Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Affiliated Faculty

Ellen Scott

Professor
Sociology
Phone: 541-346-5075
Office: 731 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wednesday 2-3 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
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
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
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
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, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-521-9762
Office: 326 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
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

Jessica Vasquez-Tokos

Professor
IRES, Sociology
Phone: 541-346-5165
Office: 715 PLC, 1291 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Thursdays 10am-12Noon and by appointment<br />
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Latinos/as/xs in the U.S., Family Life Course and Society, Qualitative Approaches

Lily Vuong

Associate Professor
Religious Studies, Medieval Studies
Phone: 541-346-4904
Office Hours: M/W 9:30-10:30 or by appointment.
Research Interests: Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Christian Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal writings, Representations of Women and the Construction of Gender in the Ancient World, Jewish and Christian Identities and Relations in Late Antiquity, Literary and Feminist Approaches to Biblical Interpretation.