Social Sciences
James Lamping
Postdoctoral Scholar
Geography
Email: jlamping@uoregon.edu
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
Email: hannal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2577
Office: 435 PLC
Lydia Lapporte
Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies
Email: lapporte@uoregon.edu
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
Email: amlara@uoregon.edu
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
Email: walarson@uoregon.edu
Office: 301 Friendly Hall, 1248 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
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
Email: laufer@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2109
Office: 203 Allen Hall
Mason Leavitt
Master's Student
Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: mleavit2@uoregon.edu
Office: 208 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2025<br />
Thursday 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
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
Hyunsoo Lee
Graduate Student
Anthropology
Email: hlee2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
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
Email: jaichung@uoregon.edu
Office: 507 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Wednesday 2:00 PM
Research Interests: Development economics, environmental economics
Rachael Lee
Environmental Studies Graduate Student/ GE
English Graduate Student
English, Environmental Studies
Email: rlee3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 269 PLC
Jean Paul Leidenz Font
Doctoral Student
Economics
Email: jleidenz@uoregon.edu
Office: 520 PLC
Office Hours: F23: Wednesday 1:00-3:00
John Leisure
Visiting Assistant Professor
History
Email: leisure@uoregon.edu
Office: McKenzie 311
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Monday/Wednesday 3:30pm-5:00pm (or by appointment), McKenzie Hall (MCK) #311
Research Interests: Japan, Public Housing, Urbanism, Transpacific studies
Stephanie LeMenager
Professor of English, Faculty Affiliate in Environmental Studies
Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor 2014-2024
English, Environmental Studies
Email: slemen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3966
Office: 457 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
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
Email: vlepe@uoregon.edu
Office: 636 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Wednesdays 12:30pm to 2:30pm
Eric Levenson
PhD Candidate
Climate Studies, Geography
Email: elevens2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2699
Office: 105 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Hydrology, Arctic Environmental Change, Remote Sensing, Deep Learning and Statistical Modeling, Climate Risk
Alex Li
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: ali5@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Monday 12:00pm-1:00pm
David Li
Professor Emeritus
Collins Professor of the Humanities Emeritus
Asian Studies, English
Email: davidlli@uoregon.edu
Leyi Li
Graduate employee
Geography
Email: leyi@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Climate change and infrastructure investment, political geography, GIS, geocomputation, Southeast Asia
Ken Liberman
Professor Emertius
Asian Studies, Sociology
Email: liberman@uoregon.edu
Office: 722 PLC
Office Hours: Retired: No office hours.
Raoul Lievanos
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Sociology
Email: raoull@uoregon.edu
Office: 640 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Mondays and Thursdays, 1-2:30pm
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
Email: light@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5272
Office: 632 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Winter 2025: No Office Hours - Sabbatical
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, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: susannal@uoregon.edu
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
Email: jiayanl@uoregon.edu
Office: 614 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Friday 2:00-4:00
Krystale Littlejohn
Associate Professor
IRES, Sociology
Office: 740 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Wed 3-5pm via Zoom through 1/30, on leave until 4/24 after that
Research Interests: Fertility, Race, Gender, Class, Health and Medicine, Body and Embodiment, Science, Knowledge, Technology, Mixed Methods
Sijie Liu
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: sijieliu@uoregon.edu
Office: 837 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Wednesday 5:00-6:00pm
Amy Lobben
Professor
Geography
Email: lobben@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4566
Office: 275 Condon Hall, 1251 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
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
Email: mfingerl@uoregon.edu
Office: 837 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Wednesdays 5-6PM<br />
Lana Lopesi
Assistant Professor
IRES, Native American Studies
Email: llopesi@uoregon.edu
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
Leah Lowthorp
Assistant Professor
Co-DGS, Folklore and Public Culture
Anthropology, Folklore Program
Email: lowthorp@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5101
Office: 321 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024, Wednesday 12-3pm
Research Interests: Folklore, Performance, Critical Heritage Studies, Online Narratives of Human Biotechnology, South Asia
Nanosh Lucas
PhD Student
History, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: nanoshl@uoregon.edu
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
Email: mlucash@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4598
Office: 245 Columbia Hall
Office Hours: Mon at 2pm, Wed at 11am in Columbia 245
Research Interests: Landscape ecology, forest ecology, climate change, wildfire, spatial modeling
David Luebke
Professor
Katherine G. Brady & Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Roger Chickering & Alison Baker Professor of Central European Histories
Food Studies, History
Email: dluebke@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2394
Office: 357 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Kathryn Lynch
Co-Director, Environmental Leadership Program
Environmental Studies
Email: klynch@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5070
Office: 140 Columbia Hall, 5223 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5295
Research Interests: environmental anthropology, environmental education, ethnobotany
Kathy Lynn
Research Assistant
Native American Studies, SAIL
Email: kathy@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5777
Office: 243 Columbia Hall, 5223 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5295