Category: Research

“Modern Girls on the Go” — new book edited by Alisa Freedman now available

Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, Edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano (Stanford University Press, March 2013)
This book comes out of a conference held at the University of Oregon in 2010 and organized by Alisa Freedman, UO associate professor of Japanese Literature & Film in the […]

Institutional betrayal magnifies post-trauma effects of unwanted sexual activity

Institutional betrayal magnifies post-trauma effects of unwanted sexual activity | UO Communications
EUGENE, Ore. — (March 8, 2013) — A study of 345 female university students found that 233 of them had experienced at least one unwanted sexual experience in their lifetime, and 46 percent of those victims also experienced betrayal by the institution where incidents […]

Dr. Cheryl Mattingly — “Hope, Suffering and the Play of Possible Selves: A Narrative Perspective on the Good Life”

[ March 6, 2014; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Gerlinger Lounge
1468 University St.
UO campus

Dr. Cheryl Mattingly is a professor of anthropology in the Division of Occupational Science and Therapy at the University of Southern California. Her talk will draw on a 15-year research study with African-American families in Los Angeles. This study explores the experiences of parents of children with chronic illness, and formed […]

Charise Cheney: CSWS Research Matters | Winter 2013

Charise Cheney
“Brown v. Board of Education,” by Charise Cheney, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Ethnic Studies
By complicating the story of the Topeka lawsuit, Cheney’s study engages and expands current historical debates over the modern Civil Rights movement.
Charise Cheney’s paper is now available online as the Winter 2013 issue of CSWS Research Matters.
From her […]

Lisa Gilman—“Ethnic Pride or Tribalism: The Formation of Ethnic Associations in Multiparty Malawi”

[ February 26, 2014; 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Free & open to the public

CSWS faculty affiliate Lisa Gilman (Associate Professor, UO Department of English, Folklore) speaks on “Ethnic Pride or Tribalism: The Formation of Ethnic Associations in Multiparty Malawi” as part of the African Studies Lecture Series.

Carol Stabile Receives 2013 Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History

Carol Stabile—director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon, and professor, School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies—has received the 2013 Farrar Media and Civil Rights History Award for her article “The Typhoid Marys of the Left; Gender, Race and the […]