Latinx Studies
Heather Quarles
Teaching Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: hquarles@uoregon.edu
Phone: No UO phone; call me via Teams
Office: PLC 103
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 4-5pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Translanguaging, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Critical Pedagogies
Arifa Raza
Assistant Professor
IRES, Latinx
Email: arifa@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Immigration/crimmigration, Critical Race Theory, carceral studies, comparative ethnic studies, human trafficking
Ramón Resendiz
Assistant Professor
Anthropology, Latinx
Email: ramonres@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: By appointment.
Research Interests: Visual Anthropology, Visual Culture, Documentary Media, Resistance, Latinx Indigeneities, Border Studies
Alaí Reyes-Santos
Professor of Practice
Law, Law-CRES, Latinx
Email: alai@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0928
Office Hours: Fall 2020: MW 12-1 PM & By Appt. Email To Schedule Appts. https://calendly.com/alaireyessantos
Research Interests: ComparativeEthnic Studies, Black Diaspora Studies, Afro-Latin@/x Studies, Afro-Indigenous Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Environmental Studies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge
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.
Gabe Sanchez
Assistant Professor
Curator of Zooarchaeology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology, Latinx, Native American Studies
Email: gsanche2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9640
Office: 274 Condon Hall, 1212 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1212
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9 to 11 am or by appointment
Lynn Stephen
Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of 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, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: On sabbatical AY 2025-2026, return Fall of 2026.
Research Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Americas, Legal Pluralism, Social Memory, Testimony, Gender Violence
Naomi Sussman
Assistant Professor
History, Latinx
Email: nsussman@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Indigenous history, borderlands history, sovereignty, citizenship, race, history of migration
Ilana Umansky
Associate Professor
College of Education, Education Policy and Leadership, Quantitative Research Methods in Education, Latinx
Email: ilanau@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5244
Office: 102Q Lokey Education Bldg, 5267 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5267
Research Interests: Sociology of education, education policy, language and education, immigration and education, labeling, academic tracking, quantitative and longitudinal methods
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
Byron Villacis Cruz
Assistant Professor
Sociology, Latinx
Email: villacis@uoregon.edu
Office: 707 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Monday 4-6pm
Research Interests: Expertise, Anticorruptionism, Quantification, Research Methods, Dollarization
Sarah D. Wald
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & English
English, Environmental Studies, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx
Email: sdwald@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1613
Office Hours: M/W, 1:20-3pm (PLC 443 or Zoom)
*1:20-1:45pm reserved for in person meetings for ENG 230 students (w/o appointment)
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
Juan Eduardo Wolf
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology
Director of Latin American Studies; Coordinator, UO World Music Series & Ethnomusicology
Folklore Program, Music, SAIL, Latinx
Email: ewolf2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2852
Office: 126 Frohnmayer Music Bldg, 1225 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1225
Research Interests: Latin America, decolonial thought, ethnography, folkloristics
Blanche Wright
Assistant Professor
Psychology, Latinx
Email: bwright1@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4831
Research Interests: Clinical psychology, equity in evidence-based mental health care, dissemination and implementation science, youth mental health, minority stress, family/parent engagement, Latinx/Latiné diaspora, mental health policy/financing
Alex Zunterstein
Teaching Professor of Spanish & Assistant Head, Romance Languages
Spanish Heritage Language Program Coordinator
Latinx, Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: azunters@uoregon.edu
Phone: Contact on Microsoft Teams
Office: 204E Agate Hall
Office Hours: MW 10-11 in 110 Gerlinger (drop-in) & by appointment: https://outlook.office.com/book/AlexZuntersteinsOfficeHours@uoregon.edu/