Month: August 2018

Yvonne Braun named associate vice provost for academic affairs

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Editor’s Note: Yvonne Braun has served on the CSWS Advisory Board the past two years. August 20, 2018—Yvonne Braun, head of the UO’s Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, has been selected for a half-time position as associate vice…

Courtney Thorsson receives NEH Public Scholars Award

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August 2018—Courtney Thorsson, associate professor of English and a CSWS faculty affiliate, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars award in the amount of $60,000 for her project “The Sisterhood and Black Women’s Literary Organizing.” This award will…

Lesbian Oral History Project

Judith Raiskin and Linda Long collect the stories of the local lesbian community.

New History for Future Generations Lesbian Oral History documents gay women in Eugene An article in the August 9th edition of Eugene Weekly highlights the work of the Lesbian Oral History Project being carried out by Linda Long, UO Libraries…

Bernice Yeung: “The Invisible #MeToos: The fight to end sexual violence against America’s most vulnerable workers”

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Lewis Lounge Knight Law Center 1515 Agate St. Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium “The Invisible #MeToos: The fight to end sexual violence against America’s most vulnerable workers” Bernice Yeung, Investigative Reporter Reveal (Center for Investigative Reporting) From the Reveal website: “Bernice Yeung…