Global Studies and Languages Faculty
David Wacks
Professor of Spanish: Department Head, Romance Languages
Medieval Studies, Romance Languages
Email: wacks@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 105C Friendly Hall
Office Hours: By appointment https://tinyurl.com/yfw9rr35
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies
Sarah D. Wald
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & English
Director of Graduate Admissions for English
English, Environmental Studies, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx
Email: sdwald@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1613
Office: 443 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: Wednesday, 12:30pm-2:30pm PLC 443
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Environmental Humanities, Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies, Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies, Food Studies, Farmworker Justice, Immigration/Migration, 20/21st Century US Literature, American Studies
Yugen Wang
Professor, Chinese Literature, Department Head
East Asian Languages
Email: ygwang@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3503
Office: 304 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2024, WED 11-1
Lesley Jo Weaver
Associate Professor; Program Head
Center for Digital Mental Health, Global Health Program
Email: ljweaver@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5089
Office: Friendly 105
Office Hours: Spring 2024: by appintment. Make an appointment at https://calendly.com/ljweaver/dr-weaver-office-hours.
Research Interests: medical anthropology; mental health; race; chronic diseases; food insecurity; health disparities; Brazil; India; USA; global health
Julie Weise
Associate Professor, Department of History
History, IRES, Latin American Studies, Latinx
Email: jweise@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4833
Office: 353 McKenzie Hall
Research Interests: Identity, Citizenship, Migration, Race, and Nations in the Americas and the world through the lens of history.
Peter Wetherwax
Faculty, Retired
Biology, Latin American Studies
Email: pwax@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4514
Office: 73A Klamath Hall
Juan Eduardo Wolf
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology
Director of Latin American Studies; Coordinator, UO World Music Series & Ethnomusicology
Latin American Studies, Music, SAIL
Email: ewolf2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2852
Office: 126 Frohnmayer Music Bldg
Research Interests: Latin America, decolonial thought, ethnography, folkloristics
Lisa Wolverton
Professor
Clark Honors College, History, Medieval Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: lwolvert@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6158
Office: 325 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: MTuWTh 9:50-10:20 in Chapman 105; M 3-5 pm in Chapman 128
Sunhee Woo
Korean language instructor
Renewable non-tenure-track faculty
East Asian Languages, Korean
Email: swoo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7166
Office: 308 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tue,Thur 12:00~1:00 p.m.
Stephen Wooten
Associate Professor
Provost's Teaching Academy Member
Global Studies
Email: swooten@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5434
Office: 354 PLC
Office Hours: Mondays 2-3:00 pm and Thursdays 9-10 am on Zoom, or by appointment.
Research Interests: Food studies, local-global dynamics, agrarian change, expressive culture