Contact the Department of Political Science

Contact Info

Email: polisci@uoregon.edu 
Phone: 541-346-4864

Mailing Address

Department of Political Science 
Prince Lucien Campbell Hall 
1284 University of Oregon 
Eugene, OR 97403



How to Find Us


Undergraduate Advisors/Coordinators

Faculty member Lars Skalnes

Lars Skalnes 
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Email: psdus@uoregon.edu 
Phone: 541-346-4886 
Chat: MS Teams 
Office: 929 PLC 
Office Hours: Tues. 9am – 12pm (virtual) 
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Michael Peixoto 
Academic Program Manager

Email: mpeixoto@uoregon.edu 
Chat: Call me on Teams 
Office: 438 PLC 
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Dan O’Neil 
Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Email: doneil6@uoregon.edu 
Phone: 541-346-5141 
Chat: MS Teams 
Office: 736 PLC 
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9am – 2pm, additional availability by appointment 
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Katie Robison 
Undergraduate Coordinator

Email: krobison@uoregon.edu 
Chat: MS Teams 
Office: 736 PLC 
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8am – 5pm, additional availability by appointment 
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Graduate Advisors/Coordinators

Director of graduate Studies Craig Kauffman

Craig Kauffman 
Director of Graduate Studies

Email: ckauffma@uoregon.edu 
Phone: 541-346-4974 
Office: 916 PLC 
Office Hours: Monday 2-5pm (virtual at https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/803573193
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Sharon Kaplan

Email: kaplan@uoregon.edu 
Phone: 541-346-1261 
Office: 435 PLC 
Office Hours: Spring 2022: Mon/Thu 1-5 in PLC, 8-12 remote; Tue/Wed 9-1 in PLC, 8-9 & 2-5 remote; Fri remote 8-5 
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Rachel Claric

Email: rclaric2@uoregon.edu 
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Territorial Acknowledgment

The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon and continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, and across the land we now refer to as Oregon.*

We express our respect for all federally recognized Tribal Nations of Oregon. This includes the Burns Paiute Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Coquille Indian Tribe, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, and the Klamath Tribes.  We also express our respect for all other displaced Indigenous peoples who call Oregon home.

*We thank the Native Strategies Group for this portion of our statement.