{"id":3817,"date":"2009-11-14T23:56:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T07:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2019-12-03T11:31:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:31:41","slug":"michelle-mckinley-awarded-neh-fellowship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/michelle-mckinley-awarded-neh-fellowship-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle McKinley Awarded NEH Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2986\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2986\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2986\" title=\"McKinley_Michelle\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/McKinley_Michelle.gif\" alt=\"UO law professor Michelle McKinley\" width=\"189\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/McKinley_Michelle.gif 300w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/McKinley_Michelle-118x150.gif 118w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/McKinley_Michelle-236x300.gif 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UO law professor Michelle McKinley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>University of Oregon law professor <a href=\"https:\/\/law.uoregon.edu\/people\/faculty\/michelle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michelle McKinley<\/a> has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her book manuscript, entitled \u201cFractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1700.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A member of the CSWS Women of Color Project, McKinley began teaching at the UO School of Law in 2007. She is researching legal actions taken by female slaves to achieve freedom for themselves and their children in 17th-century Peru.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an extremely challenging project to take on, one that will result in scholarship of lasting importance and real depth,\u201d said UO history professor Peggy Pascoe in her letter of recommendation to the NEH. Pascoe, the award-winning author of <em>What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America<\/em>, said: \u201cI think Fractional Freedoms will be an important book, and attract considerable attention from interdisciplinary scholars of marriage, law, history, and slavery as well as from specialists on Peru.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pascoe added: \u201cMichelle\u2019s work stands out for the stunning depth of her pioneering archival research.\u00a0 She has burrowed through the enormous and little-used archives of ecclesiastical court cases from colonial Peru, uncovering cases that provide extraordinarily rich evidence of the tug-of-war between slavery and freedom, the vast influence of religion, the ongoing process of racial formation, women\u2019s struggles against patriarchal owners and husbands, and the formation of a fascinating, and so far little-understood, legal culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=2985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for a related entry.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Oregon law professor Michelle McKinley has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her book manuscript, entitled \u201cFractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1700.\u201d A member of the CSWS Women&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/michelle-mckinley-awarded-neh-fellowship-2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,8,17,5,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-books","category-faculty-affiliates","category-research","category-women-of-color-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31315,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/31315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}