Core Teaching Faculty

Charise Cheney

Title: Associate Professor
Email: ccheney@uoregon.edu
Interests: African American Popular and Political Cultures; Black Nationalist Ideologies and Practices; Gender and Sexuality

Courtney Cox

Title: Assistant Professor (on leave, AY23)
Email: cmcox@uoregon.edu
Interests: Sport Studies, Performance Studies, Feminist Theory, Black Studies, Critical Data Studies

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

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

Lana Lopesi

Title: Assistant Professor
Email: llopesi@uoregon.edu
Interests: Pacific Studies, Indigenous and Women of Color Feminisms, Contemporary Pacific Art, Global Indigeneities

Sharon Luk

Title: Associate Professor (on leave, AY23)
Email: sluk@uoregon.edu
Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Critical Human Geography, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Justice and Incarceration Studies, Literary Studies, Historical Studies, Critical Theory

Ernesto Javier Martínez

Title: Associate Professor
Email: ejm@uoregon.edu
Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Feminist Theory, Literary Studies

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

Laura Pulido

Title: Professor
Email: lpulido@uoregon.edu
Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicanx Studies, Critical Human Geography, Environmental Justice