Yalda Asmatey

Portrait of Yalda Asmatey
Associate Teaching Professor
Clark Honors College
yasmatey@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0176
Office: 325 Chapman Hall, 1293 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1293
Office Hours: Fall 2026 Student Hours: Advising drop in Tuesdays 11:00am to 1:00pm; CHC second year students see Navigate for appointment availability; CHC courses consult Canvas and course syllabus

Education

Education: 

 

University of California, Berkeley 

Ph.D., Anthropology (2013) 

M.A., Anthropology (2007)

B.A., Ethnic Studies and Mass Communications (2003)

University of California, Los Angeles 

M.P.H., Community Health Sciences (2006)

Research Interests

Ethnic and diaspora studies, immigration, refugees, American Muslims, trauma and violence, war, public health, global health, human rights, disasters and the environment. Afghanistan, North America, Middle East, Latin America. Ethnographic methods.