Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Courtney M. Cox, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies. As they compete in leagues around the world, elite women’s basketball players continually adjust to new cultures, rules, and contracts. Courtney M. Cox follows athletes, coaches, journalists, and advocates of women’s basketball as they pursue careers within the sport. Despite all attempts to contain them or prevent […]
Ocean Howell, History and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. “Mapping Power” is a public facing website that enables users to explore historic maps of Portland, Oregon. Photographs and architectural renderings allow users to see the city as it is, as it was, but also as it might have been. A series of essays show […]
Lanie Millar, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Fabienne Moore, associate professor of French, collaborated on a newly published book The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act: African Culture and Decolonization (Polity, 2024), a translation of essays and speeches by prolific anticolonial writer, poet, and politician Mário Pinto de Andrade. They will present a […]
Brooke Burns, PhD candidate, Philosophy and 2024–25 OHC Dissertation Fellow. My dissertation clarifies how dignity, as an ethical principle, has historically animated anti-cruelty reform movements in prisons and zoos. To do so, I deploy a politically realist genealogy, which is a historical-philosophical method based on the premise that ethical principles are more likely to […]
