About the Office

Bruce Blonigen        
Dean, Lundquist College of Business        
541-346-3301        
bruceb@uoregon.edu

Bruce Blonigen was named the Edward Maletis Dean of the Lundquist College of Business in 2022. In more than 25 years at the UO, Blonigen has worn a variety of hats, including Tykeson Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, department head in economics, associate dean for social sciences, and dean for faculty and operations in the College of Arts and Sciences. He’s the first in his family to earn a college degree, which informs his passion for student success. He also cofounded the UO’s Summer Academy to Inspire Learning, a pipeline program for under-represented and low-income high school students. He is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science, a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His university accolades include the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching, the University of Oregon’s highest teaching honor. He earned economics degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College (BA) and University of California, Davis (MA, PhD).  

Jennifer Reynolds    
Dean, School of Law        
541-346-3691     
jwr@uoregon.edu

Jennifer Reynolds is the Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at the University of Oregon. She teaches civil procedure, conflict of laws, negotiation, and mediation, and she has received the University of Oregon's Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching. Reynolds’s research interests include dispute systems design, plea bargaining and specialty courts, and cultural influences and implications of alternative processes. She directs the law school’s award-winning Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center and has served as the university’s interim ombudsperson. Reynolds received her JD from Harvard Law School, her MA in English from the University of Texas at Austin, and her AB from the University of Chicago. While at Harvard, Professor Reynolds was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a teaching assistant, researcher, and Harvard Negotiation Research Project Fellow for the Program on Negotiation.

Sabrina Madison-Cannon        
Dean, School of Music and Dance        
541-346-5661        
smadison@uoregon.edu

Sabrina Madison-Cannon serves as the Phyllis and Andrew Berwick Dean and Professor of Dance in the School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon. Madison-Cannon received her professional training as a scholarship student at the National Academy of Arts and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. A soloist with the Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco), Madison-Cannon worked with renowned choreographers, including Talley Beatty, Milton Meyers, and Elisa Monte. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in dance from the University of Iowa.  Her teaching experience includes faculty positions at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Southern Methodist University, and the University of North Texas - and is the University of Georgia’s first “Willson Center for the Arts - Franklin College Visiting Scholar” in the departments of Dance and African-American Studies.  

Madison-Cannon was invited to present her research from the Library of Congress’ Lester Horton Collection in a paper titled, “Lester Horton and his Continued Influence on the African-American Dance Ethos” for the Society of Dance History Scholars conference in Durham, North Carolina. Her choreography has been presented nationally and internationally including Beijing, Tianjin, Barcelona, Madrid, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and New York. 

Emily Tanner-Smith        
Interim Dean, College of Education        
541-346-7452        
llmcinty@uoregon.edu

Dr. Tanner-Smith is interim dean of the College of Education and a Thomson Professor in the Counseling Psychology and Human Services Department, a research scientist at the Prevention Science Institute, and Executive Director of the HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice. Her PhD is in sociology from Vanderbilt University with an emphasis on quantitative methods and statistics. She is an applied research methodologist with expertise in meta-analysis and research synthesis for evidence-based decision-making. Her scholarship focuses on the prevention and treatment of substance use, delinquency, mental health, and academic problems among youth. She is a Fellow of the Society for Prevention Research. She was awarded the Nan Tobler Award from the Society for Prevention Research and the Robert Boruch Award from the Campbell Collaboration. Dr. Tanner-Smith currently serves on the editorial boards for Psychological Bulletin, Prevention Science, and Research Synthesis Methods.  Her research has been funded by numerous foundations, state, and federal agencies, including the Institute of Education Sciences, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Regina Lawrence       
Interim Dean, School of Journalism and Communication        
503-412-3659        
rgl@uoregon.edu

Having served as the associate dean of the School of Journalism and Communication in Portland and Research Director for the Agora Journalism Center, Regina Lawrence is currently serving as interim dean of the School of Journalism and Communication. She is a nationally recognized authority on political communication, civic engagement, gender and politics, and the role of media in public discourse about politics and policy. Her two latest books are Hillary Clinton’s Race for the White House: Gender Politics and the Media on the Campaign Trail and When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina, winner of the Doris A. Graber Outstanding Book Award from the Political Communication section of the American Political Science Association. From 2011 to 2015, Lawrence directed the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at the University of Texas-Austin. She has served as chair of the political communication section of the American Political Science Association and as a research fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is currently the editor of the journal Political Communication.  

Adrian Parr        
Dean, College of Design        
aparr@uoregon.edu

Adrian Parr, an internationally recognized environmental, political, and cultural thinker and advocate, author, and filmmaker, has been dean of the College of Design since 2021. She is a transdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of architecture criticism, aesthetics, political theory, and environmental studies. She’s authored eight books, the latest three of which focused on environmental politics and sustainability culture, and she has served as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) water chair for eight years. The driving force behind her works is the question of how to overcome economic and ecological scarcity. Her 2016 documentary, “The Intimate Realities of Water,” won more than a dozen awards, including Best Documentary at the 2016 United International Independent Film Festival. Before coming to the UO, she served as dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington, and as director of the Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. She is a senior fellow at the Design Futures Council. 

Chris Poulsen        
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences        
541-346-3902        
poulsenc@uoregon.edu

Christopher J. Poulsen, a climate scientist and professor of earth science, was named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 2022. His research seeks to understand the causes of past climate change on Earth and what lessons they hold for predicting our future climate. He is an associate editor of the American Journal of Science, and a former associate editor of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Before coming to the UO, Poulsen was associate dean for natural sciences in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan, among other administrative roles. He earned his Ph.D. in geosciences from Pennsylvania State University and his bachelor’s degree in geology from Carleton College.

Carol Stabile        
Dean, Clark Honors College        
cstabile@uoregon.edu

Carol Stabile was appointed dean of the Robert D. Clark Honors College in September 2020. She previously served as associate dean for strategic initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences. Stabile has been a professor at the UO since 2008 in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, as well as the School of Journalism and Communication. Her academic interests include media history, feminist media studies, media and communication, digital publishing, gender race and class in media, Cold War television and the FBI, and feminist media and digital publishing. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. in English from Brown University. At the UO, she co-chaired the University Senate’s Task Force to Address Sexual Assault and Survivor Support, as well as the UO Committee on Sexual and Gender-based Violence. Before joining the UO faculty, she taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  

Krista Chronister        
Vice Provost, Graduate Studies        
kmg@uoregon.edu

Dennis Galvan        
Vice Provost, Division of Global Engagement        
541-346-5851        
dgalvan@uoregon.edu

Grant Schoonover        
Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education and Student Success        
541-346-3211       
grantsch@uoregon.eduu

Alicia Salaz        
Vice Provost and University Librarian, UO Libraries        
541-346-1892        
asalaz@uoregon.edu

Jennie Leander        
Director of Services for Student-Athletes, Associate Athletic Director        
541-346-0374        
jleander@uoregon.edu

• Bill Cresko
  Executive Director, Data Science Initiative
  541-346-4779
  wcresko@uoregon.edu​​​​​

Katie McLaughlin        
Executive Director, Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health        
541-346-2500        
katemc@uoregon.edu

Mark Brenner        
Co-Director, Labor Education and Research Center        
541-346-2786        
mbrenner@uoregon.edu

Todd Braje        
Executive Director, Museum of Natural and Cultural History        
541-346-3024        
tbraje@uoregon.edu

Gordon Lafer        
Co-Director, Labor Education and Research Center        
541-346-2786        
glafer@uoregon.edu

Joe Snyder        
Army ROTC/Military Science        
541-346-3102        
jsnyder6@uoregon.edu

John Weber        
Executive Director, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art        
541-346-0972        
jweber3@uoregon.edu