IRES Faculty
Jennifer O'Neal
Associate Professor
IRES, Native American Studies
Email: joneal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8830
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:00pm-3:00pm
(https://cal.com/jenniferoneal/professor-o-neal-s-office-hours)
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies; International Studies; Indigenous Data Sovereignty; Indigenous Archives; Indigenous Research Methods and Knowledge Systems; Digital Humanities
Edward M. Olivos
Professor
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education, Curriculum & Teaching, Curriculum and Teacher Education, Educational Foundations, IRES, Latinx
Email: emolivos@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2983
Office: Lokey Education 111
Research Interests: The Relationship Between Bicultural Parents and Schools, the Development of Bilingual Educators
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Associate Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, IRES, Cinema Studies, Latinx
Email: povalle@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0060
Office: 233 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Media Studies, Race/Ethnicity, Dance, Mainstream Popular Culture, Media Hairstyles
Laura Pulido
Professor
Collins Chair
Geography, IRES, Latinx
Email: lpulido@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0918
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-3 pm; Thursdays 1-2
Research Interests: Cultural Memory, Chicana/o Studies, Critical Human Geography, Environmental Justice
Arifa Raza
Assistant Professor
IRES, Latinx
Email: arifa@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Immigration/crimmigration, Critical Race Theory, carceral studies, comparative ethnic studies, human trafficking
Yvette Saavedra
Associate Professor
IRES, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx
Email: yjs@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: On sabbatical during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Research Interests: Chicanx History and Studies; Chicana Lesbian Feminist Theory; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History and Studies; History of U.S. West; 19th and 20th century U.S History; California History; 19th and 20th century gender and sexuality in the U.S.
Leilani Sabzalian
Associate Professor
College of Education, Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education, Curriculum & Teaching, Curriculum and Teacher Education, Educational Foundations, IRES, Sapsikwala Program
Email: leilanis@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1535
Research Interests: Indigenous Education, Native Feminisms, Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education, Elementary Social Studies Education
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
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos
Professor
IRES, Sociology, Latinx
Email: vasquezj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5165
Office: 715 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Spring 2026: By Appointment
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Latinos/as/xs in the U.S., Family Life Course and Society, Qualitative Approaches, International Migration
Sarah D. Wald
Professor, Environmental Studies & English
English, Environmental Studies, IRES, Latinx
Email: sdwald@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1613
Office Hours: Mon, 7-7:45pm (Zoom only)
Tues, 3:30-4:15 pm (PLC 443/Zoom) (3:20-3:40 reserved for ENVS 203 students)
Thur, 12-12:30 pm (PLC 443/Zoom)
Sign Up for Office Hours: https://goo.gl/ZUocxh
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Environmental Humanities, Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies, Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies, Food Studies, Farmworker Justice, Immigration/Migration, 20/21st Century US Literature, American Studies
Julie Weise
Associate Professor, Department of History
Digital Humanities, History, IRES, Latinx
Email: jweise@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4833
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Tuesdays 10-11 am, MCK 353
Or by appointment: http://calendly.com/julieweise
Research Interests: Immigration, Migration, Mexico, United States, World History