Month: February 2020

Laura Pulido is the newest recipient of a Collins Chair

Pictured is Laura Pulido.

From Around the O — Laura Pulido, a professor in two UO departments who has had a wide-ranging influence on campus and beyond, has been named a Collins Chair in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Collins gift specifies…

Celona awarded Oregon Literary Fellowship

Pictured is Marjorie Celona.

Assistant professor Marjorie Celona, creative writing, has received an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship for her fiction writing. The award was part of the 2020 Oregon Literary Fellowships Program, which helps Oregon writers initiate, develop, or complete literary projects. Celona was…

Escallón awarded NEH fellowship

Pictured is Maria Escallon.

Assistant professor Maria Fernanda Escallón, anthropology, was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to complete her book project Excluded: Black Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Diversity in Colombia. The project examines why in Colombia disparities within Black…