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DOLORES: Film Screening with director Peter Bratt

Redwood Auditorium Erb Memorial Union (EMU) 1222 E. 13th Ave. Film Screening & Discussion with film director Peter Bratt: DOLORES DOLORES HUERTA  Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in…

Erin Beck wins book award for her research on Guatemalan NGOs

Pictured is Erin Beck.

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…

CSWS Advisory Board member publishes article on the Trump administration’s immigration policy

Pictured is Dyana Mason.

Editor’s Note: Dyana Mason is a member of the CSWS Advisory Board. Around the O / Professor publishes article on president’s immigration policy June 15, 2018—Dyana Mason, an assistant professor of planning, public policy and management, recently authored an article…

Panel at Sydney conference will honor CSWS founder Joan Acker

Pictured is Eileen Otis.

Two University of Oregon professors will participate this week in a conference panel in Sydney, Australia, that honors the memory of CSWS founder and long-time director Joan Acker. The panel, titled  “Traveling with Joan: A Panel of Global Feminist Scholarship in Honor…

Unrest in the Aisles, an OQ story about the research of Eileen Otis

Editor’s Note: Through CSWS Faculty Research Grants, CSWS has supported the research of faculty affiliate Eileen Otis. From Oregon Quarterly—The first time UO sociologist Eileen Otis walked into a Walmart, she was far from home—Kunming, China, to be exact. She…