CAS Faculty

Kory Russel

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies, Landscape Arch

Email: krussel@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3619

Office: 215 Lawrence Hall, 5234 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5234

Research Interests: Water, Sanitation, Container-Based Sanitation, Informal Settlements, Design

Camisha Russell

Associate Professor of Philosophy

2024-2025 Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow

Disability Studies, Philosophy

Email: camishar@uoregon.edu

Office: 233 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295

Office Hours: By appointment only through Fall 2025

Research Interests: Critical Philosophy of Race, Ethics (esp. Bioethics), African American Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Blackness & Indigeneity

Stephen Rust

Senior Instructor

Digital Humanities, English, SAIL

Email: srust@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0058

Office: 239 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: Winter 2025 Tuesday 9:30-11:00am via Zoom Thursday 11:00am-12:30pm via Zoom Email srust@uoregon.edu for Zoom link

Yvette Saavedra

Associate Professor

IRES, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: yjs@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: On sabbatical during the 2025-2026 academic year.

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

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: Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 to 11:00 am or by appointment

Maria 'Bene' Santos

Senior Instructor II of Portuguese

Portuguese Language Supervisor

Portuguese, Romance Languages, Schnitzer 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

Assistant Teaching Professor

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: Tues 9:00-11:00 a.m. PST and by appointment

Research Interests: Evolution of cultural transmission, cumulative culture, 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

Mr. Noble F. and Mrs. Frances L. Miller Professorship in Astro Physics

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 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