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Chris Poulsen is the Tykeson Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) at the University of Oregon. He is also a climate scientist and a professor of Earth Science. Dean Poulsen’s research seeks to understand the causes of past climate change on Earth and what lessons they hold for predicting our future climate. Before coming to the UO in 2022, Poulsen was the associate dean for natural sciences in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan from 2018 to 2022. He discusses why a liberal arts education is important and the role of the humanities in CAS’s liberal arts mission.

Britney Wilson is an associate professor of Law and Director of The Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic at New York Law School. Prior to NYLS, Wilson was a staff attorney at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and a Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow in the Racial Justice Program at the American Civil Liberties Union. Born with Cerebral Palsy, Wilson has written and spoken extensively about disability and the intersection of race and disability for various media outlets, including The Nation, Longreads, and This American Life.

Caroline Lundquist is an Instructor of Philosophy and a participating faculty member in the Prison Education Program at the University of Oregon. In addition, she is an affiliated faculty member in the Clark Honors College, and the managing editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

As a 2022-2023 Oregon Humanities Center Wulf Professor, Lundquist revised and taught a course titled “Ethics Through Science Fiction” for incarcerated students in UO’s Prison Education Program.

Spike Gildea, Linguistics, and 2022–23 OHC Faculty Research Fellow.

“Traditional storytellers in the Amazon use ideophones, words that speakers associate with specific actions and emotions, to help bring a story to life. I will analyze a recorded Werikyana (Cariban) story as told by a master story-teller, producing two English and two Portuguese translations to illustrate the importance of ideophones in this genre. Then I will compare Werikyana ideophones with those in related languages to see how many ideophones I can reconstruct to the ancestral language, Proto-Cariban.”

Spike Gildea, Linguistics, and 2022–23 OHC Faculty Research Fellow.

“Traditional storytellers in the Amazon use ideophones, words that speakers associate with specific actions and emotions, to help bring a story to life. I will analyze a recorded Werikyana (Cariban) story as told by a master story-teller, producing two English and two Portuguese translations to illustrate the importance of ideophones in this genre. Then I will compare Werikyana ideophones with those in related languages to see how many ideophones I can reconstruct to the ancestral language, Proto-Cariban.”

Analisa Taylor, Romance Languages, and 2022–23 OHC Faculty Research Fellow.

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Ursula Pike is the author of "An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir" published in 2021 by Heyday Books.

She discusses her book which chronicles her experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia.

A member of Northern California’s Karuk Tribe, Pike grew up in Daly City, California, Portland, and Washington State. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts, a master’s degree in Economics from Western Illinois University, and a BA in Economics from Portland State University.

Anne Rose Kitagawa is the Chief Curator of Collections & Asian Art and the Director of Academic Programs at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

Kitagawa discusses the exhibition she curated “Framing the Revolution: Contemporary Chinese Photographs from the Jack and Susy Wadsworth Collection” which is on view through August 27, 2023.

Britney Wilson is an associate professor of Law and Director of the Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic at New York Law School.

Prior to her current position, Professor Wilson was a staff attorney at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and a Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow in the Racial Justice Program at the American Civil Liberties Union.

Born with Cerebral Palsy, Wilson has written and spoken extensively about disability and the intersection of race and disability for various media outlets including The Nation, Longreads, and This American Life, NPR, PBS Newshour, Colorlines, and The Huffington Post.

Professor Wilson has also testified about issues facing people with disabilities before both local and international governing bodies, including the New York City Council and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Also, an accomplished writer and artist, Wilson has published and performed short stories, creative nonfiction essays, and poetry, including on the HBO series Brave New Voices.

On May 16th, 2023, Britney Wilson will give a talk “Down for the Cause: Grace, Space, and Belonging in Social Movements” as a guest of the Oregon Humanities Center and part of the 2022–23 “Belonging” series.

Laura Pulido, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography; and 2022–23 OHC Faculty Research Fellow.

I am analyzing how National Historic Landmarks represent process of white supremacy and settler colonization in the U.S. Based on both archival analysis and fieldwork, we explore both the racial and colonial processes inherent in the creation of these sites, as well as how they are represented. We identified four forms of representation: erasure, valorization, multiculturalism, and acknowledgement. We are publishing these findings as an historical atlas that illustrates how white innocence and denial have been instrumental in the territorial development of the U.S.