Contact the Department of Political Science

Contact Info

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

Mailing Address

Department of Political Science
1284 University of Oregon
175 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall
Eugene, OR 97403-1205

Building Address

175 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall
1415 Kincaid Street
Eugene, OR 97403-1205



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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Lesley Yates-Pollard Academic Programs Manager

Lesley Yates-Pollard
Academic Program Manager          

E-mail: lesleyyp@uoregon.edu    
Phone: 541-346-5134     
Chat: MS Teams         
Office: 175A PLC         
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Dan O’Neil  
Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Email: doneil6@uoregon.edu  
Phone: 541-346-5141  
Chat: MS Teams  
Office: 175 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: 175 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: 175 PLC  
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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.