CAS Faculty
David Wacks
Professor of Spanish
Medieval Studies, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: wacks@uoregon.edu
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
Email: waddell@uoregon.edu
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
Email: wadewitz@uoregon.edu
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
Email: hwaight@uoregon.edu
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
Email: ewakefie@uoregon.edu
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
Email: sdwald@uoregon.edu
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
Email: aewalker@uoregon.edu
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
Email: ktwalker@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0544
Office: 212 Alder Bldg
Peter Walker
Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: pwalker@uoregon.edu
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
Email: pwallace@uoregon.edu
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
Email: glynne@uoregon.edu
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
Email: hailin@uoregon.edu
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
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Mathematics
Email: haowang@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5628
Yu Wang
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Email: yuwang@uoregon.edu
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
Email: ygwang@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3503
Office: 304 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024, WED 3-5 pm
Peter A. Warnek
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
Email: warnek@uoregon.edu
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
Email: micahw@uoregon.edu
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
Email: pwash@uoregon.edu
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
Email: jwasko@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4174
Office: 208 Allen Hall
James Watkins
Professor
Earth Sciences
Email: watkins4@uoregon.edu
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
Email: mwolf1@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7277
Office: Oregon Inst of Marine Biology
Research Interests: Marine Parasitology, Invertebrate Zoology, Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Lesley Jo Weaver
Associate Professor
Global Health Program, Product Design, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ljweaver@uoregon.edu
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
Email: wehr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5866
Office: 213 LISB
Research Interests: Systems Neuroscience
Julie Weise
Associate Professor, Department of History
Digital Humanities, History, IRES, Latinx
Email: jweise@uoregon.edu
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
Email: weisiger@uoregon.edu
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
Email: rweissle@uoregon.edu
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
Email: sweston2@uoregon.edu
Office: 325 Straub Hall
Research Interests: Social-Personality, Health, Personality Development
Peter Wetherwax
Faculty, Retired
Biology
Email: pwax@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4514
Office: 73A Klamath Hall
Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler
Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Disability Studies, English
Email: ewheeler@uoregon.edu
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
Email: fwhite@uoregon.edu
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
Email: jwidom@uoregon.edu
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
Email: bww@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1570
Office: 145 Esslinger Hall
Research Interests: Human Performance, Exercise Physiology, and Bioenergetics
Dave Wilkins
Career Instructor I
Computer Science
Email: davew@cs.uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0489
Office: 162 Deschutes Hall
Research Interests: Computing Education
Timothy Williams
Associate Professor
Associate Department Head & Director of Undergraduate Studies
History
Email: timw@uoregon.edu
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
Email: arielaw@uoregon.edu
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
Email: colinwil@uoregon.edu
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
Email: eric@cs.uoregon.edu
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
Email: mwilson@uoregon.edu
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
Email: djw34@uoregon.edu
Phone: 3035068896
Office: 261 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: High-resolution atomic spectroscopy, quantum information, quantum-limited metrology
John Witte
Senior Instructor Emeritus
English
Email: jwitte@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Checking email intermittently
Daniel Wojcik
Professor
English, Folklore Program
Email: dwojcik@uoregon.edu
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
Email: ewolf2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2852
Office: 126 Frohnmayer Music Bldg
Research Interests: Latin America, decolonial thought, ethnography, folkloristics
Cathy Wong
Associate Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Science Institute, OMQ
Email: cwong3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7323
Office: 143 Klamath Hall
Woan Foong Wong
Assistant Professor
Economics
Email: wfwong@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1335
Office: 539 PLC
Office Hours: F24: Thursday 2:00-4:00
Henry Wonham
Professor
English
Email: wonham@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3266
Office: 454 Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: No office hours; available by email
Mary Wood
Professor
Disability Studies, English
Email: mewood@uoregon.edu
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
Blanche Wright
Assistant Professor
Psychology
Email: bwright1@uoregon.edu
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
Email: jeanywu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4098
Office: 402 Friendly Hall
Jiabin Wu
Associate Professor
Economics, SAIL
Email: jwu5@uoregon.edu
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