IRES
Angela Addae
Assistant Professor
IRES, Law, Law-JD
Email: aaddae@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1507
Research Interests: Civil Rights Law, Race and the Law, Organizational Sociology
Donella-Elizabeth Alston Cleveland
Faculty Support Specialist, Academic Support Unit 5
Black Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Geography
Email: donella@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0901
Marlene Andrade
Graduate Student
IRES
Email: marand@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Chicanx/Latinx Studies, Environmental Justice, Race, Women of Color Feminisms, Epistemologies, Pedagogies of the Land, Food Justice, Agroecology, Theory
Chailen August
Graduate Student
Graduate Employee
IRES
Email: chailen@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Black studies, Hip Hop, Black popular culture, race/ethnicity, mobility, Black Geographies, African Diasporic Culture.
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
Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu
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
Olive Bennett
Undergraduate Program Coordinator, ASU5
College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology, Black Studies, Cinema Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Geography
Email: odavid@uoregon.edu
Bernadette Calafell
Professor
Past-Editor, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
IRES
Research Interests: Chicana, Hip-Hop, and Black feminisms, Performance Studies, monstrosity and horror, Latina/o/x/e studies, Kink, BDSM, sex work, queer of color theory and method, critical qualitative, performative, and automethodologies, rhetorical criticism, MENA Studies, critical cultural studies, media studies and popular culture
Christopher Chávez
Carolyn Silva Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising
Director, Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies
CLLAS, IRES, Latinx, SOJC, SOJC-Advertising, SOJC-Advertising and Brand Responsibility, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad
Email: cchavez4@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9141
Office: 207 Allen Hall, 1275 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1275
Research Interests: Advertising, TV Commercials, Communication Theory, Persuasive Communication, Cultural Studies, Gender and Race In Media, Media and Diversity, Popular Culture, Media Studies and Globalization
Charise Cheney
Professor; Program Director
IRES, Black Studies
Email: ccheney@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0870
Office: 201 Alder Building
Research Interests: African American Popular and Political Cultures; Black Nationalist Ideologies and Practices; Gender and Sexuality
Emily J. Cornell
Graduate Program Specialist
Black Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Geography
Email: ecornell@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8293
Office: 201 McKenzie Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-6223
Courtney M. Cox
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Black Studies, IRES
Phone: 541-346-8392
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Sport Studies, Performance Studies, Feminist Theory, Black Studies, Critical Data Studies
Cia Crowe
Operations Specialist
Black Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Geography
Email: ciac@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2305
Rosie Dillon
Operations Coordinator
Black Studies, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Geography, CLLAS
Email: roseannd@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1405
Office: 275 McKenzie Hall
Will Fabro
Office Generalist, Academic Support Unit 5
Black Studies, Cinema Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Anthropology, Geography
Email: wfabro@uoregon.edu
Lynn Fujiwara
Associate Professor
IRES
Email: fujiwara@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0902
Office Hours: Tuesday's 1-3, sign up with Calendly<br />
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Research Interests: Asian American Studies; Women of Color Feminisms and Queer of Color Critique; Immigration; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Media and Cultural Studies; Social Policy
Clara Gorman
Graduate Student
IRES
Email: cgorman4@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Native American History, Oral History, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage, Museum Education, Public History, Archival Studies and Library Science.
Sophie Grewell
Graduate Student
IRES
Email: sgrewell@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: trans-Indigenous relationality, Indigenous research methodologies, historical Hawaiian out-migration, digital mapping, Indigenous geographies, digital humanities