CAS Social Sciences Faculty

Glen Waddell

Professor

Economics, Lundquist College of Business, SAIL

Email: waddell@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1259

Office: Prince Lucien Campbell 533

Office Hours: Fall 2022: On Canvas (or by appointment)

Research Interests: labor, education, health, industrial organization

Lissa Wadewitz

Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History

History

Email: wadewitz@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1831

Office: 385 McKenzie Hall

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

Office Hours: all 2024: Wednesdays, 10am - noon; Tuesdays 2pm - 3pm. Sign up for Office Hours here, or by appointment: https://calendly.com/hannah_waight

Research Interests: Media, Information, China, Quantitative Methods, Text as Data

Sarah D. Wald

Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & English

Director of Graduate Admissions for English

English, Environmental Studies, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx

Email: sdwald@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1613

Office: 443 PLC

Office Hours: Spring Term: Wednesday, 12:30pm-2:30pm PLC 443

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

Peter Walker

Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies, Geography

Email: pwalker@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4541

Office: 100 Condon Hall

Research Interests: Political ecology, environmental politics, climate change adaptation, wildfire, collaborative and community based resource management, land use, American West, Africa

Lesley Jo Weaver

Associate Professor

Global Health Program, Product Design, School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: ljweaver@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5089

Office: Friendly 105

Office Hours: 2024-25 academic year: on sabbatical

Research Interests: medical anthropology; mental health; race; chronic diseases; food insecurity; health disparities; Brazil; India; USA; global health

Julie Weise

Associate Professor, Department of History

Digital Humanities, History, IRES, Latinx

Email: jweise@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4833

Office: 353 McKenzie Hall

Research Interests: Identity, Citizenship, Migration, Race, and Nations in the Americas and the world through the lens of history.

Marsha Weisiger

Associate Professor of History

Julie and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History; Co-Director, Center for Environmental Futures

Environmental Studies, History

Email: weisiger@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4824

Office: 381 McKenzie Hall

Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 2:00-3:00 p.m. or via zoom appt

Research Interests: US West, Environmental History, Native Americans

Rachel Weissler

Assistant Professor

Black Studies, Linguistics

Email: rweissle@uoregon.edu

Office: Straub Hall 375

Office Hours: Wed 11:00a-1:00p and by appt NOTE: Dr. Weissler will be on leave Spring 2024

Research Interests: sociolinguistics, emotion perception, neurolinguistics, language and social justice

Frances White

Professor

Faculty Curator of Biological Collections, Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Anthropology

Email: fwhite@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5278

Office: 302C Condon Hall

Office Hours: Winter 2024 Monday 3 to 5 pm (Zoom)

Research Interests: Primate behavioral ecology, primate evolution

Timothy Williams

Associate Professor

Associate Department Head & Director of Undergraduate Studies

History

Email: timw@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-8798

Office: 367 McKenzie Hall

Office Hours: Winter & Spring 2024: Tuesdays 1-3 PM. Schedule office hours here: https://calendly.com/timw-uo/office-hours

Research Interests: 19th Century U.S. history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, intellectual and cultural history, book history, gender, education, prisons and prisoners.