Under the current austerity regime forced on school districts by lack of tax revenue, imagining a more equitable school system that respects individuals may seem out of step with the business oriented forces at work in U.S. education policy. But…
Category: Research
Stretched Thin—Book About Welfare Reform Written by UO Researchers Is Up for Prestigious Award
A book about poor families and welfare written by three feminist scholars—an anthropologist and two sociologists—is a finalist for the prestigious C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work,…
Former CSWS Grant Recipient Makes WAVES
Editor’s Update: Homefront Heroines reached its funding goal on June 29 June 2011—Kathleen M. Ryan, Ph.D., received a CSWS graduate student research grant in 2007 while working on her doctorate in the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.…
CSWS Noon Talk: “The One Laptop Per Child Project in Ghana,” Leslie Steeves
Jane Grant Rm 330 Hendricks 1408 University St. “Technology, Gender and Education for Development: The One Laptop Per Child Project in Ghana” Leslie Steeves, Professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication, will talk about her research and show a clip…
“The Tempest, Europe, & Maritime Modernity”—Ania Loomba
Alumni Lounge Gerlinger Hall 1468 University St. A free public lecture by Professor Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Loomba researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and…
The Impact of Microfinance on Women’s Empowerment in Bolivia
Hendricks Hall Frazier Hearth Rm UO campus A Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies (CLLAS) Grantee Presentation: Alejandra García Diaz Villamil (PPPM) How have communal banks in Bolivia impacted the empowerment of women entrepreneurs, particularly in terms of decision-making,…
