A book about poor families and welfare written by three feminist scholars—an anthropologist and two sociologists—is a finalist for the prestigious C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work,…
Month: June 2011
Former CSWS Grant Recipient Makes WAVES
Editor’s Update: Homefront Heroines reached its funding goal on June 29 June 2011—Kathleen M. Ryan, Ph.D., received a CSWS graduate student research grant in 2007 while working on her doctorate in the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.…
Food in the Field—a new CSWS Research Interest Group
“Food in the Field” is a new CSWS interdisciplinary research interest group (RIG) that investigates ideas in the field of food studies, the operations of cultural fields related to food consumption, and the gendered labor that takes place in the…
CSWS Faculty Affiliates Win Awards
The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors its faculty affiliates who are among those named as University of Oregon Award Winners 2010–11.
Jane Grant Fellowship Awardee Wins Additional Honors
The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors 2010 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship awardee Ingrid Nelson, geography, who in 2010-11 received these additional awards: Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Commission Society of Woman Geographers Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for…
