Category: People

Kerns awarded grant examining architecture of women’s health centers | Department of Architecture

Source: Kerns awarded grant examining architecture of women’s health centers | Department of Architecture
Wednesday, May 1, 2013—Architecture Adjunct Instructor Jolie Kerns has been awarded a $6,000 research grant from the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society for her project “Interrogating Public Space: Architecture of Women’s Health Centers.”
The project explores “the relationship between […]

Study: Women altering menstruation cycles in large numbers | AroundtheO

Study: Women altering menstruation cycles in large numbers | AroundtheO.
A research team headed by Christopher Minson, a human physiology professor at UO and a CSWS faculty affiliate, shows that “a surprisingly large number of women 18 or older choose to delay or skip monthly menstruation by deviating from the instructions of birth-control pills and other […]

CSWS Noon Talk: “Global Feminisms in Media Development,” with Gabriela Martínez

[ April 16, 2014; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Hendricks Hall 330
Jane Grant Room
1408 University St., UO campus

[caption id="attachment_18421" align="alignleft" width="245"] Gabriela Martínez / photo by Jack Liu[/caption]

This talk looks at the different ways in which “feminism” gets to be articulated around the world, and in particular in the developing world, through media development. It also reveals how grassroots media development and other media […]

Shannon Elizabeth Bell | Alumna Earns Distinguished Dissertation Honorable Mention

This story was published originally on the website of the University of Oregon Graduate School.
Shannon Elizabeth Bell, who earned her PhD in Sociology from UO in 2010, was awarded a rare honorable mention for the “Distinguished Dissertation Award” by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ProQuest Dissertation Publishing. First presented in 1981, these awards […]

Race & Ethnicity | New Book by Naomi Zack Now in Print

In Print: Race & Ethnicity | AroundtheO.
April 4, 2013 — “University of Oregon Philosophy Professor Naomi Zack’s newest publication, Race and Ethnicity (Bridgepoint Education, Inc., 2012), is a textbook that combines her earlier philosophical work examining the concept of race as culturally relative with a look at the social aspect of race being associated with […]

2013 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship and Graduate and Faculty Grant Awardees

Miriam Abelson planning her research trip to the southeastern U.S.
March 27, 2013—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon has awarded more than $70,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2013-14 academic year. Nine UO graduate students will receive […]