The research for this new book by Alaí Reyes-Santos, assistant professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, was supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant. Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles, by Alaí Reyes-Santos (Rutgers University…
Category: Books
CSWS Announces 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellows
November 13, 2014—A classics professor and a PhD candidate in English, both from southeastern U.S. universities, have been named as recipients of the second annual Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Professor Jennifer Rea is an associate professor of classics…
Fembot’s November 2014 BAD Interview: Asian American Women’s Popular Literature
November 15, 2014—Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for November 2014 is now uploaded on the Fembot website. In this month’s interview, Kelly Adams (PhD candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison) talks with Pamela Thoma (associate professor, Washington State University), author of…
Fembot BAD Interview: Gendering the Recession
Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for October 2014 is now uploaded on the Fembot website. In this month’s interview Lauren DeCarvalho (assistant professor, University of Arkansas) talks with Diane Negra (professor, University College Dublin) and Yvonne Tasker (professor, University of…
The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education, a new book coedited by Ernesto Martínez
The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education coedited by Stephanie Fryberg and Ernesto Javier Martínez (Palgrave MacMillan, October 2014, 320 pp) Publisher’s synopsis “Many universities in the twenty-first century claim ‘diversity’ as a core value, but fall…
Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan — a new book by Anita Weiss
Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2014) is the latest book by Anita M. Weiss, professor and head, UO Department of International Studies. Professor Weiss is a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate. Publisher’s synopsis “In Pakistan,…
