Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
Where academic excellence meets social transformation
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
- Interests: Black Studies, Chicanx and Latinx Studies, Justice Studies and Incarceration, Critical Theory
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
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: 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