Author: alicee

Two CSWS Faculty Affiliates Named Guggenheim Fellows

A biology professor and an anthropologist from the University of Oregon with ties to the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society were recently named 2010 Guggenheim Fellows, among 180 artists, scientists and scholars across the United States…

Lamia Karim Named CSWS Associate Director

UO Anthropology Professor Does Research on the Lives of Women in Bangladesh On a recent visit to Bangladesh, Lamia Karim sat in the midst of a group of women whose faces and bodies had been scarred by acid and saw…

Console-ing Passions Conference

Call for Papers Console-ing Passions: Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism April 22-24, 2010 University of Oregon — Eugene, Oregon Founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing Passions creates collegial spaces for scholarship…

Animating the Archive—Tara McPherson

Digital Scholars 2010 Collaboration Center, 22A (part of the Computer Lab suite) Erb Memorial Union (EMU), UO campus Tara McPherson’s books and edited collections include Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South, Hop on Pop: The Politics…

Gender Differences in First Jobs for New Ph.D.s in Mathematics

“An Update: Are Women Getting All the Jobs?” by Mary E. Flahive, Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, and Marie A. Vitulli, CSWS faculty affiliate and professor, UO Department of Mathematics A preprint of this article, submitted to the Notices…

Bodies in Crisis—new book from CSWS fellowship winner

Sutton, Barbara. 2010. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press). Barbara Sutton received funding from the Center for the Study of Women in Society to pursue the research on which…