CAS Social Sciences Faculty

Lesley Jo Weaver

Associate Professor

Global Health Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Black Studies

Office Hours: Fall 2025: 10-1130, by appointment (https://calendly.com/ljweaver/dr-weaver-office-hours)

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: Fall 2025: by appointment

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

Marsha Weisiger

Associate Professor of History

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

Environmental Studies, History

Email: weisiger@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4824

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

Office Hours: Fall 2025 T-R, 1-3 p.m., or by appointment

Research Interests: US West, Environmental History, Native Americans

Rachel Weissler

Assistant Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Sciences

Black Studies, Linguistics

Email: rweissle@uoregon.edu

Office: Straub Hall 375

Office Hours: Please consult your course syllabus or contact the instructor directly for office hours/student hours.

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: Winter 2026 Thursday 10 am to noon (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.

Woan Foong Wong

Associate Professor

Economics

Email: wfwong@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1335

Office: 539 PLC, 1285 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285

Office Hours: Spring 2025: By Appointment

Research Interests: International Trade

Stephen Wooten

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Global Studies

Provost's Teaching Academy Member

Global Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Folklore Program, Food Studies

Email: swooten@uoregon.edu

Office: 322 FR, Eugene OR 97403-5206

Office Hours: Tuesdays 12- 2pm or by appointment. Please email to request a time.

Research Interests: Food studies, local-global dynamics, agrarian change, expressive culture

Jiabin Wu

Associate Professor

Economics, SAIL

Email: jwu5@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5778

Office: 475 PLC, 1285 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285

Office Hours: Fall 2025: Monday/Wednesday 12:50 to 1:50

Research Interests: Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Political Economy

Kristin Yarris

Professor, Global Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Department Head, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Disability Studies, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: keyarris@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1363

Office: Hendricks Hall 218A, 5206 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: Wi 2026: Wednesdays 5:30-6:30pm in the Tykeson Café area; also, remotely by appointment in Teams (send message in Teams for appointment).

Research Interests: transnational migration, migrant rights, social movements, mental health, health equity, wellbeing & social care