Social Sciences
Deborah Baumgold
Professor Emerita
College Scholars, Political Science
Email: baumgold@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4884
Research Interests: Political Theory, History of Political Thought
Diane Baxter
Senior Lecturer 1
Pro Tem Instructor
Law, Middle East and North African Studies
Email: dbaxter@uoregon.edu
Phone: none
Office: none
Martha Bayless
Professor, English
English, Folklore Program, Food Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies
Email: mjbayles@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3930
Office: 344 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall term 2026: Mondays 3:00-4:00; Wednesdays 12:00-2:00
Research Interests: Folklore, Medieval Studies, Cultural Studies, Food Studies
Emily Beatty
Doctoral Student
Graduate Employee
Political Science, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: ebeatty3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4864
Office: 817 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Wednesday 12:00-2:00pm
Research Interests: American Political Development; Democratic Theory; Critical Phenomenology; Queer and Trans Studies; Social movements
Erin Beck
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: Spring 2026: Thursday 11-2 via zoom (email for link)
Research Interests: Latin American Politics, Development, Gender, NGOs, Microfinance, Collective Action
Steven Beda
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
History
Email: sbeda@uoregon.edu
Office: 307 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: Winter 23, Tuesday and Thursday 11:30-12:30 and by appointment
Research Interests: 20th Century US History, Labor History, Environmental History,
Kristina Beggen
Doctoral Student
Environmental Studies, Sociology
Email: kbeggen@uoregon.edu
Office: 607 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugne OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesdays 2-3 on Zoom and Thursdays 2-3 in-person
Smadar Ben-Natan
Assistant Professor
Global Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: smadar@uoregon.edu
Office: Agate Hall 209, 5206 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Mondays 3:00-5:00, on zoom only, schedule here: https://calendly.com/smadar-uoregon/officehours?back=1&month=2026-01
Research Interests: Human rights, international law, Palestine/Israel, armed conflict, military courts, criminal justice, incarceration, colonialism, citizenship.
Fatima Benhabyb
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: fatimab@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2047
Office: 106 Agate Hall, 5206 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am-4:30pm [Remote Fridays]
Research Interests: International education & diplomacy, soft power & cultural influence, global governance & policy, neocolonialism & power structures, postcolonial & decolonial theory, regional focus: MENA, identity & elite formation.
Olive Bennett
Undergraduate Programs Coordinator, ASU5
Anthropology, Black Studies, Cinema Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, Geography, History, IRES, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: odavid@uoregon.edu
Gerald Berk
Professor Emeritus
Political Science
Email: gberk@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4887
Office: 834 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Research Interests: American Political Development, Business Regulation, Economic Sociology, Social Theory
Megan Betts
Graduate Employee
Sociology
Email: mbetts@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1261
Office: 708 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Tiyas Bhattacharyya
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: tbhatta2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 36/366 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Fridays 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Research Interests: Southeast Asian archaeology, zooarchaeology, human-animal relations, animal economies in hierarchical societies, environmental reconstruction
Kaitlyn Bieber
Environmental Studies
Email: kbieber@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Human dimensions of natural hazards, science communication, environmental justice, cryospheric risk and resilience, wildfire evacuation dynamics, glaciers
Leo Billman
MA Student
History
Email: lbillman@uoregon.edu
Office: MCK 340E
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Religious, Social, and Intellectual History of the Sixteenth-Century European Reformations.
Bruce Blonigen
Edward Maletis Dean, Lundquist College of Business | Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science
Economics, Lundquist College of Business, SAIL
Email: bruceb@uoregon.edu
Office: Lillis 350
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: international trade, industrial organization, applied econometrics.
Ashli Blow
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies
Email: ashlib@uoregon.edu
Office: 210 Allen Hall
Christopher Blum
Operations Coordinator
Economics, General Social Sciences, Political Science, Sociology, Mathematics
Email: cblum@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1168
Office: 435A PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205