Schnitzer School Faculty
Eleanor Paynter
Assistant Professor
Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies
Romance Languages, Italian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: epaynter@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11:30-1:30
Research Interests: media and politics of migration, asylum and migrant rights, migration in Europe, Africa-Europe mobilities, transnational Italy, race in Europe, comparative border studies, social movements, human rights, and testimony via critical refugee studies, media studies, ethnography, and oral history
Géraldine Poizat-Newcomb
Senior Instructor II of French
French, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: gpoizat@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4049
Office: 25 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: MW 11-11:50
Lauren Ponisio
Associate Professor
Biology, Environmental Studies, Food Studies
Email: lponisio@uoregon.edu
Office: 386 Onyx Bridge, 1210 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Jenifer Presto
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: presto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-485-7400
Office: 346 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wed. and Fri. 10:50-11:50 a.m. or by appt.
Research Interests: Modernism, Gender Studies, Environmental Criticism, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, Russian-Italian Cultural Interactions, and Immigrant Arts
Heather Quarles
Teaching Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: hquarles@uoregon.edu
Phone: No UO phone
Office: PLC 103
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30-4:30pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Translanguaging, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Critical Pedagogies
Damian Radcliffe
Professor of Practice, Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism
Middle East and North African Studies, SOJC, SOJC-Journalism, SOJC-Journalism Master's
Email: damianr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7643
Office: 201 Allen Hall, 1275 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1275
Research Interests: digital trends, social media, technology, the business of media, evolution of journalism, Middle East tech, media policy
Lara Ravitch
Teaching Professor
Russian Language Coordinator & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ravitch@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4077
Office: 427 Friendly Hall, 1262 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Language & Identity, Universal Design for Learning, Experiential Learning
Isabelle Rogers
Graduate Student, PhD, Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: irogers@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: SPAN 102, Winter 2025: Mondays-Tuesdays 1-2pm, Friendly Hall 13
Research Interests: translation, Spanish theatre, Latin American theatre, technical theatre, comedy, ecodrama, ecofeminism, feminism, ecocriticism, extractivism, transatlantic studies, Carmen Conde, Baldomero Lillo, Sub-Terra
Jerry Rosiek
Professor
CSSE Program Director
College of Education, Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education, Curriculum & Teaching, Curriculum and Teacher Education, Educational Foundations, Food Studies, IRES, Philosophy
Email: jrosiek@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2330
Office: 146B Lokey Education Bldg, 5277 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5295
Andrew Rothgery
Teaching Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: andyr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4057
Office: UO Annex, Ste 6, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Tues & Wed, 3-4pm
Research Interests: Social justice; indigenous languages and cultures; the Maya; testimonial; Guatemala; Mexico; creative writing; argumentative writing; subversive literature, music and film; protest music; guitar; languages and cultures in contact; heritage languages; Chicano literature; literature; oral histories; stories; human intelligence; humanism.
Maria 'Bene' Santos
Senior Instructor II of Portuguese
Portuguese Language Supervisor
Portuguese, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: benballe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4052
Office: 411 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:00 to 2:50
Jesús Sepúlveda
Teaching Professor of Spanish Composition, Creative Writing, and Poetry
Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: jsepulve@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8304
Office: 313 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: MW 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Research Interests: Poetry, Latin American and Spanish Literature, World Literature, Creative Writing, Shamanism, Avant-Garde and Post Avant-Garde Movements, Intoxicated Texts, Green Anarchy, Southern Cone, Critical Theory, Global Studies
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
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
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
Lynn Stephen
Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology
Co-Director of Graduate Studies (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: T/R 1:30 -2:30 in person in 316 Condon, or by appointment
Research Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Americas, Legal Pluralism, Social Memory, Testimony, Gender Violence
Michael Stern
Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian
Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian
German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: mjstern@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4126
Office: 112B Mac Court, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesdays 12:00pm-1:00pm, Thursdays 4-5, or by appointment
Research Interests: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Western European Intellectual History, Africana philosophy, literature, and film, 19th Century Scandinavian Literature and film, decolonial thought
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
Research Interests: contemporary African dance, public performance, transnational Senegal, queer African studies, queer theory