Category: Native American

CSWS Research Matters Fall 2014: Theresa May, “The Women and Rivers Project”

Fall 2014 CSWS Research Matters: “The Women and Rivers Project” by Theresa May, Associate Professor, University of Oregon Department of Theatre Arts A CSWS faculty research grant supports Theresa May’s collaborative creative project on women and rivers, which explores the…

Native Studies Research Colloquium: Theresa May, “Native Theater/Drama and Environmental Justice”

Many Nations Longhouse 1630 Columbia St. UO campus Free & open to the public (Bring Your Own Lunch) “Native Theater/Drama and Environmental Justice” a talk by Dr. Theresa May, associate professor, UO Department of Theatre Arts Professor Theresa May’s research…

Native Studies Research Colloquium — Lynn Stephen

    Many Nations Longhouse 1630 Columbia St. UO campus Free & open to the public (Bring Your Own Lunch) “Transborder Gendered Violence and Resistance: Indigenous Women Migrants Seeking U.S. Asylum” a talk by Dr. Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of…

Now available: “Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed,” by Theresa May

Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed, by Theresa May with Suzanne Burcell, Kathleen McCovey, and Jean O’Hara. Foreword by Gordon Bettles. (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies, 2014),  208 pages. ISBN 978-0-87071-746-8. Paperback, $19.95. Synopsis from…

Theresa May Featured in Oregon Quarterly—Autumn 2012

Oregon Quarterly Magazine – Autumn 2012. “Watershed Moment,” by Bonnie Henderson takes a look at the Klamath River Basin and highlights CSWS faculty affiliate Theresa May’s play “Salmon Is Everything.” Theresa May is assistant professor, UO Department of Theatre Arts.

“The S-Word: The Squaw Stereotype in American Popular Culture”— a Road Scholars lecture by Debra Merskin

Eugene Public Library 100 W. 10th Ave., Eugene, OR Free & open to the public A CSWS Road Scholars Lecture presented by Debra Merskin This presentation explores the term “squaw” as an element of discourse that frames a version of…