CAS Social Sciences Faculty

Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun

Associate Professor

Director of African Studies

African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, School of Global Studies and Languages, Sociology, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0558

Office: 311 Hendricks Hall

Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays & Tuesdays 10 - 11am and by appointment

Research Interests: Globalization, Nationalism, Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Embodiment, Africana Studies

Faith Barter

Assistant Professor

Black Studies, English

Email: fbarter@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1510

Office: 320 PLC

Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 4-5pm (in person or Zoom); W 1:30-2:30 (Zoom only). You must sign up at dr-barter.youcanbook.me

Research Interests: African American Literary and Cultural Studies, 19th-Century American Literary Studies, Cultural Studies

Diane Baxter

Senior Lecturer 1

Pro Tem Instructor

Law, Middle East and North African Studies

Email: dbaxter@uoregon.edu

Phone: none

Office: none

Office Hours:

Martha Bayless

Professor, English

Director, Folklore and Public Culture

English, Folklore Program, Food Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies

Email: mjbayles@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3930

Office: 344 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, available by email every weekday

Research Interests: Folklore, Medieval Studies, Cultural Studies, Food Studies

Erin Beck

Associate Professor

CLLAS, Latin American Studies, Political Science

Email: beck@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4483

Office: 914 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284

Office Hours: Fall 24: Wednesday 11:00-2:00

Research Interests: Latin American Politics, Development, Gender, NGOs, Microfinance, Collective Action

Steven Beda

Assistant Professor

History

Email: sbeda@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9048

Office: 307 McKenzie Hall

Office Hours: Winter 23, Tuesday and Thursday 11:30-12:30 and by appointment

Research Interests: 20th Century US History, Labor History, Environmental History,

Smadar Ben-Natan

Assistant Professor

Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: smadar@uoregon.edu

Office: 407 Friendly Hall

Office Hours: Monday 3:30-5:30

Research Interests: Law, International Law, Human Rights, Criminal Justice, Armed Conflict, Citizenship, Israel/Palestine

Scott Blumenthal

Assistant Professor

Anthropology

Email: sblument@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9181

Office: 374 Condon Hall

Office Hours: by appointment

Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Ecology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry

Erica Bornstein

Professor

Anthropology

Email: ebornste@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9638

Office: 272 Condon Hall

Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-4pm, 272 Condon and by appointment

Research Interests: Nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), voluntary sector regulation, philanthropy, humanitarianism, human rights, economic development and religion, political and legal anthropology, institutional ethnography, Southern Africa, South Asia.

Margaret C. Boulay

Co-Director, Environmental Leadership Program

ELP Senior Instructor II

Environmental Studies

Email: boulay@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5945

Office: 244 Columbia Hall

Office Hours: Wed 3:30-4:30 pm 244 COL, and by appointment

Lindsay Frederick Braun

Associate Professor

African Studies, History

Email: lfbraun@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4838

Office: 365 McKenzie Hall

Office Hours: FT 2024: 1-3 Tuesdays ABA (MTW)

Research Interests: Southern Africa 1750-1950, East Africa 1850-1960, Comparative Colonialism, Environmental History, History of Science and Technology (esp. geography)

Yvonne Braun

Professor

Department Head, Global Studies and Member, Provost's Teaching Academy

Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: ybraun@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5752

Office: 118 Friendly Hall, 1245 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1245

Office Hours: Fall 2024: Wednesday 12:00-1:50 (by Zoom or by appt)

Research Interests: gender, intersectionality, social inequality, international development, environmental justice, globalization, infrastructural politics, energy politics, social movements, feminist political ecology

Kirby Brown

Associate Professor, English

Director, Native American and Studies (NAIS)

English, Native American Studies, SAIL

Email: kbrown@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5819

Office: 330 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: Fall 2024: M: 3-5 pm, W: 9-10 am, and by email appt. (or schedule here: https://calendly.com/kirbybrown/officehours)

Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Literary and Cultural Studies; Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity; Cultural Studies; Modernism Studies; Genre Studies

Michael Brown

Instructor

Political Science, Sociology

Email: mpbrown@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4675

Office: 605 PLC

Steven Brown

Professor of Comparative Literature

Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature

Email: stb@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4016

Office: 354 PLC

Research Interests: posthumanism, horror cinema, Surrealist film and animation, sound design in film, Japanese popular culture, and critical theory.