Category: Women of Color

Reflecting on Charlottesville

  The University of Oregon and the University of Virginia are not as far away, both geographically and politically, as one might think. Both are liberal campuses within liberal, democratic, Bernie-voting enclaves. We have every reason to believe that white…

Mai-Lin Cheng Receives Two Research Fellowships

Pictured is Mai-Lin Cheng.

CSWS faculty affiliate Mai-Lin Cheng was notified recently of an appointment as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at The Huntington for a period of two months. She also learned that she is the recipient of a UCLA Clark Memorial…

Fractional Freedoms: CSWS to Celebrate Director Michelle McKinley’s New Book

On May 25, CSWS will celebrate the release of Director Michelle McKinley’s book, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 (Cambridge University Press, October 2016). The book explores domestic slavery and what Professor McKinley terms “fractional…

CSWS Research Matters Winter 2017: Kemi Balogun’s book project on beauty diplomacy in Nigeria

Pictured is a Queen Nigeria contestant, who exemplifies the “girl next door” vibe characteristic of this pageant.

2017, Winter: CSWS Research Matters “Beauty Diplomacy: Culture, Markets, and Politics in the Nigerian Beauty Pageant Industry,” by Oluwakemi M. “Kemi” Balogun, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology Kemi Balogun writes about her…

CSWS Leaders Honored at 2017 MLK Awards

Pictured is Michelle McKinley.

January 18, 2017—CSWS director Michelle McKinley and associate director Sangita Gopal were among those honored at this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards Luncheon presented by the University of Oregon’s Division of Equity and Inclusion at the Ford Alumni Center…