BOOK NOTES: Readings, events, workshops, etc.. UO professor’s book looks at problems of microfinance The dark side of microfinance is explored in a new book by Lamia Karim, the associate director of the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study…
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New Book on Gay Latino Studies
Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader edited by Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez Duke University Press (April 2011) 384 pages Michael Hames-García is professor of Ethnic Studies at UO. Ernesto Javier Martínez is assistant professor of Ethnic Studies and of…
HoSang Honored as “Outstanding Historian”
University of Oregon professor Daniel Martinez HoSang was selected by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) to receive the 2011 James A. Rawley Prize, which is given annually for the best book dealing with the history of race relations in…
Kate Mondloch Receives ACLS Fellowship
UO assistant professor Kate Mondloch, Department of Art History, recently won a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship. “I plan to write the first half of my second book while holding the ACLS Fellowship (which coincides with my…
Lamia Karim Interviewed by Wall Street Journal Reporter for Her Expertise on Microfinance
March 8, 2011: Court Upholds Yunus Sacking from Grameen — Wall Street Journal (A high court in Bangladesh Tuesday upheld a central bank decision last week that Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus must resign as head of the microfinance bank he…
CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim Interviewed on NPR
Listen to UO anthropology professor Lamia Karim on NPR’s All Things Considered: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134208312/nobel-winner-removed-from-bank-he-founded Lamia Karim, associate professor of the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology and associate director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, was…
