History Affiliated Faculty

Pierce Bateman

PhD Student
History
Phone: 541-346-4802
Office: 340T McKenzie Hall
Research Interests: history of Alaska and the Pacific World, and oral history

Lucas Burke

PhD Student
History
Research Interests: 20th c. US Politics and Environment; US West

Mark Carey

Professor of Environmental Studies and Geography
Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-8077
Office: 110 Condon Hall, 1251 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests: environmental history, glaciers and society, climate change, environmental justice, Latin America, the Arctic

Charise Cheney

Professor; Program Director
IRES, Black Studies
Phone: 541-346-0870
Office: 201 Alder Building
Research Interests: African American Popular and Political Cultures; Black Nationalist Ideologies and Practices; Gender and Sexuality

Miriam Chorley-Schulz

Assistant Professor and Mokin Fellow of Holocaust Studies
German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies Program, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: Agate Hall 221
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests: Jewish/Yiddish Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Fascism Studies, Race, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis

Hannah Cutting-Jones

Assistant Professor
Food Studies, Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 105E Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10-12
Research Interests: Food and colonialism, history of Christian missions in the Pacific, Pacific Islands food culture, food history, nutritional science

Jack Evans

Graduate Employee
History
Office: 340L McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: Fall 23, Wednesdays 2:30-3:30 pm (at Cafe Verso in the library)
Research Interests: History of Religion in the American West, Native American History, History of Education

Breann Goosmann

PhD Student
History
Office: 340B McKenzie Hall, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Research Interests: Medieval Japan

Ian Halter

PhD Student
History
Office: 350E McKenzie Hall
Research Interests: Histories of Empire, Decolonizing Methodologies, US History, Russian History, Pacific Studies

Kevin D. Hatfield

Director of Academic, Residential, and Research Initiatives;
University Housing
Phone: 541-346-1977
Office: Living Learning Center, 1220 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1220
Office Hours: Fall 2018: Monday 2:00-3:00 pm, 5:00-6:00 pm.

Collin Heatley

Graduate Employee
History
Office: 340R McKenzie Hall, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Research Interests: US Environmental History, Political History, History of Capitalism, Labor History

Brian Klopotek

Associate Professor
IRES
Phone: 541-346-0903
Office Hours: Spring 23: Wednesdays noon-2:00 p.m. and by appointment
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Historical Studies, Environmental Justice

Nanosh Lucas

PhD Student
History, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Office: 406 Straub Hall, 6244 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday 11:50-1:50
Research Interests: U.S. History, African American History, Race, Black Power Studies

Spencer McConkie

Graduate Employee
History
Office: 340F McKenzie Hall
Research Interests: Environmental History, History of the American West, Latter-day Saint History

Jennifer O'Neal

Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies for IRES
IRES, Native American Studies
Phone: 541-346-8830
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous history; American West history; International Relations; Indigenous Data Sovereignty; Cultural Heritage Archives; Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Digital Humanities

Michele Pflug

Graduate Employee
Digital Humanities, History
Office: 340C McKenzie Hall, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Research Interests: natural history, history of women, digital humanities, British Atlantic

Doug Sam

Graduate Employee
History
Office: 350C McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2025: T/R 1:30-3:00<br /> Drop in or sign up at: https://calendly.com/dougm-sam/hist190
Research Interests: Environmental History, Native American History, North American West, Dark Sky Studies, History of Astronomy and Cultural Astronomy, Environmental Humanities

Jeff Schroeder

Associate Professor
Kawasaki Fellow in Japanese History; Religious Studies Advisor
Religious Studies
Phone: 541-346-4165
Office: 332 Susan Campbell, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294
Office Hours: Thurs 2:00-4:00 pm<br /> Susan Campbell Hall 332
Research Interests: history of Buddhism in 19th- and 20th-century Japan, especially of the Jōdo Shin sect; Buddhism and World War II; Buddhism, science, and philosophy; democratization of Buddhist institutions; experimental Buddhist communities

Preetham Sridharan

Graduate Employee
History
Phone: 732-585-3006
Office: 340P McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: Fall 2023, Tue 10:00am-12:00pm
Research Interests: Modern European intellectual history, nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe, history of religious and linguistic thought, modern German history

Elyse St Sauver

Graduate Employee
Research Assistant
Phone: 541-346-1664
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Mondays 1:30-2:30