Winner of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s (CSWS) 2004 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, Barbara Sutton is now an assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of Albany, SUNY, affiliated with the departments of sociology and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies. Born and raised in Argentina, Dr. Sutton […]
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Sebastian Strangio: Is Microfinance Pushing The World’s Poorest Even Deeper Into Poverty? | The New Republic
Sebastian Strangio: Is Microfinance Pushing The World’s Poorest Even Deeper Into Poverty? | The New Republic.
December 14, 2011—CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim quoted in The New Republic:
…“Skepticism of microfinance and its benefits, meanwhile, has migrated to the academy as well. Lamia Karim, an anthropologist at the University of Oregon and the author of […]
Melissa Stuckey: Research Matters Fall 2011
“Why Oklahoma? All-Black Towns and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Indian Territory,” by Melissa H. Stuckey, Assistant Professor, UO Department of History
Melissa Stuckey’s paper is now available online in the Fall 2011 issue of CSWS Research Matters.
From her paper:
“For many people it comes as a surprise to learn that dozens of all-black towns were […]
Markets and Bodies—new book by Eileen Otis
Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China
by Eileen M. Otis
(Stanford University Press, October 2011, 232 pp.)
Eileen Otis is an assistant professor in the University of Oregon Department of Sociology and a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Publisher’s Book Synopsis
“Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China’s luxury hotels are staging […]
“The Economy of Shame”: a review of Lamia Karim’s book “Microfinance and Its Discontents”
“The Economy of Shame” (Women’s Review of Books, Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, November/December 2011)
Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
by Lamia Karim (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2011, 255 pp., $25.00, paperback)
Reviewed by Ghazal Zulfiqar
Lamia Karim is the associate director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University […]
2011 Surrency Prize to Michelle McKinley for “Fractional Freedoms”
Surrency prize to McKinley, “Fractional Freedoms”.
November 15, 2011
UO law professor Michelle McKinley
University of Oregon law professor Michelle McKinley was named this year’s winner of the Surrency prize, awarded by the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) for the best article published in the Society’s journal, the Law and History Review. McKinley’s winning article is […]
