Urgent Pauses: A Reflection on My Renewed Commitment to Rigorous Research
By Katherine M. Huber , PhD Candidate, Department of English
CSWS Annual Review
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
Tempos of Zoom Ethnography: Singing with a Women’s Chorus in the Pandemic
by Molly McBride, PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology
“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. Below are some personal reflections by current graduate students who have been impacted by the work and words of these faculty.