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Erin Beck wins book award for her research on Guatemalan NGOs

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Congratulations to CSWS faculty affiliate Erin Beck, whose book, How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs, was selected as co-winner of the Book Award of the Sociology of Development section of the American Sociological Association. Professor Beck was recently promoted to…

Erin Beck’s new book, “How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs”

Pictured is Erin Beck.

How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs by Erin Beck. Duke University Press (May 2017) Erin Beck is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon, a CSWS faculty affiliate, and co-coordinator of the CSWS Américas Research…

Increasing the Visibility of Your Humanities or Social Science Research

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Come learn how to increase the visibility of your humanities and social science work among academic and non-academic audiences from a panel of experts including the University of Oregon’s Lauren Kessler…

Irma Velásquez, “Activism and Social Change in Postwar Guatemala”

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Global Scholars Hall Room 123 (Great Room) Poster PDF Irma Velásquez, “Activism and Social Change in Postwar Guatemala.” Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj will speak about activism and social change in postwar Guatemala in a talk at the Global Scholars Hall…

Jessaca Leinaweaver: “Collaborative Research on Children, Caregiving, and Migration in Peru”

Graduate Student Lounge Susan Campbell Hall 1431 Johnson Lane A Public Talk Jessaca Leinaweaver conducts research in cultural anthropology and anthropological demography within Peru and the Peruvian diaspora. She has published on informal child fostering in the urban Andes, aging…