UO law professor and CSWS affiliate Michelle McKinley is the 2014 winner of the Ligia Parra Jahn Award. This award is given for the best publication (book or article) on women’s history or publication written by a woman and published…
Category: African Diasporas
Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles—a new book by Alaí Reyes-Santos
The research for this new book by Alaí Reyes-Santos, assistant professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, was supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant. Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles, by Alaí Reyes-Santos (Rutgers University…
“¡Santa!: Afro-Diasporic Ways of Being and Knowing,” with Ana-Maurine Lara
204 Condon Hall 1321 Kincaid St. UO campus CLLAS Visiting Scholar Ana-Maurine Lara to deliver lecture about her research Ana-Maurine Lara is the first ever Visiting Scholar with the UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies. She recently completed…
Love Magic in the Kitchen—Scholars Share Research on Dangerous Dependencies, Domestic Slavery and Servitude
May 4, 2012—Dozens of faculty members, administrators, visiting scholars, and students participated in a roundtable organized by law professor Michelle McKinley and held at the UO Knight Library on May 4. “Dangerous Dependencies: Domestic Slavery and Servitude in the Americas”…
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…
Symposium: “Place and Displacement in African American Literature”
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Eve Dunbar (Vassar), “Place and Displacement in the Ethnographic and Literary Writings of Zora Neale Hurston” Courtney Thorsson (U Oregon), “Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes” Emily Lordi (U Mass), “’Move’: Literary Historiography and the…
