This issue of Oregon Quarterly celebrates The Mighty Women of Mighty Oregon: faculty, staff, students, and alumni who are leaders and legends in their fields.
Volume 103 Number 2 Illustration by David Gill
Winter 2024
Media & Communications
Sexism and the Woman Journalist
Q & A with former New Yorker editor Tina Brown, who visits in February for the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s fiftieth anniversary
Politics & Society
How a Group of Visionaries Forged a Feminist Future
The Center for the Study of Women in Society is celebrating fifty years of research on issues tied to gender—and setting its sights on the decades to come
Politics & SocietyViewpoints
Five Faculty Members on the Women Who Move Them
The Center for the Study of Women in Society supports inspiring faculty members. But who inspires them?
The UO’s First Black Woman Grad Brought Lasting Change
The legacy of Nellie Franklin—a Black student who was not permitted to live in a dorm—still resonates today
Ducks Leap Into Forefront of a Rising Women’s Sport
Individual athleticism and a strong team ethic draw women athletes to acrobatics and tumbling
Sundance Lessons: Filmmaker Masami Kawai Rises
The cinema studies professor brings the inspiration of Robert Redford’s movie institute to the classroom and the set
Finding Herself, Thousands of Miles from Home
From the classroom to the lab to a global health internship, Dante’ James has excelled while exploring what it means to be mixed race
Rhodes in Hand, Her Sights Are Set on Global Health
Video: Nayantara Arora is the first UO woman to win the world’s most prestigious international scholarship
She Risked Everything for Women, Workers, and Justice
Defying women’s roles of her time, Marie Equi was a frontier doctor who fought for causes still at issue today
Readers Celebrate the Mighty Women Who Inspire Them
For the winter issue—Mighty Women of Mighty Oregon—readers answer the call for outstanding teachers, mentors, and icons
How to Empower Yourself to Survive and Thrive
Former UO instructor authors book on self-defense and success in a sexist world
Four Ways US Chipmakers Can Learn from History
The past holds lessons regarding workplace conditions, labor rights, and the environment