Recent blog entries on the websites for Inside Higher Ed and the American Historical Association provide details of an amicus brief filed March 1 in US v. Windsor, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court contesting the validity of the…
Category: Public Policy
Bob Bussel’s OPB interview regarding 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Oregon
Bob Bussel, associate professor of history and director of the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon, will discuss the history of the minimum wage on Oregon Public Broadcasting Radio (KOPB) on November 6, 2012. The segment,…
“Moving Forward with the Legal Empowerment of Women in Pakistan”—Special Report by Anita Weiss for the U.S. Institute of Peace
May 1, 2012—The United States Institute of Peace issued “Moving Forward with the Legal Empowerment of Women in Pakistan,” Special Report 305, by Anita M. Weiss, professor and head of the University of Oregon Department of International Studies and vice…
UO Today #469: Dr. Beverly Wright
UO Today #469: Dr. Beverly Wright Posted on Feb 9th, 2011 in Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today Dr. Beverly Wright, environmental scholar and founding director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University, discusses her work advocating for the…
Dealing Head-on with Issues of Environmental Racism
Introduction for Dr. Beverly Wright, Director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice by Margaret L. Paris, Philip H. Knight Dean and Professor, University of Oregon School of Law Dr. Wright spoke on “The Perilous Consequences of Public Policy Decisions: Weathering…
“The Perilous Consequences of Public Policy Decisions: Weathering the Storm of Natural and Man-made Disasters in the Gulf”—Dr. Beverly Wright
EMU Ballroom 1222 E. 13th Ave. University of Oregon Dr. Beverly Wright, environmental justice scholar and activist, is the founder of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice currently at Dillard University in New Orleans. The Center addresses environmental and…
