CSWS Annual Review

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.  

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. 

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?  

Dear
 Friends, 

by Carla Macal, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography

by Zeinab Nobowati, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy

by Sarah R. Horn, PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology

By Annalee Ring, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy

by Ola Adeniji, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Physiology