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…
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Love Magic in the Kitchen—Scholars Share Research on Dangerous Dependencies, Domestic Slavery and Servitude
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 on May 4. “Dangerous Dependencies: Domestic Slavery and Servitude in the Americas”…
Charise Cheney Wins Historian Prize for Article on School Desegregation
“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…
“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…
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…
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…
