IRES Graduate Employees + Students
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.
Rodlyn Banting
IRES
Email: rbanting@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Critical whiteness studies, critical Filipinx studies, white femininity, popular culture, transnational cultural production, racialized intimacies, affect theory
Carolina Cortes
IRES
Email: ccort@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Migration, Mobility, Gender, Border Politics, Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence, Gender-Based Violence
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
Viana Hara
PhD Graduate Candidate , Romance Languages
Spanish Instructor
IRES, Romance Languages, Spanish, Yamada Language Center, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: vhara@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2025 Office Hours: Thursday from 11:00 am-12:00 noon at the Knight Library <br />
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Research Interests: Race and Gender Studies, Visual Culture ( postcards, comics), Decoloniaty approaches and Caribbean Narratives .( Panamá, U.S and West Indians Diasporas)
Yuqi Li
IRES
Email: yuqili@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Serial Migration, Language and Identity Formation, Chinese Diaspora, Gender Identity, Land Belonging, Ethnography and Indigenous Pedagogies.
Analise Pugh
IRES
Email: apugh@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Women's Soccer, Critical Sports Studies, Philipinx studies, US Empire
Alexander Symonette
Graduate Student
Graduate employee
IRES
Email: alsym@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Conspiracy Theory, Social Movements, Black/Queer Diasporic Solidarity, History of Eugenics, Ethnography and Digital Media.
Asako Yonan
Graduate Student
IRES
Email: asakoy@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0900
Research Interests: Asian/American Studies, Visual Culture, Techno-Orientalism, Women of Color Feminisms, Cultural Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Digital Humanities, Cultural Memory, Carceral Studies