Spring 2015: CSWS Research Matters
“Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles,” by Alaí Reyes-Santos, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
Department of Ethnic Studies
Our Caribbean Kin, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, disentangles the affective component of political solidarity in the Antilles. Alaí Reyes-Santos received faculty grant support from CSWS for research […]
Category: Faculty affiliates
High-level administrative positions at other universities await two long-time CSWS affiliates
Barbara Altmann
Two long-time CSWS affiliates will be leaving the University of Oregon at the end of AY 2014-15 for high-level administrative positions at other universities.
Frances Bronet
Frances Bronet, UO’s acting provost and senior vice president, recently accepted the role of provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Barbara Altmann, UO’s […]
Ellen Herman named new Faculty Codirector of the Wayne Morse Center
Editor’s Note: Professor Ellen Herman is a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate.
Ellen Herman
June 1, 2015—The Office of Academic Affairs is pleased to announce that Professor Ellen Herman will be the new Faculty Codirector of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. Professor Herman is currently Chair of the Department of History and will begin her […]
Sandra Morgen Receives 2015 Outstanding Career Award
Sandra Morgen
May 28, 2015—Sandra Morgen, a former, long-time director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, was honored with a 2015 Outstanding Career Award by the Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation. The award is given to tenured faculty members at the associate or full professor rank with […]
New book by philosophy professor Naomi Zack tackles black rights
Source: New book by philosophy professor Naomi Zack tackles black rights | Around the O
CSWS faculty affiliate Naomi Zack’s newest book, White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide, was published in April 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield.
Publisher’s Synopsis
“Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white […]
Karen Ford wins teaching award
Karen Ford
Editor’s Note: Karen Ford is a CSWS faculty affiliate.
May 18, 2015—“A professor of English and associate dean of humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, Karen Ford specializes in the teaching of poetry. Ford places high demands on her students’ abilities as readers and analysts, always inspiring them to dig deeper and learn […]
