by Jessie Clark, Instructor, UO Department of Geography

The landscape of Southeast Turkey today looks starkly different than it did fifteen years ago. From 1984 to 1999, much of the Southeast region was caught up in a civil war between the Kurdish-separatist group the PKK and the Turkish military. Approximately 4,000 villages were burned, 40,000 people killed, and approximately 900,000–4 million individuals displaced (numbers vary depending on the source). 

by Alice Evans, CSWS Dissemination Specialist

CSWS last interviewed Gabriela Martínez for the Annual Review in summer 2012, when she was the incoming associate director of CSWS. Now entering her third and final year as associate director, Martínez talks about her research, documentary filmmaking, and teaching; her tenure at CSWS; and her upcoming year as a resident scholar at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.

by Sonia De La Cruz, Adjunct Instructor, UO School of Journalism and Communication

by Marina Rosenthal and Carly Smith, PhD candidates, UO Department of Psychology (Clinical Psychology)

by Megan M. Burke, PhD candidate, UO Department of Philosophy

In the world of academic philosophy, feminist philosophers occupy a marginalized space. This, of course, is not unique to philosophy as most academic disciplines give marginal status to those working on issues of gender and its intersections with sexuality, class, and race. 

by Mary E. Wood, Professor, UO Department of English

by Jenée Wilde, PhD candidate, English

In 1994, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) launched a bold new vision—to foster scholarly collaboration through research interest groups, or RIGs. While the center had primarily funded individual research in earlier decades, the RIG model was designed to support a variety of intellectual and social connections among scholars working on gender in broadly related fields. 

by Michael Hames-García, Director, CSWS; Professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies

by Jenée Wilde, PhD candidate, UO Department of English (Folklore)

by Samantha King, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Commonwealth of Dominica is a rural island nation in the Eastern Caribbean in which most households depend upon agriculture, both for subsistence and exchange. Production is dominated by small family farms that supply global export markets as well as the intra- and inter-island trading networks that comprise a robust yet poorly-understood local food economy.