Grant awardees for women’s center announced

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The Center for the Study of Women in Society recently announced the UO faculty and graduate students who will receive research grants for work related to women and gender during the 2013-14 academic year.

The center awarded more than $70,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants. Nine UO graduate students will receive awards ranging from $2,000 to $16,000, while six faculty scholars will receive awards of up to $6,000.

Miriam Abelson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, was awarded the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship. Her field-based research looks at transgender experiences and transmasculinities in three U.S. regions.

Eight other graduate students will receive CSWS Graduate Student Research Grants ranging from $2,000 to $2,500:

  • Lindsey Brown (Counseling Psychology): “Women’s Intimate Partner Violence Experiences and Health and Vocational Outcomes: The Role of Trauma Appraisals”
  • Megan Burke (Philosophy): “Gender as Time: A Phenomenology of the Violence of Gender Normativity”
  • Erica Ciszek (SOJC): “Identity, Culture, and Communication: LGBTQ Youth and Digital Media”
  • Sara Clark (International Studies): “Women in Society: Host Mother Experiences of Cross-Cultural Exchange”
  • Lauren Joiner (Music): “Para-Liturgical Traditions: The Weingarten Cantionarium as a Women’s Manuscript”
  • Samantha King (Anthropology): “The Ethics of Organic: Gender, Sustainability, and the Agrarian Economy in the Commonwealth of Dominica, Eastern Caribbean”
  • Kristine Riley (CRES): “California’s Prison Realignment and Its Effects on Female Probationers”
  • Ryan Robinson (Counseling Psychology): “Intersection of Minority Identities and Health Outcomes: Minority Stress and Resiliency in Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) of Color”

The six faculty grant awardees include:

  • Jessie Hanna Clark (Geography): “Women, Development, and Geographies of Insecurity in Post-Conflict Southeast Turkey.
  • Debra Eisert (Center on Human Development): “Identifying Young Women with High Functioning Autism”
  • Sangita Gopal (English): “Between State and Capital: Women Make Movies”
  • Jocelyn Hollander (Sociology): “The Effectiveness of Self-Defense Training in a Diverse Population”
  • Jolie Kerns (Architecture): “Interrogating Public Space: Architecture of Women’s Health Centers”
  • Marsha Weisiger (History): “Slaves in My Past: A Family Story”

Since 1984, the center has awarded more than $1.16 million in faculty research grants, $371,000 in graduate student research grants and $403,000 in Jane Grant dissertation fellowships.

-- from the Center for the Study of Women in Society