{"id":31484,"date":"2020-02-18T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=31484"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:37:03","slug":"laura-pulido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/laura-pulido\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Pulido is the newest recipient of a Collins Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Around the O<\/em> \u2014 Laura Pulido, a professor in two UO departments who has had a wide-ranging influence on campus and beyond, has been named a Collins Chair in the College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Collins gift specifies that the \nrecipient of the endowed chair be an outstanding scholar in the \nhumanities disciplines or one who studies \u201caspects of the social \nsciences that employ historical or philosophical approaches.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulido\n holds a joint appointment in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and \nEthnic Studies, where she has also served as department head, and the \nDepartment of Geography. Her research focuses on how working-class \npeople of color struggle for their rights within the confines of what \nshe calls \u201cracial capitalism,\u201d the idea that racism is an endemic aspect\n of capitalist economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently, her work has shifted to \nstructures of domination, especially white supremacy and nationalism and\n how they shape the U.S., including its historical geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDr.\n Pulido has a truly outstanding record of scholarly achievements, with \nan international profile,\u201d said Bruce Blonigen, Tykeson Dean of the \nCollege of Arts and Sciences, who cited Pulido\u2019s 2016 Guggenheim \nFellowship, 2018 Harold Rose Anti-Racism Award from the Association of \nAmerican Geographers, and 2018 Globe Book Award for Public Understanding\n of Geography by the Association of American Geographers as recent \nexamples of her scholarly achievements and recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulido\u2019s \narrival on the UO campus was heralded by colleagues across campus. Alec \nMurphy, professor of geography and Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts and \nSciences, noted that \u201cLaura\u2019s arrival was widely viewed as a coup for \nUO’s geography department because of her visibility as a disciplinary \ncitizen and the far-reaching impact of her scholarly work on the \ngeographic roots and implications of racial inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David \nV\u00e1zquez, department head for English and a specialist in Latinx \nliterature, also was enthusiastic about Pulido\u2019s contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\n is one of the leading figures in both the study of race and social \nmovements and in the field of environmental justice studies,\u201d he said. \n\u201cAs one of the top researchers in the world on environmental justice, \nshe further consolidates UO\u2019s reputation as the premier university in \nthe U.S. for environmental studies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulido has spent much of her \ncareer studying how activists create meaningful social and environmental\n change. She said her interest in political activism began when, as a \nchild, she first learned about Harriett Tubman and the Underground \nRailroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy inability to understand her courage and actions led \nme to study how people become activists, their visions for changing the \nworld, how they create change and the obstacles they encounter,\u201d she \nsaid. \u201cThe fact that the first person I ever admired was a black woman \nis also meaningful. Although my work is anchored by the study of ethnic \nMexicans, I knew that I could never draw too tight a boundary around \nthem. Consequently, I have written a good deal about comparative and \nrelational ethnic studies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulido said she was delighted to be the recipient of a Collins Chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe\n University of Oregon attracted me because it was an excellent fit \nintellectually, but I have found it to also be a very welcoming place.\u201d \nShe said. \u201cAs a faculty member of indigenous, race, and ethnic studies, I\n am especially pleased to be recognized in this way because far too \noften people do not think ethnic studies is a serious field of \nscholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulido joins David Li, Collins Professor of the Humanities, who has held the Collins Chair in English since 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014By Lisa Raleigh, College of Arts and Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Around the O \u2014 Laura Pulido, a professor in two UO departments who has had a wide-ranging influence on campus and beyond, has been named a Collins Chair in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Collins gift specifies…<\/p>\n

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