Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
Where academic excellence meets social transformation
People
Angela Addae
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Email: aaddae@uoregon.edu
- Programs, Research and Outreach: Business Law, Legal Studies, Public Law and Policy
- Interests: Equity In Urban Municipal Redevelopment Policies, Legal Advocacy Work
Donella-Elizabeth Alston Cleveland
- Title: Faculty Support Specialist, Academic Support Unit 5
- Email: donella@uoregon.edu
John Arroyo
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Email: jarroyo@uoregon.edu
- Programs, Research and Outreach: Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center
- Interests: Urban Planning and Design, Latina/o/x Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Transnational Processes, Environmental and Climate Justice, Community Development, Housing, Suburbs, Public Space, Arts and Culture, Historic Preservation, Qualitative Methods
Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Globalization, Nationalism, Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Embodiment, Africana Studies
Tali Bitton
- Title: Ph.D.
- Email: tbitton@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Continental Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; Materialism, Marxism, Social Reproduction Theory; Feminism; Anticolonial Theory
Kirby Brown
- Title: Associate Professor, English
- Email: kbrown@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Native American and Indigenous Literary and Cultural Studies; Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity; Cultural Studies; Modernism Studies;
Christopher Chávez
- Title: Carolyn Silva Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising
- Email: cchavez4@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Advertising, TV Commercials, Communication Theory, Persuasive Communication, Cultural Studies, Gender and Race In Media, Media and Diversity, Popular Culture, Media Studies and Globalization
Charise Cheney
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: ccheney@uoregon.edu
- Interests: African American Popular and Political Cultures; Black Nationalist Ideologies and Practices; Gender and Sexuality
Emily J. Cornell
- Title: Graduate Program Specialist
- Email: ecornell@uoregon.edu
Courtney Cox
- Title: Assistant Professor (on leave, AY23)
- Email: cmcox@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Sport Studies, Performance Studies, Feminist Theory, Black Studies, Critical Data Studies
Rosie Dillon
- Title: Executive Support Specialist
- Email: roseannd@uoregon.edu
Abram Fernandez
- Title: M.A.
- Email: abramf@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Philosophy of Race, Latin American Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
Tara Fickle
- Title: Associate Professor, English Department
- Email: tfickle@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Asian American Literaray and Cultural Studies, American Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanies, Film, Television and Media Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity, Visual Culture
Asilia Franklin-Phipps
- Title: PhD Candidate
- Email: asilia@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Race and Education, English Education, Race Theory, Philosophy, Popular Culture, Hip Hop Pedagogy and Arts-Based Research
Lynn Fujiwara
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: fujiwara@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Asian American Studies; Women of Color Feminisms and Queer of Color Critique; Immigration; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Media and Cultural Studies; Social Policy
Cassandra Galentine
- Title: English Graduate Student
- Email: cassieg@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Women's Working-Class Literature, Multiethnic U.S. Literature, Environmental Justice, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Zoë Gamell Brown
- Title: Graduate Teaching Fellow
- Email: jtbrown@uoregon.edu
- Interests: AfroIndigenous ecological knowledge, Caribbean diaspora, Culinary catharsis, Digital humanities, Gender and sexuality, Hyperrealism, Integrative art, Water methodologies
Paul J. Guernsey
- Title: ABD Ph.D.
- Email: guernsey@uoregon.edu
- Interests: the confluence of phenomenology, ecology, pedagogy (especially Dewey) and Marx, attempting to practice these disciplines in solidarity with women, children and ethnic minorities.
Michael Hames-García
- Title: Professor
- Interests: Black Studies, Chicanx and Latinx Studies, Justice Studies and Incarceration, Critical Theory
Mark Harris
- Title: M.A. CADCI, MAC (candidate)
- Email: harrism@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Affiliation: University of Oregon Substance Abuse Prevention Program, LCC Recovery Center Interests: Cross Cultural Identity, Mental Health & Recovery, Activist Historian, Folk Jazz Improvisation, International Substance Use Treatment
Habib Iddrisu
- Title: Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Dance
- Email: hiddrisu@uoregon.edu
- Programs, Research and Outreach: Dance, Music History and Culture, Musicology and Ethnomusicology
- Interests: Dance, Scholarly Areas, Ethnomusicology, West African Music and Dance Practice and Performance, Cultural Studies, Post-Colonial Independence History, Political Economy, Oral History, African Diaspora Studies, and the New Internationalism
Michelle Jacob
- Title: Professor
- Email: mjacob@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Indigenous Methodologies, Spirituality, Health, Education, Indigenous Feminisms, and Decolonization
Brian Klopotek
- Title: IRES Department Head & Associate Professor
- Email: klopotek@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Historical Studies, Environmental Justice
Ana-Maurine Lara
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: amlara@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Afro Latino/a Identities, Black Queer Aesthetics, Vudú in the Dominican Republic, and Afro-Dominicanidad and the Struggle Against Xenophobia in the Dominican Republic
Raoul Lievanos
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: raoull@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Environment, Health, Risk, Community and Urban Sociology, Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, Science and Technology, Organizations and Institutions, Social Movements, Spatial Analysis, Quantitative Approaches, Qualitative Approaches
Krystale Littlejohn
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: klittlej@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Fertility, Race, Gender, Class, Health and Medicine, Body and Embodiment, Science, Knowledge, Technology, Mixed Methods
Lana Lopesi
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Email: llopesi@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Pacific Studies, Indigenous and Women of Color Feminisms, Contemporary Pacific Art, Global Indigeneities
Joseph Lowndes
- Title: Professor, Political Science
- Email: jlowndes@uoregon.edu
- Interests: American Political Development, Populism, Racial Politics, Conservatism, Political Culture
Audrey Lucero
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: alucero@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Schooling For Latinx Students and Others From Marginalized Communities, and How Those Experiences Influence Their Identities As Literate Beings
Carla Macal
- Title: PhD Candidate
- Email: cosoriov@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Feminist geographies, decolonizing methodologies, political economy, and migration
Ernesto Javier Martínez
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: ejm@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Feminist Theory, Literary Studies
José W. Meléndez
- Title: PhD Program Director
- Email: jmelende@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Civic engagement, Design-based research, Designing for equity, Designing learning environments, Designing participatory processes, Discourse analysis, Activity systems, Latino/a/x immigrants, Collective & system level learning, Learning Sciences
Tom Mertes
- Title: Academic Programs Manager
- Email: tmertes@uoregon.edu
Isabel Millán
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Email: imillan@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Queer, Transnational Feminist, and Critical Race Theories; Latinx/Chicanx Studies; Children's Literature, Television, and Film; Comics; Science Fiction and Fantasy
Lanie Millar
- Title: Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
- Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
- Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory
Michael Najjar
- Title: Associate Professor, Theater Arts
- Email: mnajjar@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Contemporary Arab-American Theatre and Performance, Contemporary Theatre, Ethnic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Arab-American Studies.
Kari Marie Norgaard
- Title: Director of Graduate Studies for Environmental Studies
- Email: norgaard@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Gender, Place and Environment, Social Psychology and Interaction, Sociology of Culture, Theory Knowledge Science, Qualitative Approaches
Jennifer O'Neal
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Email: joneal@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Native American and Indigenous history; American West history; Decolonizing Methodologies; Cultural Heritage Archives; Traditional Knowledge Systems; Digital Humanities
Edward M. Olivos
- Title: Professor
- Email: emolivos@uoregon.edu
- Interests: The Relationship Between Bicultural Parents and Schools, the Development of Bilingual Educators
Jeffrey Ostler
- Title: Professor of History Emeritus
- Email: jostler@uoregon.edu
- Interests: The History of the American West, with A Particular Focus On American Indian History
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: povalle@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Media Studies, Race/Ethnicity, Dance, Mainstream Popular Culture, Media Hairstyles
Laura Pulido
- Title: Professor
- Email: lpulido@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicanx Studies, Critical Human Geography, Environmental Justice
Mariana Rivera
- Title: Graduate Teaching Fellow
- Email: mrivera5@uoregon.edu
Dana Rognlie
- Title: ABD Ph.D.
- Email: rognlie@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Existentialism, Feminist Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Trauma Theory
Yvette Saavedra
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Email: yjs@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Chicanx History and Studies; Chicana Feminist Theory; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History and Studies; History of U.S. West; 19th and 20th century U.S History; 19th and 20th century gender and sexuality in the U.S.
Leilani Sabzalian
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Email: leilanis@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Indigenous Education, Native Feminisms, Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education, Elementary Social Studies Education
Olga Sanchez Saltveit
- Title: Grader
- Email: osanchez@uoregon.edu
- Programs, Research and Outreach: DESTNY
- Interests: Latinx and Latin American Theatre, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, New Work, Creación Collective, Social Justice, Latin American Studies
Christopher Smith
- Title: Graduate Employee
- Email: ccs@uoregon.edu
- Interests: 19th Century American West / Native American
Lynn Stephen
- Title: Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology
- Email: stephenl@uoregon.edu
- Programs, Research and Outreach: Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center
- Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Americas, Legal Pluralism, Social Memory, Testimony, Gender Violence
Kate Tallman
- Title: Operations Coordinator, Academic Support Unit 5
- Email: tallman2@uoregon.edu
Bryant Taylor
- Title: Graduate Teaching Fellow
- Email: bryantt@uoregon.edu
Arafaat A. Valiani
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: valiani@uoregon.edu
- Programs, Research and Outreach: Wayne Morse Center
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos
- Title: Professor
- Email: vasquezj@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Family Life Course and Society, Race and Ethnicity, Qualitative Approaches
Julie Weise
- Title: Associate Professor, Department of History
- Email: jweise@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Identity, Citizenship, Migration, Race, and Nations in the Americas and The World Through The Lens of History
Kendall Wilber
- Title: Academic Programs Assistant
- Email: kwilber@uoregon.edu
Olivia Wing
- Title: Graduate Employee
- Email: owing@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Asian American History, Modern U.S. History, History of Youth Culture, Gender History
