by Thomas R. Schmidt, PhD, Research Fellow, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics

In 1969, the Washington Post was the first major American newspaper to replace its women’s pages with a lifestyle section. Introducing the Style section was one of the most lasting legacies of famed Post editor Ben Bradlee. As he later described the launch of Style, “We wanted to look at the culture of America as it was changing in front of our eyes. The sexual revolution, the drug culture, the women’s movement. And we wanted to be interesting, exciting, different.”¹

by Sarah Ahmed, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology

by Helen Yi-lun Huang, Graduate Student, Department of English

“Yes, we have no bananas

We have-a no bananas today.”

By Yi Yu, PhD candidate, Department of Geography

by Anita Weiss, Professor, Department of International Studies

by Reuben Zahler, Associate Professor, Department of History

In January of 1811, María Isabel Ribas found herself in jail, charged with murdering her own baby, one of the most heinous acts imaginable for a Catholic woman. A few days earlier, in her neighborhood of Mérida, Venezuela, locals had found the cadaver of a newborn infant in a field, being eaten by vultures. Officials searched in the area for women who had recently been pregnant, and questioned María. She admitted that the baby was hers but also insisted that she was innocent of murder. 

by Xiaobo Su, Associate Professor, Department of Geography

“Nadie sabe lo que existe en la profundidad del mar.” — Cuban-Lukumí proverb

By Alaí Reyes-Santos, Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies

Interviewed by Alice Evans, CSWS Managing Editor; Gabriela Martínez, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication; and Dena Zaldúa Frazier, CSWS Operations Manager

by Michelle McKinley, Director, CSWS, and Dena Zaldúa Frazier, Operations Manager, CSWS

What a year…in many ways for CSWS and for the UO campus community as a whole, this past year was the best of times and the worst of times.