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 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The brief, signed by the American Historical Association and a […]

“Modern Girls on the Go” — new book edited by Alisa Freedman now available

Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, Edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano (Stanford University Press, March 2013)
This book comes out of a conference held at the University of Oregon in 2010 and organized by Alisa Freedman, UO associate professor of Japanese Literature & Film in the […]

Charise Cheney: CSWS Research Matters | Winter 2013

Charise Cheney
“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 Cheney’s paper is now available online as the Winter 2013 issue of CSWS Research Matters.
From her […]

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

[ February 26, 2014; 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm. ] 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 part of the African Studies Lecture Series.

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 History Award for her article “The Typhoid Marys of the Left; Gender, Race and the […]

Book by UO Psychologists Jennifer Freyd and Pamela Birrell Opens Eyes on Betrayal

Book by University of Oregon psychologists opens eyes on betrayal | Communications.
EUGENE, Ore. — (Feb. 27, 2013) — “Betrayal violates us,” write University of Oregon psychologists Jennifer Freyd and Pamela Birrell in the preface of a new book that tackles the devastating act and probes the deep underpinnings of why people cover it up.
Blind to […]