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

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