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
Email: cmcox@uoregon.edu
Interests: Race and Sport, cultural political and economic effects of global sport, girls and women competing in and covering basketball across the US Russia Senegal and France, advanced analytics in sport

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

Michael Hames-García

Title: Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
Interests: Black Studies, Chicanx and Latinx Studies, Justice Studies and Incarceration, Critical Theory, Literary Studies

Brian Klopotek

Title: Associate Professor
Email: klopotek@uoregon.edu
Interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Historical Studies, Environmental Justice

Sharon Luk

Title: Associate Professor
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: Women of Color Feminisms and Queer of Color Critique, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Chicanx and Latinx Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Jennifer O'Neal

Title: Acting 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

Alaí Reyes-Santos

Title: Associate Professor
Email: alai@uoregon.edu
Programs, Research and Outreach: Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center
Interests: Black Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Afro-Latin@/x Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Environmental Justice

Stephanie 'Lani' Teves

Title: Associate Professor
Email: lteves@uoregon.edu
Interests: Indigenous Politics; Native and Women of Color Feminisms; Native Pacific Cultural Studies; Queer Theory; Performance Studies