Faculty Research Presentation: David Meek
The closure of rural schools in Brazil has been a contentious issue in recent years, with far-reaching consequences for communities and the future of education. Dr. David Meek's research aims…
EARTHQUAKES IN PUERTO RICO: A Teach-In on the current situation
Tuesday February 4 / 1pm-3pm at Columbia 150 EARTHQUAKES IN PUERTO RICO A Teach-In on the current situation Alaí Reyes Santos (Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies) Javier Bonnin Orozco (Architecture) Iris…
Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria Provides Ethnic Studies Lesson
From Oregon Quarterly, Summer 2019https://around.uoregon.edu/oq/puerto-rico-s-hurricane-maria-provides-ethnic-studies-lesson When UO ethnic studies associate professor Alaí Reyes-Santos flipped on the late-night news on September 19, 2017, she saw something she’d been dreading since childhood:…
Cultivating Self-Determination: Food Sovereignty as a Challenge to Neoliberal Coloniality in Puerto Rico
Columbia 249, UO campus Presenter Momo Wilms-Crowe is a political science major with an international studies and ethnic studies minor and a John Lewis Fellow. Visit us @ our website:…
Eye of the storm: UO students reach out to hard-hit Puerto Rico
From Around the O April 13, 2018—UO ethnic studies professor Alaí Reyes-Santos made a major revision to the curriculum for her “Race, Ethics, Justice” course last fall: She added a…