CAS Social Sciences Faculty

Laura Bakkensen

Mikesell Professor in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Economics

Email: lbak@uoregon.edu

Office: 529 PLC, 1285 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: Fall 2025: Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30-10:30am

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

Office: 311 Hendricks Hall

Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wednesdays 1 - 3pm www.calendly.com/kbalogun

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, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tues./Thurs. 1:00-2:30pm. 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

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: On sabbatical; please email.

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: Spring 2025: Wednesday 9:30-12:30 via zoom (https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/97590591398), email to reserve a time.

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

Steven Beda

Assistant Professor

History

Email: sbeda@uoregon.edu

Office: 307 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288

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, College of Arts and Sciences

Email: smadar@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: Monday 3:30-5:30, by appointment, email me to schedule

Research Interests: International iaw, human Rights, armed conflict, criminal justice, incarceration, colonialism, citizenship, Israel/Palestine

Scott Blumenthal

Assistant Professor

Anthropology

Email: sblument@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9181

Office: 374 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218

Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00-5:00pm, or by appointment

Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Ecology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry

Erica Bornstein

Professor, Divisional Associate Dean, Humanities

Anthropology

Email: ebornste@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9638

Office: 272 Condon Hall, 1212 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1212

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, 5223 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5295

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, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205

Office Hours: FT 2025: MW 1300-1430

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 2025: Thursday 10:15-12:15 in Agate Hall 202A or by Teams/Zoom, or by appointment

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

English, Native American Studies

Email: kbrown@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5819

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

Office Hours: Spring 2025: T: 3-5 pm, W: 11 am-12 pm, and by email appt.<br /> 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; Nationhood/Nationalism Studies; Sovereignty/Self-Determination Studies