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 […]
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UO Symposium on African American Literature Featured Outstanding Scholars
Left to right: Emily Lordi, Courtney Thorsson, Salamishah Tillet, Jennifer Williams, Eve Dunbar (photo by Chelsea Bullock)
March 2, 2012—More than a hundred students, faculty and community members attended the symposium “Place and Displacement in African American Literature,” which took place in the Browsing Room of the UO Knight Library on March 2. Courtney Thorsson, a […]
Visiting Criminologist Examines Feminicide and Gender Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border in UO Talk
Dr. Bejarano
February 28, 2012—Speaking “first and foremost as a social activist,” New Mexico criminologist and university professor Cynthia Bejarano examined the unsolved murders of girls and women in the region of Ciudad Juárez-El Paso before a gathering of more than 80 students and faculty at the UO Knight Library. Bejarano showed images of some of […]
McKinley Receives 2012 ACLS Fellowship
Professor Michelle McKinley
February 21, 2012—University of Oregon associate professor Michelle McKinley, School of Law, has been awarded a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.
McKinley’s fellowship will support her continued work on the book manuscript “Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism and Ecclesiastical Courts, 1589-1700.” The UO Center for the Study of Women in Society […]
Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema—Sangita Gopal
Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema
a new book by Sangita Gopal
Sangita Gopal is an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her research was supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant. An interview with Dr. Gopal—Studying Bollywood: Globalization, Isolation, Couples, and Changing Gender Roles—appeared […]
Former CSWS Fellowship Winner Barbara Sutton Wins Book Prize
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 […]
