IRES Core Teaching Faculty
Bernadette Calafell
Professor
Past-Editor, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
IRES
Email: calafell@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: By appointment via Calendly.<br />
https://calendly.com/bernadettecalafell/30min
Research Interests: Chicana, Hip-Hop, and Black feminisms, Performance Studies, monstrosity and horror, Latina/o/x/e studies, Kink, BDSM, Leather history, queer of color theory and method, critical qualitative, performative, and automethodologies, rhetorical criticism, MENA Studies, critical cultural studies, media studies and popular culture
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
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
Lynn Fujiwara
Associate Professor
IRES
Email: fujiwara@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0902
Office Hours: Tuesday's 1-3, sign up with Calendly<br />
https://calendly.com/lfujiwara/professor-fujiwara-s-office-hours?month=2025-10<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
Brian Klopotek
Associate Professor
IRES
Email: klopotek@uoregon.edu
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
Lana Lopesi
Assistant Professor
Interim Director, Native American and Studies (NAIS)
IRES, Native American Studies
Email: llopesi@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Winter 26, Thursday 9–11:30am or by appointment
Research Interests: Pacific Islander Studies, Diaspora Studies, Indigenous and Women of Color Feminisms, Contemporary Pacific Art, Pacific Cultural Production, Digital Humanities, Global Indigeneities
Ernesto Javier Martínez
IRES Department Head & Associate Professor
CAS Collegiate Faculty
IRES, Latinx
Email: ejm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5523
Office: Alder Building
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 3-5pm
Research Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Feminist Theory, Literary Studies
Jennifer O'Neal
Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies for IRES
IRES, Native American Studies
Email: joneal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8830
Office Hours: Wed. 12:00pm-3:00pm
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
Collins Chair
Geography, IRES, Latinx
Email: lpulido@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0918
Office Hours: Mondays 2-3 pm; Tuesdays 1-2 pm
Research Interests: Cultural Memory, Chicana/o Studies, Critical Human Geography, Environmental Justice
Arifa Raza
Assistant Professor
IRES
Email: arifa@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Immigration/crimmigration, Critical Race Theory, carceral studies, comparative ethnic studies, human trafficking
Cera Smith
Assistant Professor
Faculty Director of the Umoja Black Scholars Academic Residential Community
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