Category: Research

Modern Girl Culture and Working-Class Women in Interwar Japan

Saturday McKenzie Hall, Room 375 UO campus A workshop talk by Barbara Sato, Professor of History at Seikei University in Japan This talk and open discussion is connected to the recent “Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor…

The Mobile Family: Protecting the Children of Same-Sex Parents Within and Across State Borders

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Joan Heifetz Hollinger is a leading American scholar on adoption law and practice, as well as on the psychosocial aspects of adoptive family relationships. She is centrally involved in efforts to…

Dance and the Hollywood Latina—Priscilla Peña Ovalle

Dance and the Hollywood Latina a new book by Priscilla Peña Ovalle UO assistant professor of film and media studies and a CSWS affiliate Now available from Rutgers University Press From the Rutgers University Press website: “Dance and the Hollywood…

Racial Propositions—Daniel HoSang

Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California a new book by Daniel Martinez HoSang Now available from University of California Press Daniel HoSang, University of Oregon assistant professor, Ethnic Studies Department and the Department of Political Science,…

Yvonne Braun Receives Enloe Award

Lesotho, a small, resource-poor country surrounded by the Republic of South Africa, is in the midst of one of the largest dam development projects in the world—and tens of thousands of Basotho people are being affected by it. University of…

CSWS Grantee Jennifer Erickson Interviewed

“What happens when white, ethnically Muslim refugees from a once-strong paternalist, socialist state like Bosnia-Herzegovina come to the United States, where economic self-sufficiency is the ultimate goal? How do Black, Christian Southern Sudanese—many of whom had little experience with running…