NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES—As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon, Kirby Brown blends a deep commitment to preserving his family’s personal stories with a vision for fostering Indigenous research and archival storytelling. Through storytelling and literature, he seeks to highlight moments of love, joy, humor, resistance, desire, and futurity.

ANTHROPOLOGY - Departments, programs and organizations on campus are collaborating to host a symposium on Latinx and Indigenous migrations, histories and identities, which runs April 24-25. The event features UO faculty members, as well as scholars from across the US.

SOCIOLOGY - On Thursday, April 10, researchers from the College of Arts and Sciences hosted a town hall to present findings about the positive impact that CAHOOTS has had on the Eugene community. The forum was held days after the city of Eugene announced that it would cut CAHOOTS’s funding.