CAS Social Sciences Faculty

Ryan Tucker Jones

Professor

Ann Swindells Chair, Department Head, Department of History

Asian Studies, History, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies

Email: rtj@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4859

Office: 383 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288

Office Hours:

Research Interests: Russia, The Pacific, Global Environment

Lamia Karim

Professor

Anthropology, Asian Studies, SAIL

Email: lamia@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5095

Office: 375 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218

Office Hours: Wed from 2-3 PM and by appointment and Zoom

Research Interests: women, work, neoliberalism, state, and Islam

Craig Kauffman

Professor of Political Science

Director of Graduate Studies; Participating Faculty in Environmental Studies and Latin American Studies

Political Science

Email: ckauffma@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4974

Office: 916 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284

Office Hours: Spring 2025: Wednesday 10am - 1pm

Research Interests: Environmental Politics, Ecological Law, Rights of Nature, Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Transnational Networks, Collaborative Governance, Democratization

Harper Keeler

Associate Teaching Professor

Director of the Urban Farm Program

Food Studies, Landscape Arch

Email: hkeeler@uoregon.edu

Office: 212 Lawrence Hall, 5234 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5234

Research Interests: Civic Agriculture, Local Food Systems, Food Equity

Vera Keller

Professor

Norman Brown Faculty Fellow

History

Email: vkeller@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-6903

Office: 309 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288

Office Hours: Winter 2026: Mondays ad Tuesdays, 2-3

Sarah Klain

Assistant Professor

Environmental Studies

Email: klain@uoregon.edu

Research Interests: Ecological economics, conservation social science, climate change mitigation, renewable energy, blue carbon, marine protected areas, relational values, bioregionalism

Van Kolpin

Professor

Associate Head

Economics, SAIL

Email: vkolpin@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3011

Office: 512 PLC, 1285 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285

Office Hours: Fall 2025: by appointment

Research Interests: game theory, microeconomic theory, social choice theory

Michael Kuhn

Associate Professor

Economics

Email: mkuhn@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1268

Office: 517 PLC, 1285 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285

Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesday, 2p-4p

Research Interests: Behavioral economics, public economics, labor economics, consumer finance

Ana-Maurine Lara

Associate Professor

William and Susan Piché Faculty Fellow

Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Studies

Email: amlara@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: FALL 2025 - THURSDAYS, 12PM - 2PM

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, 1275 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1275

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

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, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291

Office Hours: Fall 2025: 10-11:30am, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 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, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291

Office Hours: Winter 2026: Thursday 12-2

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, Global Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: susannal@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0691

Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 101, 1293 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1293

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

Email: klittlej@uoregon.edu

Office: 740 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291

Office Hours: Winter 2025: Wed 3-5pm via Zoom through 1/30, on leave until 4/24 after that

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

Lana Lopesi

Assistant Professor

Interim Director, Native American and Studies (NAIS)

IRES, Native American Studies

Email: llopesi@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: Winter 26, Thursday 9–11:30am 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