CoDaC is ready to support your research, writing, and sense of faculty community and support as we begin Fall Term. The center has a robust schedule of Faculty Writing Circles set to start in Week 1 of Fall term.
Nine writing times are available, including Parent/Caretaker circles designed to meet the needs of those of […]
Editor’s Note: From Around The O, September 7, 2020. Several CSWS faculty affiliates teach courses in Black Studies.
Black Panthers speak on the UO campus in support of a Black student protest at OSU in the late 1960s. (Image: Organa/Oregon Digital)
It’s been a long time coming, but UO students can now minor in Black studies.
The university […]
Editor’s note: Additional faculty affiliate videos have been released and are added to this story.
IntroDUCKtion, the University of Oregon’s summer orientation experience for incoming students, went virtual this summer, giving new Ducks an opportunity to dive into faculty research through the program’s new Faculty Perspectives video series. Several CSWS faculty affiliates have contributed to the […]
Aug. 13, 2020 — UO Provost Patrick Phillips and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, vice president for the Division of Equity and Inclusion, announced yesterday several new measures that address faculty concerns during the pandemic including caregiver support; service and time limitations; impacts on promotion and tenure; equity, anti-racism, and faculty support; and access to campus spaces. […]
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty, by Ana-Maurine Lara (SUNY Press, Afro-Latinx Futures Series, 2020, 200 pages). “Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, […]
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic, by Ana-Maurine Lara (Rutgers University Press, 2020, 258 pages). This book “is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders […]
