Category: People

Queering Teacher Education Curriculum authors win an article of the year award

Nov. 9 – Three University of Oregon faculty members in the College of Education’s education studies earned the 2018 Francis P. Hunkins Article of the Year Award from the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum. Jerry Rosiek, Alison Schmitke and…

Sharon Luk wins a book prize from ASA

Pictured is Sharon Luk.

Annual Awards Ceremony / American Studies Association October 23, 2018—“The American Studies Association has awarded the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize to Sharon Luk, The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity (University of California Press). …

What It Means To Be a Black Latina in Higher Education

Pictured is Alaí Reyes-Santos.

What It Means To Be a Black Latina in Higher Education by Alaí Reyes-Santos, Associate Professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies posted in Hip Latina, October 20, 2018 “I have been asserting my blackness since I can remember. “Growing up…

Marie Vitulli named 2019 AWM Fellow

Pictured is Marie Vitulli.

    Marie A. Vitulli, professor emerita in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon, was recently named a 2019 AWM Fellow by the Association for Women in Mathematics. Prof. Vitulli is a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate. According…

Priscilla Yamin new head of WGSS

Pictured is Priscilla Yamin.

Congratulations to Priscilla Yamin, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, now the newly named department head of the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Yamin is also a member of the CSWS Advisory Board. She is the…

Lesbian Oral History Project to become part of UO collections

Judith Raiskin (l) and Linda Long

Editor’s Note: CSWS is supporting this research through a CSWS Faculty Research Grant, with funds from the Mazie Giustina Endowment for Research on Women in the Northwest. September 10, 2018 (reprinted from Around the O)—The history of Eugene’s lesbian community…