Tag: UO

Salmon Is Everything: Chosen as Book of the Year by Humboldt State University

Theresa May
Source: Book of the Year | Library | Humboldt State University
Humboldt State University has chosen UO theatre professor Theresa May’s 2014 book Salmon Is Everything (OSU Press) as its 2015 / 2016 Book of the Year.
Humboldt State has a National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM grant for curriculum around the Klamath River, and Dr. May’s […]

Spiderwoman Theater: Bringing Light to Native American and Women’s Issues | KLCC

Muriel Miguel
Muriel Miguel is director and co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater Company, the oldest Native women’s theater ensemble in North America. She speaks with Eric Alan about using theater and storytelling to shed light on issues such as violence against women, and gay and lesbian relationships in Native nations. She was in residence at the UO […]

Susan C. Anderson to be senior vice provost in Academic Affairs

Susan C. Anderson
CSWS faculty affiliate Susan C. Anderson, a professor in the Department of German and Scandinavian, has been chosen as the new senior vice provost in Academic Affairs.
June 26, 2015—“Susan C. Anderson has been selected as the new senior vice provost for Academic Affairs, according to an announcement from the Office of the Provost. […]

CSWS Research Matters Spring 2015: Alaí Reyes-Santos, “Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles”

Spring 2015: CSWS Research Matters 
“Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles,” by Alaí Reyes-Santos, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon 
Department of Ethnic Studies
Our Caribbean Kin, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, disentangles the affective component of political solidarity in the Antilles. Alaí Reyes-Santos received faculty grant support from CSWS for research […]

New book by philosophy professor Naomi Zack tackles black rights

Source: New book by philosophy professor Naomi Zack tackles black rights | Around the O
CSWS faculty affiliate Naomi Zack’s newest book, White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide, was published in April 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield.
Publisher’s Synopsis
“Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white […]

Dr. Sangita Gopal Chosen as Incoming CSWS Associate Director

Dr. Sangita Gopal
April 16, 2015—Dr. Sangita Gopal, whose research, as she describes it, “is located at the intersection of feminist media studies, postcolonial studies and globalization,” has been chosen for a two-year term as associate director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon starting in Fall 2015. […]