CAS Faculty
Yvette Saavedra
Associate Professor
IRES, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx
Email: yjs@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: On sabbatical during the 2025-2026 academic year.
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
Executive Vice Provost for Academic Administration
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Email: sadofsky@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3280
Office: 206 JH, University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Valerie Sahakian
Associate Professor
P&A Program Lead, CRESCENT
Earth Sciences
Email: vjs@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3401
Office: 325D Cascade Hall, 1272 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1272
Office Hours: Monday 3:30-4:30
Research Interests: Active Tectonics, Ground Motion Seismology, Marine Geophysics
Gabe Sanchez
Assistant Professor
Curator of Zooarchaeology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology, Latinx, Native American Studies
Email: gsanche2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9640
Office: 274 Condon Hall, 1212 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1212
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 11 am to noon or by appointment
Maria 'Bene' Santos
Senior Instructor II of Portuguese
Portuguese Language Supervisor
Portuguese, Romance Languages, Schnitzer 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 Emerit
Psychology
Email: gsaucier@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4927
Office: 425 Straub Hall, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1227
Research Interests: Personality, Values, Cultural Psychology, Moral Psychology
Ben Saunders
Professor
Director, Comics and Cartoon Studies Minor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English, Clark Honors College
Email: ben@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0062
Office: 257 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall 2026, Wednesdays 11am-noon and 1-3pm or by appointment
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
Assistant Teaching Professor
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
Office: 273 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Tues 9:00-11:00 a.m. PST and by appointment
Research Interests: Evolution of cultural transmission, cumulative culture, 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, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1274
Research Interests: Physics education, demonstrations, and outreach.
Robert Schofield
Research Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Email: rmss@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4783
Office: B2 Volcanology, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Gravitational Waves/structural biophysics
James Schombert
Professor
Mr. Noble F. and Mrs. Frances L. Miller Professorship in Astro Physics
College Scholars, Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Email: jschombe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5214
Office: 461 Willamette Hall, 5203 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5295
Research Interests: observational cosmology, dark matter, galaxy evolution
Jeff Schroeder
Associate Professor
Kawasaki Fellow in Japanese History; Religious Studies Advisor
Religious Studies
Email: jschroe9@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4165
Office: 332 Susan Campbell, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294
Office Hours: Thurs 1:00-3:00 pm
Research Interests: history of Buddhism in 19th- and 20th-century Japan; Buddhism and World War II; Buddhism, science, and philosophy; democratization of Buddhist institutions; Buddhist feminism; lay Buddhist movements; religion in the modern world
Ellen Scott
Professor Emerit
Sociology
Email: escott@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5075
Office: 632 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Wednesday 1:00-2:30 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 Hours: Thursdays 11am-1pm in Lawrence 218. Contact instructor for sign-up sheet.
Research Interests: Art, politics, and the environment.
Kris Seaman
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies (GCMS)
Classics, History Art & Arch
Email: kseaman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7312
Office: 251C Lawrence Hall, 5229 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5229
Research Interests: Ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish Art and Archaeology
Jake Searcy
Assistant Professor of Data Science
Data Science, Institute for Fundamental Science
Email: jsearcy@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6996
Office: 203A Pacific Hall, 1202 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1202
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