CAS Faculty

George Von Dassow

Associate Professor
Biology, OIMB
Phone: 541-346-7291
Office: Oregon Inst of Marine Biology, P.O. Box 5389, Charleston OR 97420-0605

Tuong Vu

Professor
Political Science
Phone: 541-346-4866
Office: 918 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Thursday 11:00-2:00
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Ideology, Revolution, Communism, Nationalism, East and Southeast Asia

Lily Vuong

Associate Professor
Religious Studies, Medieval Studies
Phone: 541-346-4904
Office Hours: M/W 9:30-10:30 or by appointment.
Research Interests: Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Christian Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal writings, Representations of Women and the Construction of Gender in the Ancient World, Jewish and Christian Identities and Relations in Late Antiquity, Literary and Feminist Approaches to Biblical Interpretation.

David Wacks

Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Medieval Studies
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 205 Agate Hall
Office Hours: By appointment (book using link below)
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies

Angela Waddell

Assistant Teaching Professor
English
Phone: Email is best
Office: TYK 301 D
Office Hours: Check current Canvas site
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Composition, Community Teaching

Glen Waddell

Professor
Economics, Lundquist College of Business, SAIL, College of Arts and Sciences
Phone: 541-346-1259
Office: Prince Lucien Campbell 533
Office Hours: Fall 2022: On Canvas (or by appointment)
Research Interests: applied econometrics, data science, labour, education, health, crime, risky behaviours, sports, personnel, contracts

Lissa Wadewitz

Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History
History
Phone: 541-346-1831
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Native American, Pacific/Marine World, US West, US Environmental

Hannah Waight

Assistant Professor
Sociology
Office: 738 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Wednesdays 12-2<br />
Research Interests: Media, Information, China, Quantitative Methods, Text as Data

Eleanor Wakefield

Associate Teaching Professor
Director of Composition Program Writing Lab
English
Phone: 541-346-0055
Office: 301B Tykeson Hall, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tuesdays 1:00-2:30, Thursdays 2:00-3:30, and by appointment

Sarah D. Wald

Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & English
English, Environmental Studies, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx
Phone: 541-346-1613
Office Hours: M/W, 1:20-3pm (PLC 443 or Zoom)<br /> *1:20-1:45pm reserved for in person meetings for ENG 230 students (w/o appointment)<br /> <br /> Sign Up for Office Hours: https://goo.gl/ZUocxh<br />
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
Phone: 541-346-5058
Office: 162 Onyx Bridge, 1240 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1240
Research Interests: Aging and Vascular Physiology

Karen Thompson Walker

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Creative Writing Program
Phone: 541-346-0544
Office: 212 Alder Bldg, 5243 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5243

Peter Walker

Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-4541
Office: 100 Condon Hall, 1251 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251
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
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, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: Mac Court 104A
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Thursday 3:30-5:30 pm

Hailin Wang

Professor
Alec and Kay Keith Chair in Physics
OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4758
Office: 274 Willamette Hall, 1274 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Experimental optical and condensed matter physics; quantum optics with spins, excitons, and nanomechanical oscillators, quantum information processing

Yu Wang

Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-2023
Office: 337 Deschutes Hall, 1202 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Data Mining and Machine Learning, Graph Machine Learning, Network Analysis, Information Retrieval

Yugen Wang

Professor of Chinese Literature
East Asian Languages, Medieval Studies
Phone: 541-346-3503
Office: 304 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Spring 2026, WED 11 am-1 pm, on Zoom

Peter A. Warnek

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
Office: 246 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Tuesday, 2-4 pm.
Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, 19th-20th Century Continental Philosophy, Kant, Philosophy of Nature, Myth, Tragedy, History of Philosophy

Micah Warren

Associate Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5618
Office: 318 Fenton Hall, 1222 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1222
Office Hours: Tuesday: 3-4<br /> Thursday 12:30 - 1:30