Schnitzer School Faculty
Gyoung-Ah Lee
Professor
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Food Studies
Email: galee@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5077
Office: 254 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Thur 2-4pm
Research Interests: Environmental archaeology, paleoethnobotany, ethnobotany, origins of agriculture, East Asian archaeology
Susanna Lim
Associate Professor of Literature, Russian Studies, and Korean Studies
Director of REEES Graduate Studies
College of Arts and Sciences, Global Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: susannal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0691
Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 101, 1293 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1293
Research Interests: Korean Studies, Korean Literature, Korean Popular Culture, Race Studies, Race in South Korea, Russian Studies, Koryo Saram, Diaspora, Post-colonialism
Sergio Loza
Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: sloza@uoregon.edu
Office: 430 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Email me for details
Research Interests: Spanish heritage language education, Spanish heritage language pedagogy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, U.S. Spanish, critical language awareness
Ali Malik
Assistant Professor
Global Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: alimalik@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2024: By appointment
Research Interests: Political economy of globalization, socio-legal studies, critical agrarian studies, science and technology studies, third world approaches to international law, digital agriculture, South Asia
Dawn Marlan
Teaching Professor
COLT Director of Undergraduate Studies
Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian, SAIL
Email: damarlan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 363 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Interests: History and theory of the novel in Europe and the US, comparative modernism, contemporary fiction, visual culture, and creative writing, specifically literary nonfiction and fiction.
Carrie McCurdy
Associate Professor
Food Studies, Human Physiology
Email: cmccurd5@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5069
Office: 112 Pacific Hall, 1240 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1240
Research Interests: Obesity and Insulin Resistance
Allison McGuffie
Instructor
African Studies, Cinema Studies
Email: mcguffie@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3965
Office: 329 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Email for current hours and appointments
Research Interests: Film Theory and History, African Cinemas, Gender on Film, Trans* and Cinema, International Non-Profit Media Industries, Health Communication Media, Political Economy of International Aid, Transnational Feminist Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Ethnographic Film, Third World Cinema, Ideology and Cinema
Jeffrey Measelle
Professor
Co-Director, UO Center for Global Health
Global Health Program, Psychology
Email: measelle@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4570
Office: 473 Straub Hall, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1227
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Developmental, Developmental Stress Biology, Nutritional Neuroscience, Pediatric Global Health, Caregiving Support for Early Brain Development
David Meek
Associate Professor
Director, Food Studies
Asian Studies, Food Studies, Global Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: dmeek@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Not on campus Fall 22; available for virtual meetings; please contact at dmeek@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Political ecology, social movements, popular education, food sovereignty
Leah Middlebrook
Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Director, Oregon Humanities Center (OHC)
Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3103
Office: 355 PLC Hall
Office Hours: W 2026 Tuesdays 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. & Thursdays 11 a.m.-noon, or by appt.
Research Interests: poetry and poetics; comparative modernities; critical race studies; early modern literature and culture of Spain, the Spanish Americas, France and Great Britain
Lanie Millar
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office Hours: Winter, 2026:<br />
Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 in Agate 202e, and by appointment.
Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory
Fabienne Moore
Associate Professor of French
Director of Graduate Studies, Romance Languages
French, Romance Languages, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: fmoore@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4032
Office: UO Annex 118
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Mon-Weds 12-1 pm and by appoint. Call 541-346-4032 to get in UO Annex 118
Research Interests: Early European romanticism; Chateaubriand; European Enlightenment; French & Haitian Revolutions; French and Francophone cultural and literary history; prose poetry; bande dessinées & graphic narratives; blue humanities
Mikhail Myagkov
Professor
Political Science, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: myagkov@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4868
Office: 931 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Research Interests: Russian Politics, Comparative Politics, Formal Political Theory, Statistical Methods, Experimental Design, Game Theory
Haruka Nagao
Assistant Professor
Global Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: hnagao@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: health governance, Africa-China relations, gender, public opinion, soft power diplomacy, East Asia
Naoko Nakadate
Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: naoko@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0047
Office: 410 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: 9:00-10:30 M, 1:30-3:00 Th and by appointment
Julia Nemirovskaya
Senior Instructor I
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: nemro@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4001
Office: 271 PLC, 1262 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1262
Office Hours: by appointment
Kari Marie Norgaard
Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
Climate Studies, Food Studies, IRES, Native American Studies, Sociology
Email: norgaard@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8615
Office: 634 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Tuesday 2-4
Research Interests: Gender, Place and Environment, Social Psychology and Interaction, Sociology of Culture, Theory Knowledge Science, Qualitative Approaches
Dorothee Ostmeier
Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ostmeier@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4145
Office: 204D Agate Hall, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Tue/Thu 1:20 to 2 PM GSH 103 Afterwards Villard until 3:30 PM and by appointment
Research Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th through 20th century
Eleanor Paynter
Assistant Professor
Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies
Romance Languages, Italian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: epaynter@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:00-4:00pm and by appointment
Research Interests: media and politics of migration, asylum and migrant rights, migration in Europe, Africa-Europe mobilities, transnational Italy, race in Europe, comparative border studies, social movements, human rights, and testimony via critical refugee studies, media studies, ethnography, and oral history
Géraldine Poizat-Newcomb
Senior Instructor II of French
French, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: gpoizat@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4049
Office: 25 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: MW 11-11:50