Courtney Thorsson Wins 2014 Early Career Award

Courtney Thorsson

Courtney Thorsson

June 10, 2014—UO Research Excellence Awards announced | Oregon Research.

Courtney Thorsson, assistant professor of English and a CSWS faculty affiliate, is one of two University of Oregon faculty to receive a 2014 Early Career Award. CSWS supported Professor Thorsson’s foodways and literature research with a 2012 CSWS Faculty Research Award. She is the author of Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels (University of Virginia Press, 2013).

The Vice President for Research and Innovation announced the recipients of the UO Research Excellence Awards. This year, the format includes five awards presented to seven individuals at an awards ceremony on June 10, 2014.