Category: Research

Sharon Luk wins a book prize from ASA

Pictured is Sharon Luk.

Annual Awards Ceremony / American Studies Association October 23, 2018—“The American Studies Association has awarded the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize to Sharon Luk, The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity (University of California Press). …

2018 CSWS Annual Review now available

2018 CSWS Annual Review The 2018 CSWS Annual Review is now available online. In this issue, you can read about the research of faculty members Ernesto Martínez, Shoniqua Roach, Michelle Byrne, Linda Long, Judith Raiskin, and Eileen Otis, as well…

Lesbian Oral History Project to become part of UO collections

Judith Raiskin (l) and Linda Long

Editor’s Note: CSWS is supporting this research through a CSWS Faculty Research Grant, with funds from the Mazie Giustina Endowment for Research on Women in the Northwest. September 10, 2018 (reprinted from Around the O)—The history of Eugene’s lesbian community…

Courtney Thorsson receives NEH Public Scholars Award

Pictured is Courtney Thorsson.

August 2018—Courtney Thorsson, associate professor of English and a CSWS faculty affiliate, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars award in the amount of $60,000 for her project “The Sisterhood and Black Women’s Literary Organizing.” This award will…

Lesbian Oral History Project

Judith Raiskin and Linda Long collect the stories of the local lesbian community.

New History for Future Generations Lesbian Oral History documents gay women in Eugene An article in the August 9th edition of Eugene Weekly highlights the work of the Lesbian Oral History Project being carried out by Linda Long, UO Libraries…