Schnitzer School Faculty

Jacques Abelman

Assistant Professor
Food Studies
Phone: 541-346-3884
Office: 211 Lawrence Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday and Friday 11am - 12pm | By appointment.
Research Interests: Social Justice, Landscape Infrastructure, Food Systems, Agroecology, Research Through Design, Urban Agriculture

Maria Licia Aldana Rogers

Spanish Instructor
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Phone: 541-346-4497
Office: 414 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Miércoles 2:00-3:50 by ZOOM and by Appointment (Ver Horas de Oficina: CANVAS)
Research Interests: Transatlantic studies. Women and memory and Bolivian and Latin America Literature.

Michael Allan

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Program Faculty in Cinema Studies; Program Faculty in Arabic; Program Faculty in Middle East Studies; Program Faculty in Comic Studies
Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies, Arabic Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Middle East and North African Studies
Office: 358 PLC, 5242 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Wednesdays from 1:15-3:15pm. Please book an appointment at the following link: (https://tinyurl.com/kcp3m73r)
Research Interests: World Literature (Francophone, Arabic, Global Anglophone), Postcolonial Studies, Film and Visual Culture, Media Theory

Aneesh Aneesh

Executive Director, School of Global Studies and Languages
Interim Director, Middle East and North African Studies
German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Globalization, technology, labor, migration, citizenship, theory

Rafael Arias

Teaching Professor of Spanish
School of Global Studies and Languages, Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Phone: 541-346-4106
Office: 16 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: TR 11:00-12:00

Ina Asim

Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Food Studies, History, Medieval Studies
Phone: 541-346-6161
Office: 317 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205

Akwasi B. Assensoh

Courtesy Professor
African Studies
Office: 275 McKenzie Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233

Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun

Associate Professor
Director of African Studies
African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, School of Global Studies and Languages, Sociology, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Office: 311 Hendricks Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wednesdays 1 - 3pm www.calendly.com/kbalogun
Research Interests: Globalization, Nationalism, Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Embodiment, Africana Studies

Diane Baxter

Senior Lecturer 1
Pro Tem Instructor
Law, Middle East and North African Studies
Phone: none
Office: none
Office Hours:

Martha Bayless

Professor, English
English, Folklore Program, Food Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies
Phone: 541-346-3930
Office: 344 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: On sabbatical; please email.
Research Interests: Folklore, Medieval Studies, Cultural Studies, Food Studies

Erin Beck

Associate Professor
CLLAS, Latin American Studies, Political Science
Phone: 541-346-4483
Office: 914 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Wednesday 9:30-12:30 via zoom (https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/97590591398), email to reserve a time.
Research Interests: Latin American Politics, Development, Gender, NGOs, Microfinance, Collective Action

Mathilde Bégu

Assistant Teaching Professor of French and 1st-year French Language Program Supervisor
French, Romance Languages, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office Hours: On Tuesday from 12pm to 1pm on Teams (video call). On Friday from 4pm to 5pm on Teams or in person in my office (PLC 101). Schedule a 15-minute appointment with me by clicking the link in my email signature.
Research Interests: Language Pedagogy, Teaching French as a second language, Social justice in lower proficiency classrooms

Smadar Ben-Natan

Assistant Professor
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, College of Arts and Sciences
Office Hours: Monday 3:30-5:30, by appointment, email me to schedule
Research Interests: International iaw, human Rights, armed conflict, criminal justice, incarceration, colonialism, citizenship, Israel/Palestine

Mokaya Bosire

Senior Instructor
African Studies, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Phone: 541-346-3916
Office: 377 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:30p-4:30p or by appt.
Research Interests: Swahili, Sheng, African languages & Urban vernaculars

Lindsay Frederick Braun

Associate Professor
African Studies, History
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, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-5752
Office: 118 Friendly Hall, 1245 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1245
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Wednesday 12:00-1:50 (by Zoom or by appt)
Research Interests: gender, intersectionality, social inequality, international development, environmental justice, globalization, infrastructural politics, energy politics, social movements, feminist political ecology

Carrie Brown Reiily

Spanish Instructor
Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-4207
Office: 20 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 3 pm - 4:30 pm 193 ANS

Daniel Buck

Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Food Studies, Geography, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-2353
Office: 109 Condon Hall, 1251 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251
Office Hours: M 12-1:50pm, or by appointment
Research Interests: Geography/Asian Studies, Economic Geography, Development, Political Economy, Environment/Society, East Asia and China.

Kenneth Calhoon

Professor of Comparative Literature and German
Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4060
Office: 356 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: German literature, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, visual arts, early cinema

Kathie Carpenter

Professor
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
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