Category: People

High-level administrative positions at other universities await two long-time CSWS affiliates

Barbara Altmann
Two long-time CSWS affiliates will be leaving the University of Oregon at the end of AY 2014-15 for high-level administrative positions at other universities.
Frances Bronet
Frances Bronet, UO’s acting provost and senior vice president, recently accepted the role of provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Barbara Altmann, UO’s […]

Ellen Herman named new Faculty Codirector of the Wayne Morse Center

Editor’s Note: Professor Ellen Herman is a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate.
Ellen Herman
June 1, 2015—The Office of Academic Affairs is pleased to announce that Professor Ellen Herman will be the new Faculty Codirector of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. Professor Herman is currently Chair of the Department of History and will begin her […]

Sandra Morgen Receives 2015 Outstanding Career Award

Sandra Morgen
May 28, 2015—Sandra Morgen, a former, long-time director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, was honored with a 2015 Outstanding Career Award by the Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation. The award is given to tenured faculty members at the associate or full professor rank with […]

New book by philosophy professor Naomi Zack tackles black rights

Source: New book by philosophy professor Naomi Zack tackles black rights | Around the O
CSWS faculty affiliate Naomi Zack’s newest book, White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide, was published in April 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield.
Publisher’s Synopsis
“Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white […]

Karen Ford wins teaching award

Karen Ford
Editor’s Note: Karen Ford is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

May 18, 2015—“A professor of English and associate dean of humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, Karen Ford specializes in the teaching of poetry. Ford places high demands on her students’ abilities as readers and analysts, always inspiring them to dig deeper and learn […]

Judith Eisen wins teaching award

Judith Eisen
Editor’s Note: Judith Eisen is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

May 18, 2015—“A professor in the Department of Biology, Judith Eisen has played a leading role in establishing and co-directing the Science Literacy Program.

“The program is a major influence on how faculty teach in biology, chemistry and biochemistry, physics, geological sciences and human physiology. SLP-affiliated courses […]