{"id":26425,"date":"2017-04-13T11:55:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=26425"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:41:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:41:30","slug":"2017-18-csws-research-grant-awardees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/2017-18-csws-research-grant-awardees\/","title":{"rendered":"2017-18 CSWS Research Grant Awardees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c2017-18 CSWS Research Awards: Jane Grant Fellowship, Graduate and Faculty Research Grants, and the Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship\u201d<\/h4>\n

The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded more than $60,000 in student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2017-18 Academic Year. The research being funded includes projects focused in Portland, Oregon, and all over the globe.<\/p>\n

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Yi Yu<\/p><\/div>\n

PhD candidate Yi Yu, Department of Geography, was chosen from a strong pool of applicants to receive the prestigious Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation research \u201cInstitutional Mother, Professional Caregivers: Biopolitics of Affective Labor in Chinese State-owned Social Welfare Institution.\u201d Yu\u2019s research focuses on \u201cfemale professional caregivers in China\u2019s state-owned social welfare institutions and examines the complex roles they play in raising orphans.\u201d<\/p>\n

CSWS also funded two sociology graduate students who are exploring work-life conflicts among workers in Portland, Oregon, with particular attention to women, minorities, and immigrants, in sectors that use unpredictable scheduling practices. Another grant funds a sociology graduate student doing an ethnographic study that examines \u201chow Latina moms of kids with disabilities become advocates for themselves and their children in the special education system in Oregon.\u201d CSWS will also support the research of a doctoral student in human physiology, who is studying physiological and functional differences in traumatic brain injury in women and men, work which can be used \u201cto establish sex-specific rehabilitation protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n

Margaret Bostrom, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, received both a CSWS Graduate Research Grant and the new Fortnightly Research Grant, funded by the Fortnightly Club of Eugene<\/a>. Bostrum\u2019s research is titled, \u201cAre you sure, Sweetheart, that you want to be well?: Feminisms, Fitness, and the Politics of Wellness and Welfare in the 1980s.\u201d<\/p>\n

CSWS-funded faculty research includes a book project by Eileen Otis, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, on \u201cWomen, Wal-Mart and Labor Resistance in China.\u201d Otis will investigate recent organized resistance among the mostly women workers at Wal-Mart retail stores in southern China, the \u201cfinal segment of a long-term ethnographic project examining the experiences, opportunities, conundrums and new identities created by the labor of women in China\u2019s globalizing service sector, focusing on the world\u2019s largest retailer, Wal-Mart.\u201d CSWS previously supported earlier work on this project.<\/p>\n

Faculty grant recipient Dyana Mason, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM), is studying community development projects in Laos to gather material to help understand the clashing ideas in structure and ideology among stakeholders for her project, \u201cInstitutional Logics, Hybridity and Women\u2019s Empowerment in an International Development Program.\u201d Michelle Byrne, a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Psychology, is gathering information about how interactions between childhood maltreatment and mental health affect the immune system in adolescent girls for her project, \u201cInteractions of Abuse and Mental Illness in the Development of Girls\u2019 Immune Health.\u201d Tatiana Bryant, an assistant librarian in the UO Libraries, was awarded funding for her project, \u201cGender Performance and Identity in Librarianship.\u201d<\/p>\n

In all, ten UO graduate students will receive awards ranging from $1,000 to more than $12,000. Four faculty scholars will receive awards ranging from $3,000 to $6,000 each.<\/p>\n

Additionally, CSWS selected Delaney Swink, a senior in the Department of International Studies, as the recipient of the 2017-18 *Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship for her thesis \u201cSocial Change in Morocco: Islamic Feminism and Women\u2019s Rights to Education.\u201d Swink aims to \u201cexamine the complexity of Islamic feminism in Morocco, analyze the role and impact of governmental and nonprofit institutions on gender equality in Morocco, and propose solutions for female empowerment based on these findings.\u201d<\/p>\n

2017\u201318 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship<\/h5>\n