African Studies
Obafemi Akintayo
Mr
African Studies
Email: obak@uoregon.edu
Phone: 3016734482
Office: Desk 1, Room 30, Friendly Hall.
Office Hours: Fridays, 11:00-1:00
Research Interests: African Politics,Conflict Management and Sensitivity Analyses,Military coup, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Gender and Peacebuidling, Anthropology,
Akwasi B. Assensoh
Courtesy Professor
African Studies
Email: assensoh@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541) 346-4802
Office: 275 McKenzie Hall
Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun
Associate Professor
Director of African Studies
African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, Sociology, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0558
Office: 311 Hendricks Hall
Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday noon-1:00 p.m., Wednesday 12:30-1:30 p.m. and by appointment on zoom
Research Interests: Globalization, Nationalism, Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Embodiment, Africana Studies
Ray Balstad
Graduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: rbalstad@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2703
Office: 114D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am - 4:30pm
Research Interests: French, Film, Comics, Foreign Language Acquisition, Botany
Fatima Benhabyb
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: fatimab@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2047
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am-4:30pm [Remote Fridays]
B Mokaya Bosire
Senior Instructor
African Studies, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: mokaya@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3916
Office: 377 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:30p-4:30p or by appt.
Research Interests: Swahili, Sheng, African languages & Urban vernaculars
Lindsay Frederick Braun
Associate Professor
African Studies, History
Email: lfbraun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4838
Office: 365 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: On sabbatical, AY 2023-2024. By appt only.
Research Interests: Southern Africa 1750-1950, East Africa 1850-1960, Comparative Colonialism, Environmental History, History of Science and Technology (esp. geography)
Alfredo Burlando
Associate Professor
Co-Director of Master's Studies
African Studies, Economics
Email: burlando@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1351
Office: 513 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2023: Monday 9:30 - 11:00
Research Interests: Development economics, economics of corruption, savings strategies in developing countries, health and fertility
Olivia Denton
Faculty Support Coordinator
ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: odenton@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1385
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWTF 9:00-5:00
Brita Ellis
Academic Programs Manager
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: bellis5@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9782
Office: Friendly 114E
Stephen Frost
Professor
African Studies, Anthropology
Email: sfrost@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5161
Office: 353 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9-10 a.m.
Dennis Galvan
Professor
Dean and Vice Provost, Division of Global Engagement
African Studies, Global Studies, Political Science, SAIL
Email: dgalvan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5851
Office: 310 Oregon Hall
Research Interests: Culture and Development, Culturally Sustainable Development, Identity and Community, Political Legitimation, Multiple Forms of Modernity, Primary Field Work: West Africa, Secondary Field Work: Indonesia
Habib Iddrisu
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Dance
Director, Dema Dance Ensemble
African Studies, Black Studies, Dance, IRES, Music
Email: hiddrisu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4062
Office: 152 Gerlinger Annex
Research Interests: Dance, West Africa, cultural studies, post-colonial independence history, political economy, oral history, African diaspora, new internationalism
Jonathan Knight
Operations Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Native American Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: jknight6@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0951
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 8-4:30 M-F
Robbie Marshall
Graduate Program Coordinator | ASU 1 - School of Global Studies & Languages
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: robertm1@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0195
Office: 114D | Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday - Friday | 8:30 am - 4:30 pm | Thursdays & Fridays Virtual
Allison McGuffie
Career Instructor
African Studies, Cinema Studies Program, Digital Humanities, English
Email: mcguffie@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3965
Office: 329 PLC
Lanie Millar
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office: Friendly 211
Office Hours: Spring, 2024: in person, Wednesdays, 2-4, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only.
Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory
Jordan Morris
Office Generalist, ASU 1
African Studies, Arabic Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Environmental Studies, European Studies, Food Studies, French, General Social Sciences, Geography, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: jmor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2579
Office: FR 107
Office Hours: 8:00a - 4:30p
McRae Naayers
Faculty Support Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Email: mnaayers@uoregon.edu
Phone: 5413460171
Office: Friendly 107
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00
Melissa Palma
Intercultural Experience and Career Readiness Coordinator, School of Global Studies and Languages
College of Arts and Sciences ASU 1
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Yamada Language Center
Email: mpalma3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9780
Doris Payne
Professor Emerita
African Studies, Arabic Studies, Linguistics
Email: dlpayne@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3894
Office: 271 Straub Hall
Office Hours: By appointment only, please email to set up appt.
Andrea Romero Dugarte
Executive Support Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-4007
Office: Friendly Hall 114
Lisa Ross
Associate Director
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: lgillis@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4005
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F 8-5
Elyse St Sauver
Graduate Employee
African Studies, Economics
Email: jstsauv2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1664
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30-3:30
Janis Weeks
Professor Emerita
African Studies, Biology
Email: jweeks@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4517
Office: 325A Huestis Hall