CHC Faculty and Staff Stories

Meet our faculty members, experience their intellectual worlds and find out why they love teaching. Along with that, learn what's in their fridge and their favorite movies. Staff members are also put in the spotlight as they share their journeys to the CHC and their guilty pleasures. 

Anita Chari teaching at front of classroom
Faculty Spotlight: Anita Chari
Don't check your identity at the door in classes taught by this CHC Associate Professor.
Brian McWhorter dances in front of a cedar trunk
Faculty Spotlight: Brian McWhorter
The CHC music professor talks about his favorites, his approach to teaching, and a new music album that dropped in December.
Lindsay Hinkle in a pink sweater standing under U of O campus oaks turning red in early autumn.
Faculty Spotlight: Lindsay Hinkle
As an instructor at the Clark Honors College, Hinkle loves the energy that comes from watching her students gain an understanding of chemistry.
Carol Stabile sitting outside on a bench
Carol Stabile: Escaping life at the amusement park
CHC first-generation students succeed despite the barriers they face in higher educationSome first-generation college students grew up without means.
Head shot of Catalina de Onís
New CHC instructor focuses on Latinx communities and environmental justice 
Montana is known as the “Treasure State” for its abundance of natural minerals and diverse wildlife. But when Catalina de Onís thinks back to her childhood in the Rocky Mountains, the opposite comes to mind. “It was very obvious growing up that environmental injustices were all around me,” says Onís, who recently joined the Clark Honors College as a professor in environmental studies and Latinx culture.