CAS Faculty
André Sirois
Instructor
Multimedia Supervisor
Cinema Studies
Email: asirois@uoregon.edu
Office: 330 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Intellectual Property Law, Subcultural Studies, Pop Culture, and Hip Hop Studies
Lars Skalnes
Associate Professor
Political Science
Email: lskalnes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4886
Office: 929 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Monday and Wednesday 1:45-3:15
Research Interests: International Political Economy, International Relations
Paul Slovic
Professor Emerit
Psychology
Email: pslovic@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-485-2400
Office: Decision Research, 1227 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Social/Personality, Judgment and Decision Making, Risk Perception, Affect and Information Processing, Genocide, Human Rights, Virtuous Violence, Preventing Nuclear War, Behavioral Economics
Bjorn Smars
Associate Teaching Professor
Assistant Department Head of English
English
Email: smars@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3977
Office: 223 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term 2026: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm to 1:30pm, or by appointment
Matt Smear
Associate Professor
Neuroscience, Psychology
Email: smear@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4389
Office: 212A Huestis Hall, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1227
Research Interests: Systems Neuroscience
Bennet Smith
Assistant Teaching Professor
English
Email: bennets@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1588
Office Hours: Fall Term: TR 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.; W 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. (Zoom); and by appointment.
Brian Smith
Professor
OMQ Director
OMQ, Physics
Email: bjsmith@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5790
Office: 262 Willamette Hall, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1274
Research Interests: Quantum optics, quantum information science and technology, and optics
Cera Smith
Assistant Professor
Faculty Director of the Umoja Black Scholars Academic Residential Community
Black Studies, IRES
Email: cera@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1343
Research Interests: U.S. Black Literatures (African American, Afro-Latinx, and other Black diasporic), Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Black Studies, Critical Race Theories, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Histories of Science and Medicine, Health Humanities
Josh Snodgrass
Professor; Department Head, Anthropology
Anthropology, Food Studies, Global Health Program
Email: jjosh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4823
Office: 354 Condon Hall, 1218University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Thursdays 11:30 am - 1:00 pm in Pacific 12 (Global Health Biomarker Lab). Also by appointment
Priscilla Southwell
Professor Emerita
Middle East and North African Studies, Political Science
Email: psouth@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9857
Office: 915 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Fall 24: Wednesday 2-4 pm
Research Interests: Political Behavior, U.S. and European Politics
Helen Southworth
Professor
Digital Humanities, English
Email: helen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3940
Office: 275 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024
Research Interests: Modernism, Virginia Woolf, Life-Writing, Archives, Digital Humanities, Book History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Comics and Cartoon Studies
Melanie Spero
Assistant Professor
Biology
Email: mspero@uoregon.edu
Office: 291 Onyx Bridge, 1210 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Kryn Stankunas
Professor
Biology
Email: kryn@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7416
Office: 245C Streisinger Hall, 1229 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1229
Sarah Stapleton
Associate Professor
College of Education, Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education, Curriculum & Teaching, Curriculum and Teacher Education, Educational Foundations, Environmental Studies, Food Studies
Email: sstaplet@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5834
Office: 146B Lokey Education Bldg.
Research Interests: climate change education, science and environmental education, food and schools, participatory research
Amanda Stasiewicz
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies
Email: asta@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5031
Office Hours: Thursdays 10-11:45 Columbia 145B
Research Interests: human dimensions of wildfire, community and organizational adaptation to hazards, cooperative fire risk management, evacuation and alternatives to evacuation, forest and rangeland policy, qualitative and quantitative social science
Beata Stawarska
Professor of Philosophy
(On a sabbatical leave Winter-Spring 2026)
Black Studies, Philosophy
Email: stawarsk@uoregon.edu
Office: 247 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Research Interests: Contemporary European Philosophy (Phenomenology, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism), Feminism, African and Africana Philosophy, Philosophy of Language (broadly construed).
Daniel Steck
Assoc. Professor
Multidisciplinary Science, OMQ, Physics
Email: dsteck@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5313
Office: 277 Willamette Hall, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Quantum and atom optics, quantum nonlinear dynamical systems, laser cooling and trapping of atoms
David Steinberg
Teaching Professor
Mathematics
Email: dcstein@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0948
Office: 333C Tykeson Hall, 1222 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1222
Daniel Gómez Steinhart
Associate Professor
Cinema Studies
Email: dsteinha@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2360
Office: 232 Villard Hall, 6233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Global Hollywood history, production studies, film aesthetics, US independent film, and contemporary global art cinema
Lynn Stephen
Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology
Graduate Faculty in Ethnic Studies, Participating Faculty in Latin American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Anthropology, CLLAS, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx, SAIL
Email: stephenl@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5168
Office: 316 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: On sabbatical AY 2025-2026, return Fall of 2026.
Research Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Americas, Legal Pluralism, Social Memory, Testimony, Gender Violence