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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; Interim director of Black Studies

African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, School of Global Studies and Languages, Sociology, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu

Office: 311 Hendricks Hall

Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays & Tuesdays 10 - 11am and by appointment

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

Professor

IRES, Black Studies

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

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: Fall 2024: Tuesday and Wednesday 1:00pm-2:00pm

Lanie Millar

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish

Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4031

Office Hours: Fall, 2024: in person, MW 2-3, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/7482429908

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