Category: Academic

Peters receives NSF Rapid Response grant for coronavirus study

Pictured is Ellen Peters.

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Ellen Peters is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Since COVID-19 first surfaced in December in China, the disease has spread rapidly around the globe, sickening nearly 100,000 people, killing more than 3,000 and rocking world markets as governments struggle to contain its reach.

In […]

Laura Pulido is the newest recipient of a Collins Chair

Pictured is Laura Pulido.

From Around the O — Laura Pulido, a professor in two UO departments who has had a wide-ranging influence on campus and beyond, has been named a Collins Chair in the College of Arts and Sciences.

The Collins gift specifies that the
recipient of the endowed chair be an outstanding scholar in the […]

Celona awarded Oregon Literary Fellowship

Pictured is Marjorie Celona.

Marjorie Celona

Assistant professor Marjorie Celona, creative writing, has received
an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship for her fiction writing. The award was
part of the 2020 Oregon Literary Fellowships Program, which helps Oregon
writers initiate, develop, or complete literary projects.

Celona was awarded a CSWS faculty research grant in 2018-19
for writing time to complete her forthcoming novel, How a […]

Escallón awarded NEH fellowship

Pictured is Maria Escallon.

Assistant professor Maria Fernanda Escallón, anthropology, was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to complete her book project Excluded: Black Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Diversity in Colombia.

Maria Fernanda Escallón

The project examines why in Colombia disparities within Black groups continue to increase despite the heightened public attention for Afro-descendants and […]

Petition to support Freyd’s pay inequity complaint

Pictured is Jennifer Freyd.

Faculty and staff are invited to add their signatures to an
open letter in support of psychology professor Jennifer Freyd’s pay equity
complaint against the University of Oregon.

Professor Dare Baldwin, Department of Psychology and Clark
Honors College, posted the letter as a petition on change.org. “We are hoping to
garner a groundswell of support within UO and across […]

Kate Mondloch named interim dean and vice provost of the Graduate School

October 31, 2019—Professor and CSWS faculty affiliate Kate Mondloch of the UO College of Design has been named interim dean and vice provost of the Graduate School. Currently, Mondloch is head of the College of Design’s history of art and architecture department. She has been at the UO since 2005.

Kate Mondloch

Provost and […]