by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Biologist Karen Guillemin named as a fellow in the AAAS
From Around the O — UO biologist Karen Guillemin has been elected as a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, joining 488 other newly elected members recognized for their distinguished efforts to advance science or its…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Camisha Russell named winner of the Baruch A. Brody Award & Lecture in Bioethics
Camisha Russell, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and a co-editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, has been named as the winner of the 2020-2021 Baruch A. Brody Award & Lecture in Bioethics by the Baylor College…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Ana Lara wins Ruth Benedict Prize
Assistant Professor Ana-Maurine Lara, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, has been awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize of the Association for Queer Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association for her book Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty (SUNY Press 2020), out…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Laura Pulido finds that a racist past is often left off monuments
From Around the O, Oct. 20, 2020 — As monuments across the country are torn down to protest their connection to white supremacy, UO professor Laura Pulido argues that dismantling such structures is an important, but insufficient, step toward achieving…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on NYT interviews Escallón about pandemic’s effects on female faculty
Maria Fernanda Escallón, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and mother to a 3-year-old daughter, is featured in an Oct. 6 New York Times story about how the pandemic is impacting women in academia who already…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on In Memoriam: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Professor emerita and CSWS affiliate Caroline Forell, School of Law, has written an account of her relationship to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Around The O. Forell taught Women & the Law for 25 years in the School of Law.…