CLLAS Guatemala Collaborative Team Receives Grant from UO Genocide Prevention Initiative | CLLAS.
Photo by Greg Krupa
Editor’s Note: CSWS associate director Gabriela Martinez and advisory board member Michelle McKinley are members of the Guatemala collaborative team awarded this grant. The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) was incubated within CSWS before becoming an independent […]
Month: June 2013
Six CSWS Faculty Affiliates among Those Chosen to Receive the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards
Six CSWS faculty affiliates were among 14 UO faculty chosen to receive the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards for AY 2013-14. Each recipient will be awarded $20,000 in recognition for his or her research, teaching and leadership. They are:
Juliet (Jill) Baxter, education studies
Michael Hames-Garcia, ethnic studies
Mary Jaeger, classics
Kate Mondloch, history of art & architecture
Carol Silverman, […]
Publishing Roundtable in Latino/a, Latin American Studies, and Gender
[ June 5, 2014; 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Hendricks 330
Jane Grant Room
1408 University St.
For junior faculty associated with the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS), Latin American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and the CSWS Américas Research Interest Group
CLLAS will host a publishing roundtable where junior faculty can hear from senior faculty on their publishing experience and gain advice in Latino/Latin American Studies and […]
Now Out! The Fembot Collective Focuses on Feminist Game Studies in Ada, Issue No. 2
June 1, 2013—The Fembot Collective is delighted to announce the second issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology! This issue, “Feminist Game Studies,” is edited by Nina Huntemann (Suffolk University) and features articles by Audrey Anable (University of Toronto), Kishonna L. Gray (Eastern Kentucky University), and Alex Layne & Samantha Blackmon […]
Janis Weeks Brings a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant to UO
Janis Weeks, a CSWS faculty affiliate and professor in the UO Department of Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, and African Studies Program, is the first UO researcher to be awarded a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. UO was named a winner of a Grand Challenges Explorations grant for a project proposed by Weeks that […]
Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels—Courtney Thorsson
Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels
a new book by Courtney Thorsson
Courtney Thorsson is an assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her book, published by the University of Virginia Press in June 2013, is now available from the publisher and other outlets. The publisher is offering […]
