Black Studies
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
(On a sabbatical leave Winter-Spring 2026)
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), Feminism, African and Africana Philosophy, Philosophy of Language (broadly construed).
Leticia Stival
Events and Communications Coordinator
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: stival@uoregon.edu