Six CSWS faculty affiliates were among 14 UO faculty chosen to receive the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards for AY 2013-14. Each recipient will be awarded $20,000 in recognition for his or her research, teaching and leadership. They are:
Juliet (Jill) Baxter, education studies
Michael Hames-Garcia, ethnic studies
Mary Jaeger, classics
Kate Mondloch, history of art & architecture
Carol Silverman, […]
Janis Weeks, a CSWS faculty affiliate and professor in the UO Department of Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, and African Studies Program, is the first UO researcher to be awarded a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. UO was named a winner of a Grand Challenges Explorations grant for a project proposed by Weeks that […]
Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels
a new book by Courtney Thorsson
Courtney Thorsson is an assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her book, published by the University of Virginia Press in June 2013, is now available from the publisher and other outlets. The publisher is offering […]
Bonnie Mann Named 2013-14 Williams Fellow
From AroundtheO, May 24, 2013—Bonnie Mann, UO associate professor of philosophy and a CSWS faculty affiliate, is one of two UO faculty members designated as a Williams Fellow for 2013-14.
University of Oregon President Michael Gottfredson announced his acceptance on May 24 of the formal recommendations of the Williams Council for […]
Jason Lindo
“Gender-Specific Measures of Economic Conditions and Child Abuse,” the Spring 2013 issue of CSWS Research Matters, examines data collected from California counties, with stark results. Written by Jason Lindo, assistant professor, University of Oregon Department of Economics, the paper takes a different tack than previous studies. Lindo writes that “by focusing on aggregate measures […]
Study: Women altering menstruation cycles in large numbers | AroundtheO.
A research team headed by Christopher Minson, a human physiology professor at UO and a CSWS faculty affiliate, shows that “a surprisingly large number of women 18 or older choose to delay or skip monthly menstruation by deviating from the instructions of birth-control pills and other […]
