CAS Faculty

Yvette Saavedra

Associate Professor

WGSS Director of Graduate Studies

IRES, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Office Hours: On Sabbatical: I am away from campus on sabbatical research leave for the 2025-2026 Academic Year. I am reviewing email less frequently and my response time will be slower than usual. Thank you for your patience. <br /> Office hours: Not available. If I serve as your undergraduate thesis advisor or am on your graduate committee and you need to meet with or contact me, please email me at YJS@uoregon.edu<br /> Director of Graduate Studies: In my absence, the position of Director of Graduate Studies for WGSS will be Dr. Yu-Fang Cho ( yufangc@uoregon.edu ), please direct all Grad Certificate, advising, and GE inquiries to her.

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

Riki Saltzman

Lecturer, Folklore and Public Culture

Retired, Executive Director, Oregon Folklife Network

Folklore Program

Email: riki@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3820

Office: 242 Knight Library, 6204 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-6204

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

Gabe Sanchez

Assistant Professor

Curator of Zooarchaeology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Anthropology

Email: gsanche2@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9640

Office: 274 Condon Hall, 1212 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1212

Office Hours: Monday 9 am to noon or by appointment

Maria 'Bene' Santos

Senior Instructor II 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, 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

Email: ben@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0062

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

Office Hours: Winter 2025, Tuesdays 3.30pm-5.30pm 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

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

Office: 273 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218

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, 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

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 2:00-4:00 pm<br /> Susan Campbell Hall 332

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