CSWS Annual Review

by Karyn L. Lewis, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Psychology

by Susie Grimes, Graduate Student, Department of International Studies

In 2002 I was in Lusaka, Zambia, making a video documentary on a microcredit program for women with disabilities. We were at the marketplace to meet members of a sewing group that had received a small loan from the program. One of its members came forward and told us some startling news: out of the original twelve women with disabilities who had formed the collective a year earlier, only four were left. The others had died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

by Irmary Reyes-Santos, Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies

by Christina Ergas, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology

by Lindsay Naylor, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography

by Lise Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Geography

by Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Director, Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, (CLLAS)

Whether she is documenting the deadly effects of open-fire cooking and heating on children and women in Mayan homes in highland Guatemala, recording the history of indigenous women in Mexico, or writing about the geographical expansion and institutional growth of the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica, UO associate professor and documentary filmmaker Gabriela Martínez (SOJC) carries out her work with a mixture of heart, intelligence, and skill that brings life and gravitas to the product.

by Carol Stabile, Director,  Center for the Study of Women in Society, Professor, School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

by Kali Lantrip, UO Department of Counseling Psychology