School for Advanced Research (SAR)—Microfinance. Microfinance: Assessing the Economic and Cultural Implications of Microfinance on Poverty from Cross-Cultural Perspectives Research Team Seminar September 25–27, 2012 School for Advanced Research (SAR) Santa Fe, N.M. Milford Bateman, Chair Visiting Professor of Economics,…
Category: Research
Priscilla Peña Ovalle: Thinking Through a Research Trajectory, From Hollywood Latinas to Hair/Style
CSWS Research Matters, Spring 2012 Thinking Through a Research Trajectory, From Hollywood Latinas to Hair/Style Latinas function as the in-between bodies that mediate and maintain the racial status quo of mainstream media, by Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Associate Professor, University of…
Jenée Wilde Selected for Fellowship and Research Grant
Jenée Wilde has been selected to receive the 2012-2013 Norman Brown Graduate Fellowship, which was established by alumnus Norman Brown (’68) to support graduate student excellence. A PhD candidate in the UO Department of English (Folklore Program), she has also…
Mara Williams: InsideOregon story
UO graduate teaching fellow accepted into Chicago comics program May 15, 2012—“Mara Williams has been drawing her entire life. The graduate teaching fellow in the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication is a self-described, consummate scribbler and doodler.”…
Mara Williams Accepted to Comics Industry Intensive—at the Mistress Level
UO graduate student Mara Williams has been accepted at the Mistress level to the Adventure School for Ladies: Comics Intensive, a residential program focused on increasing diversity in the comics industry. Mara is only one of two artists accepted at the…
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”…
