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by Jen\u00e9e Wilde, CSWS Research Dissemination Specialist\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

2020 has been an unprecedented year at CSWS and the University of Oregon. Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic curbed affiliate research and Center\u2019s normal programming and operations, the murder of George Floyd ignited a summer of international racial justice protest movements and backlash. As a report on our activities during this momentous year, the 2020 Annual Review<\/a> reflects the research and thinking of our grant award winners both before and<\/em> after the coronavirus lockdown and protests over state-sanctioned police brutality<\/p>\n

Director Michelle McKinley opens the issue with her annual report examining last year\u2019s theme of \u201cGender, Power, and Grief\u201d in light of our present circumstances and their effects on the Center and our community\u2014including the premature ending of our Lorwin Lecture series and other talks scheduled for spring term. She also takes time to celebrate the achievements of our faculty and graduate student affiliates and the fierce feminist actions of our community to support caregivers.<\/p>\n

Two feature stories in this issue delve deeper into the theme of \u201cGender, Power, and Grief.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first story, \u201cReflections on Gender, Power, and Grief,\u201d offers personal commentary from four of our affiliates in response to Lorwin Lectures that took place in the fall and winter. In these reflections, introduced by McKinley, digital and editorial content editor Jessica T. Brown, School of Journalism and Communication, shares how she felt deeply affected by Rhaisa Williams\u2019 Oct. 25 talk \u201cScreaming to Dream: Toni Morrison, Emmett Till, and Black Maternal Grief.\u201d Associate professor and director of the global health program Kristin Yarris, Global Studies, gives her take on Sylvanna Falc\u00f3n\u2019s Feb. 6 talk, \u201cFinding \u2018light born in darkness\u2019: The Urgency of Feminist Activism in These Times.\u201d Doctoral student Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov, Comparative Literature, shares her thoughts on Tina Campt\u2019s inspiring Feb. 17 talk on \u201cThe New Black Gaze.\u201d And doctoral student Jalen Thompson, English, explores how Karla Holloway\u2019s Mar. 4 lecture \u201cFrom Fact to Fiction: A Colored Life in Letters\u201d impacted his thinking during a time of crisis for Black Americans.<\/p>\n

In our second feature story, fiction author and career instructor Ulrick Casimir, English, conducts an in-depth interview with Karla Holloway, who was his teacher as an undergraduate student at North Carolina State University. Casimir talks to Holloway about her eighth book and debut novel, A Death in Harlem<\/em> (2019). While this detective story was originally inspired by Nella Larsen\u2019s classic novel Passing<\/em> (1929), Holloway shares how the story and its characters took on a life of their own. The story follows protagonist Weldon Thomas, Harlem\u2019s first and only \u201ccolored\u201d policeman, as he picks through racial intrigue and thick layers of class, lies, and familial deceit to solve a murder mystery, while the author explores whose deaths really<\/em> count in Black Harlem, and why.<\/p>\n

Articles by two of our 2019 graduate student research grant award winners reflect on their projects\u2019 significance during a time of social and political unrest and antiracist protests. In \u201c\u2018Two Sides of the Same Story\u2019: Colonial Violence and Erasure in the University of Oregon\u2019s (Fallen) Pioneer Statues,\u201d doctoral student Marc J. Carpenter, History, considers the legacy of UO\u2019s Pioneer<\/em> and Pioneer Mother<\/em> monuments that inspired years of controversy, culminating with protesters toppling the two statues in June. Also, in \u201cThe Work of Black Feminist Liberation: Writing Erotic Freedom in Black Feminist Fiction and TV,\u201d doctoral student Carmel Ohman discusses what it means to engage creative texts by and about Black women in this historic moment of collective action. Other reports from our 2019 graduate student research grand award winners include the following: Daizi Hazarika, Anthropology, \u201cWitchcraft, Gender and Colonial Law in Assam, India: An Archival Analysis\u201d; Jane Nam, Philosophy, \u201cEscape the Corset: Radical Korean Feminism\u201d; Amna Javed, Economics, \u201cAn Exploratory Analysis of Honor Killings in Pakistan\u201d; and Emily Masucci, Anthropology, \u201cThe Politics of Seeking Shelter: Gender-based Violence and the Right to Safety Among Low-Income Women in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of our faculty reports also connects her research on Black writing to the current crises. In her article, \u201cThe \u2018Loophole of Retreat\u2019: Seclusion, Privacy, and the Intimate Geographies of Black Life,\u201d Assistant Professor Faith Barter, English, considers when seclusion, withdrawal, and retreat are not merely<\/em> forms of confinement and isolation but are potential tools of Black survival\u2014both in 19th-century Black writing and under today\u2019s conditions of pandemic and state-sanctioned violence. Other faculty research reports include the following: Assistant Professor Diana Garvin, Romance Languages, \u201cFeeding Fascism: Tabletop Politics in Italy, 1922-1945\u201d; Associate Professor Kristin Yarris, Global Studies, \u201cMid-Century American Psychiatry and State Formation: A Post-Colonial Analysis of Morningside Hospital and the Alaska Mental Health Act\u201d; and Professor Alisa Freedman, East Asian Languages and Literatures, \u201cLearning Lives: Forgotten Stories of Japanese Women at American Universities in the 1950s and 1960s.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can access current and past issues of the Annual Review<\/a> on the CSWS website: https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/publications\/annual-report\/<\/p>\n

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