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, 6216 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-6216
Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun
Associate Professor
Director of African Studies
African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, Sociology, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu
Office: 311 Hendricks Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wednesdays 1 - 3pm www.calendly.com/kbalogun
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, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tues./Thurs. 1:00-2:30pm. You must sign up at dr-barter.youcanbook.me
Research Interests: African American Literary and Cultural Studies, 19th-Century American Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Charise Cheney
Professor; Program Director
IRES, Black Studies
Email: ccheney@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0870
Office: 201 Alder Building
Research Interests: African American Popular and Political Cultures; Black Nationalist Ideologies and Practices; Gender and Sexuality
Courtney M. Cox
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Black Studies, IRES
Phone: 541-346-8392
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Sport Studies, Performance Studies, Feminist Theory, Black Studies, Critical Data Studies
Stephen Dueppen
Professor
Anthropology, Medieval Studies, Black Studies
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, Black Studies
Email: mfe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5042
Office: 357 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Fall quarter Thursdays 2:30- 4:30 PM
Research Interests: Race and ethnicity; intangible cultural heritage; social justice and inequality; Latin America; UNESCO and cultural diplomacy; carework
Nicholas Forster
Assistant Professor
Cinema Studies, Black Studies
Email: nifo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0217
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: 164 Gerlinger Annex
Research Interests: Dance, West Africa, cultural studies, post-colonial independence history, political economy, oral history, African diaspora, new internationalism
Micah Jones
Assistant Professor
History, Black Studies
Email: mcjo@uoregon.edu
Office: McKenzie Hall 323
Office Hours: Tuesday 12:30pm-1:30pm, Thursday 3:30pm-4:30pm, and by appointment
Research Interests: race, Civil Right Movement, consumerism, consumer activism, gender, U.S. south, 20th century African American History
Ana-Maurine Lara
Associate Professor
William and Susan Piché Faculty Fellow
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Studies
Email: amlara@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: FALL 2025 - THURSDAYS, 12PM - 2PM
Julius McGee
Associate Professor
Black Studies, Sociology
Email: juliusm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5514
Office: 631 PLC, 1285 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesday/Thursday 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM<br />
Lanie Millar
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office Hours: Fall, 2025: By appointment. Please email.
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
Faculty Director of the Umoja Black Scholars Academic Residential Community
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
Beata Stawarska
Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies for Advising/Curriculum Committee/GTF Appointment Committee/Graduate Placing Committee/Graduate Philosophy Club
Black Studies, Philosophy
Email: stawarsk@uoregon.edu
Office: 247 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Research Interests: Contemporary European Philosophy, Phenomenology, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Philosophical Psychology, Feminism
Lesley Jo Weaver
Associate Professor
Global Health Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Black Studies
Email: ljweaver@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2025: 10-1130, by appointment (https://calendly.com/ljweaver/dr-weaver-office-hours)
Research Interests: medical anthropology; mental health; race; chronic diseases; food insecurity; health disparities; Brazil; India; USA; global health
Rachel Weissler
Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Sciences
Black Studies, Linguistics
Email: rweissle@uoregon.edu
Office: Straub Hall 375
Office Hours: Please consult your course syllabus or contact the instructor directly for office hours/student hours.
Research Interests: sociolinguistics, emotion perception, neurolinguistics, language and social justice
Mark Whalan
Robert D. and Eve E. Horn Professor of English
Head of English
English, Black Studies
Email: whalan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3926
Office: 118 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Modernist studies; American literary and cultural studies, 1900-1950; First World War Studies; Harlem Renaissance; African American Literary Studies