Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Yvette Saavedra

Associate Professor
WGSS Director of Graduate Studies; Convener Women of Color Faculty Project
IRES, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 541-346-5521
Office: 218 Hendricks Hall
Office Hours: Please email for appointment.
Research Interests: Chicanx History and Studies; Chicana Lesbian Feminist Theory; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History and Studies; History of U.S. West; 19th and 20th century U.S History; California History; 19th and 20th century gender and sexuality in the U.S.

Keya Saxena

Doctoral Candidate
SOJC, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Global Communications and Social Change, Media Activism and Social Justice, Gender

Annalyse Steele

Academic Programs Assistant
Black Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-1075
Office: 201 McKenzie Hall

Leticia Stival

Events and Communications Coordinator
Black Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-0188
Office: 201 McKenzie Hall

Joe Sussi

Graduate Employee
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 541-346-3675
Office: La 254

Amy Swanson

Assistant Professor of Dance Studies, Theory, and History
Dance, Music, African Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 541-346-5605
Office: 173 Gerlinger Annex
Research Interests: contemporary African dance, public performance, transnational Senegal, queer African studies, queer theory