Category: Research

Mia McKenzie: Lyllye B. Parker Women of Color Speaker Series

[ April 14, 2015; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Global Scholars Great Hall
1710 E. 15th Ave.
Room 123

The ASUO Women’s Center Presents the Lyllye B. Parker Women of Color Speaker Series: Mia McKenzie

Mia McKenzie is a black feminist writer and a smart, scrappy Philadelphian. She is a nerd and the creator of Black Girl Dangerous, a multi-faceted forum for the literary and artistic expression of […]

Grants from Center for the Study of Women in Society to fuel 20 projects

Grants from Center for the Study of Women in Society to fuel 20 projects | Around the O.
Jeneé Wilde
April 10, 2014—“Needing more time to finish her doctoral work, Jeneé Wilde in the UO’s English department was thrilled to learn she is the winner of the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship for the 2014-15 academic year.
”The fellowship, […]

Johanna Crane: Who is Global Health For? Tenacious Assumptions in Global Health Science

[ April 9, 2015; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.

A Public Talk

Johanna Crane is a medical anthropologist with a background in English whose research brings together history, science, technological studies, medical humanities, bioethics, and global health. Her book Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science examines the changing U.S. response to the AIDS epidemic […]

CSWS Noon Talk: Jenée Wilde, “Bridging Humanities and Social Science Methods in PhD Research”

[ April 8, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Jane Grant Conference Room
330 Hendricks Hall, 1408 University St.
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Jenée Wilde discusses the challenges and rewards of mixing ethnographic research methods with approaches to literary and visual media in her interdisciplinary project “Speculative Fictions, Bisexual Lives: Changing Frameworks of Sexual Desire.”

Wilde is the 2014-15 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship Award recipient. A PhD candidate in […]

UO study: Abusive relationships damage girls’ educational pursuits

UO study: Abusive relationships damage girls’ educational pursuits | Around the O.
CSWS faculty affiliate Krista M. Chronister, associate professor in the UO Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services in the College of Education, led this study. Chronister’s research has been supported previously by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant.

Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the OLPC in Ghana

Published on Apr 1, 2014
Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the OLPC in Ghana, a documentary by Leslie Steeves, examines the MIT Media Lab’s One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project—which aims to make low cost computers accessible to the “world’s poorest children”—and its implementation in two pilot schools, one urban and one […]