Faculty Research Grant

Evening on a train platform in Shinjuku Station, the world’s busiest terminal, used by an average of 3.64 million people a day.

Modern Girls on the Go

by Alisa Freedman, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Film

Author
Alisa Freedman
Publication Year
2010
Publication type
Annual Review
Courtney Thorsson

Revolutionary Foodways: a Set of Paths and Practices

by Courtney Thorsson, Assistant Professor, UO Department of English

My first book, Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels, has one chapter on cooking as a practice of nationalism in the works of poet, playwright, and novelist Ntozake Shange. When that chapter became twice as long as any other, I realized I had a second project on my hands and began compiling the notes and stacks of books that became the skeleton for my new project, Revolutionary Recipes: Foodways and African American Literature.

Author
Courtney Thorsson
Publication Year
2013
Publication type
Annual Review
Two women in a literacy class.

Women, Development, and Geographies of Insecurity in Post-conflict Southeast Turkey

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). 

Author
Jessie Clark
Publication Year
2014
Publication type
Annual Review
Gabriela Martínez speaks at the CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration

Media, Democracy, and the Construction of Collective Memory: A Conversation with Gabriela Martínez

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.

Author
Alice Evans
Publication Year
2014
Publication type
Annual Review
Michelle McKinley

Contingent Liberty in the Americas

by Michelle McKinley, Bernard B. Kliks Associate Professor of Law, School of Law

In 1672, Catalina Conde, a mulata slave, asked the ecclesiastical court in Lima, Peru, to issue censuras, summoning any witnesses who possessed knowledge or evidence about her paternity. Catalina used the process of censuras—akin to spiritual subpoenas—to strengthen her case against her father’s widow, who refused to honor her husband’s promise to free Catalina after his death.

Author
Michelle McKinley
Publication Year
2015
Publication type
Annual Review