Social Sciences
Jamila Baig
ESSP/Geography PhD Candidate
Climate Studies, Environmental Studies
Email: jbaig@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5426
Office: 105 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Reconstruction of Paleotemperature and vegetation using Multi Proxies in Pacific Northwest
Laura Bakkensen
Mikesell Professor in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Economics
Email: lbak@uoregon.edu
Office: 529 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30-2:30pm
Abigail Bako
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: bako@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Monday 3-5
Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun
Associate Professor
Director of African Studies
African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, School of Global Studies and Languages, Sociology, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu
Office: 311 Hendricks Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays & Tuesdays 10 - 11am and by appointment
Research Interests: Globalization, Nationalism, Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Embodiment, Africana Studies
Ray Balstad
Graduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: rbalstad@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2703
Office: 114D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am - 4:30pm
Research Interests: French, Film, Comics, Foreign Language Acquisition, Botany
Elaina Barker
Doctoral Student
Graduate Employee
Political Science
Email: ebarker7@uoregon.edu
Office: 840 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Wednesdays from 2-3pm
Research Interests: American Politics, Power, Gender, Sexuality, Criminal Justice
Faith Barter
Assistant Professor
Black Studies, English
Email: fbarter@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1510
Office: 320 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tues./Thurs. 1:00-2:30pm. You must sign up at dr-barter.youcanbook.me
Research Interests: African American Literary and Cultural Studies, 19th-Century American Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Patrick Bartlein
Professor Emeritus (part-time Professor)
Climate Studies, Geography
Email: bartlein@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4567
Office: 275 Condon Hall, 1251 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Paleoclimatology, Data Analysis and Visualization, Environmental Modeling
Brenda Bastian
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: bbastian@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: 9am-12pm; T: 2pm-5pm; W: 9am-12pm, Th: 1pm-4pm, F: 10am-1pm
Pierce Bateman
PhD Student
History
Email: pbateman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4802
Office: 340T McKenzie Hall
Research Interests: history of Alaska and the Pacific World, and oral history
Deborah Baumgold
Professor Emerita
College Scholars, Political Science
Email: baumgold@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4884
Research Interests: Political Theory, History of Political Thought
Diane Baxter
Senior Lecturer 1
Pro Tem Instructor
Law, Middle East and North African Studies
Email: dbaxter@uoregon.edu
Phone: none
Office: none
Office Hours:
Martha Bayless
Professor, English
English, Folklore Program, Food Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies
Email: mjbayles@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3930
Office: 344 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: On sabbatical; please email.
Research Interests: Folklore, Medieval Studies, Cultural Studies, Food Studies
Emily Beatty
Doctoral Student
Graduate Employee
Political Science, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: ebeatty3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4864
Office: 817 PLC
Office Hours: SP 24: Thursday 10:30-11:30
Research Interests: American Political Development; Democratic Theory; Critical Phenomenology; Queer and Trans Studies; Social movements
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: Spring 2025: Wednesday 9:30-12:30 via zoom (https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/97590591398), email to reserve a time.
Research Interests: Latin American Politics, Development, Gender, NGOs, Microfinance, Collective Action
Derek Beckett
Undergraduate Coordinator
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Email: derek1@uoregon.edu
Phone: +1 541-346-4008
Office: Remote
Office Hours: T,R,F 8:00-5:00PM
Steven Beda
Assistant Professor
History
Email: sbeda@uoregon.edu
Office: 307 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: Winter 23, Tuesday and Thursday 11:30-12:30 and by appointment
Research Interests: 20th Century US History, Labor History, Environmental History,
Kristina Beggen
Doctoral Student
Environmental Studies, Sociology
Email: kbeggen@uoregon.edu
Office: 607 PLC
Smadar Ben-Natan
Assistant Professor
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, College of Arts and Sciences
Email: smadar@uoregon.edu
Office: 407 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday 3:30-5:30, by appointment, email me to schedule
Research Interests: International iaw, human Rights, armed conflict, criminal justice, incarceration, colonialism, citizenship, Israel/Palestine
Fatima Benhabyb
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: fatimab@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2047
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am-4:30pm [Remote Fridays]
Gerald Berk
Professor Emeritus
Political Science
Email: gberk@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4887
Office: 834 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Research Interests: American Political Development, Business Regulation, Economic Sociology, Social Theory
Tiyas Bhattacharyya
Graduate student
Anthropology
Email: tbhatta2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 36/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Fridays 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Research Interests: Southeast Asian archaeology, zooarchaeology, human-animal relations, animal economies in hierarchical societies, environmental reconstruction
Bruce Blonigen
Edward Maletis Dean, Lundquist College of Business | Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science
Economics, Lundquist College of Business, SAIL
Email: bruceb@uoregon.edu
Office: Lillis 350
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: international trade, industrial organization, applied econometrics.
Ashli Blow
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies, SOJC
Email: ashlib@uoregon.edu
Office: 210 Allen Hall
Scott Blumenthal
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Email: sblument@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9181
Office: 374 Condon Hall
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Ecology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Alexandra Bonds
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emerita
Asian Studies, Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-4194
Office: 205 Villard Hall
Erica Bornstein
Professor
Anthropology
Email: ebornste@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9638
Office: 272 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 2-4pm, 272 Condon and by appointment
Research Interests: Nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), voluntary sector regulation, philanthropy, humanitarianism, human rights, economic development and religion, political and legal anthropology, institutional ethnography, Southern Africa, South Asia.
Mokaya Bosire
Senior Instructor
African Studies, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: mokaya@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3916
Office: 377 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:30p-4:30p or by appt.
Research Interests: Swahili, Sheng, African languages & Urban vernaculars
Margaret C. Boulay
Co-Director, Environmental Leadership Program
ELP Senior Instructor II
Environmental Studies
Email: boulay@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5945
Office: 244 Columbia Hall
Office Hours: Wed 3:30-4:30 pm 244 COL, and by appointment
Grace Boyd-Bigby
Doctoral Student
Graduate Employee
Political Science
Email: gboydbi5@uoregon.edu
Office: 840 PLC
Robin Brackett
Doctoral Student
Graduate Employee
Political Science
Email: rbracket@uoregon.edu
Office: 814 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Mondays 1:30-2:30p
Research Interests: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Iranian Foreign Relations, Middle East Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Lindsay Frederick Braun
Associate Professor
Departmental Advisor (2025 WT ST)
African Studies, History
Email: lfbraun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4838
Office: 365 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: ST 2025: 12-3 Tuesdays ABA, MTW preferred
Research Interests: Southern Africa 1750-1950, East Africa 1850-1960, Comparative Colonialism, Environmental History, History of Science and Technology (esp. geography)
Yvonne Braun
Professor
Department Head, Global Studies and Member, Provost's Teaching Academy
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ybraun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5752
Office: 118 Friendly Hall, 1245 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1245
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Wednesday 12:00-1:50 (by Zoom or by appt)
Research Interests: gender, intersectionality, social inequality, international development, environmental justice, globalization, infrastructural politics, energy politics, social movements, feminist political ecology
Daniel Breeden
Doctoral Student
Economics
Email: breeden@uoregon.edu
Office: 420 PLC
Office Hours: Fall24: Monday 9:00, Tuesday 2:00
Libby Bridges
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: libbyb@uoregon.edu
Office: COL M141
Office Hours: TH 1:30-3:30pm
Research Interests: ecopedagogy, environmental justice, youth climate activism, environmental education, school gardens, food equity, critical hope
Scott Bridgham
Professor Emeritus, Biology and Environmental Studies
Biology, Environmental Studies
Email: bridgham@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1466
Office: 362 Onyx Hall, 1210 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1210
Kirby Brown
Associate Professor, English
Director, Native American and Studies (NAIS)
English, Native American Studies
Email: kbrown@uoregon.edu
Office: 330 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring 2025: T: 3-5 pm, W: 11 am-12 pm, and by email appt.<br />
Schedule here: https://calendly.com/kirbybrown/officehours
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Literary and Cultural Studies; Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity; Cultural Studies; Modernism Studies; Genre Studies; Nationhood/Nationalism Studies; Sovereignty/Self-Determination Studies
Michael Brown
Instructor
Political Science, Sociology
Email: mpbrown@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4675
Office: 605 PLC
Samantha Ruth Brown
PhD Candidate
Geography
Email: sbrown20@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4965
Office: 202 Condon Hall
Research Interests: cultural geography, food, race/whiteness, Indigenous studies, nationalism, migration/refugees
Steven Brown
Professor of Comparative Literature
Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature
Email: stb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4016
Office: 354 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: 3:30-5:30 on Tuesday (by appt.) via Zoom.
Research Interests: posthumanism, horror cinema, Surrealist film and animation, sound design in film, Japanese popular culture, and critical theory.
Tamara Brown
Operations Assistant
Economics, General Social Sciences, Political Science, Sociology
Email: tambro@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4614
Office: 435 PLC
Troy Brundidge
PhD Candidate
Geography
Email: tbrundid@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4522
Office: 208 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Insurance and public finance, hazards and emerging risk markets, critical political economy, policing and carceral geography, state-capital relations, Black America
Daniel Buck
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Food Studies, Geography, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: danielb@uoregon.edu
Office: 109 Condon Hall, 1251 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251
Office Hours: M 12-1:50pm, or by appointment
Research Interests: Geography/Asian Studies, Economic Geography, Development, Political Economy, Environment/Society, East Asia and China.
Jamie Bufalino
Senior Instructor
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: bufalino@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Please email faculty using your UO email account or use Canvas if enrolled in a course with the professor.
Research Interests: Gender & sexuality in U.S. history; history of feminism; U.S. consumer culture; U.S. racial politics
Lucas Burke
PhD Student
History
Email: lburke@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: 20th c. US Politics and Environment; US West
Alfredo Burlando
Associate Professor
Director of Master’s Studies
Economics
Email: burlando@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1351
Office: 513 PLC, 1285 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1285
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Wednesday 10-11; Friday 12:30-2:00
Research Interests: Development economics, economics of corruption, savings strategies in developing countries, health and fertility
Bob Bussel
Professor
Director, Labor Education and Research Center
History
Email: bussel@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2784
Office: 1675 Agate St., 1289 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1289