African Studies Affiliated Faculty
Lindsay Frederick Braun
Associate Professor
African Studies, History
Email: lfbraun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4838
Office: 365 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: FT 2024: 1-3 Tuesdays ABA (MTW)
Research Interests: Southern Africa 1750-1950, East Africa 1850-1960, Comparative Colonialism, Environmental History, History of Science and Technology (esp. geography)
Yvonne Braun
Professor
Department Head, Global Studies and Member, Provost's Teaching Academy
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ybraun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5752
Office: 118 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Wednesday 12:00-1:50 (by Zoom or by appt)
Research Interests: gender, intersectionality, social inequality, international development, environmental justice, globalization, infrastructural politics, energy politics, social movements, feminist political ecology
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
Andre Djiffack
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: djiffack@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0958
Office: 210 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 3:30 - 5:20 pm
Stephen Dueppen
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Anthropology, Black Studies, Food Studies, Medieval Studies
Email: dueppen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5525
Office: 252 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays from 11:50am-1:50pm
Stephen Frost
Professor
Co-Director of Graduate Studies
African Studies, Anthropology
Email: sfrost@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5161
Office: 353 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9-10 a.m.
Daphne Gallagher
Assoc Dean Undergrad Studies, Clark Honors College
Senior Lecturer of Anthropology
Clark Honors College
Email: daphne@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5122
Office: 321 Chapman Hall
Office Hours: Fall 24: Drop-in Tues 1:30-2:30; Drop-in or by appt Tues 2:30-3:30, Thurs 10:00-12:00; email for appt sign-up link or to make appts at other times.
Research Interests: archaeology, West Africa, agriculture, ethnobotany, food culture, museums
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
Ibrahim Gassama
Professor
Frank E. Nash Professor of Law
Email: igassama@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3831
Office: 306B Knight Law Center
Melissa Graboyes
Associate Professor
Global Health Program, History
Email: graboyes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2829
Office: 369 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30-3:30pm Sign up at https://graboyes-officehours.youcanbook.me/
Rita Honka
Senior Instructor II of Dance
Dance, Music
Email: rhonka@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3379
Office: 166 Gerlinger Annex
Research Interests: Dance
Leigh Johnson
Associate Professor
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: leighj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2644
Office: 152 Condon Hall
Office Hours: On Sabbatical 2023-2024
Research Interests: Climate change and environmental risk, political ecology, finance, development studies, East Africa, labor, firefighting
Allison McGuffie
Instructor
African Studies, Cinema Studies Program, Digital Humanities, English
Email: mcguffie@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3965
Office: 329 PLC
S. Senyo Ofori-Parku
Associate Professor
SOJC
Email: ofori@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2338
Office: 327 Allen Hall
Eleanor Paynter
Assistant Professor
Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: epaynter@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 105A
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-1:30
Research Interests: transnational Italy, media and politics of migration, asylum and migrant rights, race in Europe, social movements, and testimony via critical refugee studies, media studies, ethnography, and oral history
Kory Russel
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Landscape Arch
Email: krussel@uoregon.edu
Office: 215 Lawrence Hall
Research Interests: Water, Sanitation, Container-Based Sanitation, Informal Settlements, Design
Jack Snell-Ryan
Professor
Art
Phone: 541-346-2105
Office: 114A Millrace 1
Research Interests: Intermedia Art, Core Studio, Printmaking, Sound, Sculpture, Acoustic Ecology & New Materialism.
Leslie Steeves
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor
SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: lsteeves@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3751
Office: 214A Allen Hall
Stephen Wooten
Associate Professor, Interim Director of Graduate Studies, Global Studies
Provost's Teaching Academy Member
Food Studies, Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: swooten@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5434
Office: 354 PLC
Office Hours: Mondays 11 am -12:00 pm and Tuesdays 10 - 11 am or by appointment.
Research Interests: Food studies, local-global dynamics, agrarian change, expressive culture