IRES Graduate Employees + Students
Marlene Andrade
PhD 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
Eman Mangahas Banting
PhD Student
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
PhD Student
IRES
Email: ccort@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Migration, Mobility, Gender, Border Politics, Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence, Gender-Based Violence
Clara Gorman
PhD 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 Lilinoe Grewell
PhD 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
Email: vhara@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2026, Mac Court 113. Thursday, 9- 11 a.m.
Research Interests: Race and Gender Studies; Visual Culture; Panamanian Literature (novela canalera); U.S. White women's travel writing during the Panama Canal Construction and the Panama Canal Zone establishment; West Indian literature, particularly Guadeloupean literature and the works of Maryse Condé; representations of the West Indian Black woman in Panama; Jim Crow narratives beyond the United States; representations of the Mammy figure in the U.S. South; postcards, photography, and ekphrasis; and contemporary collage and visual art by Panamanian West Indian women artists.
Forrest Klamath-Williamson
PhD Student
IRES
Email: cklamath@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Native American / Indigenous Studies, Queer Indigenous Studies, Native American Feminisms, American folk magics and histories of witchcraft, embodied knowledges, critical archival research, Indigenous cosmologies and ontologies, Two Spirit studies, Indigenous spiritualities and community healing practices
MA Thesis: "Being Good Ancestors"
https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/1c18dp847?locale=en
Yuqi Li
PhD Student
IRES
Email: yuqili@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Serial Migration, Language and Identity Formation, Sinophone Studies, Diaspora, Gender, Belonging, Ethnography and Indigenous Pedagogies.
Analise Pugh
PhD Student
IRES
Email: apugh@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Women's Soccer, Critical Sports Studies, Philipinx studies, US Empire
Alexander Symonette
PhD Student
IRES
Email: alsym@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Conspiracy Theory, Social Movements, Black/Queer Diasporic Solidarity, History of Eugenics, Ethnography and Digital Media.
Asako Yonan
PhD 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