Faculty
Oluwakemi “Kemi” Balogun
Associate Professor, Director of African Studies
E-mail: kbalogun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0558
Office: 311 Hendricks Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, International Studies, IRES
Interests: Globalization, nationalism, culture, race/ethnicity, immigration, embodiment, Africana Studies
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B Mokaya Bosire
Senior Instructor
E-mail: mokaya@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3916
Office: 377 Straub Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Folklore Program
Interests: Swahili, Sheng, African languages & Urban vernaculars
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Lindsay Frederick Braun
Senior Instructor
E-mail: lfbraun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4838
Office: 365 McKenzie Hall
City: Eugene
Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Environmental Studies, International Studies
Interests: Southern Africa 1750-1950, East Africa 1850-1960, Comparative Colonialism, Environmental History, History of Science and Technology (esp. geography)
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Yvonne Braun
Associate Professor
WGS Department Head and Graduate Advisor
E-mail: ybraun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5752
Office: 318 Hendricks Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Environmental Studies, Sociology
Interests: Research focuses on intersection of gender, development, environment, and globalization, with a specific focus on the social and socio-environmental consequences of a large-scale World Bank funded dam development project in Lesotho, Southern Africa.
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Alfredo Burlando
Associate Professor
E-mail: burlando@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1351
Office: 513 PLC
Affiliated Departments: African Studies
Interests: Development economics, economics of corruption, savings strategies in developing countries, health and fertility
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Andre Djiffack
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
E-mail: djiffack@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0958
Office: 210 Friendly Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies
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Stephen Dueppen
Associate Professor
E-mail: dueppen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5525
Office: 252 Condon Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Middle East and North African Studies
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Stephen Frost
Professor
E-mail: sfrost@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5161
Office: 353 Condon Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies
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Daphne Gallagher
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Clark Honors College
E-mail: daphne@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5101
Office: 208 Chapman Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies
Dennis Galvan
Professor
Dean and Vice Provost, Division of Global Engagement
E-mail: dgalvan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5851
Office: 310 Oregon Hall
City: Eugene
Affiliated Departments: African Studies
Interests: culture and development, culturally sustainable development, identity and community, political legitimation, multiple forms of modernity, primary field work in West Africa, secondary field work in Indonesia
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Ibrahim Gassama
Professor
Frank E. Nash Professor of Law
E-mail: igassama@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3831
Office: 306B Knight Law Center
Teaching Level: Doctoral, Undergraduate
Programs, Research and Outreach: Legal Studies
Affiliated Departments: African Studies
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Melissa Graboyes
Assistant Professor, Clark Honors College
E-mail: graboyes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2829
Office: 326 Chapman Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Global Health Program
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Rita Honka
Senior Instructor I
E-mail: rhonka@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3379
Office: 166 Gerlinger Annex
Affiliated Departments: African Studies
Habib Iddrisu
Assistant Professor
E-mail: hiddrisu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4062
Office: 164 Gerlinger Annex
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, IRES
Leigh Johnson
Associate Professor
E-mail: leighj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2644
Office: 151 Condon Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Environmental Studies
Interests: Disasters, climate change and environmental risk, political ecology, finance, development studies, East Africa
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Allison McGuffie
Career Instructor
E-mail: mcguffie@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3965
Office: 329 PLC
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Cinema Studies Program, Digital Humanities, English Department
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Lanie Millar
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
E-mail: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office: 406 Friendly Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Comparative Literature Department, IRES, Latin American Studies
Interests: 20th-21st century Caribbean literature, Latin American literature, African literature, Lusophone literatures, Global South studies, Postcolonial studies, race and blackness, Critical Theory
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S. Senyo Ofori-Parku
Assistant Professor
E-mail: ofori@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2338
Office: 327 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
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Doris Payne
Professor
E-mail: dlpayne@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3894
Office: 271 Straub Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Latin American Studies, OCIAS
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Kory Russel
Assistant Professor
E-mail: krussel@uoregon.edu
Office: 215 Lawrence Hall
City: Eugene
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Environmental Studies
Interests: Water, Sanitation, Container-Based Sanitation, Informal Settlements
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Leslie Steeves
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor
E-mail: lsteeves@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3751
Office: 209 Allen Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies
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Stephen Wooten
Associate Professor
Director of Food Studies; Provost’s Teaching Academy Member
E-mail: swooten@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5434
Office: 354 PLC
Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Folklore Program
Interests: Food studies, local-global dynamics, agrarian change, expressive culture