May 4, 2012—Dozens of faculty members, administrators, visiting scholars, and students participated in a roundtable organized by law professor Michelle McKinley and held at the UO Knight Library on May 4. “Dangerous Dependencies: Domestic Slavery and Servitude in the Americas”…
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Charise Cheney Wins Historian Prize for Article on School Desegregation
“Blacks on Brown: Intra-community Debates over School Desegregation in Topeka, KS, 1941-1955” published in the Winter Western Historical Quarterly won the Western Association of Women Historians’ Judith Lee Ridge Prize. Cheney is associate professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies, and…
“Moving Forward with the Legal Empowerment of Women in Pakistan”—Special Report by Anita Weiss for the U.S. Institute of Peace
May 1, 2012—The United States Institute of Peace issued “Moving Forward with the Legal Empowerment of Women in Pakistan,” Special Report 305, by Anita M. Weiss, professor and head of the University of Oregon Department of International Studies and vice…
“Silenced—Women and the Broadcast Blacklist”: an article about the research of CSWS director Carol Stabile
CASCADE: UO College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Carol Stabile’s research looks at some of the female artists whose careers were all but obliterated after their names appeared in the notorious book, Red Channels. An article by Patricia Hickson and…
Romani Routes, a new book by Carol Silverman
Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora by Carol Silverman, professor and department head, UO Department of Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2012) Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts…
Twentieth Century Colonialism and China—a new book edited by Bryna Goodman and David SG Goodman
Twentieth Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World edited by Bryna Goodman and David SG Goodman (Routledge, April 2012) Publisher’s Synopsis Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half…
