Category: People

Study finds microfinance can help, even if goals aren’t met

Pictured is Erin Beck.

Editor’s Note: Erin Beck is a long-time CSWS affiliate and co-coordinator of the CSWS Américas Research Interest Group. Source: Study finds microfinance can help, even if goals aren’t met | Around the O August 7, 2017—UO political scientist Erin Beck…

Writing space for CSWS faculty affiliates now available

Don’t forget! CSWS has air-conditioned space to offer our faculty affiliates for their writing projects on these hot summer days. Pictured here, Kemi Balogun (WGS / Sociology) and Habib Iddrisu (Ethnomusicology and Dance) hard at work on their book projects…

Dena Zaldúa Frazier | Equity and Inclusion

Pictured is Dena Zaldua Frasier.

CSWS operations manager Dena Zaldúa Frazier is one of about two dozen campus figures featured in a continuing online photography exhibit, “Our Stories, Our Communities: UO Diversity,” a project of the Division of Equity and Inclusion. Our Stories, Our Communities: UO…

Karen Ford named interim dean for Clark Honors College

Pictured is Karen Ford.

Source: Provost announces interim dean for Clark Honors College | Around the O August 7, 2017—“Karen Ford, divisional dean for humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve in a dual role for the next year after accepting…

Tenure & promotion news

Pictured is Christa Chronister.

Congratulations to members of the CSWS community who earned promotions effective 2017-18 AY. Among those moving into full professor status are Krista Chronister in counseling psychology, CSWS director Michelle McKinley in law, Kate Mondloch in the history of art and…

Easther Chigumira, 2012 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow to speak at UO

Pictured is Easther Chigumira.

Condon Hall 260 1321 Kincaid St. UO campus Consuming Urban Povery: Twists and Turns in Zimbabwe’s Urban Food System and Food Security — A Case of Epworth a seminar by Easther Chigumira, Ph.D. University of Zimbabwe (and UO Geography alumna)…