CAS Faculty

Arkady Vaintrob

Associate Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-4734
Office: 322 Fenton Hall
Office Hours: M 3:00-3:50, W 12:00-12:50

Arafaat A. Valiani

Associate Professor
Graduate Faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies and Global Health
History, IRES
Phone: 541-346-5763
Office: 301 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: By appointment

Alejandro Vallega

Professor of Philosophy
Committee on Diversity & Inclusiveness
Philosophy
Office: 248 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy (Deconstruction, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics); Latin American Thought; Ancient Greek Philosophy. Aesthetic Philosophy. World philosophies.

Daniela Vallega-Neu

Professor of Philosophy
DGS for Admissions
Philosophy
Office: 240 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Wednesdays from 12:30-2:30 pm or by appointment
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century European Thought (especially Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Contemporary French thought); Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Deconstruction; Ontology related to issues of body.

Jessica Vasquez-Tokos

Professor
IRES, Sociology
Phone: 541-346-5165
Office: 715 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: SP 2024: By Appt
Research Interests: Family Life Course and Society, Race and Ethnicity, Qualitative Approaches

Claudia Ventura

Senior Instructor II of Italian
Second Year Supervisor
Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4039
Office: 216 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Mondays, Fridays and Wednesdays 11-11:45 AM in MCK 175

Byron Villacis Cruz

Assistant Professor
Sociology
Office: 707 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Mondays, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Research Interests: Expertise, Anticorruptionism, Quantification, Research Methods, Dollarization

Matthias Vogel

Senior Instructor II and Language Coordinator
Director of Undergraduate Studies, German and Faculty Fellow, Yasui Hall
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-337-2634
Office: 117 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tue/Thu 9:00 AM to 9:50 AM and by appointment
Research Interests: German language, culture, and pedagogy; Globalization and Global Engagement Issues; Study Abroad; Identity Discourses and Multiculturalism; Food Studies; Higher Education Organizational Leadership; Academic Residential Communities and Residential Life

George Von Dassow

Associate Professor
Biology, OIMB
Phone: 541-346-7291
Office: Oregon Inst of Marine Biology

Tuong Vu

Professor
Political Science
Phone: 541-346-4866
Office: 940 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Mondays 12-3 pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Ideology, Revolution, Communism, Nationalism, East and Southeast Asia

Lily Vuong

Associate Professor
Religious Studies
Phone: 541-346-4904
Office: 346 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: M/W 9:30-10:30 or by appointment.
Research Interests: Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Christian Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal writings, Representations of Women and the Construction of Gender in the Ancient World, Jewish and Christian Identities and Relations in Late Antiquity, Literary and Feminist Approaches to Biblical Interpretation.