Month: July 2015

Audra Simpson, “We are Not Red Indians”: The Gender of Anticolonial Sovereignty Across the Borders of Time, Place and Sentiment

[ November 17, 2015; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO Campus

Audra Simpson is an associate professor of anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press, 2014), winner of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, the […]

Salmon Is Everything: Chosen as Book of the Year by Humboldt State University

Theresa May
Source: Book of the Year | Library | Humboldt State University
Humboldt State University has chosen UO theatre professor Theresa May’s 2014 book Salmon Is Everything (OSU Press) as its 2015 / 2016 Book of the Year.
Humboldt State has a National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM grant for curriculum around the Klamath River, and Dr. May’s […]

UO historian cited as part of Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality

Ellen Herman
CSWS faculty affiliate Ellen Herman, professor and head of the UO Department of History, was cited as part of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality.
July 6, 2015—“Ellen Herman had a busy day when the Supreme Court ruled about marriage equality because she and colleagues had a hand to play in it.
“As […]

Spiderwoman Theater: Bringing Light to Native American and Women’s Issues | KLCC

Muriel Miguel
Muriel Miguel is director and co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater Company, the oldest Native women’s theater ensemble in North America. She speaks with Eric Alan about using theater and storytelling to shed light on issues such as violence against women, and gay and lesbian relationships in Native nations. She was in residence at the UO […]