CAS Social Sciences Faculty

Ana-Maurine Lara

Associate Professor

William and Susan Piché Faculty Fellow

Black Studies, IRES, Latinx, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: amlara@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5032

Office: 322 Hendricks Hall

Office Hours: Fall 2022 – by appointment; Winter & Spring 2023 – 10am -12pm

Research Interests: Afro Latino/a Identities, Black Queer Aesthetics, Vudú in the Dominican Republic, and Afro-Dominicanidad and the Struggle Against Xenophobia in the Dominican Republic

Peter Laufer

Professor, James N. Wallace Chair of Journalism

Food Studies, SOJC, SOJC-Journalism, SOJC-Journalism Master's, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Multimedia Journalism

Email: laufer@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-2109

Office: 203 Allen Hall

Gyoung-Ah Lee

Professor

Anthropology, Asian Studies, Food Studies

Email: galee@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5077

Office: 254 Condon Hall

Office Hours: Thur 2-4pm

Research Interests: Environmental archaeology, paleoethnobotany, ethnobotany, origins of agriculture, East Asian archaeology

John Leisure

Visiting Assistant Professor

History

Email: leisure@uoregon.edu

Office: McKenzie 311

Office Hours: Fall 2024: Tuesday/Thursday 3:00pm-4:30pm in McKenzie Hall #311 (or by appointment)

Research Interests: Japan, Public Housing, Urbanism, Transpacific studies

Stephanie LeMenager

Professor of English, Faculty Affiliate in Environmental Studies

Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor 2014-2024

English, Environmental Studies

Email: slemen@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3966

Office: 457 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: Spring Term: M 3-4:30pm & by appt.

Research Interests: 19th Century American Literary Studies, Environmental Humanities, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies

Raoul Lievanos

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Sociology

Email: raoull@uoregon.edu

Office: 640 PLC

Office Hours: Fall 2024: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11am to 12:30pm (and by appointment)

Research Interests: Environment, Health, Risk, Community and Urban Sociology, Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, Science and Technology, Organizations and Institutions, Social Movements, Spatial Analysis, Quantitative Approaches, Qualitative Approaches

Ryan Light

Professor

Associate Head

Sociology

Email: light@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5272

Office: 632 PLC

Office Hours: Fall 2024: Thursday 12:00-2:00

Research Interests: Social Networks, Science & Culture, Inequality, Computational Social Science

Susanna Lim

Associate Professor of Literature, Russian Studies, and Korean Studies

Director of REEES Graduate Studies

College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Global Studies, Korean, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: susannal@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0691

Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 101

Research Interests: Korean Studies, Korean Literature, Korean Popular Culture, Race Studies, Race in South Korea, Russian Studies, Koryo Saram, Diaspora, Post-colonialism

Krystale Littlejohn

Associate Professor

IRES, Sociology

Office: 740 PLC

Office Hours: Fall24: Wednesday 2pm-4pm and by appointment

Research Interests: Fertility, Race, Gender, Class, Health and Medicine, Body and Embodiment, Science, Knowledge, Technology, Mixed Methods

Lana Lopesi

Assistant Professor

IRES, Native American Studies

Email: llopesi@uoregon.edu

Office: 204 Alder Building

Office Hours: Fall 23, Wednesday 11-12:30pm or by appointment

Research Interests: Pacific Islander Studies, Diaspora Studies, Indigenous and Women of Color Feminisms, Contemporary Pacific Art, Pacific Cultural Production, Digital Humanities, Global Indigeneities