Humanities
Avinnash P. Tiwari
Instructor
English
Email: apt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0061
Office: 444 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Winter Term: MWF 1415-1515 and by appointment
Research Interests: Black Studies, African American Literature, Writing Composition and Rhetoric, Education Studies.
Christopher Toon
Office Generalist
Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: ctoon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2497
Office: 118 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: M/T/W 8:30a-3:30p (in person)|Th/F 8:30a-3:30p (Remote)
Research Interests: B.S. Urban / Rural Sociology, Applied Anthropology
Brian Trapp
Senior Instructor
Director of Disability Studies; Kidd Creative Writing Workshops Program Director
Creative Writing Program, Disability Studies
Email: trapp@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0508
Office: 108 Alder Bldg, 5243 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 24: Thursdays 2-3:45 pm & by appointment over Zoom
Research Interests: creative writing, disability studies, fiction, creative nonfiction, literary editing, comedy, contemporary literature, history of the novel
Ben Travers
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: btravers@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1513
Office: 20 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: F 10am-1pm
Nathan Travis
Graduate Student in Philosophy
PhD Student and Graduate Employee (GE)
Philosophy
Email: ntravis@uoregon.edu
Office: 211 Campbell, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesdays from 9:00am-11:00am; otherwise, by appointment
Research Interests: Philosophy and history of food; food, animal, and environmental ethics; philosophies of/from the Americas; history of American philosophy; philosophy of religion; history of religions (esp. American and British Christianities); and (inter)religious-secular dialogue and conflict as they intersect with issues of race, sexuality, and oppression.
Matthew Tuten
PhD Student
Graduate Employee
Philosophy
Email: mtuten@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Social and political philosophy, pragmatism, Marxism, critical philosophy of race
Shunji Ukai
Ph.D.
GE
Philosophy
Email: shunjiu@uoregon.edu
Office: 11 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2022 By Appointment on Fridays 3-5 PM at SCH221
Research Interests: John Dewey's later naturalism, Charles S. Peirce, Hannah Arendt
Janne Underriner
Assistant Teaching Professor; Director, Northwest Indigenous Language Institute, retired
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics, Native American Studies
Email: jlu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0722
Office: 1629 Moss St Rm 102, 1290 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
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
Corbett Upton
Senior Instructor
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
English
Email: cupton@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3961
Office: 375 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring 2025:<br />
Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:00-2:30pm in 375 PLC and by appointment
Cynthia Vakareliyska
Professor Emerita
Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: vakarel@uoregon.edu
Salma Valadez-Marquez
Folklore Graduate Student/ GE
PhD Candidate
Folklore Program
Email: svaladez@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Náhuatl foodways, Mexican storytelling traditions and Indigeneity
Alejandro Vallega
Professor of Philosophy
Committee on Diversity & Inclusiveness
Philosophy
Email: avallega@uoregon.edu
Office: 248 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy (Deconstruction, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics); Latin American Thought; Ancient Greek Philosophy. Aesthetic Philosophy. World philosophies.
Daniela Vallega-Neu
Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies
Philosophy
Email: dneu@uoregon.edu
Office: 240 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Fall 2025: <br />
Mondays and Wednesday from 4:00-5:00 pm <br />
Thursdays noon-1:50pm<br />
By appointment<br />
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century European Thought (especially Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Contemporary French thought); Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Deconstruction; Ontology related to issues of body.
Jonathan Van Belle
Ph.D. & GE
Philosophy
Email: vanbelle@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday 3:00-5:00pm, or by appointment
Research Interests: Indigenous North American philosophy, anti-colonial thought, degrowth, anti-civilization, and animal ethics
Kiley Vasquez
Graduate Student in Philosophy
Philosophy
Email: kvasquez@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Thursday & Friday 11-12
Research Interests: Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Aesthetics, Latin American Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Psychoanalysis.