Month: March 2018

Provost awards new Knight Chair to professor of anthropology Lynn Stephen

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From Around the O March 22, 2018—UO anthropology professor Lynn Stephen, a renowned scholar of Latin American studies, has been awarded a prestigious Philip H. Knight Chair in the College of Arts and Sciences. Stephen is Distinguished Professor of Arts…

Ana-Maurine Lara’s poetry book a finalist for Lambda Literary Award

March 6, 2018—Kohnjehr Woman, a book of poetry by Ana-Maurine Lara, has been nominated as a finalist for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lara, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate,…

Marie Vitulli publishes two articles on women in mathematics

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Marie A. Vitulli, professor emerita of mathematics and a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate, recently published a pair of articles relevant to Women’s History Month in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 65, No. 3. One is a 25-year-long study…

Joy Harjo Interview: UO Today

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    Oregon Humanities Center Published on Feb 15, 2018 Joy Harjo, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, is a poet, musician, and author. She is the Professor and Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee at…