Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
Where academic excellence meets social transformation
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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
Donella-Elizabeth Alston Cleveland
- Title: Faculty Support Specialist, Academic Support Unit 5
- Email: donella@uoregon.edu
Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Globalization, Nationalism, Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Embodiment, Africana Studies
Tali Bitton
- Title: Ph.D.
- Email: tbitton@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Continental Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; Materialism, Marxism, Social Reproduction Theory; Feminism; Anticolonial Theory
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;
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
Emily J. Cornell
- Title: Graduate Program Specialist
- Email: ecornell@uoregon.edu
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
Cassandra Galentine
- Title: English Graduate Student
- Email: cassieg@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Women's Working-Class Literature, Multiethnic U.S. Literature, Environmental Justice, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Zoë Gamell Brown
- Title: Graduate Teaching Fellow
- Email: jtbrown@uoregon.edu
- Interests: AfroIndigenous ecological knowledge, Caribbean diaspora, Culinary catharsis, Digital humanities, Gender and sexuality, Hyperrealism, Integrative art, Water methodologies
Kyles Gemmell
- Title: Post Doctorate
- Email: kgemmell@uoregon.edu
Paul J. Guernsey
- Title: ABD Ph.D.
- Email: guernsey@uoregon.edu
- Interests: the confluence of phenomenology, ecology, pedagogy (especially Dewey) and Marx, attempting to practice these disciplines in solidarity with women, children and ethnic minorities.
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
Abigail Lee
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Email: ajinju@uoregon.edu
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
Lana Lopesi
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Email: llopesi@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Pacific Studies, Diaspora Studies, Indigenous and Women of Color Feminisms, Contemporary Pacific Art, Global Indigeneities
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
Carla Macal
- Title: PhD Candidate
- Email: cosoriov@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Feminist geographies, decolonizing methodologies, political economy, and migration
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
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
Edward M. Olivos
- Title: Professor
- Email: emolivos@uoregon.edu
- Interests: The Relationship Between Bicultural Parents and Schools, the Development of Bilingual Educators
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
Mariana Rivera
- Title: Graduate Teaching Fellow
- Email: mrivera5@uoregon.edu
Leilani Sabzalian
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: leilanis@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Indigenous Education, Native Feminisms, Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education, Elementary Social Studies Education
Cera Smith
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Email: cera@uoregon.edu
- Interests: U.S. Black Literatures (African American, Afro-Latinx, and other Black diasporic), Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Black Studies, Critical Race Theories, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Histories of Science and Medicine, Health Humanities
Christopher Smith
- Title: Graduate Employee
- Email: ccs@uoregon.edu
- Interests: 19th Century American West / Native American
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
Bryant Taylor
- Title: Graduate Teaching Fellow
- Email: bryantt@uoregon.edu
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.
Kendall Wilber
- Title: Academic Programs Assistant
- Email: kwilber@uoregon.edu
Olivia Wing
- Title: Graduate Employee
- Email: owing@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Asian American History, Modern U.S. History, History of Youth Culture, Gender History
Alohi Wright
- Title: Undergraduate Program Coordinator
- Email: awright8@uoregon.edu
- Interests: Coonhounds, butter mochi, decorating for the holidays, remembering what life was like when I had hobbies, thinking about reading all the books on my nightstand, and Schitt's Creek.
