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Global Studies and Languages Faculty

Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun

Associate Professor

Director of African Studies

African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, Sociology, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0558

Office: 311 Hendricks Hall

Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday noon-1:00 p.m., Wednesday 12:30-1:30 p.m. and by appointment on zoom

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

Email: dbaxter@uoregon.edu

Phone: none

Office: none

Office Hours:

Martha Bayless

Professor, English; Program Head, Humanities

Director, Folklore and Public Culture

English, Folklore Program, Food Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies

Email: mjbayles@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3930

Office: 344 PLC

Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, available by email every weekday

Research Interests: Folklore, Medieval Studies, Cultural Studies, Food Studies

Erin Beck

Associate Professor

CLLAS, Latin American Studies, Political Science

Email: beck@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4483

Office: 914 PLC

Office Hours: S24: Wednesday 12:00-3:00 via zoom (email for appointment)

Research Interests: Latin American Politics, Development, Gender, NGOs, Microfinance, Collective Action

Mathilde Bégu

Career Instructor of French and 2nd-year French Language Program Supervisor

French, Romance Languages

Email: mbegu@uoregon.edu

Phone: Teams

Office: 201 Friendly Hall

Office Hours: Thursday 2:30-4:30pm

Research Interests: Teaching French as a second language, Teaching francophone literature, Ecofeminism, Decolonial literature

Elliot Berkman

Professor; Divisional Associate Dean, Natural Sciences

CTN Co-Director

Center for Translational Neuroscience, Food Studies, Neuroscience, Psychology, SAIL

Email: berkman@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4909

Office: 332 LISB

Research Interests: Social/Personality, Translational Neuroscience, Self-Regulation, Goals, Motivation

B Mokaya Bosire

Senior Instructor

African Studies, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics

Email: mokaya@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3916

Office: 377 Straub Hall

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

Email: lfbraun@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4838

Office: 365 McKenzie Hall

Office Hours: On sabbatical, AY 2023-2024. By appt only.

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

Email: ybraun@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5752

Office: 118 Friendly Hall

Office Hours: Fall 2023: Thursday 11:00-12:45 (by appt)

Research Interests: gender, intersectionality, social inequality, international development, environmental justice, globalization, infrastructural politics, energy politics, social movements, feminist political ecology