Category: Faculty affiliates

“Producers, Parasites, Patriots” — a new book by Daniel HoSang & Joseph Lowndes

Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) Joseph E. Lowndes is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University…

Ana Lara receives a 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship in fiction

Pictured is Ana-Maurine Lara.

Recipients of the 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship include UO assistant professor Ana-Maurine Lara, a CSWS faculty affiliate, in the category of fiction. Oregon Literary Arts said their out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 400+ applications they received, and selected…

The 2019 Faculty Research Awards go to 24 UO scholars

Editor’s Note: Six feminist scholars are among those who will receive OVPRI’s 2019 Faculty Research Awards. They are Sangita Gopal, Deborah Green, Jocelyn Hollander, Lamia Karim, Judith Raiskin, and Lesley Jo Weaver. From Around the O, April 8 — UO…

Mam women flee rural violence, seek gendered justice

New journal article by Lynn Stephen Fleeing rural violence: Mam women seeking gendered justice in Guatemala and the U.S. by Lynn Stephen. Journal of Peasant Studies, 46(2): 229-257. January 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1534836 Dr. Stephen’s uses the concept of gendered embodied structures…

Priscilla Peña Ovalle named 2019 president-elect for SCMS

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March 21 – Priscilla Peña Ovalle, associate professor and department head in the Department of Cinema Studies, has been chosen as the 2019 president-elect for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. SCMS seeks to further media study within higher education and serves…

Tannaz Farsi named 2019 Bonnie Bronson Fellow

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Editor’s Note: Tannaz Farsi is a CSWS faculty affiliate. The following announcement comes from the UO College of Design website. February 22, 2019—The Bonnie Bronson Fund has named the School of Art + Design’s Associate Professor of Art Tannaz Farsi…