CAS Social Sciences Faculty
Sarah Stapleton
Associate Professor
College of Education, Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education, Curriculum & Teaching, Curriculum and Teacher Education, Educational Foundations, Environmental Studies, Food Studies
Email: sstaplet@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5834
Office: 146B Lokey Education Bldg.
Research Interests: climate change education, science and environmental education, food and schools, participatory research
Amanda Stasiewicz
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies
Email: asta@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5031
Office Hours: Thursdays 10-11:45 Columbia 145B
Research Interests: human dimensions of wildfire, community and organizational adaptation to hazards, cooperative fire risk management, evacuation and alternatives to evacuation, forest and rangeland policy, qualitative and quantitative social science
Beata Stawarska
Professor of Philosophy
(On a sabbatical leave Winter-Spring 2026)
Black Studies, Philosophy
Email: stawarsk@uoregon.edu
Office: 247 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Research Interests: Contemporary European Philosophy (Phenomenology, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism), Feminism, African and Africana Philosophy, Philosophy of Language (broadly construed).
Lynn Stephen
Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology
Graduate Faculty in Ethnic Studies, Participating Faculty in Latin American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Anthropology, CLLAS, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx, SAIL
Email: stephenl@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5168
Office: 316 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: On sabbatical AY 2025-2026, return Fall of 2026.
Research Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Americas, Legal Pluralism, Social Memory, Testimony, Gender Violence
Kirstin Sterner
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Anthropology
Email: ksterner@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8614
Office: Pacific Hall Room 10
Office Hours: Wednesdays from 1:30pm to 3:30pm in PAC10 or by appointment (Spring 2026 Term)
Research Interests: molecular anthropology, epigenomics, aging and aging-related diseases, primate adaptation
Xiaobo Su
Professor
Asian Studies, Climate Studies, Geography
Email: xiaobo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4568
Office: 175 Condon Hall, 1251 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251
Research Interests: Tourism and urban development, international political economy, China and Southeast Asia
Lawrence Sugiyama
Professor
Anthropology
Email: sugiyama@uoregon.edu
Office: 329 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Naomi Sussman
Assistant Professor
History, Latinx
Email: nsussman@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Indigenous history, borderlands history, sovereignty, citizenship, race, history of migration
Amy Swanson
Assistant Professor of Dance Studies, Theory, and History
Dance, Music, African Studies
Email: aswa@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5605
Office: 173 Gerlinger Annex, 1214 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: contemporary African dance, public performance, transnational Senegal, queer African studies, queer theory
Daniel Tichenor
Philip H. Knight Chair of Social Science
Director of the Program on Democratic Governance, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
Law, Political Science
Email: tichenor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4707
Office: 927 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Tuesday 2:00 - 4:00pm
Research Interests: Immigration and Citizenship, Social Movements, The American Presidency, Ethnic and Racial Politics, Patterns of Nativism, Religion and Politics, War and Civil Liberties
Nelson Ting
Professor
Anthropology
Email: nting@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8878
Office: 07 Pacific Hall
Research Interests: Wildlife Conservation, Genomics, Ecology, Evolution, Africa
Larry Ulibarri
Senior Instructor I
Anthropology
Email: larryu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8188
Office: 373 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: by appointment (in-person or remotely)
Research Interests: Primate ecology and conservation, animal behavior, forensics, nutrition.
Mark T. Unno
Professor of Religious Studies
East Asian Religions, Japanese Buddhism, Classical Japanese Buddhism, Early Chinese Thought, Comparative Ethics, Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Asian Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies
Email: munno@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4973
Office: 334 Susan Campbell Hall, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294
Office Hours: Mondays 4:30pm-5:15pm on Zoom, Tuesdays 1:00pm-1:45pm on Zoom and by appointment
Mike Urbancic
Senior Instructor II
Economics, SAIL
Email: urbancic@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6482
Office: 474 PLC, 1285 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Wednesday 9:30-10:30am at the ground floor of the EMU by the O-shaped info desk; Thursday 3:30-4:30 in 474 PLC
Research Interests: Behavioral economics, experimental economics, economic history
Arafaat A. Valiani
Associate Professor
History
Email: valiani@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5763
Office: 301 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursdays 11:30am-1:00pm, and by appointment.
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos
Professor
IRES, Sociology, Latinx
Email: vasquezj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5165
Office: 715 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Spring 2026: By Appointment
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Latinos/as/xs in the U.S., Family Life Course and Society, Qualitative Approaches
Byron Villacis Cruz
Assistant Professor
Sociology, Latinx
Email: villacis@uoregon.edu
Office: 707 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Monday 4-6pm
Research Interests: Expertise, Anticorruptionism, Quantification, Research Methods, Dollarization
Tuong Vu
Professor
Political Science
Email: thvu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4866
Office: 918 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Thursday 11:00-2:00
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Ideology, Revolution, Communism, Nationalism, East and Southeast Asia
Glen Waddell
Professor
Economics, Lundquist College of Business, SAIL, College of Arts and Sciences
Email: waddell@uoregon.edu
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