Category: People

Prominent UO historian among those who filed an amicus brief in US Supreme Court case that contests the validity of the Defense of Marriage Act

Recent blog entries on the websites for Inside Higher Ed and the American Historical Association provide details of an amicus brief filed March 1 in US v. Windsor, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court contesting the validity of the…

Charise Cheney: CSWS Research Matters | Winter 2013

“Brown v. Board of Education,” by Charise Cheney, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Ethnic Studies By complicating the story of the Topeka lawsuit, Cheney’s study engages and expands current historical debates over the modern Civil Rights movement. Charise…

Lisa Gilman—“Ethnic Pride or Tribalism: The Formation of Ethnic Associations in Multiparty Malawi”

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Free & open to the public CSWS faculty affiliate Lisa Gilman (Associate Professor, UO Department of English, Folklore) speaks on “Ethnic Pride or Tribalism: The Formation of Ethnic Associations in Multiparty Malawi” as…

Carol Stabile Receives 2013 Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History

Carol Stabile—director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon, and professor, School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies—has received the 2013 Farrar Media and Civil Rights…