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Adios Prof. Daniel HoSang
It is with great sadness that Ethnic Studies’ said farewell to Professor Dan HoSang Martinez this past summer. Professor HoSang Martinez took a position at Yale University in the department of American Studies, where they are keen to build their program on Race, Immigration and Nation. Professor HoSang Martinez played a crucial role in the growth and development of Ethnic Studies at the UO. When Dan arrived in 2013, the Ethnic Studies department was essentially a stepping-stone for ethnic
Professor Ana-Maurine Lara was awarded the Laurell Swails and Donald Monroe Memorial Fellowship in Fiction
Ethnic Studies graduate faculty member, Professor Ana-Maurine Lara was awarded the Laurell Swails and Donald Monroe Memorial Fellowship in Fiction, one of the 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowships.
Black Studies Is Growing, Soul-Searching
January 12, 2019 — Professor Alaí Reyes-Santos: Black Studies is growing, soul-searching. Read the full article in the Eugene Register-Guard.
Professor Sharon Luk’s The Life of Paper Wins Two 2018 Book Awards
December 15, 2018 — The Ethnic Studies Department congratulates our colleague, Sharon Luk, for winning two prestigious book awards for her first monograph, The Life of Paper: Letters and Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity (2017, University of California Press)! In November 2018, the American Studies Association (ASA) presented Luk with the Lora Romero First Book Prize, which comes with a lifetime ASA membership.
Ethnic and Native Studies Instructor Jennifer O’Neal Wins the 2018-19 Yale University Henry Roe Cloud Fellowship
December 15, 2018 — The Ethnic Studies Department congratulates our colleague, Jennifer O’Neal, for winning the prestigious Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship at Yale University! Sponsored by the Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA), this fellowship supports promising doctoral candidates working on pressing issues related to the American Indian experience and Indigenous Studies. Jennifer will spend winter and spring at Yale to work toward completing her dissertation in History from Georgetown University.
Ethnic Studies Professor Ernesto Martinez Featured in UO Publication
December 10, 2018 — “New children’s book, movie put a song in professor’s heart” in publication Around the OSee the article in its entirety here:https://around.uoregon.edu/content/new-childrens-book-movie-put-song-professors-heart
ES Majors and Minors: Considering a Ph.D. in the Humanities?
December 7, 2018 — The Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program aims to attract diverse scholars with unique experiences who foster innovation and push the humanities to meet today’s challenges.Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program (MICHHERS)
CASA of Oregon Welcomes UO Ethnic Studies Major Rudy Zarosinski as Its New Family Economic Opportunity Program Specialist
October 18, 2018 — Rudy is a recent transplant to the rainy side of Oregon from sunny Klamath Falls. Born to two Ducks and great-grandson to another, it seemed natural to become the third generation in the family to attend University of Oregon, where he wasted no time becoming involved in student activism, volunteering with the Oregon Student Association's Vote OR Vote campaign by his third day on campus.
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