CSWS has a rich history of faculty, graduate student, and community collaboration across disciplines. Below is a list of past RIGs and their membership and run dates, where available. See the Current RIGS page for active groups.
See also: Past RIG Descriptions
Starting from 1994 to present
# = total members
- Américas RIG
- Collaborative RIG Projects: Service and Servitude — 2011-12
- Disability Studies
- Feminist Environmental Research – #7 (2001- )
- Feminist Philosophy RIG
- Feminist Postcolonial Studies – (2000-2002) #26
- Food in the Field RIG (2011-13)
- Gender, Families, and Immigration in the Northwest (2006 – 2008)
- Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora – #8
- Gender in Historical and Transnational China – (1997- 1998) #13, (1998-99) #20, (2000-2001) #18, (2001-2005)
- Gender, New Media, and Technology RIG—During Academic Years 2010-12, CSWS’s Gender, New Media, and Technology RIG worked on the Fembot Project, which became redefined as a CSWS Special Project rather than a RIG. Fembot Website
- Gender, Place and Identity (1995-96)
- Girls Group (subgroup of Women’s Health (1996-1998)
- Global Asia RIG (2011-14)
- Globalization & Alterity RIG (2013-15)
- Healing Arts RIG
- Indigenous Women of the Northwest
- (International) Women and Leadership in Education RIG – (1997- ) #29, (1999)
- Jewish Feminist Reading Group – (1997- ) #18, (2000 – 2004)
- Law, Culture, and Society RIG
- Medieval and Early Modern Inquiries into Gender and Sexuality (MEMIGS) RIG — AY 2013-14
- Mid-life and Menopause (second subgroup of Women’s Health – 1998) #10, (Became a RIG in 1999) #13, (2000) #9
- Narrative Health and Social Justice
- Native American Communities (1994-1997) #31, (1997-99) #30, (2000-2001) #32, (2002- 2005) #22
- Queering Academic Studies: Intersections, Contestations, and Reconfigurations (2010-2013)
- Race and Transnationalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Rationality, Intuition, and Gender (RIG Squared) – (1994-2000) #9
- Reading Empires – (2005-07) #7
- RIG on the Right – (1994-96)
- Sex, Gender and the Law – (1998-2000) #18, (2001-02) #15
- Social Sciences Feminist Network
- STAnDD RIG
- The Projects of Queer Studies: Race, Pedagogy, and Social Theory (2006-2008)
- UO Coalition to End Sexual Violence (UO-CESV) RIG (2013-14)
- Unfree Labor in the Americas Reading Group
- Welfare, Work and Economic Restructuring (1997-2006) #10, formerly Women, Work and Economic Restructuring (1994-1997) #12)
- Wired (1997-98) #16, (1999-2003) #9 (2004-2009) virtual group
- Women and Environment (1994-2000)
- Women and Gender in Vietnam (1994- 1999) #12
- Women in Media (1997-2000) #12
- Women’s Health and Development (1995-96) #29, (1997-99)
- Women Creative Writers (2005-06) #5
- Women Writer’s of Science Fiction – #6 (2000-2001)
