{"id":20520,"date":"2014-10-22T13:08:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?page_id=20520"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:36:35","slug":"visiting-scholars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/about\/people\/visiting-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28599\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28599\" src=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Strait_Laura_Headshot-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Strait_Laura_Headshot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Strait_Laura_Headshot-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Strait_Laura_Headshot-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Strait_Laura_Headshot-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Strait_Laura_Headshot-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Strait_Laura_Headshot-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Strait_Laura_Headshot-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Strait<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2020-21 resident fellow:<\/strong> Laura E. Strait is a recent PhD in Media Studies at the University of Oregon&#8217;s School of Journalism and Communication. Her education includes a BA in Cultural Studies (Columbia College Chicago), and an MS in Media Studies (Univ. of Oregon). Her research interests broadly include technology and gaming, social movements in the digital age, and race and gender issues on social media. Her dissertation traces the genealogy of pro-life feminism, its contemporary relationship to liberal feminism, and the varied forms of technologies employed by both groups to build and reinforce issue communities. Laura was the CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow in 2018, and remains affiliated with the Center and the University of Oregon. Her relevant publications include \u201cOut on Proudmoore: Climate Change on an MMO,\u201d <em>Queerness in Play<\/em>, Palgrave-Macmillan, September 2018, 261-272; and a book review, \u201cUsing Media for Social Innovation,\u201d Critical Studies in Media Communication, Podkalicka and Rennie, April, 2019.\n<div id=\"attachment_29412\" style=\"width: 271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29412\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29412\" src=\"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Chaudhry_WEB-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Chaudhry_WEB-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Chaudhry_WEB-130x150.jpg 130w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Chaudhry_WEB-260x299.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Chaudhry_WEB-160x184.jpg 160w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Chaudhry_WEB.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>V Varun Chaudhry<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018-19 pro-tem research assistant:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/facultyguide\/person.html?emplid=6c9f9a9f50eb4c90a05d153652a15549d6bc2f60\">V Varun Chaudhry<\/a> is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. His work focuses on the institutionalization of \u201ctransgender\u201d in nonprofit and funding agencies through ethnographic research in Philadelphia, PA. V\u2019s research has been generously supported by the Social Science Research Council, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Sexualities Project at Northwestern, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. His writing appears or is forthcoming in <em>GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies<\/em>, <em>Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society<\/em>, <em>American Anthropologist<\/em>, and <em>Critical Inquiry<\/em>. See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/chaudhry-inquirer\/\">&#8220;When it comes to gender identity, inclusion is more than using the right pronoun&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Senior Courtesy Research Associate:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/cheris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cheris Kramarae<\/a> is a former professor, and director of women\u2019s studies, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020-21 resident fellow: Laura E. Strait is a recent PhD in Media Studies at the University of Oregon&#8217;s School of Journalism and Communication. Her education includes a BA in Cultural Studies (Columbia College Chicago), and an MS in Media Studies&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/about\/people\/visiting-scholars\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20520","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32665,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20520\/revisions\/32665"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}