Category: People

Mara Williams Accepted to Comics Industry Intensive—at the Mistress Level

“Filling Out Application,” or, “My Life on the Internet” copyright by Mara Williams.
UO graduate student Mara Williams has been accepted at the Mistress level to the Adventure School for Ladies: Comics Intensive, a residential program focused on increasing diversity in the comics industry. Mara is only one of two artists accepted at the Mistress level. The […]

Love Magic in the Kitchen—Scholars Share Research on Dangerous Dependencies, Domestic Slavery and Servitude

(l to r): Nara Milanich; Nicole von Germeten; Russ Tomlin; Kris Lane; Michelle McKinley; Law School dean Michael Moffitt; Rachel O'Toole; and Elizabeth Kuznesof (photo by E. Hoffman).
May 4, 2012—Dozens of faculty members, administrators, visiting scholars, and students participated in a roundtable organized by law professor Michelle McKinley and held at the UO Knight Library […]

Charise Cheney Wins Historian Prize for Article on School Desegregation

Charise Cheney
“Blacks on Brown: Intra-community Debates over School Desegregation in Topeka, KS, 1941-1955” published in the Winter Western Historical Quarterly won the Western Association of Women Historians’ Judith Lee Ridge Prize. Cheney is associate professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies, and coordinator of the CSWS Women of Color Project.

“Silenced—Women and the Broadcast Blacklist”: an article about the research of CSWS director Carol Stabile

CASCADE: UO College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Carol Stabile’s research looks at some of the female artists whose careers were all but obliterated after their names appeared in the notorious book, Red Channels.
An article by Patricia Hickson and Lisa Raleigh in Cascade magazine, Spring 2012, p. 5 (published by the UO College of Arts and […]

Romani Routes, a new book by Carol Silverman

Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
by Carol Silverman, professor and department head, UO Department of Anthropology
(Oxford University Press, 2012)
Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts has presented the music of Balkan Gypsies, or Roma, to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional […]

Twentieth Century Colonialism and China—a new book edited by Bryna Goodman and David SG Goodman

Twentieth Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World
edited by Bryna Goodman and David SG Goodman (Routledge, April 2012)
Publisher’s Synopsis
Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these […]