After a three-year hiatus, Research Matters is back in print with a fresh approach to the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s mission to create, fund, share, and support research on gender. Rather than sharing the end results…
2017, Spring: CSWS Research Matters “A Long Way from Home: Colonial Women, Slavery, and the Politics of Place,” by Elizabeth Bohls, Professor, Department of English Elizabeth Bohl’s recent book, Slavery and the Politics of Place, culminates with a section on…
2017, Winter: CSWS Research Matters “Beauty Diplomacy: Culture, Markets, and Politics in the Nigerian Beauty Pageant Industry,” by Oluwakemi M. “Kemi” Balogun, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology Kemi Balogun writes about her…
2016, Fall: CSWS Research Matters “The Life of Paper, a Poetics: Letters and Mass Incarceration in Global California,” by Sharon Luk, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Department of English Sharon Luk discusses the content of her book, now under review…
Fall 2015: CSWS Research Matters See also: A Public Performance “LANDLINES” by Ana-Maurine Lara, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Anthropology LANDLINES is a performance poetry project funded through the Oregon Arts Commission, and which explored ideas of home…
Spring 2015: CSWS Research Matters “Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles,” by Alaí Reyes-Santos, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Department of Ethnic Studies Our Caribbean Kin, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, disentangles the affective component…
