Category: Publications

2012 CSWS NW Women Writers Symposium: MemoirFest Audio Recordings

Audio recordings now available for the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: MemoirFest, held Saturday, May 12, 2012 on the University of Oregon campus. Morning session, with panelists Crystal Williams, Debra Gwartney, and Lidia Yuknavitch. Afternoon session, with panelists Dominick…

Two faculty win national award for anthology | Inside Oregon

Two faculty win national award for anthology | Inside Oregon. UO professors Michael Hames-García (Ethnic Studies) and Ernesto Javier Martínez (Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies) were awarded the prestigious national Lambda Literary Award in the category of “best…

Priscilla Peña Ovalle: Thinking Through a Research Trajectory, From Hollywood Latinas to Hair/Style

CSWS Research Matters, Spring 2012 Thinking Through a Research Trajectory, From Hollywood Latinas to Hair/Style Latinas function as the in-between bodies that mediate and maintain the racial status quo of mainstream media, by Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Associate Professor, University of…

Romani Routes, a new book by Carol Silverman

Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora by Carol Silverman, professor and department head, UO Department of Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2012) Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts…