Category: People

Goodman receives NHC fellowship

Pictured is Bryna Goodman.

Bryna Goodman

Professor Bryna Goodman, history, has been awarded a residential fellowship grant from the National Humanities Center (NHC) in North Carolina for her book project, Finance and Fortune: Economics, Calculation, and the Fate of the Chinese Republic.

The book project explores ideas of economics and the imagination of China as a republic. The research examines understandings […]

Latino Roots class makes documentaries through remote teaching

Latino Roots student Kate Weiss on Zoom office hours with professor Lynn Stephen.

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published April 20, 2020 in Around the O. Lynn Stephen and Gabriela Martínez are CSWS Faculty Affiliates.

“Rich and crazy” is how Sergio B. Sanchez describes the street art he observed growing up in his Chicano community of Santa Ana, California.

Sanchez is now a University of Oregon senior who aspires […]

UO Research Awards go to 23 faculty scholars

NOTE: This story was originally published April 20, 2020, in Around the O. CSWS congratulates awardees who are also our Faculty Affiliates and/or Research Grant recipients!

UO researchers and scholars examining everything from international indigenous activism to creative aging to the creation of original electroacoustic music have received 2020 Faculty Research Awards.

Faculty Research Awards […]

Madar awarded Kluge fellowship

Pictured is Allison Madar.

Allison Madar

Assistant professor Allison Madar, History, received a 6-month fellowship as a Kluge Fellow in the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress to pursue research on her manuscript, tentatively titled “A People Between: Servants in Slaveholding Virginia from Bacon’s Rebellion to the American Revolution.” The Kluge Center gives only 12 awards per […]

CSWS announces research grant awardees for AY 2020-21

Judith Raiskin (l) and Linda Long

The Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) is pleased to announce awards of more than $86,000 for scholarship, research, and creative work on women and gender for AY 2020-21.

A total of 22 grants were awarded to 12 graduate students, seven tenure-track faculty members, and one career faculty member. Moreover, given the ongoing […]

Beck lauded as ‘Star’ faculty

Pictured is Erin Beck.

Editor’s note: To celebrate Women’s History Month, Around the O is celebrating 10 extraordinary UO faculty members including political science professor Erin Beck. See the full article here. Beck is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Erin Beck

Associate ProfessorDepartment of Political ScienceCollege of Arts and Sciences

“The
biggest inspirations for my career have been the resilient, creative,
and generous […]