Social Sciences
Scott Blumenthal
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Email: sblument@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9181
Office: 374 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Wednesday 3:00-5:00pm, or by appointment
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Ecology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Erica Bornstein
Professor, Divisional Associate Dean, Humanities
Anthropology
Email: ebornste@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9638
Office: 272 Condon Hall, 1212 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1212
Research Interests: Nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), voluntary sector regulation, philanthropy, humanitarianism, human rights, economic development and religion, political and legal anthropology, institutional ethnography, Southern Africa, South Asia.
Margaret C. Boulay
Co-Director, Environmental Leadership Program
ELP Teaching Professor
Environmental Studies
Email: boulay@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Wed 3:30-4:30 pm 244 COL, and by appointment
Melissa Bowers
Associate Director, Academic Support
Classics, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Arabic Studies, Environmental Studies
Email: bowersm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1506
Office: 124 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: (if needed, please contact me via email for an appointment, walk-ins are not guaranteed) Mon. -Wed. 8:30 a.m.-Noon and 1- 5 p.m. (118 PLC) 541.346.1506, Thursday and Friday remote 8am-5pm
Robin Brackett
Doctoral Student
Graduate Employee
Political Science
Email: rbracket@uoregon.edu
Office: 814 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Mondays 1:30-2:30p
Research Interests: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Iranian Foreign Relations, Middle East Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Kaili Brande
Geography
Email: kbrande@uoregon.edu
Office: 246 Columbia Hall, 1251 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Lindsay Frederick Braun
Associate Professor
African Studies, History
Email: lfbraun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4838
Office: 365 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: FT 2026: Not teaching. Meetings by appointment, Tuesdays 1100-1500.
Research Interests: Southern Africa 1750-1950, East Africa 1850-1960, Comparative Colonialism, Environmental History, History of Science and Technology (esp. geography and mapping)
Yvonne Braun
Professor
Department Head, Global Studies and Member, Provost's Teaching Academy
Global Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ybraun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5752
Office: 202A Agate Hall, 1245 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Thursday 11:00-1:00 or by appointment; in person or via Teams/Zoom
Research Interests: gender, intersectionality, social inequality, international development, environmental justice, globalization, infrastructural politics, energy politics, social movements, feminist political ecology
August Brereton
PhD Student
History
Email: augustb@uoregon.edu
Office: 340N McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Aidan Bridge
Doctoral Student
Sociology
Email: abridge@uoregon.edu
Office: 636 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Libby Bridges
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: libbyb@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: ecopedagogy, food studies, climate change, youth climate action, environmental justice
Scott Bridgham
Professor Emeritus, Biology and Environmental Studies
Biology, Environmental Studies
Email: bridgham@uoregon.edu
Office: 362 Onyx Hall, 1210 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1210
Kirby Brown
Associate Professor, English ; Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies
David M. and Nancy L. Petrone Faculty Scholars
English, Native American Studies
Email: kbrown@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5819
Office: 330 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: On sabbatical from Sept. 15, 2025-Sept. 15 2026.
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Literary and Cultural Studies; Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity; Cultural Studies; Modernism Studies; Genre Studies; Nationhood/Nationalism Studies; Sovereignty/Self-Determination Studies
Steven Brown
Professor of Comparative Literature
Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature
Email: stb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4016
Office: 354 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: 3:30-5:30 on Tuesday (by appt.) via Zoom.
Research Interests: posthumanism, horror cinema, Surrealist film and animation, sound design in film, Japanese popular culture, and critical theory.
Daniel Buck
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Food Studies, Geography, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: danielb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2353
Office: 109 Condon Hall, 1251 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251
Office Hours: Tuesdays 9-11, or by appointment
Research Interests: Geography/Asian Studies, Economic Geography, Development, Political Economy, Environment/Society, East Asia and China.
Jamie Bufalino
Senior Instructor
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: bufalino@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Please email faculty using your UO email account or use Canvas if enrolled in a course with the professor.
Research Interests: Gender & sexuality in U.S. history; history of feminism; U.S. consumer culture; U.S. racial politics