Graduate Faculty

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

Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun

Title: Associate Professor
Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu
Interests: Globalization, Nationalism, Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Embodiment, Africana Studies

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;

Dayna Chatman

Title: Assistant Professor
Email: dchatman@uoregon.edu
Interests: Gender, Race, Media

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

Courtney Cox

Title: Assistant Professor
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

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: 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

Joseph Lowndes

Title: Professor
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

Ernesto Javier Martínez

Title: IRES Department Head & 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

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

Kari Marie Norgaard

Title: Director of Graduate Studies for Sociology
Email: norgaard@uoregon.edu
Interests: Gender, Place and Environment, Social Psychology and Interaction, Sociology of Culture, Theory Knowledge Science, Qualitative Approaches

Edward M. Olivos

Title: Professor
Email: emolivos@uoregon.edu
Interests: The Relationship Between Bicultural Parents and Schools, the Development of Bilingual Educators

Jennifer O'Neal

Title: Assistant Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies for IRES
Email: joneal@uoregon.edu
Interests: Native American and Indigenous history; American West history; International Relations; Indigenous Data Sovereignty; Cultural Heritage Archives; Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Digital Humanities

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

Leilani Sabzalian

Title: Associate Professor
Email: leilanis@uoregon.edu
Interests: Indigenous Education, Native Feminisms, Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education, Elementary Social Studies Education

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

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.