CAS Faculty
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: Winter 2026:
Wednesday from 3:30-5:30 pm
By appointment on zoom
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, Latinx
Email: vasquezj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5165
Office: 715 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Spring 2026: By Appointment
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Latinos/as/xs in the U.S., Family Life Course and Society, Qualitative Approaches
Byron Villacis Cruz
Assistant Professor
Sociology, Latinx
Email: villacis@uoregon.edu
Office: 707 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Monday 4-6pm
Research Interests: Expertise, Anticorruptionism, Quantification, Research Methods, Dollarization
Matthias Vogel
Teaching Professor and Language Coordinator'
Director of Undergraduate Studies, German
German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: matvogel@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-337-2634
Office: 220B Agate Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Mo/We 11:00 AM to 11:50 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: 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
Email: lvuong@uoregon.edu
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
Email: wacks@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 205 Agate Hall
Office Hours: By appointment: https://tinyurl.com/5n8wywns
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
Email: waddell@uoregon.edu
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
Email: wadewitz@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1831
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Native American, Pacific/Marine World, US West, US Environmental
Hannah Waight
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Email: hwaight@uoregon.edu
Office: 738 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Wednesdays 12-2
Research Interests: Media, Information, China, Quantitative Methods, Text as Data
Eleanor Wakefield
Associate Teaching Professor
Director of Composition Program Writing Lab
English
Email: ewakefie@uoregon.edu
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
Email: sdwald@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1613
Office Hours: M/W, 1:20-3pm (PLC 443 or Zoom)
*1:20-1:45pm reserved for in person meetings for ENG 230 students (w/o appointment)
Sign Up for Office Hours: https://goo.gl/ZUocxh
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
Email: aewalker@uoregon.edu
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
Email: ktwalker@uoregon.edu
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
Email: pwalker@uoregon.edu
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
Email: pwallace@uoregon.edu
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
Email: glynne@uoregon.edu
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
Email: hailin@uoregon.edu
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