Category: Awards

Maggie Evans Receives a 2012 OHC Dissertation Fellowship

Meagan “Maggie” Evans, a PhD candidate in the UO Department of English, has been awarded a Fall 2012 Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation “Sounding Silence: Twentieth-Century Feminist Poetic Innovation.”
Evans, who won the 2011 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, said about the OHC award: “I am grateful for the financial support that […]

Mara Williams Accepted to Comics Industry Intensive—at the Mistress Level

“Filling Out Application,” or, “My Life on the Internet” copyright by Mara Williams.
UO graduate student Mara Williams has been accepted at the Mistress level to the Adventure School for Ladies: Comics Intensive, a residential program focused on increasing diversity in the comics industry. Mara is only one of two artists accepted at the Mistress level. The […]

Charise Cheney Wins Historian Prize for Article on School Desegregation

Charise Cheney
“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 coordinator of the CSWS Women of Color Project.

McKinley Receives 2012 ACLS Fellowship

Professor Michelle McKinley
February 21, 2012—University of Oregon associate professor Michelle McKinley, School of Law, has been awarded a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.
McKinley’s fellowship will support her continued work on the book manuscript “Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism and Ecclesiastical Courts, 1589-1700.” The UO Center for the Study of Women in Society […]

2011 Surrency Prize to Michelle McKinley for “Fractional Freedoms”

Surrency prize to McKinley, “Fractional Freedoms”.

November 15, 2011
UO law professor Michelle McKinley
University of Oregon law professor Michelle McKinley was named this year’s winner of the Surrency prize, awarded by the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) for the best article published in the Society’s journal, the Law and History Review. McKinley’s winning article is […]

APA Recognizes Jennifer Freyd for Her Trauma Research

Jennifer Freyd, UO Department of Psychology

Congratulations to Jennifer Freyd, recent winner of the 2011 Outstanding Contributions to Science in Trauma Psychology Award given by the American Psychological Associations’s Division 56.
Freyd is a University of Oregon psychology professor and faculty affiliate of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. Her research […]