{"id":28598,"date":"2018-05-01T14:34:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=28598"},"modified":"2018-05-21T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:00:03","slug":"2018-19-csws-research-awards-jane-grant-fellowship-graduate-and-faculty-research-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/2018-19-csws-research-awards-jane-grant-fellowship-graduate-and-faculty-research-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"2018-19 CSWS Research Awards: Jane Grant Fellowship, Graduate and Faculty Research Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 9, 2018\u2014<\/strong>The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded more than $67,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2018-19 academic year. The research being funded includes projects focused in Senegal, Ghana, the Caribbean, and across the country.<\/p>\n

PhD candidate Laura Strait, Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, was chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants to receive the prestigious Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation research, \u201cOccupying a Third Place: Pro-Life Feminism, Legible Politics, and the Edge of Women\u2019s Liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Laura Strait<\/p><\/div>\n

Strait\u2019s research investigates pro-life feminism, looking \u201cto read an alternative history of the feminist movement from the perspective of pro-life feminists in order to pinpoint incommensurabilities that in turn define the state of feminism(s) today. To this end, [the] project details the history of pro-life feminism as it runs parallel to mainstream histories of the feminist movement \u2013 focusing on departures in feminist philosophy from the logic and tenets of pro-life feminism.\u201d Her award also includes a tuition remission grant from the Dean of the Graduate School, and a health insurance stipend from CSWS.<\/p>\n

CSWS-funded graduate student research includes an award to SOJC doctoral student Layire Diop, who is assessing communication campaigns for \u201cthe end of fistula in Senegal.\u201d Ben Nelson, a graduate teaching fellow in the Department of Psychology, received a research grant to investigate mechanisms connecting maternal depression to physical disease. Nicole Francisco, a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, received support for her dissertation research, which \u201cexplores incarceration through the lens of gender and sexuality, with a particular focus on the activist organizing efforts that emerge at the intersections of queerness and incarceration.\u201d<\/p>\n

CSWS-funded faculty research includes writing time for novelist Marjorie Celona, an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program, for revision of her novel Be On My Side<\/em>, scheduled for publication in 2019. Nicole Giuliani, assistant professor in the School Psychology Program, COE, received funding to examine the differential impact of socioeconomic status on the immune health of mothers of young children. Linda Long, curator of manuscripts for Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, was funded to carry out work on her \u201cEugene Lesbian Oral History Project.\u201d Shoniqua Roach, an assistant professor in the Department of Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, received funding for her book project on \u201cBlack Sexual Sanctuaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

In all, seven UO graduate students will receive awards ranging from $1,200 to more than $12,000. Seven faculty scholars will receive awards ranging from $1,500 to $6,000 each.<\/p>\n

2018-19 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship<\/strong><\/p>\n