Social Sciences
Thomas Slaten
Doctoral Student
Economics
Email: slaten@uoregon.edu
Office: 821 PLC, 1285 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Monday and Wednesday 12:30-1:30
Cera Smith
Assistant Professor
Faculty Director of the Umoja Black Scholars Academic Residential Community
Black Studies, IRES
Email: cera@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1343
Research Interests: U.S. Black Literatures (African American, Afro-Latinx, and other Black diasporic), Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Black Studies, Critical Race Theories, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Histories of Science and Medicine, Health Humanities
Diana Smith
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: dianasmi@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Ryan Smith
Academic and Career Advisor
General Social Sciences
Email: rsmith3@uoregon.edu
Office: Tykeson 50H, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Maria Smolyar
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: msmolyar@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Josh Snodgrass
Professor; Department Head, Anthropology
Anthropology, Food Studies, Global Health Program
Email: jjosh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4823
Office: 354 Condon Hall, 1218University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00 am - 2:00 pm in Condon 354. Also by appointment (email to arrange)
Research Interests: human biology, biological anthropology, evolutionary medicine, global health, human evolution, human growth and development, epidemiology, public health, nutritional science
Haifa Souilmi
Doctoral Student
Graduate Employee
Political Science
Email: hsouilmi@uoregon.edu
Office: 833 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, International Relations, US Foreign Policy, Middle East and North Africa, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation, Religion , Race and Politics, Interfaith Dialogue
Priscilla Southwell
Professor Emerita
Middle East and North African Studies, Political Science
Email: psouth@uoregon.edu
Office: 915 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Fall 24: Wednesday 2-4 pm
Research Interests: Political Behavior, U.S. and European Politics
Mae Sowards
Doctoral Student
Sociology
Email: msowards@uoregon.edu
Office: 623 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Thursday, 2-4 PM
Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Environmental Justice, Urban-Environmental Sociology, Housing and Homelessness, Climate Change, Disasters
Hunter Spackman
ASIA 399 Graduate Employee
Asian Studies, Global Studies
Email: hspackma@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 11:00am-12:30pm
Research Interests: Japanese Popular Culture
Nick Squires
PhD Candidate
Graduate Employee
Political Science
Email: nsquires@uoregon.edu
Office: 815 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Monday and Wednesday 11:45-1:45
Research Interests: International Relations, US Foreign Policy, National Security, Climate Change, Securitization of Migration
Preetham Sridharan
PhD Student
History
Email: preetham@uoregon.edu
Phone: 732-585-3006
Office: 340P McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: Fall 2023, Tue 10:00am-12:00pm
Research Interests: Modern European intellectual history, nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe, history of religious and linguistic thought, modern German history
Jasmine Stanciu
Doctoral Student
Sociology
Email: jstanciu@uoregon.edu
Office: 636 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Sarah Stapleton
Associate Professor
College of Education, Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education, Curriculum & Teaching, Curriculum and Teacher Education, Educational Foundations, Environmental Studies, Food Studies
Email: sstaplet@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5834
Office: 146B Lokey Education Bldg.
Research Interests: climate change education, science and environmental education, food and schools, participatory research
Amanda Stasiewicz
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies
Email: asta@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5208
Office Hours: Thursdays 10-11:45 Columbia 145B
Research Interests: human dimensions of wildfire, community and organizational adaptation to hazards, cooperative fire risk management, evacuation and alternatives to evacuation, forest and rangeland policy, qualitative and quantitative social science
Beata Stawarska
Professor of Philosophy
(On a sabbatical leave Winter-Spring 2026)
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), Feminism, African and Africana Philosophy, Philosophy of Language (broadly construed).
Lynn Stephen
Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of 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: Fall 2026, Tuesdays in person, 1:30-3:30 in 316 Condon Hall, or by appointment made through email.
Zoom appointments are possible.
Research Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Americas, Legal Pluralism, Social Memory, Testimony, Gender Violence
Kirstin Sterner
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Anthropology
Email: ksterner@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8614
Office: Pacific Hall Room 10
Office Hours: Tuesdays from 11:30am to 1:30pm in PAC10 or by appointment (Fall 2026 Term)
Research Interests: molecular anthropology, epigenomics, aging and aging-related diseases, primate adaptation