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Latin American Studies Affiliated Faculty

Michael Aguilera

Associate Professor

Sociology

Email: mba@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5059

Office: 732 PLC

Office Hours: Winter 2023: Monday and Wednesday 1:30-2:30pm

Research Interests: Inequalities and Stratification, Population and Ecology, Race and Ethnicity, Work Economy and Organizations

Carlos Aguirre

Professor

CLLAS, History, SAIL

Email: caguirre@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5905

Office: 333 McKenzie Hall

Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday 10:00-11:00 a.m., Wednesday 10:00-11:00 a.m.

Erin Beck

Associate Professor

CLLAS, Latin American Studies, Political Science

Email: beck@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4483

Office: 914 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284

Office Hours: Fall 24: Wednesday 11:00-2:00

Research Interests: Latin American Politics, Development, Gender, NGOs, Microfinance, Collective Action

Christopher Chávez

Carolyn Silva Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising

Interim Director, Advertising and Brand Responsibility Program; Director, Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies

CLLAS, IRES, Latinx, SOJC, SOJC-Advertising, SOJC-Advertising and Brand Responsibility, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad

Email: cchavez4@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-9141

Office: 207 Allen Hall

Research Interests: Advertising, TV Commercials, Communication Theory, Persuasive Communication, Cultural Studies, Gender and Race In Media, Media and Diversity, Popular Culture, Media Studies and Globalization

Diego Cortes

Assistant Professor of Media Studies

SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad

Email: dcortes@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0915

Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 139

Research Interests: Latin American Media, Alternative/community media, American Christianity, Indigenous People from the Andes

Cecilia Enjuto Rangel

Associate Professor of Spanish

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: enjuto@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4045

Office: 323 Friendly Hall

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9am-10am

Maria Fernanda Escallón

Associate Professor

Anthropology

Email: mfe@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5042

Office: 357 Condon Hall

Office Hours: Fall quarter Tuesdays 11am-1pm via zoom. On Sabbatical Leave January-August 2025

Research Interests: Race and ethnicity; intangible cultural heritage; social justice and inequality; Latin America; UNESCO and cultural diplomacy; carework

Pedro García-Caro

Associate Professor of Spanish

Senator

OCIAS, Romance Languages, SAIL, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Translation Studies

Email: pgcaro@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5813

Office: 325 Friendly Hall

Office Hours: W. 10am-12pm or by appointment.

Research Interests: Nationalism, Postmodernity, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Studies, US Hispanic Literatures, Mexican Literature, Border Literature, Comparative American Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Satire, Drama, Translation

Spike Gildea

Professor

Linguistics

Email: spike@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3906

Office: 381 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290

Office Hours: Currently on sabbatical

Devin Grammon

Assistant Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics

Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish

Email: grammon@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4070

Office: 417 Friendly Hall

Office Hours: Wednesdays 3-5pm

Research Interests: Sociocultural Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Linguistic Ethnography, Language Contact, Quechua and Andean Spanish, Linguistic Landscapes

Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez

Assistant Professor

Philosophy

Email: gualdron@uoregon.edu

Office: 232 Susan Campbell Hall

Office Hours: Fall 2023: Mondays and Wednesdays from 11am-12pm

Research Interests: Critical Philosophy of Race, Latin American and Caribbean Philosophy (Social and Political), Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, 18th and 19th century German Philosophy (esp. Hegel and Nietzsche), 20th century Continental Philosophy

Nathalia Hernández-Vidal

Assistant Professor

Sociology

Email: nher@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5004

Office: 717 PLC

Office Hours: Fall 2024: Monday/Wed 10:30 -11:30 a.m.

Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Feminist and Indigenous STS, Social Movements, Coloniality and Decolonization

Derrick Hindery

Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies

UO Study Abroad Programs Committee Member; Provost’s Teaching Academy Member

Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: dhindery@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-6106

Office: 345 PLC, 5206 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5206

Office Hours: 9-11am Tu, Spring 2024: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/7684792837 Sign up to meet at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DtG3hQn0Du2QVxEaD4NFy61402gDoT-wk_fdMuDcWwQ/edit

Research Interests: Neoliberal and "post-neoliberal" models of economic "development" on communities and environment in Latin America and the U.S. Sustainable community projects in Indigenous territories in Bolivia (e.g. collectives producing medicinal oils and handicrafts)

Jon Jaramillo

Career Instructor of Spanish, Ph.D.

College of Arts and Sciences, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish

Email: jonj@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4497

Office: 202 Friendly Hall

Office Hours: By appointment https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/8747897222

Research Interests: Politics, Post colonial Studies, Philosophy, SLAT, Queer Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Poetry, Cinema, Translation Studies, Memory Studies, Transfeminism

Kathryn Lynch

Co-Director, Environmental Leadership Program

Environmental Studies

Email: klynch@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5070

Office: 140 Columbia Hall

Research Interests: environmental anthropology, environmental education, ethnobotany

Gabriela Martínez

Professor

Cinema Studies Program, CLLAS, SOJC, SOJC-Journalism, SOJC-Journalism Master's, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: gmartine@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1997

Office: 315 Hendricks Hall / 237 Allen Hall

Office Hours: Please email faculty using your UO email account or use Canvas if enrolled in a course with the professor.

Research Interests: Areas of Media Studies and Journalism

Cintia Martínez Velasco

Assistant Professor

Committee on Diversity & Inclusiveness

Philosophy

Email: cintiam@uoregon.edu

Office: 211D Susan Campbell Hall

Michelle McKinley

Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law

Law, Law-JD

Email: michelle@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5191

Office: 356 Knight Law Center

Lanie Millar

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish

Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4031

Office: Friendly 211

Office Hours: Fall, 2024: in person, MW 2-3, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/7482429908

Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory

Gabriela Pérez Báez

Associate Professor

Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics

Email: gperezb4@uoregon.edu

Office: 263 Straub Hall

Office Hours: Mon and Wed 4:15pm to 5:15pm

Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell

Assistant Professor of Musicology

Music

Email: jramoski@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3044

Office: 203 Collier House

Research Interests: Early modernity, cultural studies, globalization, subaltern studies

Jesús Sepúlveda

Senior Instructor II of Spanish Composition, Creative Writing, and Poetry

Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish

Email: jsepulve@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-8304

Office: 313 Friendly Hall

Office Hours: W 1:00-3:00 pm

Research Interests: Poetry, Latin American and Spanish Literature, World Literature, Creative Writing, Shamanism, Avant-Garde and Post Avant-Garde Movements, Intoxicated Texts, Green Anarchy, Southern Cone, Critical Theory, Global Studies

Lynn Stephen

Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology

Co-Director of Graduate Studies (Anthropology), Graduate Faculty in Ethnic Studies, Participating Faculty in Latin American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies

Anthropology, CLLAS, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx, SAIL

Email: stephenl@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5168

Office: 316 Condon Hall

Office Hours: T/R 1:30 -2:30 in person in 316 Condon, or by appointment

Research Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Americas, Legal Pluralism, Social Memory, Testimony, Gender Violence

Alejandro Vallega

Professor of Philosophy

Committee on Diversity & Inclusiveness

Philosophy

Email: avallega@uoregon.edu

Office: 248 Susan Campbell Hall

Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30

Research Interests: Continental Philosophy (Deconstruction, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics); Latin American Thought; Ancient Greek Philosophy. Aesthetic Philosophy. World philosophies.