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…
Category: Publications
UO Symposium on African American Literature Featured Outstanding Scholars
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 University…
Visiting Criminologist Examines Feminicide and Gender Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border in UO Talk
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…
McKinley Receives 2012 ACLS Fellowship
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…
Krista M. Chronister: Partner Violence and Girls’ Educational and Vocational Development
CSWS Research Matter, Winter 2012 Partner Violence and Girls’ Educational and Vocational Development: In-depth interviews reveal a broad range of violence against girls—with far-reaching and enduring effects by Krista M. Chronister, associate professor, College of Education, Counseling Psychology Program “National…
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…
