CSWS External Grants Received 1998-2008
Women of Color, Borders, and Power (2008)
Prioritizing leadership development of junior faculty women of color with a retreat and workshops.
Lynn Fujiwara
Funding Source: National Council for Research on Women
Principle Investigators:Lynn Stephen and Lynn Fujiwara
Departments:Center for the Study of Women in Society / Women’s and Gender Studies
Amount Funded:$8,000
Links: Project website
Mesoamerican Cultures and their Histories (2008)
A four-week summer institute for school faculty (grades 6-12) of Social Studies and History selected from applicants around the United States. It was designed to facilitate the expanded integration of Mesoamerican cultural heritage materials – new discoveries and the latest research interpreting the same — into curricular units or lesson plans that will appeal to a variety of learners and bring greater multicultural depth and understanding into the classroom. 
Funding Source:National Endowment for the Humanities
Directors:Stephanie Wood and Judith Musick
Department:Center for the Study of Women in Society Amount Funded: $175,000
Links: Project website
The Kislak Techialoyans at the Library of Congress (2006-2007)
A two-year grant to digitize, translate, and annotate four manuscripts in Nahuatl that were recently donated to the Library of Congress. Ultimate aim: a large manuscript digitization project that would increase access to details about gender.
Funding Source:National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant
Principle Investigators:Stephanie Wood and Judith Musick
Department:Center for the Study of Women in Society
Amount Funded: $100,000
Links: Project Website
Women’s Acceptability of the Vaginal Diaphragm (2001, 2002)
Sandra Marie Harvey received funding to study whether women are willing to use a diaphragm not just to prevent pregnancy but also to protect them from sexually transmitted diseases. The U.S. National Institutes of Health awarded a $1 million grant to the three-year project, which interviewed current and former diaphragm users and try to get young women at risk of contracting STDs to use the device.
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health
Principle Investigator:Marie Harvey
Department:Center for the Study of Women in Society
Amount Funded: $1,000,000
PARTNERS: Partners Against Risk-Taking: A Networking, Evaluation and Research Study (2000, 2001)
This study was funded to assess the contraceptive outcomes of the Partners Against Risk-Taking: A Networking, Evaluation and Research Study (PARTNERS). The PARTNERS project developed and evaluated a 3-session intervention to help young women and their male partners reduce their risk for unintended pregnancies, and HIV and other STDs.
Funding Source: Centers for Disease Control/Public Health Institute
Principle Investigator:Marie Harvey
Department:Center for the Study of Women in Society
Amount Funded: $129,795
Oregon Families Diverted from or Leaving TANF and Food Stamps: Self-Sufficiency and Family Well-Being (1999, 2001)
The CSWS Welfare Research Team spent three years surveying and interviewing former welfare recipients and analyzing their experiences. They found that many former clients found work, but most of the jobs were low-wage, and few provided benefits. With Oregon’s souring economy, things have become even worse for low-income families.
Funding Source: Oregon Department of Human Services
Principle Investigator:Sandra Morgen
Department:Center for the Study of Women in Society
Amount Funded: $239,000
Links: Project Website
Ecological Conversations: Gender, Science, and the Sacred (1999–2002)
This three-year project focused on contributions to the conversation from visiting scholars chosen from a pool of applicants from across the United States and internationally. Each year five visiting scholars focused on a different theme for the conversations. The first year’s theme was issues of gender and ecology, environmental justice, or ecofeminism. The second year’s theme was the cultural analysis of scientific concepts, practices and policies. The last year focused on ways in which scientific and sacred epistemologies were integrated and how this integration (or lack) influenced our sense of place. The final feature was a week of conversations with all fifteen scholars weaving together the previous themes in an effort to identify ways in which the integration of gender, science and the sacred are practiced and understood. Three outside speakers also contributed to that last week of conversations.
Search in the UO Knight Library under “videos and films” with the key words “Ecological Conversations” to find the talk titles of the fifteen presenters and the three invited guest speakers to the program.
Funding Source: Rockefeller Foundation
Principle Investigators:Irene Diamond and Sandra Morgen
Department:Center for the Study of Women in Society
Amount Funded: $281,650
