cdeonis

cdeonis
Full Name
Catalina de Onís
First Name
Catalina
Last Name
de Onís
Affiliation
Faculty
Title
Core Faculty, Clark Honors College
Phone
(541) 346-7524
Office
No office/Remote in Winter and Spring 2024
Office Hours
Tues., 12-1pm, & Thurs., 9-10am (Zoom or phone; sign up at https://calendly.com/catalina-deonis). Email cdeonis@uoregon.edu if posted times don't fit your schedule.
Affiliated Departments
CLLAS
Latinx
SAIL
SOJC
Teaching Level
Undergraduate
Interests
environmental, climate, & energy justice, environmental racism, border & archipelagic studies, Latine studies, Puerto Rican studies, women of color feminisms, reproductive justice, ethnographic methods, communication & rhetorical studies, journalism
Website
https://catalinadeonis.com
Profile Section
Education

PhD, Indiana University, 2017 (Communication and Culture with Latino Studies minor)

MA, University of Montana, 2011 (Communication Studies)

BS, Northwestern University, 2009 (Journalism with Spanish minor)

 

Projects

 

 

 

Research

Co-author of bilingual children’s book Together for Climate Justice! (2023)

Author of Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico (2021)

Co-author of bilingual children’s book La justicia ambiental es para ti y para mí/Environmental Justice Is for You and Me (2021)

Co-producer of El poder del pueblo: Una lucha colectiva por la vida y el medioambiente/The Power of the People: A Collective Struggle for Life and the Environment (2021)

Find selected essays, book chapters, and popular press writings at https://catalinadeonis.com/published-essays/.

 

Honors and Awards

Outstanding Book Award, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2022.

  • Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, National Communication Association, 2022.

  • Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

Top Book Award, Rhetoric Society of America, 2022.

  • Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award in Environmental Communication, National Communication Association, 2021.

  • Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

Bill Eadie Distinguished Award for Top Scholarly Article, National Communication Association’s Applied Communication Division, 2019.

  • “Fueling and Delinking from Energy Coloniality in Puerto Rico”

Outstanding Voice in Environmental Communication Award, National Communication Association, 2019.

Mortar Board Professor of the Year Award, Willamette University, 2019.

Top Dissertation Award, National Communication Association’s Environmental Communication Division, 2017.

  • Energy Remix: Decolonial Discourses of Decarbonization

Excellence in Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2016.

Feminist Scholar of the Year Award, Organization for Research on Women & Communication, 2015.

  • “Lost in Translation: Challenging (White Monolingual Feminism’s) with Justicia Reproductiva” 

Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award for top student paper nationally across all units and divisions, National Communication Association, 2014.

  • “Toxic Coloniality: Extracting Natural Gas Advocacy Rhetoric and Resisting its Appeals”

TV News Awards, Northwestern University, 2006-2009.

  • Executive Producer and Anchor, Emmy winner, College Television Award for “Best College Newscast,” 2009.
  • Live reporter, Emmy winner, NATAS Chicago-Midwest Chapter, Election Night 2008.
  • Executive Producer and Anchor, SINBA “Best Newscast” Award.
  • Executive Producer, College Broadcasters, Inc. Best Newscast” Finalist.

 

 

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