Category: People

Two CSWS Faculty Affiliates Win Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards

The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors two faculty affiliates who are among thirteen outstanding faculty receiving University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards AY 2012–13. Michelle McKinley, School of Law Ellen McWhirter, College of Education,…

CSWS Office Manager & Events Coordinator Shirley Marc to Retire

Retirement Party for Shirley Marc 330 Hendricks Hall Shirley Marc, office and events coordinator at the Center for the Study of Women in Society, has worked at CSWS for 15 years. She juggled innumerable duties, among them helping plan 18…

Jenée Wilde Selected for Fellowship and Research Grant

Jenée Wilde has been selected to receive the 2012-2013 Norman Brown Graduate Fellowship, which was established by alumnus Norman Brown (’68) to support graduate student excellence. A PhD candidate in the UO Department of English (Folklore Program), she has also…

SOJC Associate Professor Gabriela Martínez Chosen for CSWS Post

May 9, 2012—Whether she is documenting the deadly effects of open-fire cooking and heating on children and women in Mayan homes in highland Guatemala, rescuing the history of indigenous women in Mexico, or writing about the geographical expansion and institutional…

Maggie Evans Receives a 2012 OHC Dissertation Fellowship

Meagan “Maggie” Evans, a PhD candidate in the UO Department of English, has been awarded a Fall 2012 Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation “Sounding Silence: Twentieth-Century Feminist Poetic Innovation.” Evans, who won the 2011 CSWS Jane…

Mara Williams: InsideOregon story

UO graduate teaching fellow accepted into Chicago comics program May 15, 2012—“Mara Williams has been drawing her entire life. The graduate teaching fellow in the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication is a self-described, consummate scribbler and doodler.”…