CAS Faculty
Daniel Tichenor
Philip H. Knight Chair of Social Science
Director of the Program on Democratic Governance, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
Law, Political Science
Email: tichenor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4707
Office: 927 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Tuesday 12:30-2:30pm (KLC 280) and Thursday 2:30-230 (PLC 927)
Research Interests: Immigration and Citizenship, Social Movements, The American Presidency, Ethnic and Racial Politics, Patterns of Nativism, Religion and Politics, War and Civil Liberties
Nelson Ting
Professor
Anthropology
Email: nting@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8878
Office: 07 Pacific Hall
Research Interests: Wildlife Conservation, Genomics, Ecology, Evolution, Africa
Avinnash P. Tiwari
Instructor
English
Email: apt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0061
Office: 444 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Winter Term: MWF 1415-1515 and by appointment
Research Interests: Black Studies, African American Literature, Writing Composition and Rhetoric, Education Studies.
Douglas Toomey
Director, Oregon Hazards Lab
Professor of Geophysics
Earth Sciences
Email: drt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5576
Office: 105A Cascade Hall, 1272 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: MW 11-12
Research Interests: Multi-hazards detection and monitoring, societal resilience to earthquakes and wildfires, seismology, subduction zones, oceanic hotspots
Eric Torrence
Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Email: torrence@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4618
Office: 418 Willamette Hall, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Brian Trapp
Senior Instructor
Director of Disability Studies; Kidd Creative Writing Workshops Program Director
Creative Writing Program, Disability Studies
Email: trapp@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0508
Office: 108 Alder Bldg, 5243 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 24: Thursdays 2-3:45 pm & by appointment over Zoom
Research Interests: creative writing, disability studies, fiction, creative nonfiction, literary editing, comedy, contemporary literature, history of the novel
Larry Ulibarri
Senior Instructor I
Anthropology
Email: larryu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8188
Office: 373 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: by appointment (in-person or remotely)
Research Interests: Primate ecology and conservation, animal behavior, forensics, nutrition.
Mark T. Unno
Professor of Religious Studies
East Asian Religions, Japanese Buddhism, Classical Japanese Buddhism, Early Chinese Thought, Comparative Ethics, Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Asian Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies
Email: munno@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4973
Office: 334 Susan Campbell Hall, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294
Office Hours: Mondays 4:30pm-5:15pm on Zoom, Tuesdays 1:00pm-1:45pm on Zoom and by appointment
Nash Unsworth
Professor
Neuroscience, Psychology
Email: nashu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2921
Office: 327 LISB, 1227 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1227
Research Interests: Cognitive-Neuroscience, Memory and Attention
Mike Urbancic
Senior Instructor II
Economics, SAIL
Email: urbancic@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6482
Office: 474 PLC, 1285 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285
Office Hours: Tu 9:30–10:30am at the EMU by O-shaped info desk; Th 11:30am–12:30pm on Zoom: uoregon.zoom.us/j/92326346653<br />
Research Interests: Behavioral economics, experimental economics, economic history
Arkady Vaintrob
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Email: vaintrob@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4734
Office: University Hall 305
Office Hours: M 3:00-3:50, W 12:00-12:50
Arafaat A. Valiani
Associate Professor
History
Email: valiani@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5763
Office: 301 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesdays 1:00pm-2:30pm, and by appointment.
Alejandro Vallega
Professor of Philosophy
Committee on Diversity & Inclusiveness
Philosophy
Email: avallega@uoregon.edu
Office: 248 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy (Deconstruction, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics); Latin American Thought; Ancient Greek Philosophy. Aesthetic Philosophy. World philosophies.
Daniela Vallega-Neu
Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies
Philosophy
Email: dneu@uoregon.edu
Office: 240 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Fall 2025: <br />
Mondays and Wednesday from 4:00-5:00 pm <br />
Thursdays noon-1:50pm<br />
By appointment<br />
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century European Thought (especially Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Contemporary French thought); Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Deconstruction; Ontology related to issues of body.
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos
Professor
IRES, Sociology
Email: vasquezj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5165
Office: 715 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Spring 2025: By Appointment
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Latinos/as/xs in the U.S., Family Life Course and Society, Qualitative Approaches
Claudia Ventura
Senior Instructor II of Italian
Second Year Supervisor
Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: vencla@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4039
Office: 216 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Mondays, Fridays and Wednesdays 11-11:45 AM in MCK 175
Byron Villacis Cruz
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Email: villacis@uoregon.edu
Office: 707 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Mondays, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Research Interests: Expertise, Anticorruptionism, Quantification, Research Methods, Dollarization
Matthias Vogel
Senior Instructor II and Language Coordinator
Director of Undergraduate Studies, German and Faculty Fellow, Yasui Hall
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: matvogel@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-337-2634
Office: 117 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tue/Thu 9:00 AM to 9:50 AM and by appointment
Research Interests: German language, culture, and pedagogy; Globalization and Global Engagement Issues; Study Abroad; Identity Discourses and Multiculturalism; Food Studies; Higher Education Organizational Leadership; Academic Residential Communities and Residential Life
George Von Dassow
Associate Professor
Biology, OIMB
Email: dassow@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7291
Office: Oregon Inst of Marine Biology, P.O. Box 5389, Charleston OR 97420-0605
Tuong Vu
Professor
Political Science
Email: thvu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4866
Office: 918 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Mondays 11am - 2pm and by appointment
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Ideology, Revolution, Communism, Nationalism, East and Southeast Asia