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The School of Language, Culture, and Society has a shared focus on community-based, culturally responsive and socially transformative scholarship and teaching. Our diverse programs prepare students for dynamic futures. Look at our programs to see the benefits of applied and experiential learning; equity, difference and social justice; community health and resilience; languages and intercultural communication.
Susan Bernardin is Director of the School of Language, Culture, and Society at Oregon State University. A specialist in Indigenous literary and visual studies as well as Gender & the American West, she has published widely on foundational and contemporary Native authors as well as Indigenous mixed-media, visual arts, and comics. A co-author of Trading Gazes: Euro-American Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940 (Rutgers University Press), she also facilitated a new edition of In the Land of the Grasshopper Song (Bison Books) in collaboration with Karuk tribal members Terry Supahan and André Cramblit. A former president of the Western Literature Association, she is a two-time recipient of its Walker Award for best published essay in the field of Western American Studies. She was also the 2016 recipient of the Beatrice Medicine Award, given by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures for her article, “Acorn Soup is Good Food: L. Frank, News from Native California, and the Intersections of Literature and Visual Arts,” published in Studies in American Indian Literatures. She served as guest-editor of the 2014 special issue of Western American Literature entitled, Indigenous Wests: Literary and Visual Aesthetics and is currently editing Gender and the American West, part of Routledge’s Gender Studies Series.
How two applied anthropology program members are leading a national project to center community health worker voices
New doctoral student brings years of experience as a community health worker and leader of the CHW Common Indicators Project to the Applied Anthropology track
The Kalapuya Seasonal Round: Join Kalapuya member of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and OSU Professor David Lewis for the second talk in this year's Champinefu Webinar Series. This talk will provide insight into how Kalapuya developed a sustainable housing model that served them well for over 15,000 years. Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Co-sponsored by the Spring Creek Project. Register here.
The exhibit, which debuted last fall at the Salem Art Association, tells the story of Kalapuyan history and culture.
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Anniversary Reunion at Various locations at OSU in Corvallis
For 50 years, OSU’s program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has offered feminist education, encouraged feminist activism, and advocated for inclusion, equity, and...…Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Anniversary - Drag Show at Whiteside Theatre
Join us for the closing activity of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Anniversary Reunion! For 50 years, OSU’s program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has...…