Palenqueras and the Trap of Visibility
By Maria Fernanda Escallón, Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology
CSWS Annual Review
Unstable Fetishisms: Gender, Class, and Labor in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
by Mayra Bottaro, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Decolonizing Knowledge: Caribbean Women Healers Project
by Alaí Reyes-Santos, Associate Professor, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and
Ana-Maurine Lara, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Studying Ways to Boost the Immune Health in Mothers of Young Children
by Nicole Giuliani, Assistant Professor, School Psychology Program
Political Economy of the Middle East: A Conversation with Angela Joya
Interviewed by Michelle McKinley, CSWS Director and Professor, School of Law, and Alice Evans, CSWS Managing Editor
With a new book forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, Angela Joya is pressing forward with more projects focused on the Middle East and North Africa. An assistant professor in the UO Department of International Studies, Joya was born in Afghanistan, lived for twelve years as a refugee in Pakistan, and immigrated with her family to Canada when she was sixteen.
Q :Tell us about your book project.
After Work: Female Workers in the Garment Industry in Bangladesh
by Lamia Karim, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
An anthropological study of female workers in the global apparel industry in Bangladesh uncovers a zero-sum game. Aged out by 40 with worn-out bodies and younger workers ready to take their place, women often have little or no savings to sustain them.
An anthropological study of female workers in the global apparel industry in Bangladesh uncovers a zero-sum game. Aged out by 40 with worn-out bodies and younger workers ready to take their place, women often have little or no savings to sustain them.
V Varun Chaudhry: Reflections on My Year at CSWS
V Varun Chaudhry worked as a CSWS pro tem research assistant during AY 2018-19 while completing his dissertation through the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. He is now an instructor in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Brandeis University. V’s research focuses on the institutionalization of “transgender” in nonprofit and funding agencies through ethnographic research in Philadelphia, PA.
Women at Work: Speaking Truth in the Face of Evil
In late May, CSWS concluded its three-year focus on “Women and Work” by joining with the recently renamed Department of Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies in a celebration of the publication of a book that had its origins in Hendricks hallowed hallways. Shireen Roshanravan was doing post-doctorate work in the Women and Gender Studies Program at UO during 2009-10 with the mentorship of Lynn Fujiwara—now an associate professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies at UO—when they began a collaborative relationship in their shared focus on Women of Color feminisms.
Gender, Power, and Grief: Announcing Our 2019-2020 CSWS Theme
I started as director of CSWS in the summer of 2016. Sadly for us, CSWS lost two of our founding mothers within months of each other in 2016. Joan Acker and Sandi Morgen, pathbreaking feminist titans, made the Center a focus of research and activism around women’s economic rights and security for over forty years.
Witch-Hunting in Colonial Assam
by Daizi Hazarika, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
My CSWS fellowship allowed me to travel to the India Office Records at the British Library in summer 2019. At the British Library, I focused on the effects of colonial policies on witch-hunting on indigenous women in Assam, India. After spending two months poring over colonial documents, I discovered a strong connection between British colonial laws and an increase in witch-hunting allegations against tribal populations in Assam. My first research finding contests the prevalent view that tribal communities in Assam practiced witch-hunting pre-dating British colonialism. I found the opposite to be true.
My CSWS fellowship allowed me to travel to the India Office Records at the British Library in summer 2019. At the British Library, I focused on the effects of colonial policies on witch-hunting on indigenous women in Assam, India. After spending two months poring over colonial documents, I discovered a strong connection between British colonial laws and an increase in witch-hunting allegations against tribal populations in Assam. My first research finding contests the prevalent view that tribal communities in Assam practiced witch-hunting pre-dating British colonialism. I found the opposite to be true.