CSWS Annual Review

TAG (Transitions in Adolescent Girls) research team members include, top l-r: Ben Nelson, Dr. Jenn Pfeifer, Dr. Nandi Vijayakumar, Lauren Hval, Bernie Brady, Theresa Cheng, and bottom l-r: Dr. Nick Allen, Sam Chavez, Dr. Michelle Byrne, Sarah Donaldson, Izzy the dog, and Dr. Kate Mills / photo by Dr. Jim Prell.

Abuse, Mental Illness, and Girls’ Immune Health

by Michelle Byrne, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Psychology

What does mental illness have to do with adolescent girls’ immune health? How can we better understand the development of girls who experience abuse? Are there health disparities for girls, especially girls that experience childhood adversity and depression? Our project asked these questions in order to fully explore how girls’ physical and mental health may be linked. 

Author
Michelle Byrne
Publication Year
2018
Publication type
Annual Review
A migrant woman sells yogurt in a Beijing Walmart. She holds out free samples on her tray and wears a microphone over her face mask to announce the product and price to customers / photo by Eileen Otis.

Unrest in the Aisles: Eileen Otis Studies Labor Unrest in Chinese Walmarts

by Emily Halnon, University Communications, reprinted from Oregon Quarterly (Spring 2018)

The first time UO sociologist Eileen Otis walked into a Walmart, she was far from home—Kunming, China, to be exact. She was immediately struck by how greatly the Chinese version of the massive retailer differed from its American counterpart.

Author
Emily Halnon
Publication Year
2018
Publication type
Annual Review
Shoniqua Roach delivered a works-in-progress talk in January 2018 in the Jane Grant Conference Room at the CSWS offices. Title of her talk was “Unpacking Pariah(s): The Black Queer Feminist Liberation Plot and the Politics of Black (Sexual) Articulation” / photo by Michelle McKinley.

Black Sexual Sanctuaries

by Shoniqua Roach, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Author
Shoniqua Roach
Publication Year
2018
Publication type
Annual Review
Judith Raiskin (l) and Linda Long are record oral histories from Eugene’s lesbian community to be housed at  the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives.

Lesbian Oral History Project to Become Part of UO collections

by tova stabin, University Communications

The history of Eugene’s lesbian community from the 1960s through the 1990s will be kept alive through video interviews and archival documents of more than 140 women taking part in the UO’s Lesbian Oral History project.

Judith Raiskin, associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Linda Long, curator of manuscripts in Special Collections and University Archives in UO Libraries, are conducting the project as part of the library’s effort to preserve Oregon history.

Author
tova stabin
Publication Year
2018
Publication type
Annual Review
Marjorie Celona / photo by Bettina Strauss

Counterblast: Excerpt from O. Henry Winner

by Marjorie Celona, Assistant Professor, UO Creative Writing Program

A 2018 O. Henry Award winner, Marjorie Celona’s short story “Counterblast” first appeared in The Southern Review Permission to reprint this excerpt was given by the author. You can read the story in its entirety in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (September 2018, Anchor).

Author
Marjorie Celona
Publication Year
2018
Publication type
Annual Review
Walidah Imarisha / photo by Jack Liu

A Conversation with Walidah Imarisha

Interviewed by Alice Evans, CSWS Managing Editor; Michelle McKinley, CSWS Director and Professor, School of Law; and Dena Zaldúa, CSWS Operations Manager

Author
Alice Evans
Michelle McKinley
Dena Zaldúa
Publication Year
2018
Publication type
Annual Review
Joy Harjo/ photo by Jack Liu

A Year in Review: 2018–19

by Dena Zaldúa, Operations Manager, CSWS

Last fall, we were still reeling from the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the University of Virginia campus when the school year began. Few of us in the CSWS family could believe this was really happening. If only that had been our nadir. During the 2017-18 academic year, we have seen children separated from their parents at the border and incarcerated in cages. 

Author
Dena Zaldúa
Publication Year
2018
Publication type
Annual Review
A black and white image of a crowd in a room with "San Fransisco Transgender Film Festival" projected on a screen

Minor Genre, Major Revolution: Queer & Punk Histories of the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (1997-2017)

by Andrew Robbins, PhD Candidate, Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication

With funding from a CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant, I was able to travel to the GLBT Historical Society Archive in San Francisco in November 2018 to explore the unsorted collection of “Tranny Fest,” the original name of what is now known as the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. The collection was donated by the festival’s original co-founders, media lawyer Alex Austin and late filmmaker Christopher Lee, who started the festival in 1997. 

Author
Andrew Robbins
Publication Year
2019
Publication type
Annual Review