Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Affiliated Faculty
Yvette Alex-Assensoh
VP for Equity and Inclusion
Professor
Black Studies, Political Science
Email: yalex@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3175
Office: 401E Tykeson Hall
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: Winter 2025: Tuesdays 11-2
Research Interests: Latin American Politics, Development, Gender, NGOs, Microfinance, Collective Action
Bernadette Calafell
Professor
IRES
Research Interests: Queer of color theory and method, monstrosity and horror, performance studies, automethodologies, Chicana and Black feminisms, Latina/o/x/e Studies, hip-hop feminisms, BDSM, sex work
Charise Cheney
Professor; Program Director
IRES, Black Studies
Email: ccheney@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0870
Office: 201 Alder Building
Research Interests: African American Popular and Political Cultures; Black Nationalist Ideologies and Practices; Gender and Sexuality
Krista Chronister
Professor
College of Education, Counseling Psychology, Family and Human Services
Email: kmg@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2800
Office: 139 Susan Campbell Hall
L. Zachary DuBois
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Email: zdubois@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5110
Office: 356 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12-2pm PST in Condon 375
Lynn Fujiwara
Associate Professor
IRES
Email: fujiwara@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0902
Office Hours: Fall '22: By appointment only. Email for appointment.
Research Interests: Asian American Studies; Women of Color Feminisms and Queer of Color Critique; Immigration; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Media and Cultural Studies; Social Policy
Alison Gash
Professor
Department Head, Political Science
Political Science
Email: gash@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4876
Office: 922 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: F22 - Virtual: Wednesday 8:30-10:30--No OH October 5; (send email with header "OFFICE HOUR APPT" to make an appointment) or join waiting room on zoom https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/96351524725; In-person Thursday 1-2 (mask required)
Research Interests: U.S. Courts, Public Policy, Gender/Gender Identity, Race, Sexuality, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Amalia Gladhart
Professor Emerita
School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences, Romance Languages
Email: gladhart@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Translation Studies (theory and practice), Latin American theater, literary translation
Julie Heffernan
Master's Program and Licensure Director
College of Education, Curriculum & Teaching, Curriculum and Teacher Education, Educational Foundations
Email: jheffern@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6738
Office: 124H Lokey Education Bldg
Sara Hodges
Professor
Department Head
Psychology, SAIL
Email: sdhodges@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4919
Office: 463 Straub Hall, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1227
Research Interests: Social/Personality, Perspective Taking, Inferential (Empathic Accuracy), Comparison and Judgment Processes, and Social Comparison
Jocelyn Hollander
Professor
Sociology
Email: jocelynh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5510
Office: 616 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Friday 11:30-1:30
Research Interests: Gender, Social Psychology and Interaction, Qualitative Approaches
Lamia Karim
Professor & Department Head
Anthropology, Asian Studies, SAIL
Email: lamia@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5095
Office: 375 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Wed from 2-3 PM and by appointment and Zoom
Research Interests: women, work, neoliberalism, state, and Islam
Bonnie J. Mann
Professor of Philosophy
Committee on Diversity & Inclusion Chair
Philosophy, Translation Studies
Email: bmann@uoregon.edu
Office: 234 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/98139166536?pwd=ZGVGSVJ1RkJMbVFMMjVtd0dtN2s1QT09
Research Interests: Feminist Philosophy, Continental Philosophy
Leah Middlebrook
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Director, Oregon Humanities Center (OHC)
Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
Office: 355 PLC Hall
Office Hours: S 2025 Friday 10:30-11:30 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
Kate Mondloch
Professor
Faculty Fellow, Clark Honors College
Clark Honors College, History Art & Arch
Email: mondloch@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2068
Office: 237D Lawrence Hall
Office Hours: Winter term: Mondays 2:30-4:30 https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/91257476598?pwd=NJOoP9lhS9rxttbEGuJZ31nPKpQMHs.1
Research Interests: Contemporary Art and Theory
Dorothee Ostmeier
Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ostmeier@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4145
Office: 215 Friendly 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
CJ Pascoe
Professor
Sociology
Email: cpascoe@uoregon.edu
Phone: (458) 215-2901
Office: Please contact for office location
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Wednesdays 1:30-3:30 Sign up: https://calendly.com/c_j_pascoe/10min
Research Interests: Sexuality, Inequality, Youth, Education, Qualitative Research Methods, Masculinity, Social Media
Scott L. Pratt
Professor of Philosophy
Department Head
Philosophy
Email: spratt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5971
Office: 239 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Office Hours are Tuesdays 3:00-5:00 Pacific Time in person or by Zoom. Use this link (https://calendly.com/spratt-9/office-hours) to schedule a meeting. Other times are available on request.
Research Interests: American Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Education
Alaí Reyes-Santos
Professor of Practice
Law, Law-CRES
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
Ellen Scott
Professor
Sociology
Email: escott@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5075
Office: 731 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: W 2025: Monday 11:30-12:30 and by appointment
Research Interests: Low-wage work, carework, public policy, qualitative methods.
Beata Stawarska
Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies for Advising/Curriculum Committee/GTF Appointment Committee/Graduate Placing Committee/Graduate Philosophy Club
Black Studies, Philosophy
Email: stawarsk@uoregon.edu
Office: 247 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Research Interests: Contemporary European Philosophy, Phenomenology, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Philosophical Psychology, Feminism
Leslie Steeves
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor
SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: lsteeves@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3751
Office: 214A Allen Hall
Lynn Stephen
Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology
Co-Director of Graduate Studies (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: T/R 1:30 -2:30 in person in 316 Condon, or by appointment
Research Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Americas, Legal Pluralism, Social Memory, Testimony, Gender Violence
Amy Swanson
Assistant Professor of Dance Studies, Theory, and History
Dance, Music, African Studies
Email: aswa@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5605
Office: 173 Gerlinger Annex
Research Interests: contemporary African dance, public performance, transnational Senegal, queer African studies, queer theory
Analisa Taylor
Associate Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: analisa@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-521-9762
Office: 326 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: On leave winter '23
Research Interests: Culture and Social Movements in Latinx USA and Latin America; Mesoamerican Foodways, Migrations, and Human Rights; Ecology, Culture, Capital, and the State in the Americas
Jalen Thompson
Instructor
English
Email: jalent@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0528
Office: 323 PLC
Research Interests: reality television | media studies | film studies | black feminism | black studies | gender and sexuality/masculinity studies | queer theory
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos
Professor
IRES, Sociology
Email: vasquezj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5165
Office: 715 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Spring 2025: By Appointment
Research Interests: Family Life Course and Society, Race and Ethnicity, Qualitative Approaches
Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler
Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Disability Studies, English
Email: ewheeler@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3929
Office: 238 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 2:30-4pm in person (drop-in or by appt.) or on Zoom by appt. (email for appt.)
Research Interests: Disability Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, American Studies, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity