Category: Grant winners

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…

Sharon Luk honored with book prize for “The Life of Paper”

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Luk Receives Matei Calinescu Prize from the Modern Language Association Sharon Luk, assistant professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies, has been awarded the Matei Calinescu Prize for her book, The Life of Paper: Letters and Poetics of Living…

Miriam Abelson: Book Colloquium

Location: Browsing Room, Knight Library Miriam Abelson returns to the University of Oregon for a colloquium, with a panel of commentators, to discuss her forthcoming book, Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America, due out in March…

2018-19 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship winner Laura Strait to talk about her research

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330 Hendricks Hall, 1408 University St., UO campus Laura Strait, a Ph.D. candidate in Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, will give a talk about her dissertation research, “Occupying a Third Place: Pro-Life Feminism, Legible Politics, and the Edge…

A “Prison of Love”: Exploitation and the promotion of “care ethics” for female care workers in China

Pictured is Yi Yu.

UO geographer Yi Yu, the 2017-18 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow, will give a presentation on her research titled “Prison of Love:” Exploitation and the promotion of “care ethics” for female care workers in China. The talk will take place on…

Native American Studies Colloquium: book release celebration for Lani Teves

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Prof. Lani Teves’ book release, Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance The Department of Ethnic Studies and Native Studies Program invite you to a special edition of the Native American Studies Colloquium Series to celebrate the publication of Lani Teves’ new…