Many faculty members at the University of Oregon are engaged in research on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Below, you will find a database of faculty members and their research areas that we have compiled. Last edited:
FACULTY | POSITION | SUMMARY OF WORK | LINK TO WEBPAGE | |
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College of Arts and Sciences | ||||
Ethnic Studies | ||||
Charise Cheney | Associate Professor | African-American popular and political cultures, Black nationalist ideologies and practices, gender and sexuality | ||
Chris Finley | Visiting Instructor | Native studies, settler colonialism, gender, queer theory, and Native feminisms | ||
Lynn Fujiwara | Associate Professor
| Feminist theory, Third World and critical race feminisms, women of color, immigration, citizenship, welfare, labor and family | ||
Michael Hames-Garcia | Professor | Chicana/o, U.S. Latina/o and African American literatures and cultures, race and incarceration in the United States, gender and sexuality, theories of identity and the self | ||
Daniel Martinez HoSang | Associate Professor | 20th Century U.S. history, racial politics, cultural studies, political identity | ||
Brian Klopotek |
| Native Americans of the Southeastern US,Black-Indian-White relations, construction constructions of race and indigeneity in the US, Latin America, and the academic world, ethnohistory, federal recognition of Indian tribes, indigenous educational histories, Louisiana Indian histories and politics, American Indians and the cinema, American Indians in popular culture, Native Americans and gender, race and war | ||
Ernesto Javier Martinez | Associate Professor
| Comparative ethnic studies, lesbian and gay/queer studies, U.S. Latina and Latino literature and culture, literary theory | ||
Irmary Reyes-Santos | Assistant Professor | Caribbean studies, racial politics, gender and sexuality, migration, neoliberalism, cultural studies | ||
Women and Gender Studies | ||||
Yvonne Braun | Associate Professor | Intersection of gender, development, environment, and globalization, with a specific focus on the social and socioenvironmental consequences of a large-scale World Bank funded dam development project in Lesotho, Southern Africa | ||
Judith Raiskin | Associate Professor |
| Postcolonial literature and cultural studies focusing on gender and comparative feminist theory, Caribbean and Pacific Island studies, LGBT studies | |
Elizabeth Reis | Professor | US women’s history, history of sexuality, medical ethics, women and religion | ||
Ellen Scott | Associate Professor | Intersections of race, class and gender, poverty and welfare policy in the U.S., carework, qualitative methods, feminist organizations, social movements | ||
Tamara Lea Spira | Visiting Assistant Professor | Transnational and critical race feminist theories, queer theory and sexuality studies, comparative and transnational ethnic studies, critical area studies, Latin American and Latina/o studies and critical studies of neoliberalism, prisons, empire | http://pages.uoregon.edu/wgs/faculty-staff/spira/content-center.php | |
Carol Stabile | Professor | Intersections of gender, race, and class in media in representational and industrial practices | ||
Kristin Yarris | Assistant Professor | Global health, social and cultural determinants of health, transnational migration and transnational family life, caregiving, Latin America | ||
Psychology | ||||
Gordon Hall | Professor | Sociocultural contexts of psychopathology, Asian American psychology, culturally adapt psychotherapy for Asian Americans, the effects of Asian American stereotypes on cancer screening disparities | ||
Azim Shariff | Assistant Professorgordo | The evolutionary origins of and psychological mechanisms underlying moral/pro-social behavior, with a special focus on the positive and negative social consequences of religions and related cultural systems | ||
Comparative Literature | ||||
Michael Allan | Assistant Professor | Colonialism, secularization, formation of modern reading practices in Africa and the Middle East, gender and sexuality, visual culture and critical theory, textual analysis with social theory, methods in anthropology, film and visual culture, religion and postcolonial studies | ||
Steven T. Brown | Professor | Japanese popular culture, posthumanism, horror cinema, surrealist film and animation, globalization and advancement of capitalism, sound design, and critical theory | ||
Katya Hokanson | Associate Professor | Russian women’ writings of the 19th century, travel literature, history of Russia’s colonialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia | ||
Jenifer Presto | Associate Professor | Modernism, gender studies, cultural studies, critical theory, 19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture | ||
Susanna Lim | Associate Professor | Russian literature, history and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, Russian philosophers, poets, political thinkers and novelists’ understanding of Asia, race, gender | ||
Romance Languages | ||||
Sergio Rigoletto | Assistant Professor | European cinema (especially Italian), gender studies, popular culture, queer theory | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/srigolet/index.php | |
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel | Associate Professor | 19th and 20th century Spanish and Latin American poetry, transatlantic studies, comparative literature, literature, cinema, history | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/enjuto/index.php | |
Alexandre Albert-Galtier | Associate Professor | 17th-century French theater, art, and literature | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/alexalga/index.php | |
Barbara Altmann | Professor | Old and middle French literature and language, codicology, gender studies | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/baltmann/index.php | |
Jesús Sepúlveda
| Instructor | Poetry, identity and political issues in Latin America, Shamanism | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/jsepulve/index.php | |
Analisa Taylor | Professor | Literature, culture and social movement, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and national identity in Mexico, Mesoamerican culture and society in times of global agricultural crisis | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/analisa/index.php
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Nathan Whalen | Senior Instructor | Latin American history and political change, folk music of Latin America, contemporary Latin American fiction | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/natewh/index.php | |
David Wacks | Associate Professor | Confluence of Romance, Hebrew, and Arabic literary cultures in Medieval Spain, intersection of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism as reflected in story collections written in Castilian, Catalan, Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/wacks/index.php | |
Annette Rubado
| Instructor | Modern Brazilian and Latin American literature and culture, comparative film studies in the Americas, critical theory, political theory, intersections between ethnography and aesthetics | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/annetter/index.php | |
Andrew Rothgery
| Senior Instructor | Latin American literature, indigenous movements, creative writing, Chicano literature and poetry | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/andyr/index.php | |
Pedro García-Caro | Assistant Professor | Nationalist narratives and the discourses of progress and modernity as seen by intellectuals and writers in Latin America, U.S. and Spain, Hispanidad, Mexicanidad, Americanness, literature and mining in the Americas | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/pgcaro/index.php | |
C. Brian Barnett | Lecturer | Francophone communities of the Americas (Louisiana, Acadia, Quebec, Caribbean), world languages pedagogy, strategies and styles based instruction, materials and curriculum development, bilingual education, francophone children's literature, francophone comics, service learning | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/cbbarnet/index.php | |
Nadia Ceccacci | Senior Instructor | Second-language pedagogy, Italian culture and civilization, contemporary literature | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/ceccacci/index.php | |
Lauretta DeRenzo-Huter | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Language pedagogy, 20th century Italian Literature, pre-modernist Italian Literature, | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/derenzo/index.php | |
Andre Djiffack | Associate Professor | Francophone literatures, 20th-century French literature, colonial and postcolonial studies
| http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/djiffack/index.php | |
Juan Epple
| Professor | 19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature, short-story theory, Hispanic literature in the United States | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/jaepple/index.php | |
Leonardo García-Pabón
| Professor | Andean and Bolivian literatures, analysis of literary texts from the colonial period to the present time, national subjects, mestizo identities | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/lgarcia/index.php | |
Amalia Gladhart | Professor | Representations of immigration in Latin American theater, adaptation, translation, and multi-lingualism in recent plays from Mexico, Ecuador, and Argentina | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/gladhart/index.php | |
Evlyn Gould | Professor | 19th-century French literature, history and culture with special emphasis on poetry, novel, and mixed genre studies, literature and the performing arts, Mallarmé, Kabbalah and the Fin-de-siècle, Bohemia, psychoanalytic and philosophical approaches to literature, the literature of the Dreyfus Affair, Judaic studies, European studies | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/evgould/index.php | |
Gina Herrmann | Associate Professor | Holocaust and trauma studies, representations of pain and torture, contemporary Spanish literature, politics and culture, autobiographical studies, gender studies, oral history, Communist studies, documentary photography and film, television studies | ||
Nathalie Hester | Associate Professor | Italian convent culture, feminist theory, seventeenth-century women’s writing | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/nhester/index.php | |
Claudia Holguín Mendoza | Assistant Professor | Interdisciplinary research on language variation and change within specific socio-economic and political contexts, causes of reproductions of racial formations, gender inequality, and traditional class divisions within language use and discourse, particularly in Mexico and the United States | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/cholguin/index.php | |
Karen McPherson | Associate Professor | Francophone literatures (Québec, Caribbean), modern French novel, feminist theory, gender studies, memory and mourning, autobiography, postcolonial literatures | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/ksmcpher/index.php | |
Massimo Lollini | Professor | Humanism, philology and digital technology, Mediterranean studies, Francesco Petrarca, Giambattista Vico, Primo Levi | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/maxiloll/index.php | |
Leah Middlebrook | Associate Professor | Lyric, poetry and poetics, theories of the subject, and critical constructions of Western modernity, contemporary institution of comparative literature, in the digital humanities, pedagogy, and feminism | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/middlebr/index.php | |
Lanie Millar | Visiting Assistant Professor
| Trans-regional connections between Latin America and Africa, especially through the lens of socio-political phenomena like revolution, post-revolutionary/ post-utopian historical works from Cuba and Angola | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/lmillar/index.php | |
Amanda Powell | Senior Instructor | 16th and 17th century Spanish and Colonial Latin American women writers, spiritual autobiography and mysticism, lyrical texts, 17th-century women's Sapphic verse, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Literary translation theory and practice, queer theor | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/apowell/index.php | |
F. Regina Psaki | Professor | Italian and French literature of the Middle Ages and medieval feminist scholarship | http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/rpsaki/index.php | |
English | ||||
Sangita Gopal | Associate Professor | Cinema studies, comparative media studies, postcolonial theory and feminist studies, South Asian cinema and literature, gender theory | ||
Margaret McBride | Senior Instructor | Mythology use in speculative fiction, hybrid genres and feminist science fiction | ||
Elizabeth Bohls | Associate Professor | Women travel writers, relationships between identity, place and gender, colonial society, slavery | ||
Lara Bovilsky | Associate Professor | Early modern British understandings of group and individual identity, depictions of race in early modern drama, early modern conceptions of human identity | ||
Priscilla Ovalle | Associate Professor | Film and media studies, representation of race, dance and sexuality in film, archival research and media production | ||
Kirby Brown | Assistant Professor | Native studies, Native writing from the late 18th century to present, Indigenous critical theory, nation/nationalism and sovereignty/self-determination studies, politics of citizenship and belonging in ethnic American writing and the relationships between narrative form, cultural representation, public policy and the law | ||
Mark Quigley | Associate Professor | 20th century British and Irish literature, global modernism, postmodernism, and postcolonial literature and culture | ||
Dianne Dugaw | Professor | 18th century British polite and popular culture, Anglo-American folklore to the present day, women and gender studies | ||
Gordon Sayre | Professor | Colonial and Early American Literature from 16th to 19th centuries, French colonial history and literature in the exploration and cartography of North America, Native American literature and ethnohistory, natural history and eco-criticism | ||
Karen Ford | Professor | 19th and 20th century American poetry and poetics, politics of literary form, gender studies, racial and national identity, racialized literary culture | ||
Steven Shankman | Professor | Comparative literature, classical traditions, 17th and 18th centuries, ethnics and literature, history of literary theory, transcultural studies | ||
Lisa Gilman | Associate Professor | Folklore, creative expressions and social, political and economic dynamics, relationships between performance genres and issues of power related to gender, class, cultural identity and politics | ||
Courtney Thorsson | Assistant Professor | African American literature from its beginning to the present, gender studies, Black cultural nationalism, culinary discourse, race, gender and class in African American literature | ||
David Vazquez
| Associate Professor | Autobiographies written by Latina/os during the 20th century, insurgent nationalist movements, individual identity, community formation, national belonging, liberal dualism | ||
Kathleen Karlyn | Professor | Film studies, cultural studies, film history, genre studies and feminist theory | ||
Mark Whalan | Professor | American modernism and Harlem Renaissance, World War I, cultural studies, African American studies | ||
Elizabeth Wheeler | Associate Professor | Post-1945 American literature, youth literature and popular culture, disability studies, cultural studies and community literacy, hip hop, graphic novels | ||
Daniel Wojcik | Associate Professor | Contemporary folklore studies, urban ethnology, cultural theory, apocalyptic beliefs and millenarian movements, vernacular religion and alternative spiritualities, “outsider” and visionary artists | ||
David Li | Professor | Materiality of culture, subject formations, nation formations, modes of production, and the practice of everyday life, consequences of flexible capital and contradictions of social agency, 20th century literature and intersections with race, gender, postcoloniality, postmodernity and globality | ||
Henry Wonham | Professor | Late 19th and early 20th century American literature and culture, ethnic caricature, desegregating American literary studies | ||
Mary Wood | Associate Professor | 19th century American literature, feminist theory, queer theory | ||
East Asian Languages and Literature | ||||
Dong Hoon Kim | Assistant Professor |
| Korean film, media and culture, East Asian cinema, early cinema, visual culture, and film and media spectatorship | |
Daisuke Miyao | Associate Professor | Japanese cinema, visual culture, transnational networks of cinema, race and gender theory in cinema | ||
Lucien Brown | Assistant Professor | Korean linguistics, second language acquisition, socio-pragmatics, pedagogy | http://eall.uoregon.edu/faculty-and-staff/brown-lucien/
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Roy Bing Chan | Assistant Professor |
| Modern literature, realism, narrative, imperial imagination, popular culture, Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, semiotics | |
Maram Epstein | Associate Professor | Chinese literature, Ming-Qing novels within specific cultural and aesthetic contexts, gender theory, ritual, expression of emotions, the body and representation of self | ||
Alisa Freedman | Associate Professor | Modern Japanese literature, popular culture, youth culture, visual media, digital culture, urban studies, and gender | ||
Alison Groppe | Assistant Professor | Contemporary Malaysian Chinese literature; cultural identity, postcolonial and diaspora theory, conceptualization of the Sinophone and the formation and representation of local and regional Chinese identities; nationalism/transnationalism, identity representation and gender | ||
Kaori Idemaru | Assistant Professor | Speech production and perception, speech learning, phonetics, second language learning | ||
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt | Assistant Professor | Chinese language, conceptual significance, psychological grounding and sociocultural ramifications of language as a tool of communication and a transmitter of culture, grammatical constructions, lexical semantics and pragmatics, acquisition of writing in Chinese, linguistic typology and cognitively oriented linguistic research | ||
Wendy Larson | Professor | Chinese literature and film, globalism, cultural continuity and influence, gender, women and writing in modern China | ||
Glynne Walley | Assistant Professor | Japanese literature, popular literature in the late Tokugawa period, medieval literature, modern literature, visual culture, comic, and translational studies | ||
Yugen Wang | Associate Professor | Premodern Chinese literature, classical Chinese poetry, traditional Chinese literary theory and criticism, pedagogical and interpretive traditions of Chinese poetry and the materiality of reading and writing in the Chinese literary tradition | ||
Jason P. Webb | Assistant Professor | Early Japanese literature, transnational cultural flows in early East Asia | ||
Steven W. Durrant | Professor | Manchu language, translations of Chinese texts, Chinese narrative of the Zhou and Han periods | ||
Carl D. Falsgraf | Assistant Professor | Language education, proficiency assessment, standards-based approaches to language education, advanced language teaching and learning, socio-cultural aspects of language acquisition, technology-mediated learning | ||
Michael B. Fishlen | Associate Professor | Chinese literature, Tang dynasty and earlier poetry, history, philosophy, religion, of the Tang, traditional and modern Chinese law | ||
Stephen W. Kohl | Associate Professor | Japanese language and literature | ||
Tze-Ian Deborah Sang | Associate Professor | Gender, sexuality, modern Chinese literature and film, urban studies, performance studies, Taiwan studies | ||
German and Scandinavian Studies | ||||
Katharina Loew | Assistant Professor |
| German silent and early sound film, silent film technology, international film relations, German émigré filmmakers in Hollywood, fantastic literature and film, German modernist theater, art and literature, theories of modernity and mass culture | http://pages.uoregon.edu/gerscan/faculty/profiles/kloew/professor.htm |
Gantt Gurley | Assistant Professor | Ancient and medieval song culture, the birth of the novel, Jewish studies, long romanticism, Old Norse literature, the lyrical mode, Hans Christian Andersen, notions of religiosity in the Danish Golden Age | http://pages.uoregon.edu/gerscan/faculty/profiles/ggurley/professor.htm | |
Dorothee Ostmeier | Associate Professor | German literature and culture of the 18th to 20th centuries, gender studies, feminism, cultural identity, social marginalization | http://pages.uoregon.edu/gerscan/faculty/profiles/dostmeier/professor.h… | |
Susan Anderson | Professor | Difference and identity in contemporary German narratives; healing and metaphors of disease, epic tradition in German novels, postwar and post-wall German culture, diversity in contemporary Germany | http://pages.uoregon.edu/gerscan/faculty/profiles/sanderson/professor.h… | |
Jefferey Librett | Professor | Comparative literature, Judaic studies, philosophy, rhetoric of cultural dialogue | http://pages.uoregon.edu/gerscan/faculty/profiles/jlibrett/professor.htm | |
Michael Stern | Associate Professor | Literature, film and philosophy from the Scandinavian, German and African traditions; manner in which aesthetic cultures create and challenge notions of identity, right behavior, deviance, progress; | http://pages.uoregon.edu/gerscan/faculty/profiles/mstern/professor.htm | |
Folklore Studies | ||||
Daniel Wojcik | Professor | Alternative spiritualities and New Religious Movements; apocalyptic beliefs, millenarianism, popular eschatology, contemporary folklore studies, cultural theory, urban ethnology, pilgrimage and spiritual tourism, subcultures and popular culture, visionary and “outside” artists | ||
Classics | ||||
Cristina G. Calhoon | Senior Career Instructor | Relationships between the classical world and other cultures, with an emphasis on Romans and northerners; the cultural significance of women in Romance literature and politics | ||
Lowell Bowditch | Professor | Interface between literature and socio-political relations of Augustan Rome, Roman imperialism, post-colonialism | ||
Literature | ||||
Frances Cogan | Professor | American studies, popular 19th century fiction, 20th century civilian internees in the Philippines, WWII narrative techniques and autobiography, gender studies | ||
Jennifer Burns Levin | Adjunct Instructor | Literature and culture of modernism, gender studies, food studies, intersection of modernism and masochism | ||
Monique R. Balbuena | Associate Professor | Comparative literature and Jewish studies, relationship between language and identity, multilingual writers, literatures from North Africa and Latin America, Sephardic Jewish literature | ||
Anthropology | ||||
Philip Scher | Associate Professor | Caribbean, politics of heritage and cultural identity, popular and public culture, folklore, cultural studies, political economy | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/#scher | |
Carol Silverman | Professor | Cultural anthropology, folklore, Balkan music and culture, Macedonia, Balkan Romani immigrants, politics, ethnicity, ritual, music and gender, “Gypsie” music, feminism | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/#silverman | |
Gyoung-Ah Lee | Associate Professor | Paleoethnobotany, paleoenvironmentalism, social complexity in early states, transition from foraging to food production, traditional farming technologies, phylogenetics of crops, labor organization, ideology of food, gendered archaeology, quantitative archaeology, Neolithic, Bronze, and early historical periods in Korea, the Neolithic to Shang periods in China, Jomon-Yayoi periods and Ainu history in Hokkaido, late Woodland & Iroquoian tradition in the eastern North America | ||
William Ayres | Professor | Development of chiefdoms and early food production in the Pacific Islands and in Southeast Asia | ||
Diane Baxter | Senior Lecturer | Politics of identity among displaced persons, women and indigenous peoples in colonial and postcolonial societies, Israel/Palestine, Palestinian refugees in the U.S. | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/ | |
Aletta Biersack | Professor | Cultural anthropology, culture and history of Pacific peoples, Ipili speakers of Papua New Guinea | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/ | |
Stephen Dueppen | Assistant Professor | Origins and development of complex non-centralized political systems in West Africa, development and rejection of social ranking, concepts of power in egalitarian societies, collective action against elites | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/stephen-a-d… | |
Jon Erlandson | Professor | The development of maritime societies, historical ecology in coastal environments, human evolution and migrations, peopling of the Americas, history of seafaring, traditional technologies, dating methods in archaeology, geoarchaeology, cultural resource management and collaborative research with indigenous communities | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/ | |
Scott Fitzpatrick | Associate Professor | Island and coastal archaeology in the Pacific and Caribbean, colonization events, subsequent adaptive strategies on smaller islands, exchange systems, chronometric techniques and historical ecology | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/ | |
Daphne Gallagher | Lecturer | Socio-economic systems and agricultural practices over the past two millennia in West Africa, colonial and post-colonial narratives on traditional agriculture | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/ | |
Lamia Karim | Associate Professor | Globalization, gender, human rights and social movements, South Asia | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/ | |
Sandra Morgen | Professor | Intersection of gender, race, class and public policy in the U.S., health, social welfare and the cultural politics of taxes | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/ | |
Madonna L. Moss | Professor | History of Native Americans and First Nations of the northwest coast of North America, Tlingit and Haida and their ancestors | ||
Terry O’Nell | Associate Professor | Medical and psychological anthropology, culture and depression among Flathead people of Montana, history, colonialism and mental health among the Northern Plans tribes, postcolonial psychology, contemporary Native American life | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/ | |
Lynn Stephen | Professor | Political identities, ethnicity, gender, class and nationalism in relation to local, regional, and national histories, cultural politics and systems of governance in Latin America and the U.S., themes of immigration, human rights, neoliberal-economies, collaborative ethnography and social movements | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/l-stephen-r… | |
Larry Sugiyama | Associate Professor | Intersections of cultural anthropology, evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology, evolution of the human mind and the effects of this evolution upon behavior and culture | ||
Stephen Wooten | Associate Professor | Sociocultural anthropology, political economy and ecology, local food systems and expressive culture, colonialism, ethnography, gender studies | http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/core-faculty/ | |
Heather McClure | Courtesy Research Associate | Community-based and policy research focused on health, human rights, and social networks in Guatemala and within Latino communities in the U.S., behavioral, emotional and physical health outcomes for Latino youth and parents in Oregon, processes of adjustment in the U.S., discrimination, gender and health | ||
Geraldine Moreno | Professor Emerita | Intersection of nutritional anthropology, human biology and medical anthropology, food insecurity in Thailand, Ecuador and U.S., relationship among gender, cultural and economic transformation and food habits, role of vitamin B on cognitive ability in elderly Hispanics | ||
John Lukacs | Professor Emerita | Paleopathology and dental anthropology of prehistoric and living South Asians, sex differences in oral disease | http://pages.uoregon.edu/jrlukacs/Dr.%20John%20R.%20Lukacs%20Website/ | |
History | ||||
Carlos Aguirre | Professor | 19th and 20th century Latin America, slavery, abolition, crime and punishment, history of the book and the printing press, history of intellectuals, history of soccer, role of archives in the shaping of historical research and writing | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=caguirre | |
Sean Anthony | Assistant Professor | Abbasid literature, Arabic literature, late Antique and Byzantine history, Medieval Islam, Shi’ism, Islamic studies, eschatology and apocalypticism studies, Hadith studies, Qur’anic studies, Jewish Messianism | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=swanthon | |
Ina Asim | Associate Professor | Pre-modern Chinese history, history of Japan, German literature | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=inaasim | |
Lindsay Frederick Braun | Assistant Professor | Modern southern Africa, colonial struggles over territory, state control and accommodation, cross-cultural interaction, environmental studies | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=lfbraun | |
Matthew Dennis | Professor | Colonial America, early national U.S., history of American Indians, identity, American landscape and environment, history of death, mortal remains and public memory | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=mjdennis | |
Alex Dracobly | Senior Instructor | The Iraq War, veterans and oral history, modern Europe | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=dracobly | |
Andrew Goble | Professor | Illness, mortality and medical concepts in medieval and 16th century Japan, History of Japan, East Asian civilization, Buddhism | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=platypus | |
Bryna Goodman | Professor | Modern Chinese history, gender studies, colonialism | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=bgoodman | |
Jeffery Hanes | Associate Professor | Japanese Studies, popular culture, urban planning, the Pacific War | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=hanes | |
Robert Haskett | Professor | Latin America, Mexico, Meso-American ethnohistory, Indigenous studies, colonialism, Indian land titles | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=rhaskett | |
April Haynes | Assistant Professor | History of women, gender and sexuality, women’s participation in popular physiology in the antebellum U.S. and women’s engagement with gendered and radicalized notions of sexuality | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=arh | |
Ellen Herman | Professor | Modern U.S. history, gender studies, sexual orientation, sexual politics, psychology, digital history, adoption, human sciences, social engineering | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=eherman | |
Julie Hessler | Associate Professor | History of the Soviet Union, socialism, Soviet cultural relations with the Third World, postwar Europe | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=hessler | |
Alan Kimball | Associate Professor | Russian history, revolution, Russian and American history | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=kimball | |
David Luebke | Professor | German history, modern European history, religion studies | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=dluebke | |
Glenn May | Professor | Southeast Asian history, U.S. foreign relations, Chicano history | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=gmay
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John McCole | Associate Professor | Modern European intellectual history, 20th century Europe, historical perspectives on diversity | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=mccole | |
Jeffrey Ostler | Professor | Northwest and pacific history, American Indian history | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=jostler | |
Melissa Stuckey | Assistant Professor | African American history, race and politics in turn-of-the-century Oklahoma, Civil Rights movement | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=mstuckey | |
Araffat Valiani | Assistant Professor | Gandhi’s non-violence, South Asian history, urban infrastructure development and commerce in colonial and post-colonial India and Pakistan | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=valiani | |
Reuben Zahler | Assistant Professor | Latin America colonial through modern periods, political and legal culture across 19th century, colonialism, judicial reforms | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=rczahler | |
Joel Black | Adjunct Instructor | American legal and social history, issues of labor economic inequality, urban life and citizenship | ||
Benjamin de Lee | Adjunct Instructor | Byzantine history, anti-Islamic treaties of Niketas Byzantios | ||
Roxann Prazniak | Associate Professor | History of China and Eurasia, rural China, cultures of protest in the early 20th century, dynamics of cultural flow across Eurasia during the Mongol era | ||
Mark Carey | Associate Professor | Environmental history, climate change, natural disasters, glacier-society interactions, mountaineering, water, health/medicine, Peruvian Andes, Central America, U.S., Europe and the Caribbean | ||
Melissa Graboyes | Faculty Fellow | Telling of the story of human experimentation and medical ethics in East Africa from 1940-1980, public health, medicine, health and disease on the African continent | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=graboyes | |
Political Science | ||||
Karrie Koesel | Assistant Professor | Chinese and Russian politics, authoritarianism, religion and politics | ||
Tuong Vu | Associate Professor | Comparative politics, politics of Southeast Asia, nationalism, revolutions and mass movements, role of ideology and identity in domestic and international conflicts, Communism | ||
Erin E. Beck | Assistant Professor | Non-government organizations, women’s participation in NGOs in Guatemala | ||
Craig Kauffman | Assistant Professor | Integrated Watershed Management in Latin American, grassroots Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing counties | ||
Labor Education and Research Center | ||||
Bob Bussel | Associate Professor | Labor education, contemporary labor issues, unionism, immigration | ||
Barbara Byrd | Senior Instructor | Regional power building by labor community coalitions, apprenticeship training in the building trades, women in non-traditional jobs, innovations in adult education pedagogy | ||
Lynn Feekin | Instructor | Social equity, labor and economic development policies | ||
Gordon Lafer | Associate Professor | Labor unions, politics of job training policies as anti-poverty programs, democratic standards used for workplace elections under the National Labor Relations Board | ||
Helen Moss | Senior Instructor | Health and safety, home care workers, health care, intimate partner violence in the workplace setting, labor management partnerships for career development and job quality | ||
Sociology | ||||
Eileen Otis | Associate Professor | Gender, class and ethnic politics of new labor practices within China’s emergent urban services sector | ||
Kenneth Liberman | Professor | Ethnomethodology, practices of reasoning in non-Western societies, intercultural communication, cross cultural studies of self and identity, neocolonialism, the survival of indigenous cultures | ||
Michael Aguilera | Associate Professor | Social networks and economic behavior, labor markets, immigration, ethnic relations | ||
Jessica Vasquez | Assistant Professor | Race/ethnicity, Mexican Americans/Latinos, gender, family and intermarriages, international migration/assimilation, research methodology | ||
Scott Coltrane | Professor | Sociology of families and fatherhood, domestic divisions of labor, gender inequality, social constructions of masculinity, culture and policy | ||
Michael C. Dreiling | Associate Professor | Social movements and globalization, transnational feminist networks, cross border labor union mobilizations in U.S. and Mexico, transnational environmentalism, nonviolence and social movements, corporate political action, U.S. trade policy | ||
James Elliott | Associate Professor | Urban and community sociology, social stratification and economic sociology, environmental sociology, urban development and social inequalities in the U.S., native and foreign born migration, racial and gender inequalities in the labor market public housing | ||
Marion S. Goldman | Professor Emeritus | Gender, historical methods, psychoanalytic theory, new religious movements | ||
Aaron Gullickson | Assistant Professor | Racial inequality, interracial families, racial boundary formation, kinship and health | ||
Jill Harrison | Assistant Professor | Work, economy and organizations, globalization and social change, labor movements, ethnography, working class issues | ||
Jocelyn Hollander | Associate Professor | Gender, violence against women, the social construction of race, class, gender and sexuality, language and discourse | ||
Kenneth Liberman | Professor | Practices of reasoning in non-Western societies, intercultural communication, cross cultural studies of self and identity, neocolonialism and the survival of indigenous cultures | ||
Ryan Light | Assistant Professor | Cultural sociology, social inequality, social networks, race/ethnicity, historical sociology, sociology of science | ||
Kari Norgaard | Associate Professor | Tribal environmental health, race and environment, gender, clinical change denial, emotions and social movements, environmental justice work with Native American Tribes on the Klamath River | ||
Jiannbin Shiao | Associate Professor | Philanthropic diversity policy, racial/ethnic identity of transracial adoptees, social segregation and interracial intimacy, race/ethnicity and genetics | ||
Theatre Arts | ||||
Alexandra Bonds | Professor | Costume design, period styles, historical context and Asian theatre costumes | ||
La Donna L. Forsgren | Assistant Professor | African American theatre history, black feminist theories and drama, playwriting, dramatic theory | ||
Theresa J. May | Assistant Professor | Theory and practice of ecodramaturgy, eco-criticism, post-colonial theory and performance, 19th and 20th century American theatre, North American indigenous theatre, Latino/a theatre, site-specific and community-based theatre, actor training | ||
Michael Malek Najjar | Assistant Professor | Contemporary Arab-American theatre and performance, contemporary theatre, ethnic studies, critical race theory, Arab-American studies | ||
Linguistics | ||||
Scott DeLancey | Professor | Northeast Indian languages, Oregon Native tribal languages , semantics, functional syntax | ||
Eric Pederson | Associate Professor | Psycholinguistics, semantics, typology, anthropological linguistics, Dravidian languages | ||
Spike Gildea | Professor | Descriptive and documentary fieldwork, historical/functional/typological syntax and historical/functional phonology, languages in South America | ||
Anna Mikhaylova | Assistant Professor | Experimental second language acquisition, heritage language acquisition/maintenance, bilingualism | ||
Doris L. Payne | Professor | Morphosyntax of little-studied languages from typological, functional and cognitive perspectives, South American languages, Chickasaw | ||
Cynthia M. Vakareliyska | Professor | Slavic linguistics, Slavic historical linguistics, Bulgarian syntax, medieval studies, language and identity | ||
Religious Studies | ||||
Mark Unno | Associate Professor | Japanese and Chinese religion, Buddhism, women’s religious narratives, Asian philosophy | ||
Frederick S. Colby | Associate Professor | Arabic narratives, biography of the Prophet Muhammad, Arabic manuscripts, Islamic ascension literature | ||
David Hollenberg | Assistant Professor | Relationship between canon and community, scholasticism and manuscript culture and sectarianism in Islam | ||
David Reis | Adjunct Instructor | Social and cultural dimensions of the ancient Mediterranean world, history of early Christianity | ||
International Studies | ||||
Kathie Carpenter | Associate Professor | Southeast Asia, children and development | ||
Anita M. Weiss | Professor | Culture and development in Pakistan, social change and political transformation, comparative international development, human rights, gender studies, Muslim societies, religion, sociology of South Asia, legal reform | ||
Derrick Hindery | Assistant Professor | Environment and development, global economic restructuring, Indigenous movements, Latin America (primarily Bolivia), U.S. (LNG projects along the west coast), social and environmental impacts of natural gas and mining projects | ||
Dennis Galvan | Professor | Sustainability, culture and development politics of culture, identity and community political legitimatio,n multiple forms of modernity, primary field work in West Africa, secondary field work in Indonesia and Argentina | ||
Kristin Yarris | Assistant Professor | Global health, social and cultural determinants of health, transnational migration, transnational family life, caregiving, mental health and distress, migrant and refugee health, displacement and deservingness, Latin America, Nicaragua, México. | ||
Galen Martin | Adjunct Instructor | Environmental geography, international conservation planning, world food and agriculture systems, cross-cultural and mass communications, Central America, the Caribbean | ||
Economics | ||||
Shankha Chakraborty | Associate Professor | Macroeconomics of health and disease in developing countries, financial development, human capital, cultural transmission and preference formation | http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~shankhac/Shankha_Chakraborty/Home.html | |
William (Bill) Harbaugh | Professor | Altruism and neuroeconomics, economic behavior of children, gender studies, compassion in economics | ||
Alfredo Burlando | Assistant Professor | Transitory income in Zanzibar, malaria in Ethiopia, cost of corruption on the War against Drugs, economics of savings and loans association in Uganda | ||
Judaic Studies | ||||
Deborah A. Green | Associate Professor | History, literature and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible; intersection of women and environments, religious studies | ||
Judith R. Baskin | Professor | Feminism, Jewish culture | ||
Daniel K. Falk | Professor | History and literature of ancient Judaism and beginnings of Christianity, development of prayer and liturgy, interpretation of scripture, formation of religious communities, the Dead Sea Scrolls | ||
Federica Francesconi | Visiting Assitant Professor | Culture and social history of Jews in early modern Europe, Italian Jewish culture | ||
Geography | ||||
Xiaobo Su | Assistant Professor | Cultural politics, tourism development, urban heritage, politics of tourism in China’s heritage sites, representation, commodification, nationalism and spatial inclusion/exclusion in a global-national-local nexus | ||
Daniel Buck | Assistant Professor | Political economy, political ecology, economic geography, urban studies, development, food and agrarian studies, Asian studies | ||
Lise Nelson | Associate Professor | Democracy, place identity and citizenship practices in the context of neoliberal globalization and contemporary transnational migration patterns | ||
Jessie Clark | Instructor | Feminist and political geography, gender, development, and national and human security, predominantly Kurdish region of Southeast Turkey | ||
Shaul Cohen | Associate Professor | Political geography and political ecology, history, culture, Jerusalem and the West Bank, Ireland politics of planning, territorial control and issues of place and identity, ethno-territorial conflict | ||
Derrick Hindery | Assistant Professor | Global economic restructuring and post-neoliberalism on sensitive ecosystems and indigenous communities in Latin America and the U.S. | ||
Katie Meehan | Assistant Professor | Nature-society theory, informal urban development, the governance of water supply alternatives, Mexico | ||
Alexander B. Murphy | Professor | Europe and the Middle East, changing political organization of space, ethnic, socioeconomic, and environmental processes, the foundations and consequences of influential geopolitical ideas and assumptions, the role of legal and political arrangements in mediating human-environment relations, geographical education | ||
Peter Walker | Professor | Social and political dimensions of human uses of the physical environment, relationships between human illness (HIV/AIDS) and community and household-level socioeconomic and land use change in Malawi, the politics of land use regulations in the American West | ||
Philosophy | ||||
Alejandro Vallega | Assistant Professor | Contemporary resurgence and reformulation of the Latin American philosophy of liberation as a decolonial philosophy | ||
Bonnie J. Mann | Associate Professor | Feminist philosophy and modern and contemporary continental philosophy | ||
Naomi Zack | Professor | Philosophy of race , issues of ethics, science and identity, Feminist theory and politics, disaster ethnics, history of philosophy | ||
Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies | ||||
Julia Nemirovskaya | Instructor | 19th century and modern Russian literature, cultural history and theater | ||
Yelaina Kripkov | Senior Instructor | Russian language, culture | ||
Biology | ||||
Janis Weeks | Professor | Technology development for anthelmintic (anti-nematode) drug screening to advance human and animal health, nematode neurobiology and genetics, synaptic physiology, neural circuits for behavior, insect neurobiology, tropical infectious and parasitic diseases, research and education capacity building in Africa | http://uoneuro.uoregon.edu/ionmain/htdocs/faculty/weeks.html | |
Environmental Studies | ||||
Brendan Bohannan | Associate Professor | Causes and consequences of microbial biodiversity, Brazilian Amazon, South Africa, Australia, Michigan, Oregon | ||
Kathryn Lynch | Instructor | Environmental anthropology, Peru, Ecuador, Indonesia and the U.S., tropical conservation, gender and natural resource issues, ethnobotany and the cultural uses of wild plants, ecofeminism, critical pedagogy, engaged environmental education | ||
Kari Norgaard | Associate Professor | Environmental sociology, gender and environment, race and environment, climate change, sociology of culture, social movements and sociology of emotions | ||
Marsha Weisiger | Associate Professor | Environmental history, the American West, Native American history and the art of writing history | http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=weisiger | |
Louise Westling | Professor | Southern American writers, landscape and American fiction, ecocritical theory, environmental justice literature, critical animal studies, gender studies | ||
Computer and Information Science | ||||
Sarah Douglas | Professor Emerita | Sensory substitution using haptics for visually disabled people, University of Oregon database for zebrafish genetics, GUI interfaces | ||
Stephen Fickas | Professor | Software engineering and wearable computers, design and implementation of wearable computers for the traumatic brain injury population | ||
Anthony Hornof | Associate Professor | Human computer interaction to support human creativity, cognitive modeling, EyeDraw software for children with disabilities, assistive technology | ||
Human Physiology | ||||
Anita Christie | Assistant Professor | Age related changes in neuromuscular function, mechanisms of reduced force production and increased fatigue resistance in aging muscle and their role in changes in physical function; healthy aging and the development of strategies to maintain physical function | ||
School of Journalism and Communication | ||||
Gabriella Martinez | Associate Professor | Media ownership, media culture, media trans-nationalism and globalization, global circulation of technologies and cultural products, economic, social, cultural and political impact in Third World counties, especially Latin America | ||
Christopher Chávez | Assistant Professor | Intersection of globalization, advertizing and culture, Spanish language media | ||
Bish Sen | Assistant Professor | Mass communications, globalization and new media, televisual culture, spread of digital culture in India | ||
Pat Curtin | Professor | Agenda building and critical approaches to public relations theory, culture, identity, power, international public relations practice | ||
Mary Erickson | Adjunct Instructor | Film/media industries, independent media, media history, technologies, international media systems, cultural and media policy, film censorship history, cultural policy in the EU | ||
Debra Merskn | Associate Professor | Representation of marginalized groups in media content on the basis of race, gender, sexuality and species | ||
Julianne Newton | Professor | Impact of visual culture on society, ways of knowing and the integrity of the self, ethnography, experimental design in cultural settings | ||
Leslie Steeves | Professor | Communication and information technology in developing counties, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, entertainment and tourism representations of Africa | ||
School of Architecture and Allied Arts | ||||
Arts and Administration | ||||
John Fenn | Assistant Professor | Folklore and ethnomusicology, media studies, public cultural programming, and international fieldwork, intersections of popular music and youth identity, material culture, cultural history of African American communities, popular music in the African diaspora, ethically grounded interpretation and representation | ||
Patricia Dewey | Associate Professor | Interactions among governments, arts organizations, and cultural sector of societies, policy analysis and theoretical modeling of cultural policy institutions, processes and systems in the international context, cultural tourism, urban/regional cultural planning and development, arts in healthcare management, internationalizing higher education | ||
Doug Blandy | Professor | Art experiences in community-based settings, relationships between art, education, community and place, art as a catalyst for dialogue about individual and group identity, local, national and international concerns and pursuit of democracy | ||
Lori Hager | Assistant Professor | Arts learning policies and practices, development of youth arts field in the U.S., applications of learning eportfolios for higher education and K-12, professional theatre rooted in social justice issues | ||
History of Art and Architecture | ||||
Kate Mondlock | Associate Professor | Late 20th and early 21st century art, theory and criticism, particularly on the individuals, practices, and technologies that cross the boundaries between art and media, postwar sculpture, experimental film and video, digital culture, contemporary craft, feminism | ||
Ocean Howell | Assistant Professor | How the build environment both reflect and shaped social experience in the 20th century U.S., urban planning and ethnicity, spatial politics of youth culture | ||
Charles H. Lachman | Associate Professor | East Asian Studies, history of Chinese landscape painting, Chinese art theory, Buddhist art, Chan/Zen painting | ||
Jenny Lin | Assistant Professor | Interdisciplinary and transnational research, relations between 20th and 21st century art and design praxes, colonialism, urbanization, globalization, modern and contemporary art, architecture and film in Shanghai, Chinese modernity and cultural hybridty | ||
Akiko Walley | Assistant Professor | Japanese Buddhist art and archeology from the 7th and 8th centuries | ||
Richard A. Sundt | Associate Professor | Medieval Europe, the Pacific Islands and Latin America, Maori churches, Franciscan legislation in the arts, Gothic architecture | ||
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer | Professor | Chinese art history, Indian art, Art of the Silk Road, nomadic traditions, rock art of North Asia in the pre-Bronze, Bronze and early Iron Ages | ||
Architecture | ||||
Kevin Nute | Professor | Relationships between space and time in Japanese architecture, visual qualities of built environments that resonate directly with building users | ||
Howard Davis | Professor | Architectural contexts of culture and place, with a focus on the social and cultural sustainability of cities and urban districts, relationships between urban morphology, building typology and emergence of new, post-industrial forms of the urban economy | ||
Frances Bronet | Professor | Interdisciplinary learning with architecture, engineering, science, technology, and society, dance and electronic arts, feminist technology | ||
Erin Cunningham | Assistant Professor | Social settlement houses, vernacular architecture and public housing interiors, interior space from a socio-historical perspective, concentrating on issues of race, gender, and class | ||
John Rowell | Associate Professor | Site, climate, program and human comfort, building technology and product design, guidelines for housing for persons with special needs | ||
Alison Snyder | Associate Professor | Archaeological and anthropological investigations to places, buildings and interior transformations over time, archaeological excavations in Israel and Turkey, Middle Eastern contemporary villages | ||
Glenda Utsey | Associate Professor | Visual interpretations of physical spaces and the representation of design ideas, rural America, Orkney Islands of Scotland, impact of migration and ownership on settlement patterns from prehistoric times to the present | ||
Planning, Public Policy and Management | ||||
Yizhao Yang | Assistant Professor | Environmental planning, design and analysis of sustainable and active living, land use planning and growth management, housing and residential quality, feminist study of the built environment | ||
Gerardo Sandoval | Assistant Professor | · Immigrants in community regeneration, the responses of governments to the presence of immigrants, and the ways that transnational relationships shape spaces that immigrants inhabit, redevelopment of marginalized low-income neighborhoods | ||
Colleen Chrisinger | Assistant Professor | · Poverty and employment, low-wage labor markets, regional economic development, workforce development, social policy | ||
Jessica Greene | Associate Professor | · The impact of changes in the health care system on access and quality of care, particularly for vulnerable populations including the poor, people of color and older adults | ||
Laura Leete | Associate Professor | · Workforce development policy and labor market institutions, poverty and social policy, nonprofit economics and nonprofit labor markets | ||
Russell Lehman | Adjunct Professor |
| · Social sector/non profits, public administration, natural resources policy, Indian Law and policy | |
Landscape Architecture | ||||
Elizabeth ‘Liska’ (Clemence) Chan | Associate Professor | · Cultural theory, art theory, methods for communicating and working, disconnect and tension created in the translation from drawing to landscape, environmentally marginalized urban sites in need of remediation | ||
School of Music and Dance | ||||
Music | ||||
Loren Kajikawa | Assistant Professor | The role of race and identity in the production and reception of music, hip hop, rhythm and blues, jazz and rock, popular music at the end of the 20th century and the political context of the Reagan, Bush and Clinton years | ||
Winifred Kerner | Adjunct Instructor | Piano, community music education, world music, Japanese koto, North and South Indian vocal music | ||
Mark Levy | Instructor | Ethnomusicology, folk music of southeastern Europe, particularly Bulgaria and Macedonia, classical music of Northern India, world music | ||
College of Education | ||||
Counseling Psychology and Human Services | ||||
Melissa Donovick | Assistant Professor | Parenting practices and child mental health among Spanish speaking Latino families, role of parental cultural values, first generation Latinos and parenting interventions | ||
Krista Chronister | Associate Professor | Implementation and evaluation of community-based domestic violence preventive interventions, vocational counseling interventions, adolescent and adult survivors' vocational development, early adult relationship adjustment, immigrant mental health | ||
Shoshana D. Kerewsky | Assistant Professor | Ethics, professional preparation, diversity, international service, supervision | ||
Lauren Lindstrom | Associate Professor | Career development, gender equity, employment outcomes for youth with disabilities, families in poverty | ||
Benedict T. McWhirter | Professor | Factors that increase adolescent risky behaviors, factors that contribute to adolescent resilience and effective preventive interventions, college student development, retention, and support, with particular emphasis on ethnic minority and first-generation college students, the role of connectedness to others (e.g., peers, parents, teachers), environments (e.g., schools, neighborhoods) and to the self as risk and protective factors for adolescent and emerging adult populations | ||
Ellen Hawley McWhirter | Professor | Adolescent career development, with a particular focus on the career development of Latina/o and female adolescents, social change processes, empowerment, and multicultural counseling | ||
Surendra Subramani | Assistant Professor | Colonialism and the systems of education, the role of education in nation building, intellectual captivity and neocolonialism, national and cultural approaches to knowledge and society, cross national comparative education, and sociology of education in countries in the developing world | ||
Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership | ||||
Charles Martinez | Associate Professor | Substantive and methodological topics related to cultural issues in prevention science, Latino educational and behavioral health disparities, links between acculturation and discrimination on substance use and academic failure prevention for Latino youth, culturally specific parenting interventions, the role of biosocial stress markers on family outcomes, and family process | ||
Kathleen Scalise | Associate Professor | Analysis of student learning trajectories with item response models, computer-adaptive approaches for assessment, dynamic delivery of content, modifications and innovative instructional design practices in e-learning, policy considerations of equity, opportunity and access in education | ||
Education Studies | ||||
Joanna Goode | Associate Professor | Access and equity for underrepresented students of color and females in computer science education | ||
Julie Heffernan | Adjunct Instructor | Post-structural feminist theory and queer theory, gender and sexual identity in classrooms and in schools | ||
Audrey Lucero | Assistant Professor | Biliteracy and bilingualism, connection between oral language and reading comprehension for emergent bilingual students | ||
Lisa Mazzei | Associate Professor | Qualitative research methodology and curriculum theory, racial identity and awareness among white teachers and implications for curriculum | ||
Edward Olivos | Associate Professor | Bilingual education and bicultural parent involvement, relationship between bicultural parents and schools, development of bilingual educators | ||
CHiXapkaid (Michael Pavel) | Professor | Native postsecondary access and achievement; intersection of Native culture and educational attainment/achievement | ||
Jerry Rosiek | Associate Professor | Documenting the nature and content of the knowledge that enables teachers to better serve traditionally under-served groups of students, promoting social justice in our educational system, narrative modes of representation | ||
Mia Tuan | Professor | International transracial adoption, Asian American experience, prejudice and politics | https://education.uoregon.edu/users/tuan
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Special Education and Clinical Sciences | ||||
Richard Albin | Association Professor | Positive behavioral support procedures, instructional methods for learners with intellectual disability, and strategies for effective personnel training and development | ||
Heidi Corce | Adjunct Faculty | Elementary and secondary Deaf and hard-of-hearing students in varied educational settings, American Sign Language (ASL) for Educators | ||
Debra Eisert | Professor | Child development, early intervention and disability issues | ||
K. Brigid Flannery | Assistant Professor | Young adults with disabilities, post-secondary education, and positive behavioral support | https://education.uoregon.edu/users/flannery
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Chris Gibbons | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Augmentative and alternative communication for people across the lifespan | ||
Roland H. Good III | Associate Professor | Dynamic indicators of basic early literacy skills, assessment of and interventions for academic learning problems, assessment in cross-cultural contexts | ||
Beth Harn | Associate Professor | Systems to support effective school-wide instructional decision making, aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment to optimize learner's performance, prevention and early intervention for students with reading difficulties, increasing and improving consultation practices of educators | ||
Cynthia M. Herr | Assistant Professor | Special education law, autism, learning disabilities, and teaching methods for students with disabilities at the middle and high school levels | ||
Robert Horner | Professor | Development and implementation of practices that result in positive, durable, and scientifically validated change in the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families | ||
Ceclia Kirk | Assistant Professor | Intervention for children with unintelligible speech and intervention for older children with literacy difficulties | ||
Tiffany Kodak | Associate Professor | Evidence-based instructional strategies for children with autism spectrum disorder, assessment tool that can be used by practitioners and school-based personnel to identify effective and efficient instructional strategies for children | ||
Wendy Machalicek
| Assistant Professor | Functional analysis and treatment of challenging behavior in school settings for children with autism and other developmental disabilities, evaluating the effects of performance feedback on the implementation of evidence-based assessments and behavior interventions by teachers and parents | ||
Deborah Olson | Assistant Professor | Violence against individuals with disabilities, the issues of women with disabilities, employment issues for people with severe disabilities | ||
Law School | ||||
Eric Priest | Assistant Professor | Intellectual property law, Chinese intellectual property law, Chinese entertainment industries, digital copyright, open access works and scholarship | ||
Michelle McKinley | Professor |
| Advocacy and research dedicated to indigenous peoples, reproductive rights, global health and human rights, immigration issues | |
Michael Fakhri | Assistant Professor | Third World approaches to international law, trade and development in the Middle East, public international law, international legal history, legal accounts of imperialism, law and globalization | ||
Caroline Forell | Professor |
| Legal issues affecting women, legal and ethical standards appropriate for intimate relationships involving various professionals and those they are responsible for, including attorney-client, faculty-student and doctor-patient | |
Ibrahim Gassama
| Professor | Human rights, foreign policy, and international economic development, problems of international order, the changing role of international institutions in the post Cold War era, the interrelationships among human rights, environmental degradation, and economic development | ||
Erik Girvan | Assistant Professor | Social stereotypes impacts on decisions in the legal system, strategies for using the insights, methods, and findings of social science to address problems of legal policy, doctrine, and procedure | ||
Merle Weiner | Professor | Family law, domestic abuse law, and international family law, international child abduction | ||
College of Business | ||||
Andrew Verner | Professor | Russian history, late imperial and revolutionary Russia | https://www3.lcb.uoregon.edu/profile/profile.html?id=589&format=full | |
David Boush | Professor | Consumer behavior and marketing management decisions, cross-cultural comparisons | https://www3.lcb.uoregon.edu/profile/profile.html?id=8&format=full | |
Michael Russo | Professor | Strategies for environmental management, policies for clean technology and social entrepreneurship, improve markets for environmentally certified wood products in Mexico | https://www3.lcb.uoregon.edu/profile/profile.html?id=157&format=full | |