Under the current austerity regime forced on school districts by lack of tax revenue, imagining a more equitable school system that respects individuals may seem out of step with the business oriented forces at work in U.S. education policy. But…
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Jane Grant Fellowship Awardee Wins Additional Honors
The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors 2010 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship awardee Ingrid Nelson, geography, who in 2010-11 received these additional awards: Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Commission Society of Woman Geographers Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for…
CSWS Chooses Two Winners For Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship
Shelley Annette Grosjean (History) and Sara S. Quinn (Anthropology) are co-winners of the 2010-11 Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship. Following an open competition among University of Oregon undergraduates working on a senior thesis on issues related to women and/or gender,…
“Sin Miedo: Violence, Mobility, and Identity in el Paso del Norte”—René Kladzyk
Condon Hall Room 360 UO campus CSWS and CLLAS grantee master’s thesis presentation: René Kladzyk, Geography Department Together, the cities El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, form the largest international border metropolis in the world. While El Paso consistently…
CSWS Grantee Jennifer Erickson Interviewed
“What happens when white, ethnically Muslim refugees from a once-strong paternalist, socialist state like Bosnia-Herzegovina come to the United States, where economic self-sufficiency is the ultimate goal? How do Black, Christian Southern Sudanese—many of whom had little experience with running…
News: Local | “Students examine nature of beauty” | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon
News: Local | “Students examine nature of beauty” | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon. Click on the above link to read an article about a Women’s History Month presentation in a Eugene School District 4J middle school by UO graduate…
