Category: Faculty affiliates

Exchange Students as Cultural Ambassadors: Knight Library Exhibit

“Between 1949 and 1966, at least 4,713 Japanese students studied at American universities with the best-known fellowships at the time—GARIOA (Government Account for Relief in Occupied Areas [1949 through 1951]) and Fulbright (established in 1952)—along with a few private scholarships.…

2016 CSWS Annual Review now available

2016 CSWS Annual Review CSWS is pleased to announce that the 2016 CSWS Annual Review is now available for your reading pleasure. If you are on our mailing list as a CSWS faculty affiliate, supporter, contributor, or UO administrator, the…

In loving memory: Sandi Morgen 1950-2016

Pictured is former CSWS Director Sandi Morgen.

Sandra Lynn Morgen March 31, 1950 – September 27, 2016 “Let me live lovingly, generously, courageously…” Friday, September 30, 2016: 11:30 am: funeral service at Temple Beth Israel, 1175 E. 29th Ave., Eugene, OR (corner of E. 29th Ave. &…

In Memory of Joan Acker: 1924 – 2016

Pictured is Joan Acker.

Memorial Service: Saturday afternoon, Aug. 27, Gerlinger Lounge, UO campus June 22, 2016—CSWS received word of the passing of feminist scholar Joan Acker, a leader of the original group that established a center to study women at the University of…

Memorial set for revolutionary UO sociology professor Joan Acker

Source: Memorial set for revolutionary UO sociology professor Joan Acker | Around the O http://around.uoregon.edu/content/memorial-set-revolutionary-uo-sociology-professor-joan-acker See also: http://csws.uoregon.edu/memory-joan-acker-1924-2016/

Fantasmas de la historia: Racismo y Violencia Policial en los Estados Unidos

Pictured is Alaí Reyes-Santos.

Following the events in Dallas, CSWS faculty affiliate Alaí Reyes-Santos was asked to submit a short piece about racism and racial profiling by the Spanish newspaper La Razon. Dr. Reyes-Santos, an associate professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies,…