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Leslie Alexander

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-7178
  • Office: 367 McKenzie Hall
  • Office Hours: On research leave Fall 2018 through Spring 2019
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies
  • Interests: Early African American and African Diaspora History; Slavery; Resistance Movements; Political Consciousness; Free Black Communities

Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Director of African Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-0558
  • Office: 311 Hendricks Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday noon-1:00 p.m., Wednesday 12:30-1:30 p.m. and by appointment on zoom
  • Affiliated Departments: Black Studies, IRES
  • Interests: Globalization, Nationalism, Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Embodiment, Africana Studies

B Mokaya Bosire

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  • Affiliation: fixed term enduring faculty
  • Title: Senior Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-3916
  • Office: 377 Straub Hall
  • Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:30p-4:30p or by appt.
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Folklore Program
  • Interests: Swahili, Sheng, African languages & Urban vernaculars

Lindsay Frederick Braun

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-4838
  • Office: 365 McKenzie Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Office Hours: On sabbatical, AY 2023-2024. By appt only.
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Environmental Studies
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Southern Africa 1750-1950, East Africa 1850-1960, Comparative Colonialism, Environmental History, History of Science and Technology (esp. geography)
  • Website: Website

Yvonne Braun

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: WGS Department Head and Graduate Advisor
  • Phone: 541-346-5752
  • Office: 318 Hendricks Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring 2018: Weds 1:30 -3:30 and by appointment
  • 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.
  • Research Website: Research

Alfredo Burlando

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Co-Director of Master's Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-1351
  • Office: 513 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter 2023: Monday 9:30 - 11:00
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Clark Honors College
  • Interests: Development economics, economics of corruption, savings strategies in developing countries, health and fertility
  • Website: Website

Andre Djiffack

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-0958
  • Office: 210 Friendly Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Office Hours: Thursdays 2:00 - 3:45 pm
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies

Stephen Dueppen

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-5525
  • Office: 252 Condon Hall
  • Office Hours: Tues/Thurs from 12:50-1:50 p.m., and by appointment.
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Black Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies
  • Website: Website

Stephen Frost

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-5161
  • Office: 353 Condon Hall
  • Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9-10 a.m.
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies

Daphne Gallagher

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  • Affiliation: administrative faculty, faculty, staff
  • Title: Assoc Dean Undergrad Studies, Clark Honors College
  • Additional Title: Senior Lecturer of Anthropology
  • Phone: 541-346-5122
  • Office: 321 Chapman Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter 24: Drop-in or by appt Wed 1:30-2:30; Drop-in Wed 2:30-3:30; email for appt sign-up link or to make appts at other times.
  • Interests: archaeology, West Africa, agriculture, ethnobotany, food culture, museums

Dennis Galvan

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  • Affiliation: administrative faculty, faculty, student
  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Dean and Vice Provost, Division of Global Engagement
  • 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: West Africa, Secondary Field Work: Indonesia
  • Research Website: Research
  • Website: Website

Ibrahim Gassama

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  • Affiliation: emeritus
  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Frank E. Nash Professor of Law
  • Phone: 541-346-3831
  • Office: 306B Knight Law Center

Melissa Graboyes

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  • Affiliation: alumni, faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-2829
  • Office: 369 McKenzie Hall
  • Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30-3:30pm Sign up at https://graboyes-officehours.youcanbook.me/
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Clark Honors College, Global Health Program
  • Lab Website: Lab
  • Research Website: Research
  • Website: Website

Rita Honka

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Dance
  • Phone: 541-346-3379
  • Office: 166 Gerlinger Annex
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Dance
  • Interests: Dance

Habib Iddrisu

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Dance
  • Additional Title: Director, Dema Dance Ensemble
  • Phone: 541-346-4062
  • Office: 152 Gerlinger Annex
  • Affiliated Departments: Black Studies, Dance, IRES, Music
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Dance, Music History and Culture, Musicology and Ethnomusicology
  • Interests: Dance, West Africa, cultural studies, post-colonial independence history, political economy, oral history, African diaspora, new internationalism

Leigh Johnson

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-2644
  • Office: 152 Condon Hall
  • Office Hours: On Sabbatical 2023-2024
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Clark Honors College
  • Interests: Climate change and environmental risk, political ecology, finance, development studies, East Africa, labor, firefighting

Allison McGuffie

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  • Affiliation: faculty, instructor
  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-3965
  • Office: 329 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter Term: MW 12-1pm
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Cinema Studies Program, Clark Honors College, Digital Humanities, English

Lanie Millar

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
  • Phone: 541-346-4031
  • Office: Friendly 211
  • Office Hours: Winter, 2024: Wednesdays, 2-4, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only.
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, Latin American Studies, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory

S. Senyo Ofori-Parku

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-2338
  • Office: 327 Allen Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies

Doris Payne

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  • Affiliation: emeritus
  • Title: Professor Emerita
  • Phone: 541-346-3894
  • Office: 271 Straub Hall
  • Office Hours: By appointment only, please email to set up appt.
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Latin American Studies, OCIAS
  • Website: Website

Kory Russel

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies
  • Office: 215 Lawrence Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Environmental Studies, Global Health Program
  • Interests: Water, Sanitation, Container-Based Sanitation, Informal Settlements, Design
  • Research Website: Research
  • Twitter: Twitter
  • Website: Website

Leslie Steeves

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  • Affiliation: faculty, staff
  • Title: Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3751
  • Office: 209 Allen Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies

Stephen Wooten

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Provost's Teaching Academy Member
  • Phone: 541-346-5299
  • Office: 354 PLC
  • Office Hours: Mondays 2-3:00 pm and Thursdays 9-10 pm, or by appointment.
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Folklore Program, Food Studies
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Food studies, local-global dynamics, agrarian change, expressive culture
  • Research Website: Research