Anthropology Faculty

Scott Blumenthal

Assistant Professor

Anthropology

Email: sblument@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9181

Office: 374 Condon Hall

Office Hours: by appointment

Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Ecology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry

Erica Bornstein

Professor

Anthropology

Email: ebornste@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9638

Office: 272 Condon Hall

Office Hours: Thursdays 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.

Alison Carter

Associate Professor

Anthropology

Email: acarter4@uoregon.edu

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

L. Zachary DuBois

Associate Professor

Anthropology

Email: zdubois@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5110

Office: 356 Condon Hall

Office Hours: Tuesdays 12-2pm PST in Condon 375

Stephen Dueppen

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Anthropology

Email: dueppen@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5525

Office: 252 Condon Hall, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5275

Office Hours: By Appointment

Maria Fernanda Escallón

Associate Professor

Anthropology

Email: mfe@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5042

Office: 357 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218

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

Scott Fitzpatrick

Professor

Curator for Indo-Pacific Archaeology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Anthropology, Asian Studies

Email: smfitzpa@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9380

Office: 272 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218

Office Hours: W/F 9:00 - 10:00 AM

Research Interests: Pacific and Caribbean archaeology, historical ecology, exchange systems, seafaring

Stephen Frost

Professor

Co-Director of Graduate Studies

African Studies, Anthropology

Email: sfrost@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5161

Office: 353 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9-10 a.m.

Tim Herrera

Pro Tem Instructor

Anthropology

Email: therrera@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5109

Office: 365/366 Condon Hall

Office Hours: Fall 2023: 3pm-4pm Mondays & Wednesdays

Lamia Karim

Professor & Department Head

Anthropology, Asian Studies, SAIL

Email: lamia@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5095

Office: 375 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218

Office Hours: Wed from 2-3 PM and by appointment and Zoom

Research Interests: women, work, neoliberalism, state, and Islam

Gyoung-Ah Lee

Professor

Anthropology, Asian Studies, Food Studies

Email: galee@uoregon.edu

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

Leah Lowthorp

Assistant Professor

Co-DGS, Folklore and Public Culture

Anthropology, Folklore Program

Email: lowthorp@uoregon.edu

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

Katelyn McDonough

Assistant Professor

Anthropology

Email: kmcdonou@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9639

Office: 253 Condon Hall

Office Hours: M/W 1pm-2pm in Condon 253

Research Interests: Environmental Archaeology, Foodways, Paleoethnobotany, Palynology, Great Basin Archaeology, Pleistocene-Holocene Transition

Parmida Mostafavi

Assistant Professor

Anthropology

Email: parmida@uoregon.edu

Office: Condon 355

Office Hours: Thursdays, 2-4 pm, and by appointment

Research Interests: Iranian diaspora, materiality, racial capitalism, nationalism, commodification

Gabe Sanchez

Assistant Professor

Curator of Zooarchaeology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Anthropology

Email: gsanche2@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9640

Office: 274 Condon Hall & : 104A Millrace Building 112

Office Hours: Monday 9 am to noon or by appointment

Michelle Scalise Sugiyama

Senior Instructor I

Anthropology

Email: mscalise@uoregon.edu

Office: 273 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218

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

Philip W. Scher

Department Head, Cinema Studies and Theatre Arts

Professor of Anthropology and Folklore

Anthropology, Folklore Program, Theatre Arts, Cinema Studies

Email: pscher@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5104

Office: 322 Fenton Hall

Office Hours: Email for appointment

Josh Snodgrass

Professor

Co-Director, Global Health Program

Anthropology, Food Studies, Global Health Program

Email: jjosh@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4823

Office: 354 Condon Hall, 1218University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218

Office Hours: Winter 2025 term: Tuesdays 2-3:45 and by appointment (in Pacific 12 Global Health Biomarker Lab)

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

Email: stephenl@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5168

Office: 316 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218

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