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March 31, 2014—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded almost $80,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2014-15 Academic Year. Research projects funded include a documentary film focused on the daily difficulties of an extended family of Zapotec indigenous immigrants divided between Oregon and Oaxaca, and a theatre collaboration that brings indigenous playwrights together with regional Native women to create a new performance work thematically focused on Women and Rivers. CSWS funded research on bisexuality; Military Sexual Trauma; the sexualization of cheerleading and its impact on college students, children, and families, and much more. In all, twelve UO graduate students will receive awards ranging from $2,400 to almost $16,000. Eight faculty scholars will receive awards of $6,000 each.
Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship
Jeneé Wilde, Department of English (Folklore) was awarded the prestigious Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship. Her dissertation topic is “Speculative Fictions, Bisexual Lives: Changing Frameworks of Non-Binary Desire.” Wilde wrote in her application: “While studies of gay, lesbian, and transgender communities and cultural production have dramatically increased over the last two decades, research on bisexuality remains highly undervalued in humanities and a majority of social science disciplines. To challenge this dearth of scholarship and to demonstrate the untapped potential of bisexuality studies, my English/Folklore PhD project develops a fresh approach using textual, cultural, and ethnographic methods of bisexuality research.”
Faculty Grant Awardees
- Aletta Biersack, Department of Anthropology, “Gendered Transformations in the Ipili Mining Era.”
- Yvonne Braun, Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and International Studies, “Networking for Women’s Rights: Transnational Feminist Organizing in Southern Africa.”
- Sara Hodges, Department of Psychology, “Women’s Perceptions of Feedback in STEM.”
- Lori Kruckenberg, School of Music and Dance, “Beyond Hildegard: Female Cantors in the German-Speaking Lands, 900-1400.”
- Theresa May, Department of Theatre Arts, “The Women and Rivers Project: Native Women Theatre Artist Workshop / Residency.”
- Priscilla Ovalle, Department of English, “Media/Hair/Style.”
- Judith Raiskin, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, “Parenting without Protection: How Legal Instability Influences LGBT-Headed Households.”
- Lynn Stephen, Department of Anthropology, “Tristeza/Alegria: Gender and Citizen Children of Undocumented Parents, Cinthya’s Story.”
Graduate Student Research Awards
- Matthew N. Hannah, Department of English, “’The Growing Ego’: Dora Marsden’s Collaborative Modernism.”
- April Lightcap, Department of Psychology, “An Efficacy Trial for Birth Your Way: an ACT-Based Prenatal Intervention.”
- Kathryn L. Miller, Department of Political Science, “Violence on the Periphery: Migration and Gendered Violence Against Women in the U.S. Context.”
- Kristen M. Reinhardt, Department of Psychology, “Came to Serve, Left Betrayed: Violence Against Women in the Military.”
- Dana L. Rognlie, Departments of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies, “Domestic Violence and Manly Courage: Toward a Feminist Theory of Political Action.”
- Marina N. Rosenthal, Department of Psychology, “Sexy and Sexualized: Cheerleading’s Impact on College Students, Children, and Families.”
- Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes, Department of Anthropology, “Gender, Migrations, and Relatedness: Care and Kinship in a Zapotec Transborder Community.”
- Carly P. Smith, Department of Psychology, “A National Study of Campus Sexual Violence and Title IX: The Institutional Betrayal of Mere Compliance.”
- Brandy Todd, Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership, “Identity Formation and Gender Disparities in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Disciplines.”
- Tongyu Wu, Department of Sociology, “Coding ‘Productive Masculinity’: Gendered Meaning of Exploitation in High-Tech Corporations.”
- Qing Ye, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, “Aesthetic Beauty and Authentic Sentiment in the 18th-century Chinese Novel Guwangyan (Preposterous Words).”