Category: Human Rights

When it comes to gender identity, inclusion is more than using the right pronoun | Opinion

Pictured is Varun Chaudhry.

This opinion piece is written by V Varun Chaudhry, a scholar-in-residence at the Leeway Foundation, an anthropology PhD candidate at Northwestern University, and a predoctoral fellow in the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of…

New Directions in Black Feminist Studies: A Speaker Series

Mireille Miller-Young UC Santa Barbara Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 Gerlinger Lounge, 12 p.m. Black Feminism, Labor, Sex Work Emily A. Owens Brown University Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018 EMU 145–Crater Lake South, 12 p.m. Sexuality, Slavery, Affect Ethnic Studies Speaker, Peggy…

Bernice Yeung: “The Invisible #MeToos: The fight to end sexual violence against America’s most vulnerable workers”

Pictured is Bernice Yeung.

Lewis Lounge Knight Law Center 1515 Agate St. Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium “The Invisible #MeToos: The fight to end sexual violence against America’s most vulnerable workers” Bernice Yeung, Investigative Reporter Reveal (Center for Investigative Reporting) From the Reveal website: “Bernice Yeung…

DOLORES: Film Screening with director Peter Bratt

Redwood Auditorium Erb Memorial Union (EMU) 1222 E. 13th Ave. Film Screening & Discussion with film director Peter Bratt: DOLORES DOLORES HUERTA  Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in…

Erin Beck wins book award for her research on Guatemalan NGOs

Pictured is Erin Beck.

Congratulations to CSWS faculty affiliate Erin Beck, whose book, How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs, was selected as co-winner of the Book Award of the Sociology of Development section of the American Sociological Association. Professor Beck was recently promoted to…

CSWS Advisory Board member publishes article on the Trump administration’s immigration policy

Pictured is Dyana Mason.

Editor’s Note: Dyana Mason is a member of the CSWS Advisory Board. Around the O / Professor publishes article on president’s immigration policy June 15, 2018—Dyana Mason, an assistant professor of planning, public policy and management, recently authored an article…