Browsing Room, Knight Library A moderated talk and book celebration with authors Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt Join CSWS and the UO Department of Sociology in a discussion and celebration of the publication of Stretched Thin: Poor Families,…
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Scott Testifies Before Oregon Legislative Committees
Making Employment Work for Low Wage Families: Oregon’s Employment-Related Child Care Subsidy Program Ellen Scott, University of Oregon associate professor of Sociology and head, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, testified before the Oregon Senate Commerce and Workforce Development Committee…
CAS Dean Talks About Fatherhood
Sociologist Scott Coltrane, dean of the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences, spoke about research on parenting, gender equity and the evolving role of fathers to a noon-time audience of about 75 people Wednesday, January 13, at a…
Conference: “Modern Girls on the Go”
“Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan” (MGG) “Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan” (MGG) University of Oregon This international workshop, involving scholars from the fields of history, anthropology, visual studies,…
CSWS Names Higdon Scholarship Winners
UO Student Awarded the Inaugural Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship Senior AlexAnn Westlake is the first-ever winner of the $1,000 Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship. Following an open competition among UO undergraduates working on a senior thesis on issues related…
Michelle McKinley Awarded NEH Fellowship
University of Oregon law professor Michelle McKinley has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her book manuscript, entitled “Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1700.” A member of the CSWS Women…
