Tempos of Zoom Ethnography: Singing with a Women’s Chorus in the Pandemic
by Molly McBride, PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology
CSWS Annual Review
“My Stealthy Freedom” Feminist Resistance Through Social Media in Iran
by Parichehr Kazemi, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
M(other)work of Survival and the Pandemic as Teacher
by Cristina Faiver-Serna, MPH, PhD, Department of Geography
#ForeverEssential: What does it mean to be a low-wage essential worker in the age of COVID-19?
by Lina Stepick, Lola Loustaunau, Larissa Petrucci, and Ellen Scott
Despite the continuing threat of COVID-19, and after token efforts such as “hazard pay” to recognize the threat to frontline workers, life in grocery and other retail stores has returned to a new normal of work during a pandemic. Work continues to be dangerous for “essential workers.”
Oral History Website Preserves Stories from Eugene's Lesbian Community
by Judith Raiskin, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Reflections: UO Graduate Students Share How Works by WOC Faculty Changed Them
CSWS events have always served as informal sites for networking, support, and mentorship among women faculty and graduate students across campus. When the pandemic shut down our regular programming last year, the Women of Color (WOC) Project filled this need with a virtual books-in-print event series celebrating recent monographs by WOC faculty affiliates.
An Interview with Sangita Gopal: Interim Director Seeks to Strengthen CSWS Infrastructure
Interview by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English, CSWS Dissemination Specialist
With a background in comparative media studies and postcolonial theory, Associate Professor Sangita Gopal came to the University of Oregon in 2004 to teach cinema studies in the Department of English. Over time she saw the popular program grow from an English concentration into a unique tri-school major, then into its own department housed in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Gyoung-Ah Lee to Lead WOC Project: Special Initiative Enters 16th Year of Supporting Women of Color Faculty
by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English, CSWS Dissemination Specialist
Anthropology professor Gyoung-Ah Lee has stepped up to lead the Women of Color (WOC) Project at CSWS—a role formerly held by Interim Director Sangita Gopal, associate professor of cinema studies.
New Special Project Advocates for Institutional Change: CSWS Leads an Effort to Redress Pandemic Impacts for Faculty who are Caregivers
by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English, CSWS Dissemination Specialist
Last year, in the early stages of pandemic lockdown, then-CSWS director and law professor Michelle McKinley began receiving panicked emails from faculty friends and Center affiliates who are caregivers. With 4J schools and childcare facilities shut down, as well as shortages in long-term elder care services, how were they supposed to fulfill their teaching and research commitments at the university while also meeting the labor-intensive care needs of others?
A Letter from the Past Director
Dear Friends,