Faculty and Staff
Words Section
Associate Professor of English
Early – 19th-century American lit, African American lit, literature and ethics
Miller 413
503-768-7408
Professor of English
British Romanticism, Literary Theory, Animal Studies
Miller 428
503-768-7415
Associate Professor of Philosophy
John R. Howard Hall 223
503-768-7477
Associate Professor of English
Modern American Literature
Miller 411
503-768-7353
Associate Professor of History and Program Director, Asian Studies, fall 2021 Chinese history, Asian American history, food history
China
Miller Center 421
503-768-7488
Visiting Assistant Professor with Term of Anthropology and Asian Studies
Tibet and Himalayan studies; tourism; cities and bodies; visual anthropology; space/place theory; borderlands
JR Howard 371
503-768-
Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies
Jewish and Christian origins, Dead Sea Scrolls, early Jewish literature, papyrology, Jews in Hellenistic Egypt
John R. Howard Hall 221
503-768-7452
Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Associate Professor of Government
John R. Howard Hall 332
503-768-7756
Assistant Professor with Term
Film Studies, Post-World War II American Literature
Miller 433
503-768-7137
Associate Professor of English
17th/18th Century British Literature
Miller 412
503-768-7412
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
Miller 309
503/768-7482
Associate Professor of French, French Section Head
French literature of the Middle Ages and of the 19th century
Miller 326
503-768-7422
Assistant Professor with Term
History and Religions of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean world.
Miller 435
503-768-7410
Numbers Section
Associate Professor of Mathematics
BoDine 306
503-768-7558
Professor of Biology and Department Chair
Biology-Psychology 224
503-768-7653
Associate Professor of Sociology
Migration, Development, Debt/Indebtedness, Microfinance
JR Howard 365
503-768-7617
Associate Professor of Computer Science; Chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Data science, machine learning, software development
BoDine 307
503-768-7539
Assistant Professor with Term of Humanities
History of Science and Technology
Miller Center 434
503-768-7456
Associate Professor of Political Science
John R. Howard Hall 328
503-768-7604
Department Chair, Associate Professor of Philosophy
John R. Howard Hall 231
503-768-7735
Visiting Assistant Professor
International relations, security, coercive diplomacy, Middle East politics, American foreign policy
JR Howard 303B
503-768-7639
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Spectral geometry, Spectral graph theory, Quantitative biology education