CAS Faculty

Loïc Bachelot

Developer / data scientist
Earth Sciences
Research Interests: Data science, machine learning, data visualization, earth sciences

Sunny Bai

Assistant Professor
Psychology
Phone: 971-352-4016
Research Interests: Clinical, Developmental, stress and coping, emotion regulation, family relationships, peer relationships, depression, suicide prevention, intensive longitudinal methods

Heather Bair

Costume Shop Manager
Theatre Arts
Office: 123A MTC (Miller Theatre Complex)
Research Interests: Costume History, Period and Modern Construction and Tailoring Techniques, Illustration, Art History, Owls

Monique Balbuena

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-2311
Office: 345 PLC
Research Interests: Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Sephardic Languages, Ladino, Poetry, French and Francophone Literatures, Latin American Studies

Dare Baldwin

Professor
Psychology
Phone: 541-346-4964
Office: 467 Straub Hall and 210 Chapman Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Tuesdays 3:30-5:30pm Chapman 210 and Thursdays 10:30am-12:30pm Straub 467
Research Interests: Development, Language Acquisition, Event Processing, Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Development, Developmental Consequences of Malnutrition, Behavioral Response to Natural Hazards

Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun

Associate Professor
Director of African Studies
African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, School of Global Studies and Languages, Sociology, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 541-346-0558
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

Jayanth Banavar

Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-3214
Office: 177 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Statistical Physics, Ecology, Proteins, Neuroscience, River networks

Matthew Barber

Associate Professor
Biology
Phone: 541-346-4903
Office: 321 Pacific

Nicola Barber

Career Senior Instructor I
Biology
Phone: 541-346-7024
Office: 73A Klamath Hall

Faith Barter

Assistant Professor
Black Studies, English
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

Diane Baxter

Senior Lecturer 1
Pro Tem Instructor
Law, Middle East and North African Studies
Phone: none
Office: none
Office Hours:

Martha Bayless

Professor, English
Director, Folklore and Public Culture
English, Folklore Program, Food Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies
Phone: 541-346-3930
Office: 344 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, available by email every weekday
Research Interests: Folklore, Medieval Studies, Cultural Studies, Food Studies

Erin Beck

Associate Professor
CLLAS, Latin American Studies, Political Science
Phone: 541-346-4483
Office: 914 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Fall 24: Wednesday 11:00-2:00
Research Interests: Latin American Politics, Development, Gender, NGOs, Microfinance, Collective Action

Steven Beda

Assistant Professor
History
Phone: 541-346-9048
Office: 307 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: Winter 23, Tuesday and Thursday 11:30-12:30 and by appointment
Research Interests: 20th Century US History, Labor History, Environmental History,

Mathilde Bégu

Career Instructor of French and 2nd-year French Language Program Supervisor
French, Romance Languages
Phone: Teams
Office: 201 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Thursday 2:30-4:30pm
Research Interests: Teaching French as a second language, Teaching francophone literature, Ecofeminism, Decolonial literature

Guillem Belmar Viernes

Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Office: Straub 279
Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 10:30-11:30
Research Interests: Language revitalization, language maintenance, language rights, minoritized languages, endangered languages, language documentation, minority multilingualism, Minoritized Languages and (Social Media), Minoritized Language Translation, cont.

Smadar Ben-Natan

Assistant Professor
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 407 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday 3:30-5:30
Research Interests: Law, International Law, Human Rights, Criminal Justice, Armed Conflict, Citizenship, Israel/Palestine

Arkadiy Berenshtein

Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5624
Office: 306 Fenton Hall
Research Interests: representation theory, quantum groups, Schubert calculus, combinatorics, cluster algebras, commutative and noncommutative algebraic geometry.

Elliot Berkman

Professor; Divisional Associate Dean, Natural Sciences
CTN Co-Director
Center for Translational Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Psychology, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-4909
Office: 332 LISB
Research Interests: Social/Personality, Translational Neuroscience, Self-Regulation, Goals, Motivation

Jessica Bernards

Instructor Pro Tempore
Mathematics

Ilya Bindeman

Professor
Earth Sciences
Phone: 541-346-3817
Office: 110A Cascade Hall, 1272 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: stable isotope geochemistry, volcanology

Scott Blumenthal

Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-9181
Office: 374 Condon Hall
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Ecology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry

Shannon Boettcher

Professor
The Boettcher lab is transitioning to UC Berkeley and LBNL this year. https://boettcherlab.berkeley.edu/
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Phone: 541-346-2543
Office: 435 LISB
Research Interests: electrochemistry, solar energy, solid state materials chemistry, catalysis

Bryan Boggs

Senior Lecturer
Associate Dept Head
Physics
Phone: 541-346-5296
Office: 43 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Optical properties of semiconductors; ultra-fast optics; Superconductivity

Brendan Bohannan

Professor
Biology
Phone: 541-346-4883
Office: 309 Pacific Hall

Elizabeth Bohls

Professor
English, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-5484
Office: 263 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 12:15-1:45pm & by appt.
Research Interests: Colonial, Settler Colonial, and Postcolonial Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, Cultural Studies, Feminism Studies, Restoration and 18th Century Literary Studies, Travel Writing

Erica Bornstein

Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-9638
Office: 272 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-4pm, 272 Condon and by appointment
Research Interests: Nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), voluntary sector regulation, philanthropy, humanitarianism, human rights, economic development and religion, political and legal anthropology, institutional ethnography, Southern Africa, South Asia.

Boris Botvinnik

Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5636
Office: 304 Fenton Hall

Margaret C. Boulay

Co-Director, Environmental Leadership Program
ELP Senior Instructor II
Environmental Studies
Phone: 541-346-5945
Office: 244 Columbia Hall
Office Hours: Wed 3:30-4:30 pm 244 COL, and by appointment

Lara Bovilsky

Associate Professor
College Scholars, English, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-1309
Office: 246 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 9:30-11am, R 10-11am & by appt.
Research Interests: Renaissance/Early Modern Literary Studies, Race Ethnicity and Indigeneity, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Drama and Performance Studies

Lowell Bowditch

Professor, Classics Department Head
Classics
Phone: 541-346-4306
Office: 337 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment

Bruce Bowerman

Professor
Biology
Phone: 541-346-0853
Office: 314 LISB

Marcin Bownik

Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5622
Office: 323 Fenton Hall

Bradley Branam

Associate Professor
Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-4185
Office: B11E MacArthur Court
Research Interests: Technical Direction, Projection Design, Sound Design

Debi Brannan

Pro Tem Instructor
Psychology
Office: 364 Straub Hall

Lindsay Frederick Braun

Associate Professor
African Studies, History
Phone: 541-346-4838
Office: 365 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: FT 2024: 1-3 Tuesdays ABA (MTW)
Research Interests: Southern Africa 1750-1950, East Africa 1850-1960, Comparative Colonialism, Environmental History, History of Science and Technology (esp. geography)

Yvonne Braun

Professor
Department Head, Global Studies and Member, Provost's Teaching Academy
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-5752
Office: 118 Friendly Hall, 1245 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1245
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Wednesday 12:00-1:50 (by Zoom or by appt)
Research Interests: gender, intersectionality, social inequality, international development, environmental justice, globalization, infrastructural politics, energy politics, social movements, feminist political ecology

Steven Brence

Distinguished Teaching Professor & Pre-Law Advisor
Director of Ethics Minor
Philosophy
Phone: 541-346-5553
Office: 250D Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Wednesdays from 3-5 pm or by Appointment.
Research Interests: Social/Political, Ethics, Philosophy of Film, Pragmatism, 19th and 20th Century German

Jason B. Brown

Professor
Director of Creative Writing
Creative Writing Program
Phone: 541-346-0510
Office: 208 Alder Bldg

Kirby Brown

Associate Professor, English
Director, Native American and Studies (NAIS)
English, Native American Studies, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-5819
Office: 330 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall 2024: M: 3-5 pm, W: 9-10 am, and by email appt. (or schedule here: https://calendly.com/kirbybrown/officehours)
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Literary and Cultural Studies; Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity; Cultural Studies; Modernism Studies; Genre Studies

Michael Brown

Instructor
Political Science, Sociology
Phone: 541-346-4675
Office: 605 PLC

Steven Brown

Professor of Comparative Literature
Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-4016
Office: 354 PLC
Research Interests: posthumanism, horror cinema, Surrealist film and animation, sound design in film, Japanese popular culture, and critical theory.

Carrie Brown Reiily

Spanish Instructor
Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-4207
Office: 20 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 3 pm - 4:30 pm 193 ANS

Carl Brozek

Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Phone: 541-346-0146
Office: LISB 434
Research Interests: Environmental and Sustainable Materials, Porosity, Nanocrystals, Conductivity, Energy Storage, Photoredox, Dynamic Bonding

Jon Brundan

Professor
College Scholars, Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5626
Office: 319 Fenton Hall
Office Hours: Monday 11-12, Wednesday 11-12 and 1-2, Thursday 1-2

Katherine Brundan

Senior Instructor I
Comparative Literature, Disability Studies, English, Humanities Program, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 363 PLC
Research Interests: 19th century European novel, translation studies, philology, history of the novel, the Gothic, gender, technology

Daniel Buck

Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Food Studies, Geography, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-2353
Office: 109 Condon Hall
Office Hours: W 1-3 or by appointment
Research Interests: Geography/Asian Studies, Economic Geography, Development, Political Economy, Environment/Society, East Asia and China.

Jamie Bufalino

Senior Instructor
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 541-346-5904
Office: 320 Hendricks Hall
Office Hours: Please email faculty using your UO email account or use Canvas if enrolled in a course with the professor.
Research Interests: Gender & sexuality in U.S. history; history of feminism; U.S. consumer culture; U.S. racial politics

Mattie Burkert

Associate Professor
Director, Minor in Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities, English
Phone: 541-346-0272
Office: 235 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays, 1-4pm (schedule an appointment at https://tinyurl.com/burkert-office-hours)
Research Interests: Digital Humanities, New Media, Theater and Performance Studies, Restoration and 18th Century Literature and Culture, Histories of Science and Technology, Economic History and Criticism, Gender and Sexuality, Disability

Alfredo Burlando

Associate Professor
Director of Master’s Studies
Economics
Phone: 541-346-1351
Office: 513 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2023: Monday 9:30 - 11:00
Research Interests: Development economics, economics of corruption, savings strategies in developing countries, health and fertility