Social Sciences

Peter Lambert

Professor Emeritus
Economics
Phone: 541-346-4670

James Lamping

PhD Student
Geography
Phone: 541-346-4555
Office: 107 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Remotes sensing, forest ecology, geospatial analysis, landscape ecology, climate change, landscape modeling

Hanna LaPointe

Faculty Support Coordinator
Economics, General Social Sciences, Political Science, Sociology
Phone: 541-346-2577
Office: 435 PLC

Lydia Lapporte

Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies
Research Interests: Water justice, blue humanities

Ana-Maurine Lara

Associate Professor
William and Susan Piché Faculty Fellow
Black Studies, IRES, Latinx, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 541-346-5032
Office: 322 Hendricks Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2022 – by appointment; Winter & Spring 2023 – 10am -12pm
Research Interests: Afro Latino/a Identities, Black Queer Aesthetics, Vudú in the Dominican Republic, and Afro-Dominicanidad and the Struggle Against Xenophobia in the Dominican Republic

Wendy Larson

Professor Emerita, Chinese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-4012
Office: 301 Friendly Hall

Peter Laufer

Professor, James N. Wallace Chair of Journalism
Food Studies, SOJC, SOJC-Journalism, SOJC-Journalism Master's, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Multimedia Journalism
Phone: 541-346-2109
Office: 203 Allen Hall

Fallon-James Laxa

Student Worker ASU 7
she/her
Environmental Studies
Office: Columbia 144

Mason Leavitt

Master's Student
Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies, Geography
Office: 208 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Friday 2:00 - 4:00 Pm
Research Interests: Leaking Underground Storage Tanks, Environmental Risk Management, Environmental Justice, GIS, Pollution Liability Insurance, Landfills, Methane

Gyoung-Ah Lee

Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Food Studies
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

Hyunsoo Lee

Graduate Student
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Thursday 4-6 PM Via Zoom
Research Interests: Archaeobotany, Early Holocene subsistence, Plant resource use, Plant domestication, Agriculture, Historical ecology, East Asia

Jaichung Lee

Doctoral Student
Economics
Office: 507 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 2023: Monday 4-5, Thursday 4-5, Friday 1-2
Research Interests: Development economics, environmental economics

Rachael Lee

English Graduate Student
English, Environmental Studies
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 269 PLC

Jean Paul Leidenz Font

Doctoral Student
Economics
Office: 520 PLC
Office Hours: F23: Wednesday 1:00-3:00

John Leisure

Visiting Assistant Professor
History
Office: McKenzie 311
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Tuesday/Thursday 3:00pm-4:30pm in McKenzie Hall #311 (or by appointment)

Stephanie LeMenager

Professor of English, Faculty Affiliate in Environmental Studies
Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor 2014-2024
English, Environmental Studies
Phone: 541-346-3966
Office: 457 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 3-4:30pm & by appt.
Research Interests: 19th Century American Literary Studies, Environmental Humanities, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies

Vanessa Lepe

Doctoral Student
Sociology
Office: 636 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Monday and Wednesday 11-12

Eric Levenson

PhD Candidate
Climate Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-2699
Office: 105 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Hydrology, Arctic Environmental Change, Remote Sensing, Deep Learning and Statistical Modeling, Climate Risk

Roland Lewinski

Undergraduate Advisor
Asian Studies

Sophia Lewis

Graduate Employee
Asian Studies

Alex Li

Doctoral Student
Political Science
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Tuesday 10:30-11:30

David Li

Professor Emeritus
Collins Professor of the Humanities Emeritus
Asian Studies, English

Leyi Li

Graduate employee
Geography
Research Interests: Climate change and infrastructure investment, political geography, GIS, geocomputation, Southeast Asia

Ken Liberman

Professor Emertius
Asian Studies, Sociology
Phone: 541-346-5014
Office: 722 PLC
Office Hours: Retired: No office hours.

Raoul Lievanos

Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Sociology
Office: 640 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11am to 12:30pm (and by appointment)
Research Interests: Environment, Health, Risk, Community and Urban Sociology, Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, Science and Technology, Organizations and Institutions, Social Movements, Spatial Analysis, Quantitative Approaches, Qualitative Approaches

Ryan Light

Professor
Associate Head
Sociology
Phone: 541-346-5272
Office: 632 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Thursday 12:00-2:00
Research Interests: Social Networks, Science & Culture, Inequality, Computational Social Science

Susanna Lim

Associate Professor of Literature, Russian Studies, and Korean Studies
Director of REEES Graduate Studies
College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Global Studies, Korean, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Phone: 541-346-0691
Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 101
Research Interests: Korean Studies, Korean Literature, Korean Popular Culture, Race Studies, Race in South Korea, Russian Studies, Koryo Saram, Diaspora, Post-colonialism

Jiayan Lin

Doctoral Student
Sociology
Office: 614 PLC
Office Hours: Sp24: By Appointment

Krystale Littlejohn

Associate Professor
IRES, Sociology
Office: 740 PLC
Office Hours: Fall24: Wednesday 2pm-4pm and by appointment
Research Interests: Fertility, Race, Gender, Class, Health and Medicine, Body and Embodiment, Science, Knowledge, Technology, Mixed Methods

Sijie Liu

Doctoral Student
Political Science
Office: 837 PLC

Nadia Loan

Instructor
In Memoriam 1968 - 2017
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Amy Lobben

Professor
Geography
Phone: 541-346-4566
Office: 275 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday from 1-2
Research Interests: Geographic Information Science, Human-Environmental Interaction, Spatial Decision Making, Neurogeograhpy, GeoSpatial Cognition and Thinking.

Marina Longaray

Doctoral Student
Political Science
Office: 837 PLC

Lana Lopesi

Assistant Professor
IRES, Native American Studies
Office: 204 Alder Building
Office Hours: Fall 23, Wednesday 11-12:30pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Pacific Islander Studies, Diaspora Studies, Indigenous and Women of Color Feminisms, Contemporary Pacific Art, Pacific Cultural Production, Digital Humanities, Global Indigeneities

Yulisa Lopez Jeronimo

Master's Student
Economics

Leah Lowthorp

Assistant Professor
Anthropology, Folklore Program
Phone: 541-346-5101
Office: 321 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023:Wed 12:45-2 and Thurs 1-3

Nanosh Lucas

Graduate Employee
History, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Office: 406 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday 11:50-1:50
Research Interests: U.S. History, African American History, Race, Black Power Studies

Melissa Lucash

Research Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-4598
Office: 245 Columbia Hall
Office Hours: Mon at 10am, Thur at 9am Columbia 245
Research Interests: forest ecology,climate change, wildfire, spatial modeling,landscape ecology

David Luebke

Professor
Katherine G. Brady & Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Roger Chickering & Alison Baker Professor of Central European Histories
Food Studies, History
Phone: 541-346-2394
Office: 357 McKenzie Hall

John Lukacs

Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Asian Studies
Phone: 541-346-5112
Office: 355 Condon Hall
Office Hours:

Kathryn Lynch

Co-Director, Environmental Leadership Program
Environmental Studies
Phone: 541-346-5070
Office: 140 Columbia Hall
Research Interests: environmental anthropology, environmental education, ethnobotany

Kathy Lynn

Research Assistant
Native American Studies, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-5777
Office: 243 Columbia Hall