Anthropology

Precious Adejumobi

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Office: CON 365/366
Office Hours: By appointment via email
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, Chronic Reproductive Diseases, Women's Health, Alternative Healthcare, Religion and Health, Pentecostalism, Public Spaces, Traditional Markets, Traditional Apprenticeship, Nigeria

Melvin Aikens

Director and Professor Emeritus of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology, Asian Studies
Phone: 541-346-5115
Office: MNH, 1680 E. 15th Ave., Rm 108
Office Hours:

Tanner Anderson

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 9-11am via Zoom
Research Interests: Evolutionary genomics, human brain evolution, molecular brain aging

William Ayres

Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Asian Studies
Phone: 541-346-5119
Office Hours:

Derek Beckett

Undergraduate Coordinator
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: +1 541-346-4008
Office: Condon 308
Office Hours: T,R,F 8:00-5:00PM

Tiyas Bhattacharyya

Graduate student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 36/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Fridays 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Research Interests: Southeast Asian archaeology, zooarchaeology, human-animal relations, animal economies in hierarchical societies, environmental reconstruction

Aletta Biersack

Professor Emerita
Anthropology, Asian Studies
Phone: 541-346-5110
Office: 347 Condon Hall
Office Hours:

Scott Blumenthal

Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-9181
Office: 374 Condon Hall
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Ecology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry

Erica Bornstein

Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-9638
Office: 272 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-4pm, 272 Condon and by appointment
Research Interests: Nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), voluntary sector regulation, philanthropy, humanitarianism, human rights, economic development and religion, political and legal anthropology, institutional ethnography, Southern Africa, South Asia.

Jerrel Brown

Undergraduate Program Assistant
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Office: 308 Condon Hall

Polet Campos-Melchor

Doctoral Candidate
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: by appointment only
Research Interests: Food Sovereignty, Relationality, Xicana Lesbian Feminism, Rasquachismo

Kaito Campos de Novais

Graduate Employee
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 148 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Appointment by email request
Research Interests: LGBTQ+ Activism, Gender, Sexuality and Race, Decoloniality, Brazil, Latin America, and Visual Anthropology.

Hannah Cantrell

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Office: 365 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Skeletal biology, evolutionary medicine, health disparities, biomarkers and bone turnover markers

Alison Carter

Associate Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5037
Office: 255 Condon Hall
Office Hours: On Sabbatical AY24-25
Research Interests: Southeast Asian Archaeology, Compositional analysis of artifacts, bead studies

Malvya Chintakindi

Doctoral Candidate
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: via appointment
Research Interests: Gender issues, Inequality, Notions of development, Gender-based Violence, Social Movements, Evaluation, M&E, Community based interventions, Intervention design

Aidan Choi

Graduate Student
Anthropology

Laraine Clawson

Faculty Support Coordinator ASU 7
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-0875
Office: 107 Condon Hall

Liesl Cohn De Leon

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Office: 365 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2pm-4pm
Research Interests: Guatemalan Migration, Transitional Justice, Digital Ethnography, Critical Medical Anthropology

Thomas Connolly

Director of Research Division
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-3031
Office: Or State Mus Of Anth, Bldg 116
Office Hours:

Sara Cotton

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Office: CON 302D
Office Hours: Thursday 12pm-1pm
Research Interests: Primatology, Behavioral Ecology, Socioendocrinology

Beonsay De La Torre

Faculty Support Assistant
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Geography, Environmental Studies
Office: Condon 107

Alicia DeLouize

PhD Candidate
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Global Health, Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Human Biology, Statistics, Biomarkers, Psychology, Neurobiological Evolution, Human Evolution

Zachary Dierks

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 847-714-6884
Research Interests: Southeast Asian Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Archaeobotany, Human-environment Relationships, Environmental Reconstruction, Household Archaeology

Vernon Dorjahn

Professor Emeritus
Anthropology

L. Zachary DuBois

Associate Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5110
Office: 356 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Monday WED 11-1pm in Condon 375

Stephen Dueppen

Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5525
Office: 252 Condon Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment

Don Dumond

(1929-2023)
Anthropology

Ricky Durga

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Office: 365 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Island and Coastal Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Paleoecology, Paleoethnobotany, Palynology, Paleoclimatology

Sedona Epstein

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Office: CON 365/366
Office Hours: by appointment only

Jon Erlandson

Professor Emeritus
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5115
Office: Mnh, 1680 E 15th Ave, Rm 108
Office Hours:

Maria Fernanda Escallón

Associate Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5042
Office: 357 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Fall quarter Tuesdays 11am-1pm via zoom. On Sabbatical Leave January-August 2025
Research Interests: Race and ethnicity; intangible cultural heritage; social justice and inequality; Latin America; UNESCO and cultural diplomacy;  carework

Yuan Fang

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office Hours: Appointment by email request
Research Interests: East Asian archaeology, human-animal relations, mortuary practices, rituals, Han Dynasty China, Chinese art

Aileen Fernandez

PhD Candidate
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 313 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Morphometrics, Human Anatomy, Human Evolution, Locomotion, Hominins, Ontogeny, Osteology, Functional Morphology

Scott Fitzpatrick

Professor
Curator for Indo-Pacific Archaeology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology, Asian Studies
Phone: 541-346-9380
Office: 272 Condon Hall
Office Hours: T/H 1:00 - 2:00 PM
Research Interests: Pacific and Caribbean archaeology, historical ecology, exchange systems

Jessy Frieze

Operations Coordinator
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Office: Condon 107

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.

Annalise Gardella

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Appointment by email request
Research Interests: Environmental activism, Ecofeminism, LGBTQ social movements, feminist social movements, Central America

Monica Guy

Associate Director Academic Support Unit 7
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-5081
Office: 352 Condon Hall
Office Hours: TBA

Christopher Harrington

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Appointment by email request

Tim Herrera

Pro Tem Instructor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023: 3pm-4pm Mondays & Wednesdays

Dennis Jenkins

Senior Research Associate
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-3026
Office: Or State Mus Of Anth, Bldg 107
Office Hours:

Dee Jolly

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Office: CON366-A
Office Hours: Wednesdays 5:00PM-7:00PM in CON368. No office hours during FINALS week.
Research Interests: transgender health, biocultural anthropology, stress, intersectionality, embodiment, health inequities, psychoneuroendocrinology

Gabby Jones

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Office: 313 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 11:30-1:30 or by appointment
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Geometric Morphometrics, Human Osteology, Primatology, Comparative Anatomy, Taphonomy.

Philippa Jorissen

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (virtual)
Research Interests: human ecodynamics, human environmental interactions, coastal and island archaeology, Caribbean archaeology, Pacific archaeology, zooarchaeology, historical ecology, baseline studies, colonization and decolonizing practices

Emily Kalbrosky

Office Assistant
Anthropology

Elizabeth Kallenbach

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Appointment by email request
Research Interests: Ethnohistory, archaeology, cultural heritage management

Lamia Karim

Professor & Department Head
Anthropology, Asian Studies, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-5095
Office: 375 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Wed from 2-3 PM and by appointment and Zoom
Research Interests: women, work, neoliberalism, state, and Islam

Kelsi Kuehn

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-3 in CON 356 or by appointment on zoom
Research Interests: LGBTQ+ Health and Resilience, Queer Studies, Human Skeletal Biology, Structural Violence, Environmental Stressors

Gyoung-Ah Lee

Professor
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Food Studies
Phone: 541-346-5077
Office: 254 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Thur 2-4pm
Research Interests: Environmental archaeology, paleoethnobotany, ethnobotany, origins of agriculture, East Asian archaeology

Hyunsoo Lee

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Thursday 4-6 PM Via Zoom
Research Interests: Archaeobotany, Early Holocene subsistence, Plant resource use, Plant domestication, Agriculture, Historical ecology, East Asia

Leah Lowthorp

Assistant Professor
Co-DGS, Folklore and Public Culture
Anthropology, Folklore Program
Phone: 541-346-5101
Office: 321 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024, Wednesday 12-3pm
Research Interests: Folklore, Performance, Critical Heritage Studies, Online Narratives of Human Biotechnology, South Asia

John Lukacs

Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Asian Studies
Phone: 541-346-5112
Office: 355 Condon Hall
Office Hours:

Carole Mangels

Executive Support Coordinator
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-1795
Office: Condon 308

Jenneca McCarter

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday, 1-2:50pm. No office hours during FINALS week.
Research Interests: Conservation, Primatology, Landscape Genetics, Climate Change, Human-Wildlife Interactions

Katelyn McDonough

Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-9639
Office: 253 Condon Hall
Office Hours: M/W 4pm-5pm in Condon 253
Research Interests: Environmental Archaeology, Foodways, Paleoethnobotany, Palynology, Great Basin Archaeology, Pleistocene-Holocene Transition

Elizabeth McGuire

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Research Interests: eastern Africa, stable isotopes, paleoclimate proxies, conservation ecology

Jeanne McLaughlin

Human Osteologist & Forensic Anthropologist
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 355 Condon Hall
Office Hours:

Megan McNamara

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Research Interests: Aging in the Primate Brain, Genomics and Transcriptomics, Molecular Anthropology

Alison A. Mildrexler

Office Specialist 2
Office Specialist 2
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-5203
Office: 107D Condon Hall

Sophie Miller

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: social zooarchaeology, domestication, vertebrate anatomy, human-animal studies, functional morphology, palaeopathology, osteology, feminist and queer archaeology, palaeoecology, biogeography, taxonomy, taphonomy

Geraldine Moreno Black

Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Food Studies
Office Hours:

Madonna Moss

Professor Emerita
Curator of Zooarchaeology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-6076
Office: 327 Condon Hall
Office Hours: By appointment.
Research Interests: Northwest Coast Archaeology, Alaska Native stewardship of land and resources, zooarchaeology

Parmida Mostafavi

Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Office: Condon 355
Office Hours: Tues, 2-4 pm, and by appointment
Research Interests: Iranian diaspora, materiality, racial capitalism, nationalism, commodification

Lidia Munoz Paniagua

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Appointment by email request
Research Interests: Migrant farmworkers, H2-Visa Program, Immigrant Health, Temporary Migrant Workers

James Munyawera

Graduate Student
Anthropology, Biology
Phone: 541-221-0390
Office: Pacific 8
Office Hours: Appointment by email request
Research Interests: Primates behaviors, Ecology, genetics, and Evolutionary genomics

Kiana Nadonza

Graduate Student
Doctoral Candidate
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Currently by appointment
Research Interests: Philippines, beauty pageantry, nationalisms, postcolonial feminism, race and ethnicity, diaspora, cultural tourism, Southeast Asian political economies.

Theresa O'Nell

Associate Professor Emeritus
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5100
Office: 372 Condon Hall
Office Hours:

Pat OGrady

Research Assistant
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-0671
Office: Or State Mus of Anth, bldg 547, 1724 Moss St
Office Hours:

Victoria Olajide

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 1- 2 pm via zoom or by appointment
Research Interests: Archaeobotany, Palynology, Paleoenvironmetal reconstruction, Late Stone Age, Origins and transmission of food production, Ceramic analysis, Stone to Metal Age transitions, West African archaeology

JeaLinda Patton

Operations Manager | ASU 7
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-5104
Office: 107H Condon Hall

Samantha Queeno

Graduate Student
she/her/hers
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 2-3pm & by appointment
Research Interests: Human evolutionary genomics, the evolution of adaptive phenotypes, and developmental gene regulation

Paul Quigley

Graduate Coordinator
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-1825
Office: 1720 E 13th Ave., Ste 312
Office Hours: by appointment via email (winter mon - fri 8-4:30)

Yuda Rasyadian

Graduate Student
Graduate Employee
Anthropology
Office: Condon Hall 365
Office Hours: Thursday 1-3 p.m.
Research Interests: Development, political anthropology, political economy, social theories, critical ethnography, social movement and activism, Indigenous epistemologies, Indigeneity, West Timor, West Papua.

Hailay Reda

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 313 Condon Hall
Office Hours: By appointment over zoom
Research Interests:

Damion Sailors

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Via Zoom
Research Interests: Evolutionary Archaeology, Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis, Dungeons & Dragons

Gabe Sanchez

Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-9640
Office: 274 Condon Hall
Office Hours: T and Thu from noon to 1 pm or by appointment

Michelle Scalise Sugiyama

Senior Instructor I
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5142
Office: 273 Condon Hall
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests: Evolution of cultural transmission, social learning, and symbolic behavior; evolutionary psychology; hunter-gatherers; oral tradition; traditional ecological knowledge; play; warfare

Kate Schau

Undergraduate Specialist
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-2355
Office: 308 Condon Hall
Office Hours: MWR 8am-4:30pm

Philip W. Scher

Department Head, Cinema Studies and Theatre Arts
Professor of Anthropology and Folklore
Anthropology, Folklore Program, Theatre Arts, Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-5104
Office: 322 Fenton Hall
Office Hours: Email for appointment

Carol Silverman

Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Folklore Program, Judaic Studies Program, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Phone: 541-346-5114
Office Hours:
Research Interests: Arts and human rights, music, Balkans, Roma, gender, ritual

Paul Simonds

1932-2020
Anthropology
Office Hours:

Josh Snodgrass

Professor
Core Faculty, Global Health Program
Anthropology, Food Studies, Global Health Program
Phone: 541-346-4823
Office: 354 Condon Hall
Office Hours: By appointment

Lynn Stephen

Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology
Co-Director of Graduate Studies (Anthropology), Graduate Faculty in Ethnic Studies, Participating Faculty in Latin American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Anthropology, CLLAS, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-5168
Office: 316 Condon Hall
Office Hours: T/R 1:30 -2:30 in person in 316 Condon, or by appointment
Research Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Americas, Legal Pluralism, Social Memory, Testimony, Gender Violence

Kirstin Sterner

Associate Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-8614
Office: 352 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays from 11am to 1pm in PAC10 or by appointment (Spring 2024 Term)

Lawrence Sugiyama

Professor
Anthropology
Phone: none
Office: 329 Condon Hall
Office Hours:

Bryn Sullivan

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Office: 366 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Pleistocene archaeology, Great Basin archaeology, human-plant interactions, paleoethnobotany, coprolite analysis

Nelson Ting

Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-8878
Office: 302B Condon Hall
Research Interests: Wildlife Conservation, Genomics, Ecology, Evolution, Africa

Larry Ulibarri

Senor Instructor I
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-8188
Office: 373 Condon Hall
Office Hours: by appointment (in-person or remotely)
Research Interests: Primate ecology and conservation, animal behavior, forensics, nutrition.

Mackenzie VanLaar

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Research Interests: health justice, health autonomy, networks of care, housing, activist anthropology and Gaelic cultural studies

Irma Velasquez

Courtesy Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5102

Sofía Vicente-Vidal

Doctoral Candidate
Anthropology, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: Hendricks Hall 218B
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Fridays 12:30 - 2:30 pm

Jensen Wainwright

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12-1 via zoom (or by appointment)
Research Interests: Paleoenviornment, stable isotope geochemistry, small mammals

Tian Walker

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00-12:00, and more by appointment.

Frances White

Professor
Faculty Curator of Biological Collections, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5278
Office: 302C Condon Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2024 Monday 3 to 5 pm (Zoom)
Research Interests: Primate behavioral ecology, primate evolution

Harry Wolcott

(1929-2012)
Anthropology

Marina Yoshida

Graduate Coordinator
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-2527
Office: 308 Condon Hall

Phil Young

(1936-2013)
Anthropology

Jason Younker

Asst VP & Advisor to the President
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5672
Office: 1776 Millrace Dr., Ste 380
Office Hours: Thursday 2-4:00 or by appointment

Junyi Zhu

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Appointment by email request
Research Interests: Chinese Archaeology, Archaeobotany, Human-Environment Interaction, Wild Resources, Agriculture, Traditional Ecological Knowledge