CAS Faculty

Yvette Saavedra

Associate Professor

WGSS Director of Graduate Studies; Convener Women of Color Faculty Project

IRES, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: yjs@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5521

Office: 218 Hendricks Hall

Office Hours: Please email for appointment.

Research Interests: Chicanx History and Studies; Chicana Lesbian Feminist Theory; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History and Studies; History of U.S. West; 19th and 20th century U.S History; California History; 19th and 20th century gender and sexuality in the U.S.

Hal Sadofsky

Interim Executive Vice Provost for Academic Administration

Associate Professor

Mathematics

Email: sadofsky@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3280

Office: 206 JH

Valerie Sahakian

Associate Professor

Earth Sciences

Email: vjs@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3401

Office: 325D Cascade Hall

Office Hours: Monday 3:30-4:30

Research Interests: Active Tectonics, Ground Motion Seismology, Marine Geophysics

Rachelle Saltzman

Lecturer, Folklore and Public Culture

Retired, Executive Director, Oregon Folklife Network

Folklore Program

Email: riki@uoregon.edu

Research Interests: Folklore, Foodways, American Folklore, British Folklore, Festival, Ritual, Folk Drama, Public Protest

Gabe Sanchez

Assistant Professor

Anthropology

Email: gsanche2@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9640

Office: 274 Condon Hall

Office Hours: T and Thu from noon to 1 pm or by appointment

Maria 'Bene' Santos

Senior Instructor 1 of Portuguese

Portuguese Language Supervisor

Portuguese, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: benballe@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4052

Office: 411 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:00 to 2:50

Gerard Saucier

Professor

Psychology

Email: gsaucier@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4927

Office: 425 Straub Hall

Research Interests: Personality, Values, Cultural Psychology, Moral Psychology

Ben Saunders

Professor

Director, Comics and Cartoon Studies Minor

Comics and Cartoon Studies, English

Email: ben@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0062

Office: 273 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, no office hours

Research Interests: Early Modern Poetry and Drama, Comics Studies, Anglo-American Poetry and Poetics, Critical Theory (Marxism, Queer Theory, Genre Theory), Genre Fictions (Crime, Horror, and Science Fiction)

Val Sawiccy

Instructor

Human Physiology

Email: vsawiccy@uoregon.edu

Office: 175 Esslinger

Gordon Sayre

Professor

English, Folklore Program

Email: gsayre@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1313

Office: 472 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: Fall term 2024: Tuesdays 1-3 pm; Wednesdays 2-3 pm

Research Interests: Folkore, Environmental Humanities, Colonial American Literature, Automobility and Car Cultures, Indigenous Studies

Michelle Scalise Sugiyama

Senior Instructor I

Anthropology

Email: mscalise@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5142

Office: 273 Condon Hall

Office Hours: by appointment

Research Interests: Evolution of cultural transmission, social learning, and symbolic behavior; evolutionary psychology; hunter-gatherers; oral tradition; traditional ecological knowledge; play; warfare

Billy Scannell

Instructor

Lower Division Lab Coordinator

Physics

Email: scannell@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5256

Office: 145 Willamette Hall

Research Interests: Physics education, demonstrations, and outreach.

Philip W. Scher

Department Head, Cinema Studies and Theatre Arts

Professor of Anthropology and Folklore

Anthropology, Folklore Program, Theatre Arts, Cinema Studies

Email: pscher@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5104

Office: 322 Fenton Hall

Office Hours: Email for appointment

John Schmor

Associate Professor

Theatre Arts

Email: jbschmor@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4177

Office: 105 Villard Hall

Robert Schofield

Research Associate Professor

Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics

Email: rmss@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4783

Office: B2 Volcanology

Research Interests: Gravitational Waves/structural biophysics

James Schombert

Professor

College Scholars, Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics

Email: jschombe@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5214

Office: 461 Willamette Hall

Research Interests: observational cosmology, dark matter, galaxy evolution

Jeff Schroeder

Associate Professor

Religious Studies Advisor

Religious Studies

Email: jschroe9@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4165

Office: 332 Susan Campbell

Research Interests: history of Buddhism in 19th- and 20th-century Japan, especially of the Jōdo Shin sect; Buddhism and World War II; Buddhism, science, and philosophy; democratization of Buddhist institutions; experimental Buddhist communities

Ellen Scott

Professor

Sociology

Email: escott@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5075

Office: 731 PLC

Office Hours: Fall 24: Tuesdays 1:30-2:30 AND BY APPOINTMENT

Research Interests: Low-wage work, carework, public policy, qualitative methods.

Emily Scott

Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies, History Art & Arch

Email: escott2@uoregon.edu

Office: Lawrence 218

Office Hours: Thursdays 11am-1pm in Lawrence 218. Contact instructor for sign-up sheet.

Research Interests: Art, politics, and the environment

Kris Seaman

Associate Professor

Classics, History Art & Arch

Email: kseaman@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-7312

Office: 251C Lawrence Hall

Research Interests: Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology

Jake Searcy

Research Assistant Professor of Data Science

Data Science, Institute for Fundamental Science

Email: jsearcy@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-6996

Office: 203A Pacific Hall

Bish Sen

Associate Professor

Asian Studies, SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad

Email: bsen@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-2880

Office: 329 Allen Hall

Jesús Sepúlveda

Senior Instructor II of Spanish Composition, Creative Writing, and Poetry

Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish

Email: jsepulve@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-8304

Office: 313 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: W 1:00-3:00 pm

Research Interests: Poetry, Latin American and Spanish Literature, World Literature, Creative Writing, Shamanism, Avant-Garde and Post Avant-Garde Movements, Intoxicated Texts, Green Anarchy, Southern Cone, Critical Theory, Global Studies

Margaret E. Sereno

Professor

Neuroscience, Psychology, SAIL

Email: msereno@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4915

Office: 330 LISB

Research Interests: Cognitive-Neuroscience

Bijan Shahir

Instructor

Mathematics

Phone: 541-346-8403

Office: 333D Tykeson Hall

Office Hours: Mon: 12pm – 12:50pm, Tue: 12:30pm–1:20pm, W: 1pm–1:50pm, or by appointment

Steven Shankman

Professor Emeritus

UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace

English

Email: shankman@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3997

Office: 373 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: Not teaching ENG this term; available via email

Research Interests: Comparative literature, the classical tradition in English and American literature, the eighteenth century, and the history of literary theory

Narayan Sharma

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Linguistics

Email: narayans@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3914

Office: 281 Straub Hall

Research Interests: Language documentation and description; endangered and minority Tibeto-Burman languages; morphology and syntax; linguistic typology, and field linguistics

Yefeng Shen

Associate Professor

Mathematics

Email: yfshen@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9077

Office: 308 Fenton Hall

Office Hours: W 2-3, Fri 2-3

George Sheridan

Professor

History

Email: gjs@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4832

Office: 340A McKenzie Hall

Jiannbin Shiao

Professor

Department Head

Sociology

Email: jshiao@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5366

Office: 613 PLC

Office Hours: Fall24: Drop-in: Thursdays 2-3 PM; By appointment only: Wednesdays or Fridays 2-3 PM

Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Theory Knowledge Science, Qualitative Approaches, Quantitative Approaches

Stephen Shoemaker

Professor

History of Christianity

Humanities Program, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies

Email: sshoemak@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4998

Office: 348 Susan Campbell Hall

Office Hours: By appointment only

Samantha Shune

Associate Professor

College of Education, Communication Disorders and Sciences, Food Studies, SAIL

Email: sshune@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-7494

Office: 249 HEDCO Education Bldg

Research Interests: Dysphagia, aging, dementia, caregiver burden

Lucas Silva

Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology

Biology, Environmental Studies

Email: lsilva7@uoregon.edu

Office: 248 Columbia Hall

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-3:00pm

Emily Simnitt

Senior Instructor

Interim Director Compositon Program; Director, WSCR Minor

Digital Humanities, English, SAIL

Email: esimnitt@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3517

Office: 301E Tykeson Hall

Office Hours: Spring Term: In person T 3-4pm, W 11am-12pm; Zoom F 3-4pm

Research Interests: digital rhetoric, civic engagement, first year writing

Nathaniel Sims

Assistant Professor

Linguistics

Email: nasims@uoregon.edu

Office: 371 Straub Hall

Office Hours: Tue 8:00am-10:00am

Research Interests: language documentation and revitalization, historical linguistics, Trans-Himalayan languages

Chris Sinclair

Associate Professor

Mathematics

Email: csinclai@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4701

Office: 101A McArthur Court

Office Hours: Tuesdays 11-11:50, Thursdays 12-12:50 via Zoom: https://uoregon.zoom.us/my/cdsinclair

Avinash Singh

Neuroscience Major Interim Director, Instructor

Neuroscience

Email: avinash@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4544

Office: 214A Huestis Hall

Nadia Singh

Professor

Biology

Email: nsingh@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9308

Office: 313 Pacific Hall

Dev Sinha

Associate Professor

Mathematics

Email: dps@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5627

Office: 307 Fenton Hall

Office Hours: M 11-12 and 2-3, Tu 4-5, W 1-2, F 1-2, 4-5

André Sirois

Instructor

Multimedia Supervisor

Cinema Studies

Email: asirois@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-8844

Office: 263 Knight Library

Research Interests: Intellectual Property Law, Subcultural Studies, Pop Culture, and Hip Hop Studies

Lars Skalnes

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Political Science

Email: lskalnes@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4886

Office: 929 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284

Office Hours: Fall 24: Tuesday & Thursdays 1:30-3:00

Research Interests: International Political Economy, International Relations

Elizabeth Skowron

Professor

Psychology

Email: eskowron@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9329

Office: 437 Straub Hall

Research Interests: Clinical, Development, Parenting Processes, Adversity, Self-Regulation, Child & Family Interventions, Translational Science.

Paul Slovic

Professor

Psychology

Email: pslovic@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-485-2400

Office: Decision Research

Research Interests: Social/Personality, Judgment and Decision Making, Risk Perception, Affect and Information Processing, Genocide, Human Rights, Virtuous Violence, Preventing Nuclear War, Behavioral Economics

Clayton Small

Research Assistant Professor

Data Science

Email: csmall@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4232

Office: 319 Pacific Hall

Office Hours: Tuesday 3-4:30

Research Interests: Evolutionary Genomics, Computational Biology, Data Science

Bjorn Smars

Senior Instructor

Assistant Department Head of English

English

Email: smars@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3977

Office: 223 PLC

Office Hours: Fall Term 2024: MW in person 9:00am-11:30am; on Zoom by appt.

Matt Smear

Associate Professor

Neuroscience, Psychology

Email: smear@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4389

Office: 212A Huestis Hall

Research Interests: Systems Neuroscience

Bennet Smith

Career Instructor

English

Email: bennets@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1518

Office: 301-H TYKE

Office Hours: Fall Term: TR 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Brian Smith

Professor

OMQ Director

OMQ, Physics

Email: bjsmith@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5790

Office: 262 Willamette Hall

Research Interests: Quantum optics, quantum information science and technology, and optics

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

Jackson Smith

Visiting Assistant Professor

History

Email: jacks1@uoregon.edu

Office: 323 McKenzie Hall

Josh Snodgrass

Professor

Core Faculty, Global Health Program

Anthropology, Food Studies, Global Health Program

Email: jjosh@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4823

Office: 354 Condon Hall

Office Hours: By appointment

Priscilla Southwell

Professor Emerita

Middle East and North African Studies, Political Science

Email: psouth@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9857

Office: 915 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284

Office Hours: Fall 24: Wednesday 2-4 pm

Research Interests: Political Behavior, U.S. and European Politics

Helen Southworth

Professor

Digital Humanities, English

Email: helen@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3940

Office: 275 PLC

Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024

Research Interests: Modernism, Virginia Woolf, Life-Writing, Archives, Digital Humanities, Book History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Comics and Cartoon Studies

Melanie Spero

Assistant Professor

Biology

Email: mspero@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1440

Office: 291 Onyx Bridge

Kryn Stankunas

Professor

Biology

Email: kryn@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-7416

Office: 245C Streisinger Hall

Sarah Stapleton

Associate Professor

College of Education, Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education, Curriculum & Teaching, Curriculum and Teacher Education, Educational Foundations, Environmental Studies, Food Studies

Email: sstaplet@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5834

Office: 146B Lokey Education Bldg.

Research Interests: climate change education, science and environmental education, food and schools, participatory research

Amanda Stasiewicz

Assistant Professor

Environmental Studies

Email: asta@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5031

Office Hours: Thursdays 10-11:45 Columbia 145B

Research Interests: human dimensions of wildfire, community and organizational adaptation to hazards, cooperative fire risk management, evacuation and alternatives to evacuation, forest and rangeland policy, qualitative and quantitative social science

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

Daniel Steck

Assoc. Professor

Multidisciplinary Science, OMQ, Physics

Email: dsteck@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5313

Office: 277 Willamette Hall

Research Interests: Quantum and atom optics, quantum nonlinear dynamical systems, laser cooling and trapping of atoms

David Steinberg

Senior Instructor

Mathematics

Email: dcstein@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0948

Office: 333C Tykeson Hall

Daniel Gómez Steinhart

Associate Professor

Cinema Studies

Email: dsteinha@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-2360

Office: 102 PLC

Research Interests: Global Hollywood history, production studies, film aesthetics, US independent film, and contemporary global art cinema

Lynn Stephen

Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology

Co-Director of Graduate Studies (Anthropology), Graduate Faculty in Ethnic Studies, Participating Faculty in Latin American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies

Anthropology, CLLAS, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx, SAIL

Email: stephenl@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5168

Office: 316 Condon Hall

Office Hours: T/R 1:30 -2:30 in person in 316 Condon, or by appointment

Research Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Americas, Legal Pluralism, Social Memory, Testimony, Gender Violence

Michael Stern

Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian

Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian

German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: mjstern@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4126

Office: 204 Friendly Hall

Office Hours: Spring 2023: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm-1:00pm and by appointment

Research Interests: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Western European Intellectual History, African literature, film, and thought, 19th Century Scandinavian Literature.

Kirstin Sterner

Associate Professor

Anthropology

Email: ksterner@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-8614

Office: 352 Condon Hall

Office Hours: Wednesdays from 11am to 1pm in PAC10 or by appointment (Spring 2024 Term)

Matthew Streisfeld

Associate Professor

Institute of Ecology and Evolution director

Biology

Email: mstreis@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4816

Office: 267A Onyx Bridge

David Strom

Professor

Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics

Email: dstrom@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-6108

Office: 447 Willamette Hall

Research Interests: Quantum black hole production in proton-proton collisions, Higgs (in beyond the Standard Model Scenarios), triggering at hadron colliders, detectors and electronics for linear colliders, precision electroweak measurements, ATLAS