IRES Administrative Faculty
Charise Cheney
Program Head
Black Studies, IRES
Email: ccheney@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0870
Office: 201 Alder Building
Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday and Tuesday 11:00-12:00 and by appointment
Research Interests: African American Popular and Political Cultures; Black Nationalist Ideologies and Practices; Gender and Sexuality
Courtney Cox
Assistant Professor
Black Studies, IRES
Email: cmcox@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8392
Office: 217 Alder Bldg.
Office Hours: Fall '21: Email to set up appt.
Research Interests: Sport Studies, Performance Studies, Feminist Theory, Black Studies, Critical Data Studies
Lynn Fujiwara
Associate Professor
IRES
Email: fujiwara@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0902
Office Hours: Fall '22: By appointment only. Email for appointment.
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
Brian Klopotek
Associate Professor
IRES
Email: klopotek@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0903
Office: 205 Alder Bldg
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
Lana Lopesi
Assistant Professor
IRES
Email: llopesi@uoregon.edu
Office: 204 Alder Building
Office Hours: Fall 23, Wednesday 11-12:30pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Pacific Studies, Diaspora Studies, Indigenous and Women of Color Feminisms, Contemporary Pacific Art, Global Indigeneities
Ernesto Javier Martínez
IRES Department Head & Associate Professor
Black Studies, IRES, Latinx
Email: ejm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5523
Office: Alder Building
Office Hours: Fall '23: Monday 3-5pm | https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/99a354e2978a49318fc9c59eeafc0309@uoregon.edu/meetingtype/WdNveLBqDkOCnbyRRZxt0w2?anonymous&ep=mlink
Research Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Feminist Theory, Literary Studies
Lanie Millar
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office: Friendly 211
Office Hours: Spring, 2024: in person, Wednesdays, 2-4, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only.
Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory
Jennifer O'Neal
Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies for IRES
IRES, Native American Studies
Email: joneal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8830
Office: 203 Alder Bldg
Office Hours: Wed. 12PM-3PM By Appointment (via Zoom)
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous history; American West history; International Relations; Indigenous Data Sovereignty; Cultural Heritage Archives; Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Digital Humanities
Laura Pulido
Professor
Geography, IRES, Latinx
Email: lpulido@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0918
Office: Alder 301
Office Hours: Mondays 2-4pm
Research Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicanx Studies, Critical Human Geography, Environmental Justice
Cera Smith
Assistant Professor
Black Studies, IRES
Email: cera@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1343
Research Interests: U.S. Black Literatures (African American, Afro-Latinx, and other Black diasporic), Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Black Studies, Critical Race Theories, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Histories of Science and Medicine, Health Humanities