African Studies Affiliated Faculty

Lindsay Frederick Braun

Associate Professor
African Studies, History
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Phone: 541-346-3831
Office: 306B Knight Law Center

Melissa Graboyes

Associate Professor
Global Health Program, History
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
Phone: 541-346-3379
Office: 166 Gerlinger Annex
Research Interests: Dance

Leigh Johnson

Associate Professor
Environmental Studies, Geography
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
Phone: 541-346-3965
Office: 329 PLC

S. Senyo Ofori-Parku

Associate Professor
SOJC
Phone: 541-346-2338
Office: 327 Allen Hall

Eleanor Paynter

Assistant Professor
Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
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
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
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
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