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PARTICIPATING FACULTY

Participating Faculty teach courses and conduct research in other UO departments, addressing international issues in ways that complement the mission of the International Studies Program. Their courses can be especially useful to our students in fulfilling major requirements. Participating faculty can be of help to International Studies students with questions on particular world regions or on themes that require global, transnational, or cross-cultural perspective.

Ina Asim, Dept: History, Asian Studies; Region: China, East Asia; Themes: archaeology, material culture, intellectual history, gender; inaasim@uoregon.edu

Aletta Biersack, Dept: Anthropology; Region: the Pacific Islands; Themes: gender, mining, historical anthropology, political ecology; abiersac@uoregon.edu

Shaul Cohen, Dept: Geography; Region: Middle East; Themes: political, environmental, cultural Geography; scohen@uoregon.edu

Robert Davis, Dept: Romance Languages; Region: Spain; Themes: Spanish and Romance linguistics, second-language methodology and teaching; rldavis@uoregon.edu

André Djiffack, Dept: Romance Languages; Region: Africa; Themes: Francophone literature in Africa, 20th-century French literature, colonial and postcolonial studies; djiffack@oregon.uoregon.edu

Chris Ellis, Dept: Economics; Themes: public economics, political economy, evolution of economic and political institutions; cjellis@uoregon.edu

John Foster, Dept: Sociology; Themes: Imperialism, ecological crisis, environment, Marxism, political economy; jfoster@uoregon.edu

Linda Fuller, Dept: Sociology; Region: Latin America; Themes: comparative socialism, work, Latin American development and social change; lofuller@uoregon.edu

Ibrahim Gassama, Dept: School of Law; Region: Africa; Themes: human rights, foreign policy, and international economic development; igassama@law.uoregon.edu

Lisa Gilman, Dept: English; Region: southern Africa (Malawi); Themes: intersections between performance and artistic forms, power, and gender; lmgilman@uoregon.edu

Susan W. Hardwick, Dept: Geography; Region: Canada and the former Soviet Union; Themes: Transnational immigration patterns and issues, especially refugee settlement and adaptation in British Columbia and other parts of the Pacific Northwest; susanh@uoregon.edu

Michael Hibbard, Dept: Planning, Public Policy, and Management (PPPM); Themes: sustainable development, healthy economies and healthy ecosystems in rural areas and small towns; mhibbard@uoregon.edu

Lamia Karim, Dept: Anthropology; Region: South and Southeast AsiaThemes: Globalization, gender, development, NGOs, state, Islam, human rights, nationalism, postcolonial theory; lamia@uoregon.edu

Jeff Magoto, Dept: Yamada Language Center; Themes: Language training; jmagoto@uoregon.edu

Karen McPherson, Dept: Romance Languages; Region: France, francophone world (Quebec, French Caribbean); Themes: modern French and Francophone cultures, gender studies, memory and mourning, autobiography, postcolonial literatures; ksmcpher@uoregon.edu

Ronald Mitchell, Dept: Political Science; Region: International Relations; Themes: international environmental politics, international institutions and organizations; rmitchel@uoregon.edu

Alec Murphy, Dept: Geography; Region: Europe; Themes: cultural and political geography, law and geography; abmurphy@uoregon.edu

Craig Parsons, Dept: Political Science; Region: Europe; Themes: comparative politics, regional integration, ideas and institutions; cap@uoregon.edu 

Doris Payne, Dept: Linguistics; Region: East Africa, South America; Themes: language documentation, language and culture; dlpayne@uoregon.edu 

Eric Pederson, Dept: Linguistics; Region: India; Themes: cognitive and psycholinguistics, language and culture, South Indian languages; epederso@uoregon.edu

Lise Nelson, Dept: Geography; Region: Latin America; Themes: cultural and political geography, international rural development, feminist theory; lise@uoregon.edu

Phil Scher, Dept: Anthropology; Region: Caribbean; Themes: politics of culture, transnationalism; pscher@uoregon.edu

Alison Snyder, Dept: Architecture; Themes: Ancient, design, light, ancient and modern sacred space and vernacular structures; absny@uoregon.edu

Rick Steers, Dept: College of Business; Themes: international management, work motivation and cross-cultural management; rsteers@uoregon.edu

Leslie Steeves, Dept: School of Journalism; Region: Africa; Themes: international communication, third world development communications, women, minorities, and media; lsteeves@uoregon.edu

Lynne Stephen, Dept: Anthropology; Region: Latin America; Themes: ethnicity and political economies, gender, U.S. Latinos; stephenl@uoregon.edu

Tuong Vu, Dept: Political Science (on leave 2007-08); Region: Asia; Themes: state formation, political economy of development, rural and agrarian politics, contentious politics, Cold War foreign policy, religion and politics; thvu@uoregon.edu, arivth@nus.edu.sg

Peter Walker, Dept: Geography; Region: Africa; Themes: cultural and political ecology, human-environmental relations, pwalker@uoregon.edu

Janis C Weeks, Dept: Biology; Region: Sub-Sarahan Africa; Themes: neuroscience, parasitic and infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, health care and health practices, mbira and marimba music of Zimbabwe; jweeks@uoregon.edu