Anthropology
Samantha Matalone Cook
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: samam@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Myth and fairy tale, mythic and folk art, intersectional/critical heritage studies, material culture, social memory, geography, indigeneity and migration, activism, feminist and ecocritical theory, and modern revivals and reclamations of historic myth, iconography, ideology, and practices.
Katelyn McDonough
Assistant Professor
Curator of Great Basin Archaeology
Anthropology, Food Studies, Native American Studies
Email: kmcdonou@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9639
Office: 253 Condon Hall, 1212 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1212
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:00pm - 3:00pm, Fall 2026
Research Interests: Environmental Archaeology, Foodways, Paleoethnobotany, Palynology, Great Basin Archaeology, Pleistocene-Holocene Transition
Elizabeth McGuire
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: emcguire@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Research Interests: eastern Africa, stable isotopes, paleoclimate proxies, conservation ecology
Jeanne McLaughlin
Human Osteologist & Forensic Anthropologist
Anthropology
Email: jmclaugh@uoregon.edu
Office: 355 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Megan McNamara
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: meganmcn@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Primate Brain Evolution, Genomics, Molecular Anthropology
Fela McWhorter
Operations Manager, Academic Support Unit 5
Anthropology, Black Studies, Cinema Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, Geography, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: felaw@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5902
Office: 275B McKenzie Hall
Alanna Melchor
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: amelchor@uoregon.edu
Office: 308 Condon Hall, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Monday | Wednesday
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Research Interests: Obesity, metabolism, physical activity, market integration
Kelly Mendelson
Accounting Technician
Anthropology, Black Studies, Cinema Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, Geography, History, IRES, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: kellymen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4548
Office Hours: 8:00am-12:00pm; 1:00-5:00pm
Tom Mertes
Academic Programs Manager
Black Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Geography
Email: tmertes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1060
Office: 273A McKenzie Hall
Sophie Miller
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: smiller3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
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
Parker Miraldi
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: pmiraldi@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Tuesdays 10am-12pm (Zoom)
Research Interests: Archaeobotany, Native PNW Plants, PNW Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Collaborative Research Methods, Food Soveriegnity
Shimiko Montgomery
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: shimiko@uoregon.edu
Office: 308 Condon Hall, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Island and coastal archaeology, Indigenous archaeology, cultural heritage preservation, GIS
Rose Mooney
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: rmooney@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Condon Hall, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Collaborative Research, Low Impact Survey Methods, Geophysics, Environmental Archaeology
Geraldine Moreno Black
Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Food Studies
Email: gmorenob@uoregon.edu
Madonna Moss
Professor Emerita
Curator of Zooarchaeology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology
Email: mmoss@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6076
Office: 327 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: By appointment.
Research Interests: Northwest Coast Archaeology, Alaska Native stewardship of land and resources, zooarchaeology
Parmida Mostafavi
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Email: parmida@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2026: By appointment (email me).
Research Interests: Iranian diaspora, materiality, racial capitalism, nationalism, commodification, neoliberalism
Lidia Munoz Paniagua
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: lidiaest@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Appointment by email request
Research Interests: Migrant farmworkers, H2-Visa Program, Immigrant Health, Temporary Migrant Workers
James Munyawera
PhD Student
Anthropology, Biology
Email: jamesmun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 458-210-1360
Office: Pacific 8
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10-12pm
Research Interests: Primates behaviors, Ecology, genetics, and Evolutionary genomics, primates gut microbiome