CSWS Advisory Board member Gabriela Martínez is one of the co-organizers of this important media conference.
The 44th Annual International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference at the University of Oregon will take place from June 20-24, 2018.The conference theme is “Reimagining Sustainability: Communication and Media Research in a Changing World,” which will not […]
Month: June 2018
CSWS Advisory Board member publishes article on the Trump administration’s immigration policy
Editor’s Note: Dyana Mason is a member of the CSWS Advisory Board.
Around the O / Professor publishes article on president’s immigration policy
June 15, 2018—Dyana Mason, an assistant professor of planning, public policy and management, recently authored an article for The Conversation on the Trump administration’s effect on immigrant children.
The article focuses on the financial and […]
Panel at Sydney conference will honor CSWS founder Joan Acker
Two University of Oregon professors will participate this week in a conference panel in Sydney, Australia, that honors the memory of CSWS founder and long-time director Joan Acker. The panel, titled “Traveling with Joan: A Panel of Global Feminist Scholarship in Honor of Joan Acker,” will take place on the final day of the 10th Biennial Gender, Work & […]
Unrest in the Aisles, an OQ story about the research of Eileen Otis
Editor’s Note: Through CSWS Faculty Research Grants, CSWS has supported the research of faculty affiliate Eileen Otis.
From Oregon Quarterly—The first time UO sociologist Eileen Otis walked into a Walmart, she was far from home—Kunming, China, to be exact. She was immediately struck by how greatly the Chinese version of the massive retailer differed from […]
Alisa Freedman TEDx Talk: “Female Exchange Students during the Postwar Era”
June 1, 2018—Alisa Freedman, back from a sabbatical year doing research in Japan, recently gave a TEDx talk about her CSWS-supported research on Japanese women who studied in the U.S. from 1949-1966. Freedman teaches Japanese literature & film in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and is newly promoted to full professor.
2018 Faculty Promotions & Tenure
The University of Oregon is putting on the 2018 Faculty Promotion Celebration on Tuesday, June 5, to honor all faculty who were promoted and/or received tenure during academic year 2018. Congratulations to all those being honored.
We would like to especially acknowledge former CSWS associate director Gabriela Martinez, who was promoted to full professor in the […]
