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Faculty and Staff

Directors

Rishona Zimring

Professor of English, Director of Gender Studies

Kimberly Brodkin

Director of Gender Studies Symposium, Director of Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies, Associate Professor with Term of Humanities

Staff

Lisa Wilson

Administrative Coordinator

Miller 330

503-768-7378

lisawilson@lclark.edu

Affiliated Faculty and Staff

Katharina Altpeter-Jones

Associate Professor of German Language and Literature, German Section Head

Miller Center for the Humanities

503-768-7430

altpeter@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Wednesdays and Fridays 12:40-1:40pm in person

Thursday flexible hours via zoom or by appointment all day

Therese Augst

Chair, World Languages and Literatures and Associate Professor of German Studies

Miller Center for the Humanities

503-768-7423

taugst@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Mondays 3:00-4:00pm // Thursdays 1:00-12:00pm // or by appointment

Sepideh Bajracharya

Assistant Professor of Anthropology with Term

JR Howard

503-768-7659

sbajracharya@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Mon/Wed/Fri by appointment only

Maryann Bylander

Associate Professor of Sociology, SOAN Department Chair

Migration, Development, Debt/Indebtedness, Microfinance

JR Howard

503-768-7617

bylander@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Mon: 2:00-3:00pm / Wed: 10:00-11:30am / and by appointment

Rachel Cole

Associate Professor of English

American Literature

Miller

503-768-7408

rcole@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Spring 2025: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-5 by appointment only. Please email for appointments.

Hannah Crummé

Head of Watzek Library Special Collections and College Archivist

503-768-7259

hcrumme@lclarkedu

Isabelle DeMarte

Associate Professor of French

Miller Center for the Humanities

503-768-7426

demarte@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

On sabbatical Spring 2025

Kim Cameron Dominguez

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Black Diaspora

JR Howard

503-768-7609

camerondominguez@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Tue: 12:00-1:00pm / Fri: 11:45am-12:45pm

Kurt Fosso

Professor of English

British Romanticism, Literary Theory, Animal Studies

Miller

503-768-7415

fosso@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Spring 2025: Monday 2-3, Wednesday 5-6, and by appointment

Daena J. Goldsmith

Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies

JRH

503-768-7613

daena@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Wed 12:45 - 1:45pm in JRHH 370

Karen Gross

Professor of English

Medieval Literature, History of the Book

Miller

503-768-7406

kegross@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Spring 2025: Wednesday 2-5 and by appointment.

Andrea Hibbard

Assistant Professor with Term of English

Victorian Literature and Culture, Law and Literature, Adventure Narratives, Gender Studies

Miller

503-768-7776

ahibbard@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Spring 2025: Friday 9:10-10:10 and by appointment.

Reiko Hillyer

Associate Professor of History and Department Chair

U.S. South, African American History, the built environment, prison studies.

Miller Center

503-768-7407

rhillyer@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Spring 2025: Wednesdays 9-12 and by appointment.

Elaine Hirsch

Library Liaison, Associate Director, Watzek Library

503-768-7288

elaineghirsch@lclark.edu

Sidra Kamran

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Gender and Sexuality, Labor, Social Class, Feminist Theory, Digital Culture, Pakistan, South Asia

JRH

503-768-7722

sidrak@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Wed: 11:15am-12:15pm & 1:45-2:45pm / and by appointment

Melanie Kohnen

Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies

JRH

503-768-7614

mkohnen@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Mon 4:30-5:30pm & Tue: 3:30-5:00pm (EOW). Please click here to schedule an appointment.

Oren Kosansky

Associate Professor of Anthropology

JR Howard

503-768-7661

kosansky@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Mon: 1:30-2:30pm & Tues: 10:00-11:00am

Robert Kugler

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

503-768-7452

kugler@lclark.edu

Jennifer LaBounty

Associate Professor of Psychology

Developmental Psychology

BoDine

503-768-7621

labounty@lclark.edu

Rebecca Lingafelter

Assistant Professor of Theatre

Fir Acres Theatre

rlingafelter@lclark.edu

Catherine Sprecher Loverti

Visiting Professor of German

Miller Center for the Humanities

503-768-7420

catherine@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Wednesdays and Fridays 9:45-10:15am or by appointment

Dawn Odell

Professor of Art History

Fields Center

503-768-7761

dvo@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Monday-4:30-5:30pm
Thursday- 3:30-4:30pm

Jess Perlitz

Associate Professor of Art, Studio Head of Sculpture, Department Chair

Fields Center

503-768-7286

jperlitz@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Tuesday- 9:30-11:30 and by appointment

Magalí Rabasa

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Director of Ethnic Studies

Miller Center for the Humanities

503-768-7482

mrabasa@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Monday 11:30am -12:10pm (drop-in 309 Miller)
Tuesday and Thursday 1:00-2:00pm (online via Google Calendar) or by appointment

Jolina Ruckert

Assistant Professor with Term

Sustainability Psychology

BoDine

503-768-7511

jolinaruckert@lclark.edu

Tom Schoeneman

Professor of Psychology

Clinical Psychology

Biology-Psychology

503-768-7649

schoen@lclark.edu

Jessica Starling

Department Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Japanese Religions

John R. Howard Hall

503-768-7741

jstarling@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Tuesdsays 2PM - 3:30PM or by Google Calendar appointment.

Cara Tomlinson

Associate Professor of Art, Studio Head of Painting

Fields Center

503-768-7403

cara@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Thursday- 3:15-4:30pm drop-in

Thursday- 3:15-5:00pm by appointment (sign-up available on Moodle)

Sarah Warren

Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies

JR Howard

503-768-7667

swarren@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Monday 1:50-2:50 in person, Tuesday 2-3 pm on zoom, and by appointment. Students can email me for a link to my calendar for the zoom office hours.

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