Category: Publications

Michael Hames-García Edits Spring 2014 Aztlán Spotlight Dossier on Jotería Studies

Incoming CSWS director Michael Hames-García (professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies) edited a special “Dossier” section on jotería studies for the journal Aztlán (Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring 2014).
From the UCLA website description: “This collection of twelve articles, curated by Michael Hames-García (University of Oregon), offers a variety of perspectives on jotería studies, which Hames-García identifies as […]

Now available: “Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed,” by Theresa May

Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed, by Theresa May with Suzanne Burcell, Kathleen McCovey, and Jean O’Hara. Foreword by Gordon Bettles. (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies, 2014),  208 pages. ISBN 978-0-87071-746-8. Paperback, $19.95.
Synopsis from OSU Press:  “After a devastating fish kill on the Klamath River, tribal members and theatre artist […]

Author of “Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism” Interviewed

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for May 2014 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Magdalena Olszanowski (Ph.D. Candidate, Concordia University) talks with Laura Portwood-Stacer (Visiting Assistant Professor, New York University), author of Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism (Bloomsbury Press, 2013).
You can listen to this interview at: http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2014/05/01/books-arent-dead-lifestyle-politics-and-radcial-activism/
Both the podcast […]

CSWS Director Carol A. Stabile Receives 2014 ACLS Fellowship

Carol Stabile
Carol A. Stabile, director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon, has been awarded a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for 2014. A professor in the UO School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Dr. Stabile was […]

UO study: Abusive relationships damage girls’ educational pursuits

UO study: Abusive relationships damage girls’ educational pursuits | Around the O.
CSWS faculty affiliate Krista M. Chronister, associate professor in the UO Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services in the College of Education, led this study. Chronister’s research has been supported previously by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant.

Karma R. Chávez Interview Featured in Fembot’s “Books Aren’t Dead”

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for April 2014 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Magie Ramírez (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington) talks with Karma R. Chávez (Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison), author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013).
You can […]