Anthropology
Sierra Jager
Undergraduate Programs Assistant
Anthropology, Black Studies, Cinema Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, Geography, History, IRES, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: sierraj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1731
Dennis Jenkins
Senior Research Associate
Anthropology
Email: djenkins@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3026
Office: Or State Mus Of Anth, Bldg 107, 1224 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Dee Jolly
Graduate Student
Anthropology
Email: djolly@uoregon.edu
Office: Condon 366
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Fridays (10am-12pm) or by appointment
Research Interests: transgender health, stress, embodiment, health inequities, chronic illness, chronic pain, social determinants of health, intersectionality, biocultural anthropology
Gabby Jones
Graduate Student
Anthropology
Email: gmjon@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 11am-1pm in Condon 313 or by appointment
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Geometric Morphometrics, Osteology, Primatology, Comparative Anatomy, Zooarchaeology, Taphonomy, and Paleoecology.
Philippa Jorissen
Graduate Student
Anthropology
Email: pjorisse@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
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
Lamia Karim
Professor
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
Finn Koval
Graduate Programs Assistant
Anthropology, Black Studies, Cinema Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, Geography, History, IRES, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: fkoval@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0192
Office: 201 McKenzie Hall
Kelsi Kuehn
Graduate Student
Anthropology
Email: kelsik@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 366C Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Summer 2026: Tuesdays 11-12:30 PST on Zoom
Research Interests: LGBTQ+ Health and Resilience, Queer Studies, Human Skeletal Biology, Structural Violence, Embodied Stress and Life Experiences, Biocultural Methods
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
Hyunsoo Lee
Graduate Student
Anthropology
Email: hlee2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
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
Associate 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
Samantha Matalone Cook
Folklore Graduate Student/GE
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.
Jenneca McCarter
Graduate Student
Anthropology
Email: jennecam@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
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
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
Graduate 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
Graduate 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
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