CAS Social Sciences Faculty
Judith Raiskin
Professor
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: raiskin@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: Literary and Cultural Studies; Oral history; LGBTQ Studies, Disability Studies; Archival and Public-facing Projects.
Professor Raiskin is the Producer and Writer of the award-winning documentary film Outliers and Outlaws (2024), a documentary about lesbian Eugene.
The film is currently screening in film festivals and at Universities: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/outliersandoutlawsdocumentary/
Academic institutions may purchase a digital site license at: https://outliersandoutlaws.bigcartel.com/product/outliers-and-outlaws-2024-65-minutes-documentary-digital-site-license
Alexandra Rempel
Associate Professor of Environmental Design
Director of Graduate Studies for Environmental Studies
Architecture, Environmental Studies
Email: arempel@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-510-7713
Office: 302 Vocanology, 5223 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5223
Ramón Resendiz
Assistant Professor
Anthropology, Latinx
Email: ramonres@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: By appointment.
Research Interests: Visual Anthropology, Visual Culture, Documentary Media, Resistance, Latinx Indigeneities, Border Studies
Daniel Rosenberg
Professor
History
Email: dbr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0520
Office: 359 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: Spring 2025 every day after class and Tuesdays 1:30-3:30 by appointment. To schedule meeting, use this link: https://bit.ly/42kpRcl
Research Interests: Intellectual History, Enlightenment Europe, History of Information and Information Graphics, History of Science and Technology
Edward Rubin
Assistant Professor
Economics
Email: edwardr@uoregon.edu
Office: 519 PLC, 1285 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285
Office Hours: Fall 2025: By Appointment
Kory Russel
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Landscape Arch
Email: krussel@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3619
Office: 215 Lawrence Hall, 5234 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5234
Research Interests: Water, Sanitation, Container-Based Sanitation, Informal Settlements, Design, Climate Change
Yvette Saavedra
Associate Professor
IRES, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx
Email: yjs@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: On sabbatical during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Research Interests: Chicanx History and Studies; Chicana Lesbian Feminist Theory; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History and Studies; History of U.S. West; 19th and 20th century U.S History; California History; 19th and 20th century gender and sexuality in the U.S.
Gabe Sanchez
Assistant Professor
Curator of Zooarchaeology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology, Latinx, Native American Studies
Email: gsanche2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9640
Office: 274 Condon Hall, 1212 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1212
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9 to 11 am or by appointment
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
Senior Instructor I
Anthropology
Email: mscalise@uoregon.edu
Office: 273 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Tues 9:00-11:00 a.m. PST and by appointment
Research Interests: Evolution of cultural transmission, cumulative culture, social learning, and symbolic behavior; evolutionary psychology; hunter-gatherers; oral tradition; traditional ecological knowledge; play; warfare
Ellen Scott
Professor
Sociology
Email: escott@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5075
Office: 632 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Wednesday 1:00-2:30 and by Appointment
Research Interests: Low-wage work, carework, public policy, qualitative methods.
Emily Scott
Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, History Art & Arch
Email: escott2@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 11am-1pm in Lawrence 218. Contact instructor for sign-up sheet.
Research Interests: Art, politics, and the environment
Bish Sen
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad
Email: bsen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2880
Office: 329 Allen Hall
Jiannbin Shiao
Professor
Department Head
Sociology
Email: jshiao@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5366
Office: 613 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Tuesdays, 2-3pm (except for a monthly CAS meeting), and Thursdays, 2:15-3:15pm
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Theory Knowledge Science, Qualitative Approaches, Quantitative Approaches
Stephen Shoemaker
Professor; Department Head, Religious Studies
History of Christianity
Humanities Program, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: sshoemak@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4998
Office: 348 Susan Campbell Hall, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294
Office Hours: By appointment only
Samantha Shune
Associate Professor
College of Education, Communication Disorders and Sciences, Food Studies, SAIL
Email: sshune@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7494
Office: 249 HEDCO Education Bldg, 5284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5284
Research Interests: Dysphagia, aging, dementia, caregiver burden
Lucas Silva
Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology
Biology, Environmental Studies
Email: lsilva7@uoregon.edu
Office: 248 Columbia Hall, 1251 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-3:00pm
Lars Skalnes
Associate Professor
Political Science
Email: lskalnes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4886
Office: 929 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Monday and Wednesday 1:45-3:15
Research Interests: International Political Economy, International Relations
Cera Smith
Assistant Professor
Faculty Director of the Umoja Black Scholars Academic Residential Community
Black Studies, IRES
Email: cera@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1343
Research Interests: U.S. Black Literatures (African American, Afro-Latinx, and other Black diasporic), Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Black Studies, Critical Race Theories, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Histories of Science and Medicine, Health Humanities
Josh Snodgrass
Professor; Department Head, Anthropology
Anthropology, Food Studies, Global Health Program
Email: jjosh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4823
Office: 354 Condon Hall, 1218University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Thursdays 11:30 am - 1:00 pm in Pacific 12 (Global Health Biomarker Lab). Also by appointment
Priscilla Southwell
Professor Emerita
Middle East and North African Studies, Political Science
Email: psouth@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9857
Office: 915 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Fall 24: Wednesday 2-4 pm
Research Interests: Political Behavior, U.S. and European Politics