CAS Faculty

Maya Watts

OIMB Education Program Coordinator
Senior Career Instructor
Biology, OIMB
Phone: 541-346-7277
Office: Oregon Inst of Marine Biology, PO Box 5389, Charleston OR 97420-0605
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, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office Hours: Fall 2025: 10-1130, by appointment (https://calendly.com/ljweaver/dr-weaver-office-hours)
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, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1227
Research Interests: Systems Neuroscience

Julie Weise

Associate Professor, Department of History
Digital Humanities, History, IRES, Latinx
Phone: 541-346-4833
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, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
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
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Sciences
Black Studies, Linguistics
Office: Straub Hall 375
Office Hours: Please consult your course syllabus or contact the instructor directly for office hours/student hours.
Research Interests: sociolinguistics, emotion perception, neurolinguistics, language and social justice

Sara Weston

Associate Professor
Chair of the Graduate Education Committee
Psychology
Research Interests: Social-Personality, Health, Personality Development

Peter Wetherwax

Faculty, Retired
Biology
Phone: 541-346-4514

Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler

Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Disability Studies, English
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, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Winter 2025 Wednesday 1 pm to 3 pm (Zoom link in Canvas sites)
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, 1253 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1253
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
Research Interests: Human Performance, Exercise Physiology, and Bioenergetics

Timothy Williams

Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
History
Phone: 541-346-8798
Office: 367 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: 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: 333 Villard Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
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, 1202 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1202
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, 1267 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1267
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, 1274 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1274
Research Interests: High-resolution atomic spectroscopy, quantum information, quantum-limited metrology

John Witte

Senior Instructor Emeritus
English
Office Hours: Checking email intermittently