Category: Publications

“Modern Girls on the Go” — new book edited by Alisa Freedman now available

Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, Edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano (Stanford University Press, March 2013)
This book comes out of a conference held at the University of Oregon in 2010 and organized by Alisa Freedman, UO associate professor of Japanese Literature & Film in the […]

Institutional betrayal magnifies post-trauma effects of unwanted sexual activity

Institutional betrayal magnifies post-trauma effects of unwanted sexual activity | UO Communications
EUGENE, Ore. — (March 8, 2013) — A study of 345 female university students found that 233 of them had experienced at least one unwanted sexual experience in their lifetime, and 46 percent of those victims also experienced betrayal by the institution where incidents […]

Writing Women into Wikipedia

[ March 7, 2014; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. March 8, 2014; 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Allen Hall
Room 221
1020 University St.
UO campus
Eugene, OR

In celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month

Fembot, in collaboration with the ASUO Women’s Center, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the School of Journalism and Communication and the UO Libraries is hosting events in Eugene, Oregon and online to write women into Wikipedia.

Friday, […]

Dr. Cheryl Mattingly — “Hope, Suffering and the Play of Possible Selves: A Narrative Perspective on the Good Life”

[ March 6, 2014; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Gerlinger Lounge
1468 University St.
UO campus

Dr. Cheryl Mattingly is a professor of anthropology in the Division of Occupational Science and Therapy at the University of Southern California. Her talk will draw on a 15-year research study with African-American families in Los Angeles. This study explores the experiences of parents of children with chronic illness, and formed […]

“How to Get Your Latino/Latin American Studies Academic Book Published” with Gisela Fosado, Duke University Press

[ March 6, 2014; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Walnut Room
1222 E. 13th Ave.

Gisela Fosado, Duke University Press Editor for Gender, Latin American and Latino Studies

This workshop will cover some of the common challenges of turning the dissertation into a first book (some of which also tend to crop up in the second book), the complicated state of the publishing industry […]

Charise Cheney: CSWS Research Matters | Winter 2013

Charise Cheney
“Brown v. Board of Education,” by Charise Cheney, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Ethnic Studies
By complicating the story of the Topeka lawsuit, Cheney’s study engages and expands current historical debates over the modern Civil Rights movement.
Charise Cheney’s paper is now available online as the Winter 2013 issue of CSWS Research Matters.
From her […]