CAS Social Sciences Faculty

Glen Waddell

Professor

Economics, Lundquist College of Business, SAIL, College of Arts and Sciences

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

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

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

Lesley Jo Weaver

Associate Professor

Global Studies

Email: ljweaver@uoregon.edu

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 Hours: Spring 2026: Tuesdays 10-11 am, MCK 353 Or by appointment: http://calendly.com/julieweise

Research Interests: Immigration, Migration, Mexico, United States, World History

Marsha Weisiger

Professor of History and Environmental Studies

Julie and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History; Founding Co-Director, Center for Environmental Futures (2016-2025)

History, Environmental Studies

Email: weisiger@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4824

Office: 381 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288

Office Hours: Spring 2026 T-R, 2:30-3:30 p.m., or by appointment

Research Interests: US West, Environmental History, Native Americans

Rachel Weissler

Assistant Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Cognitive Sciences

Black Studies, Linguistics

Email: rweissle@uoregon.edu

Office: Straub Hall 375

Office Hours: Use Dr. Weissler's booking link or email Dr. Weissler to set up a meeting: https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/8695a6ddbb834d17bd692e877d0a9086@uoregon.edu/meetingtype/bNrnFb6MVkK9n1fLKGVW1w2?bookingcode=fb9915ea-b03b-4edb-86f5-6345c75b9a7a&anonymous&ismsaljsauthenabled&ep=mlink

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

Mark Whalan

Robert D. and Eve E. Horn Professor of English

Head of English

English, Black Studies

Email: whalan@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3926

Office: 118 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: By appointment

Research Interests: Modernist studies; American literary and cultural studies, 1900-1950; First World War Studies; Harlem Renaissance; African American Literary Studies

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, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218

Office Hours: Spring 2026 Thursday 2 to 4 pm (Zoom link in Canvas sites)

Research Interests: Primate behavioral ecology, primate evolution

Timothy Williams

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

History

Email: timw@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-8798

Office: 367 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288

Office Hours: 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.