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Faculty and Staff

Directors

Melanie Kohnen

Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies

JRH 368

503-768-7614

mkohnen@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Mondays 4:30-5:15pm / Tuesdays 3:30-5pm / Please click here to schedule an appointment.

Kimberly Brodkin

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

Miller Center 418

503-768-7678

kbrodkin@lclark.edu

Staff

Lisa Wilson

Administrative Coordinator

John R. Howard Hall 224

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:

Wednesday and Friday 10:00-11:30am in person
Thursday flexible via zoom by appointment

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:

Wednesdays 10am-11am, Fridays 3pm-4pm

Sepideh Bajracharya

Assistant Professor of Anthropology with Term

Medical anthropology, ethics, subjectivity, politics of care, sensory and reflexive ethnography

JR Howard

503-768-7659

sbajracharya@lclark.edu

Maryann Bylander

Professor of Sociology, SOAN Department Chair

Migration, Development, Debt/Indebtedness, Microfinance

JR Howard

503-768-7617

bylander@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Please schedule an appointment via email.

Kim Cameron-Domínguez

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Black Diaspora

JR Howard

503-768-7609

camerondominguez@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Wednesdays 2-4pm / Thursdays 12-12:30pm

Rachel Cole

Associate Professor of English

American Literature

Miller

503-768-7408

rcole@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Spring 2026: Please sign up via Google Appointment Calendar

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:

Mondays ~ 3:00-5:00 pm

Tuesdays ~ 3:30-4:00 pm

Kurt Fosso

Professor of English

British Romanticism, Literary Theory, Animal Studies

Miller

503-768-7415

fosso@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Spring 2026: Tuesdays 3:30-4:30, Thursdays 10-11 & 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 2026: Wednesday 11-1 and by appointment.

Use this link to sign up via google calendar

Andrea Hibbard

Associate 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 2026: Fridays 10-11 and by appointment

Reiko Hillyer

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 2026: Wednesdays 9am-12pm & by appointment.

Elaine Hirsch

Library Liaison, Associate Director, Watzek Library

503-768-7288

elaineghirsch@lclark.edu

Oren Kosansky

Associate Professor of Anthropology

JR Howard

503-768-7661

kosansky@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Overseas for the Spring 2026 semester

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 and by appointment

Jess Perlitz

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

Fields Center

503-768-7286

jperlitz@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Tuesdays 10:00-12:00pm

Magalí Rabasa

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Director of Ethnic Studies

Miller Center for the Humanities

503-768-7482

mrabasa@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Tuesdays 11:15am-12:30pm (Drop In - Miller 309)

Wednesdays 1:00-2:00pm (Online by Appointment via Google Calendar)

Jolina Ruckert

Assistant Professor with Term

Sustainability Psychology

BoDine

503-768-7511

jolinaruckert@lclark.edu

Jessica Starling

Department Chair and Professor of Religious Studies

Japanese Religions

John R. Howard Hall

503-768-7741

jstarling@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

By Google Calendar appointment

Cara Tomlinson

Associate Professor of Art, Studio Head of Painting

Fields Center

503-768-7403

cara@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Thursdays- 3:15-5:00pm

Tuesdays- 3:15-4:30 (by appointment)

Sarah Warren

Executive Director of Community Partnerships, Associate Professor of Sociology

JR Howard

503-768-7667

swarren@lclark.edu

Rishona Zimring

Professor of English

British and Irish Modernism, Postcolonial Literature, Literature and Visual/Performing Arts

Miller

503-768-7409

zimring@lclark.edu

Office Hours:

Spring 2026: Wednesdays 12-2PM & by appointment

Emeriti Faculty

Jane Atkinson

Professor Emerita of Sociology and Anthropology

Janet Davidson

Professor Emerita of Psychology

Deborah Heath

Professor Emerita of Anthropology

Jane Hunter

Professor Emerita of History

Tom Schoeneman

Professor of Psychology

Jean Ward

Professor Emerita of Communication

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