CAS Faculty

David Wacks

Professor of Spanish
Medieval Studies, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 105C Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: On leave through Spring 2025
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies

Glen Waddell

Professor
Economics, Lundquist College of Business, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-1259
Office: Prince Lucien Campbell 533
Office Hours: Fall 2022: On Canvas (or by appointment)
Research Interests: labor, education, health, industrial organization

Lissa Wadewitz

Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History
History
Phone: 541-346-1831
Office: 385 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Native American, Pacific/Marine World, US West, US Environmental

Hannah Waight

Assistant Professor
Sociology
Office: 738 PLC
Office Hours: all 2024: Wednesdays, 10am - noon; Tuesdays 2pm - 3pm. Sign up for Office Hours here, or by appointment: https://calendly.com/hannah_waight
Research Interests: Media, Information, China, Quantitative Methods, Text as Data

Eleanor Wakefield

Career Instructor
English
Phone: 541-346-0055
Office: 301B Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 1-2pm, R 1-3pm, & by appt.

Sarah D. Wald

Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & English
Director of Graduate Admissions for English
English, Environmental Studies, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx
Phone: 541-346-1613
Office: 443 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: Wednesday, 12:30pm-2:30pm PLC 443
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Environmental Humanities, Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies, Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies, Food Studies, Farmworker Justice, Immigration/Migration, 20/21st Century US Literature, American Studies

Ashley Walker

Associate Professor
Human Physiology
Phone: 541-346-5058
Office: 162 Onyx Bridge
Research Interests: Aging and Vascular Physiology

Karen E. Walker

Associate Professor (On Sabbatical 2023-2024)
Associate Professor
Creative Writing Program
Phone: 541-346-0544
Office: 212 Alder Bldg

Peter Walker

Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-4541
Office: 100 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Political ecology, environmental politics, climate change adaptation, wildfire, collaborative and community based resource management, land use, American West, Africa

Paul Wallace

Professor
Earth Sciences
Phone: 541-346-5985
Office: 220 Cascade Hall, 1272 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Igneous petrology, volcanology, geochemistry

Glynne Walley

Associate Professor, Japanese Literature
East Asian Languages, Folklore Program, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 423 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Thursdays 5:30-7:30 pm

Hailin Wang

Professor
Alec and Kay Keith Chair in Physics
OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4758
Office: 274 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Experimental optical and condensed matter physics; quantum optics with spins, excitons, and nanomechanical oscillators, quantum information processing

Hao Wang

Courtesy Research Associate Professor
m
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5628

Yu Wang

Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-2023
Office: 337 Deschutes
Research Interests: Data Mining and Machine Learning, Graph Machine Learning, Network Analysis, Information Retrieval

Yugen Wang

Professor, Chinese Literature, Department Head
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-3503
Office: 304 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024, WED 3-5 pm

Peter A. Warnek

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
Office: 246 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Tuesdays, 2-3 pm; Thursdays, 11 am -12 pm.
Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, 19th-20th Century Continental Philosophy, Kant, Philosophy of Nature, Myth, Tragedy, History of Philosophy

Micah Warren

Associate Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5618
Office: 318 Fenton Hall
Office Hours: Monday 9:30 - 10:30, 1:30 - 3:30, Thursday 10:30-11:30, 1:30 - 2:30

Philip Washbourne

Associate Professor
Biology, Neuroscience
Phone: 541-346-4138
Office: 321B Huestis Hall

Janet Wasko

Interim Director and Professor, Media Studies Program
Emeritus Knight Chair in Communication Research; Affiliated Faculty, New Media & Culture Program
SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad, Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-4174
Office: 208 Allen Hall

James Watkins

Professor
Earth Sciences
Phone: 541-346-4681
Office: 205A Cascade Hall, 1272 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1272
Office Hours: Thursday 9-11:00
Research Interests: Stable isotope geochemistry & experimental petrology

Maya Watts

OIMB Education Program Coordinator
Senior Career Instructor
Biology, OIMB
Phone: 541-346-7277
Office: Oregon Inst of Marine Biology
Research Interests: Marine Parasitology, Invertebrate Zoology, Research Experiences for Undergraduates

Paul Watts-Offret

Instructor of Composition
English
Phone: 541-346-1338

Lesley Jo Weaver

Associate Professor
Global Health Program, Product Design, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-5089
Office: Friendly 105
Office Hours: 2024-25 academic year: on sabbatical
Research Interests: medical anthropology; mental health; race; chronic diseases; food insecurity; health disparities; Brazil; India; USA; global health

Mike Wehr

Professor
College Scholars, Neuroscience, Psychology
Phone: 541-346-5866
Office: 213 LISB
Research Interests: Systems Neuroscience

Julie Weise

Associate Professor, Department of History
Digital Humanities, History, IRES, Latinx
Phone: 541-346-4833
Office: 353 McKenzie Hall
Research Interests: Identity, Citizenship, Migration, Race, and Nations in the Americas and the world through the lens of history.

Marsha Weisiger

Associate Professor of History
Julie and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History; Co-Director, Center for Environmental Futures
Environmental Studies, History
Phone: 541-346-4824
Office: 381 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 2:00-3:00 p.m. or via zoom appt
Research Interests: US West, Environmental History, Native Americans

Rachel Weissler

Assistant Professor
Black Studies, Linguistics
Office: Straub Hall 375
Office Hours: Wed 11:00a-1:00p and by appt NOTE: Dr. Weissler will be on leave Spring 2024
Research Interests: sociolinguistics, emotion perception, neurolinguistics, language and social justice

Sara Weston

Associate Professor
Chair of the Graduate Education Committee
Center for Translational Neuroscience, Psychology
Office: 325 Straub Hall
Research Interests: Social-Personality, Health, Personality Development

Peter Wetherwax

Faculty, Retired
Biology
Phone: 541-346-4514
Office: 73A Klamath Hall

Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler

Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Disability Studies, English
Phone: 541-346-3929
Office: 238 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 2:30-4pm in person (drop-in or by appt.) or on Zoom by appt. (email for appt.)
Research Interests: Disability Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, American Studies, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity

Frances White

Professor
Faculty Curator of Biological Collections, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5278
Office: 302C Condon Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2024 Monday 3 to 5 pm (Zoom)
Research Interests: Primate behavioral ecology, primate evolution

Julia Widom

Assistant Professor
Division of Physical Chemistry
Chemistry and Biochemistry, OMQ
Phone: 541-346-4670
Office: 139 Klamath Hall
Research Interests: RNA, ultrafast spectroscopy, single-molecule microscopy

Brad Wilkins

Assistant Professor
Director of the Oregon Performance Research Laboratory
Human Physiology
Phone: 541-346-1570
Office: 145 Esslinger Hall
Research Interests: Human Performance, Exercise Physiology, and Bioenergetics

Dave Wilkins

Career Instructor I
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-0489
Office: 162 Deschutes Hall
Research Interests: Computing Education

Timothy Williams

Associate Professor
Associate Department Head & Director of Undergraduate Studies
History
Phone: 541-346-8798
Office: 367 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: Winter & Spring 2024: Tuesdays 1-3 PM. Schedule office hours here: https://calendly.com/timw-uo/office-hours
Research Interests: 19th Century U.S. history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, intellectual and cultural history, book history, gender, education, prisons and prisoners.

Ariel Williamson

Assistant Professor
Psychology
Phone: 971-342-4004
Research Interests: Clinical, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Community-Engaged Research, Health Disparities, Sleep Medicine, Implementation Science

Colin Williamson

Assistant Professor
Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-1333
Office: 271 PLC
Research Interests: Animation, special effects & nontheatrical film; early cinema’s place in int'l histories of art, science & tech; history of film theory, representations of the landscape in American cinema, media archaeology, & experimental uses of film & media archives

Eric Wills

Senior Instructor II
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-3954
Office: 156 Deschutes Hall
Office Hours: MWF 11:30-12:30
Research Interests: Computational Biomechanics, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Architecture

Malcolm Wilson

Professor of Classics
Classics, Humanities Program, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-4155
Office: 320 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 11:00am-12:00pm
Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy; The history of science and the philosophical issues surrounding the organization of systematic knowledge in antiquity; Greek Philosophy; Aristotle; Greek Intellectual History

David Wineland

Philip H. Knight Distinguished Research Chair
Research Professor, Department of Physics
OMQ, Physics
Phone: 3035068896
Office: 261 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: High-resolution atomic spectroscopy, quantum information, quantum-limited metrology

John Witte

Senior Instructor Emeritus
English
Office Hours: Checking email intermittently

Daniel Wojcik

Professor
English, Folklore Program
Phone: 541-346-3946
Office: 463 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: MR 12-1:30pm
Research Interests: Artistry & Expressive Culture, Ethnology & Folklore Studies, Mythology & Religious Culture

Juan Eduardo Wolf

Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology
Director of Latin American Studies; Coordinator, UO World Music Series & Ethnomusicology
Folklore Program, Music, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-2852
Office: 126 Frohnmayer Music Bldg
Research Interests: Latin America, decolonial thought, ethnography, folkloristics

Lila Wollman

Assistant Professor
Human Physiology
Phone: 541-346-2436

Cathy Wong

Associate Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Science Institute, OMQ
Phone: 541-346-7323
Office: 143 Klamath Hall

Woan Foong Wong

Assistant Professor
Economics
Phone: 541-346-1335
Office: 539 PLC
Office Hours: F24: Thursday 2:00-4:00

Henry Wonham

Professor
English
Phone: 541-346-3266
Office: 454 Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: No office hours; available by email

Mary Wood

Professor
Disability Studies, English
Phone: 541-346-3010
Office: 445 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: R 12:30-2pm in person; W 4-5:30pm on Zoom (ID: 932 4715 9358)
Research Interests: 19th Century American Literary Studies, Autobiography Studies, Feminism Studies Gender and Sexuality Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity

Michelle Wood

Professor
Biology
Phone: 541-346-0454
Office: 475 Onyx Bridge

Blanche Wright

Assistant Professor
Psychology
Phone: 541-346-4831
Research Interests: Clinical psychology, equity in evidence-based mental health care, dissemination and implementation science, youth mental health, minority stress, family/parent engagement, Latinx/Latiné diaspora, mental health policy/financing

Jean Wu

Senior Instructor II, Chinese Language
Chinese Flagship Academic Director
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4098
Office: 402 Friendly Hall

Jiabin Wu

Associate Professor
Economics, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-5778
Office: 475 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2022: 12:30pm-1:30pm Monday 12:30pm-1:30pm Tuesday
Research Interests: Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Political Economy