CAS Social Sciences Faculty
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, Schnitzer 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
David M. and Nancy L. Petrone Faculty Scholars
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
Michael Brown
Instructor
Political Science, Sociology
Email: mpbrown@uoregon.edu
Office: 605 PLC1, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesday and Thursday 130-2:30<br />
Daniel Buck
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Food Studies, Geography, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: danielb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2353
Office: 109 Condon Hall, 1251 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251
Office Hours: W 10-12, or by appointment
Research Interests: Geography/Asian Studies, Economic Geography, Development, Political Economy, Environment/Society, East Asia and China.
Jamie Bufalino
Senior Instructor
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: bufalino@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Please email faculty using your UO email account or use Canvas if enrolled in a course with the professor.
Research Interests: Gender & sexuality in U.S. history; history of feminism; U.S. consumer culture; U.S. racial politics
Alfredo Burlando
Associate Professor
Director of Master’s Studies
Economics
Email: burlando@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1351
Office: 513 PLC, 1285 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wednesday 1:00 - 2:45
Research Interests: Development economics, economics of corruption, savings strategies in developing countries, health and fertility
Mark Carey
Professor of Environmental Studies and Geography
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: carey@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8077
Office: 110 Condon Hall, 1251 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests: environmental history, glaciers and society, climate change, environmental justice, Latin America, the Arctic
Kathie Carpenter
Professor
Global Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: kathiec@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3898
Office: 356 PLC, 5206 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5206
Office Hours: Thursday 1-3 PM or contact by email: kathiec@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Childhood in cross-cultural perspective, Children's museums, Southeast Asia
Jose Carreno-Garcia
Assistant Professor
Economics
Email: jcarreno@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5503
Office: 528 PLC, 1285 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Monday, 4:00-5:30PM and by appointment<br />
Alison Carter
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Email: acarter4@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5037
Office: 255 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 4-5pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Southeast Asian Archaeology, Compositional analysis of artifacts, bead studies
Rutger Ceballos
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Email: rutgerc@uoregon.edu
Office: 912 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wednesday, 11:00 to 1:00 pm
Research Interests: American Political Development, History of Political Thought, African American Politics, Labor Politics
Shankha Chakraborty
Professor
Asian Studies, Economics
Email: shankhac@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4678
Office: 537 PLC, 1285 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesday 4-5pm (EC 480), Thursday (EC 607), Friday 1-2pm (EC 480 & 607)<br />
Research Interests: economic growth and development, macroeconomics
Anita Chari
Professor
Faculty Fellow, Clark Honors College
Political Science
Email: anitac@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4752
Office: 928 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesdays 3:30-5 pm on Zoom. Please sign up for a time and Zoom link here: https://calendly.com/anitachari/officehours, Thursdays 2-3:30 pm in person drop-in office hours in PLC 928. No appointment needed for in person office hours. Please note the exceptions to this schedule below: Week 9 November 27, In person office hours cancelled for Thanksgiving (UO Holiday). Week 10 Zoom office hours only, no in person office hours Thurs. Dec. 4.
Research Interests: Political Theory, Critical Theory, Frankfurt School, Marxism, Contemplative Studies, Somatics and Politics
Charise Cheney
Professor; Program Director
IRES, Black Studies
Email: ccheney@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0870
Office: 201 Alder Building
Research Interests: African American Popular and Political Cultures; Black Nationalist Ideologies and Practices; Gender and Sexuality
Grecia Chirinos Delgado
Assistant Teaching Professor
Global Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx, Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: chirinos@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 1:00-2:00pm and by appointment
Research Interests: U.S. Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Education, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, Critical Pedagodies
Yu-Fang Cho
Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: yufangc@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1304
MacKenzie Christensen
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Email: macc@uoregon.edu
Office: 721 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tue & Thur 3-4pm, by appointment (https://calendly.com/macc-uoregon)<br />
Research Interests: Gender, Digital technologies, Family and intimate relationships, Life course, Inequality and stratification, Quantitative and qualitative methods
John Christian
Assistant Professor
Geography
Email: jchr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4543
Office: 173 Condon Hall, 1251 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: M 2-3, Th 2-3, or by appointment
Research Interests: glacier and ice-sheet dynamics, climate, earth-system models