Associate professor of Regional + City Planning John Harris, along with Grace Acan and Evelyn Amony from the Women’s Advocacy Network, and Lupe Davidson of the University of West Virginia, recently published the article, “How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: Photovoice evidence from northern Uganda.”
Their research appears in a special issue of Gender and Development that explores humanitarian action and crisis responses. The article presents the work of 13 co-researchers and explores the long-term needs they identified among formerly abducted women in conflict zones.
It also explores how the women’s experiences with abduction continues to erode the recognition of their humanity, both in terms of how they are perceived by their communities and how they view themselves, as well as how they are individually and collectively working to reassert their place in the moral universe.
Featured image: Betty Scovia. “This picture shows me farming. I went to many Women’s Advocacy Network trainings on ways to support myself. I realised that farming was the best way to support myself because if you are not educated you can farm. Because I was abducted I could not finish school. Here I am harvesting groundnuts (peanuts).”
A project designed by Gibbs College of Architecture faculty member Austin Lightle has been selected for BuildFest 2026, a national art and architecture festival held at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in New York, on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival.
Two Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture alumni are helping shape recommendations that could influence affordable housing design and construction across Oklahoma.
The University of Oklahoma Libraries recently welcomed Carl Siegel as an Architecture Librarian and Archivist and Assistant Professor. In his role, Siegel supports students, faculty and staff across the Gibbs College of Architecture while also serving as archivist for the American School of Architecture Archives.
