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Black Studies Faculty

Yvette Alex-Assensoh

VP for Equity and Inclusion

Professor

Black Studies, Political Science

Email: yalex@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3175

Office: 401E Tykeson Hall

Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun

Associate Professor

Director of African Studies

African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, Sociology, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0558

Office: 311 Hendricks Hall

Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday noon-1:00 p.m., Wednesday 12:30-1:30 p.m. and by appointment on zoom

Research Interests: Globalization, Nationalism, Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Embodiment, Africana Studies

Faith Barter

Assistant Professor

Black Studies, English

Email: fbarter@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1510

Office: 320 PLC

Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 4-5pm (in person or Zoom); W 1:30-2:30 (Zoom only). You must sign up at dr-barter.youcanbook.me

Research Interests: African American Literary and Cultural Studies, 19th-Century American Literary Studies, Cultural Studies

Dayna Chatman

Senior Instructor I

Media and Intersectionality

Black Studies, IRES, SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad

Email: dchatman@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3594

Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 147

Research Interests: Gender, Race, Media, Fandom

Charise Cheney

Program Head

Black Studies, IRES

Email: ccheney@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0870

Office: 201 Alder Building

Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday and Tuesday 11:00-12:00 and by appointment

Research Interests: African American Popular and Political Cultures; Black Nationalist Ideologies and Practices; Gender and Sexuality

Courtney Cox

Assistant Professor

Black Studies, IRES

Email: cmcox@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-8392

Office: 217 Alder Bldg.

Office Hours: Fall '21: Email to set up appt.

Research Interests: Sport Studies, Performance Studies, Feminist Theory, Black Studies, Critical Data Studies

Stephen Dueppen

Associate Professor

Anthropology, Black Studies, Food Studies, Medieval Studies

Email: dueppen@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5525

Office: 252 Condon Hall

Office Hours: Wednesdays from 11:50am-1:50pm

Habib Iddrisu

Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Dance

Director, Dema Dance Ensemble

African Studies, Black Studies, Dance, Folklore Program, IRES, Music

Email: hiddrisu@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4062

Office: 152 Gerlinger Annex

Research Interests: Dance, West Africa, cultural studies, post-colonial independence history, political economy, oral history, African diaspora, new internationalism

Ana-Maurine Lara

Associate Professor

William and Susan Piché Faculty Fellow

Black Studies, IRES, Latinx, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: amlara@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5032

Office: 322 Hendricks Hall

Office Hours: Fall 2022 – by appointment; Winter & Spring 2023 – 10am -12pm

Research Interests: Afro Latino/a Identities, Black Queer Aesthetics, Vudú in the Dominican Republic, and Afro-Dominicanidad and the Struggle Against Xenophobia in the Dominican Republic

Ernesto Javier Martínez

IRES Department Head & Associate Professor

Black Studies, IRES, Latinx

Email: ejm@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5523

Office: Alder Building

Office Hours: Fall '23: Monday 3-5pm | https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/99a354e2978a49318fc9c59eeafc0309@uoregon.edu/meetingtype/WdNveLBqDkOCnbyRRZxt0w2?anonymous&ep=mlink

Research Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Feminist Theory, Literary Studies

Julius McGee

Associate Professor

Black Studies, Sociology

Email: juliusm@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5514

Office: 631 PLC

Office Hours: Sp2024: Monday and Wednesday 1:00pm-2:00pm

Lanie Millar

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish

Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4031

Office: Friendly 211

Office Hours: Spring, 2024: in person, Wednesdays, 2-4, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only.

Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory

Cera Smith

Assistant Professor

Black Studies, IRES

Email: cera@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1343

Research Interests: U.S. Black Literatures (African American, Afro-Latinx, and other Black diasporic), Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Black Studies, Critical Race Theories, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Histories of Science and Medicine, Health Humanities