired Alumnus’ Career and Lifelong Connection to CSWS
by Jenée Wilde, Dissemination Specialist, CSWS , Senior Instructor, Department of English
Thomas Beaumont (Class of ’69) first met Professor Joan Acker as an undergraduate sociology and social welfare student at University of Oregon.
Supporting Women of Color at UO: A Look into the Center's Long-Running Faculty Mentorship Program
by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
The Women of Color (WOC) Project has been a special project under the auspices of CSWS since 2005. The program is comprised of tenure-track women faculty, and our collective has approximately 50 participants, of whom about 30 are active constituents. We represent all the colleges and schools within the UO.
2019-2020 Year in Review: A Letter from the Director
Dear Friends,
The year in review feature is generally an easy column for the Director to write. As the title suggests, I look back with a sense of pride and satisfaction at a year of successful events, celebrate our guest speakers who sparked insightful conversations, and chronicle our community-building activities that strengthened our bonds as feminist scholars on campus. This year suspends all expectations. I even tried to find a "natural" point of pause to begin this retrospective. There simply wasn't an end to the daily onslaught of misery in these times.
Urgent Pauses: A Reflection on My Renewed Commitment to Rigorous Research
By Katherine M. Huber , PhD Candidate, Department of English
El Noa Noa: Strategies of Love and Care at the U.S.–México Border
by Polet Campos-Melchor , PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
“Soy mujer, latina e inmigrante”: An Intersectional Study of Linguistic Capital among Latina Women Immigrants in Oregon
by Lara Boyero Agudo , PhD Candidate, Department of Romance Languages
“If you are white and speak Spanish, people say: ‘Wow, that’s awesome, you speak two languages’; but if you are Hispanic, speaking Spanish, it’s more like: ‘Oh, another wetback’... and people don’t recognize you as bilingual.” —Luz, Mexican woman resident in Springfield, OR
Breaking the Celluloid Frame: The Women at the Margins of Disney Animation
by Stephanie Mastrostefano, PhD Candidate, Department of English