The Leading Edge

Events

Wednesday, Jan. 7

Spanish Women’s Legal History and Everyday Interpretations of Women’s Legal Status —  Marie Kelleher (CSULB) and Nicole von Germeten (OSU) will examine legal, religious or social codes and then analyze under what circumstances women contested, negated, manipulated, or simply ignored the codes and prescriptions in their daily lives. 2 p.m., Autzen House /Center for the Humanities.

News

The Center for the Humanities is accepting applications for the 2015-2016 Resident Research Fellowship Program until Thursday, Jan. 15th at 5 p.m. Application forms and information about awards may be found online at http://oregonstate.edu/dept/humanities/fellowship-program.

Assistant professor of history Christopher McKnight Nichols is the new Online Editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Cambridge University Press), the flagship journal in the field, published quarterly, providing original scholarship, including on-line projects, and reviewing scholarly books on all aspects of U.S. history from 1865 through 1920 (sponsored by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era).

Current Research, Publications and Creative Activity

CL@SE’s  Daniel López-Cevallos, public health’s Fernando Ortega and Ph.D. student Chi Chunhuei recently published the following: López-Cevallos DF, Chi C, Ortega F (2014). Consideraciones para la transformación del sistema de salud del Ecuador desde una perspectiva de equidad [Equity-based considerations for transforming the Ecuadorian health system]. Revista de Salud Pública , 16(3): 346-359.

Assistant professor of psychological science Kathy Becker-Blease recently published the following: Gómez, J. M., Becker-Blease, K., & Freyd, J. J. (in press). A brief report on predicting self-harm: Is it gender or abuse that matters? Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, & Trauma.