Graduate Programs in Public Policy Faculty & Staff

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Professor, Associate Director – Sociology

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Office: 541-737-5370

Policy Areas: Criminology and deviance, drug use and policy, research methods.

PhD: Washington State University

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Director, Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development

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David Bernell
Associate Professor of Political Science

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Office: 541-737-6281

Policy Areas: Energy Policy, Environmental Policy, International Policy

PhD: Johns Hopkins University

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Associate Professor - Health Management and Policy

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Office: 541-737-9162

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Labor market effects of physical and mental health status, the relationship between place and obesity, and the causes of hunger and food insecurity.

PhD: Johns Hopkins University

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Assistant Professor - Economics

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Office: 541-737-3294

Policy Areas: Microeonomics; Inequality

PhD: Michigan State University

Catherine Bolzendahl
Director-SPP

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Office: 541-737-0590

Policy Areas: 1) The importance of gender equality for social policy investments and policy outcomes; 2) Changing notions of citizenship, political participation, and gender inequality; and 3) Family as a site of inequality on the basis of gender, political rights, and sexual orientation.

PhD: Indiana University, Bloomington

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Professor - Sociology; Graduate Program Director - Public Policy

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Office: 541-737-5375

Policy Areas: Social movements, environmental policy, energy policy.

PhD: Stanford University

 Brett Burkhardt
Associate Professor & Associate Director – Sociology

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Office: 541-737-2310

Policy Areas: Law, Crime and Policy

PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Assistant Professor - Oregon Sea Grant

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Office: 541-737-1583

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Aquatic ecosystems health, marine and coastal policy and outreach, invasive species.

PhD: Oregon State University

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Associate Professor - Agricultural and Resource Economics

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Office: 541-737-3176

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Regional development and land use policy.

PhD: Ohio State University

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Professor and Coordinator - International Health Program

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Office: 541-737-3836

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Equitable and sustainable health development for low-income nations; health systems finance; national health care systems and universal health care; evaluating equity and efficiency(extra-welfarism) in health care services.

PhD: Harvard University

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Professor - Sociology; Assistant Director - Marine Studies Undergraduate Program

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Office: 541-737-5382

Policy Areas: Community resilience, natural resource sociology, environmental sociology, rural sociology

PhD: Utah State University

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Associate Professor - Forest Policy

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Office: 541-737-7408

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Forest economics; forest policy - private and public; human dimensions; rural development

PhD: Oregon State University

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Associate Vice Provost for Engagement, OSU Extension Service

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 Patti Duncan
Professor, WGSS

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Office: 541-737-6135

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Transnational feminist theories; gender and the global economy; gender issues in Asia.

PhD: Emory University

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Professor of Sociology and Director of Oregon State University Policy Analysis Laboratory (OPAL)

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Office: 541-737-5379

Policy Areas: Poverty and inequality, food security, sociology of housing, research methods.

PhD: University of Washington

 Patrick Emerson
Professor - Economics

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Office: 541-737-1479

Policy Areas: International development; industrial, labor, urban and environmental economics; policy analysis.

PhD: Cornell University

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Director-INR

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Office: 541-737-1976

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Environmental policy and decision-making, citizen participation, evaluation, and human dimensions of environmental risk.

PhD: Oregon State University

 Drew Gerkey
Anthropology Program Director & Associate Professor

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Office: 541-737-3793

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Area: Environmental Policy

PhD: Rutgers University

Leanne Giordono
Director of Extension Evaluation and Reporting (Affiliated Faculty)

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Office: 541-737-7149

Research Areas: Energy Policy, Environmental Policy, Social Policy

PhD: Oregon State University

 Jacob Hamblin
Professor of History

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Office: 541-737-3503

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: History of Science, History of Technology, Environmental History. 

PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara

 Shawn Hazboun
Associate Professor - Sociology

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Office: 541-737-2078

Policy Areas: Environmental, natural resource, and community sociology; Global energy transition and community change; Public response to renewable energy, fossil fuels extraction, and fossil fuel export; Rural community wellbeing, extractive histories, and just transitions

PhD: Utah State University

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Associate Professor - Political Science

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Office: 541-737-6236

Policy Areas: Russia/Central and Eastern Europe, Democratization, Civil Society, Gender and Post-communism

PhD: University of Colorado

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Professor - Sociology

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Office: 541-737-3391

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Associate Professor - Sociology

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Office: 541-737-8921

Policy Areas: Juvenile delinquency, criminology, deviant behavior and social control, sociology of education.

PhD: University of Washington

 Grant Jacobsen
Professor - Economics

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Policy Areas: Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy

PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara

 Alison Johnston
Professor - Political Science

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Office: 541-737-6243

Policy Areas: I am a political economist, whose research agenda lies at the intersection of comparative and international political economy.  The topics I have published on include European and EU politics, European monetary integration, economic and financial crises, sovereign risk and credit ratings, welfare states and labor markets, housing markets and household debt, growth models and the politics of organized labor (with a focus on general strikes).

PhD: London School of Economics

 

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Professor - Public Health and Human Sciences

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Office: 541-737-6405

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: International health, genetic privacy policy, HIPAA, rural-urban migration, gender and development, reproductive health, policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation.

PhD: Syracuse University

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Associate Professor - Public Policy

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Office: 541-737-3077

Policy Areas: Social movements, gender inequality, organizations, political sociology 

PhD: University of California, Irvine

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Associate Professor - Political Science

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Office: 541-737-6235

Policy Areas: China's political economy in the early 1950s, Sino-Soviet relations, the CCP and its evolution and change.

PhD: Columbia University

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Associate Professor - Human Development and Family Sciences

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Office: 541-737-9130

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Human Development and family in small towns and rural areas

PhD: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 Kenneth Maes
Associate Professor - Graduate Program Director, Anthropology

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Office: 541-737-7870

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Global health inequalities, primary health care, labor, food and water insecurity, mental health

PhD: Emory University

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Professor - Economics

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Office: 541-737-8744

Policy Areas: Macroeconomics

PhD: New York University

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Professor - Forest Ecosystems and Society

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Office: 541-737-1498

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Human dimensions of natural resources, recreation, tourism and wildlife.

PhD: Colorado State University

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Assistant Professor

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Office: 541 (dash) 737 (dash) 8920

 Hoang Pham
Assistant Professor - Economics

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Policy Areas: International Trade, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Productivity Growth

PhD: Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

 Dwaine Plaza
Professor - Sociology

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Office: 541-737-5369

Policy Areas: Caribbean studies, migration and settlement, race and ethnic relations.

PhD: York University (Canada)

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Associate Professor - Human Development and Family Sciences

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Office: 541-737-1081

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Social Welfare Policy, Poverty, Family Policy

PhD: University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Derek Rury
Assistant Professor - Economics

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Policy Areas: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Education, Behavioral Economics

PhD: University of California, Davis

 Elizabeth Schroeder
Professor - Economics

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Office: 541-737-1476

Research Areas: Applied econometrics and microeconomics.

PhD: Georgetown University

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Professor, WGSS

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Office: 541-737-3082

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Systems of oppression in women's lives.

PhD: Southern Baptist Seminary

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Professor and Associate Director - Political Science

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Office: 541-737-9512

Policy Areas: International and comparative environmental policy, comparative rural policy, science and scientists in the policy process, energy policy, sustainable state and local governance.

PhD: Washington State University

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Univ Distinguished Professor

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Office: 541-737-6133

Policy Areas: Sustainable rural communities; Environmental policy; Science and advanced technology policy; Comparative public policy; Renewable energy policy; Civility in State Legislatures; Civic Literacy - Vote Smart; Wildfire Policy and Adaptation

PhD: Washington State University

Christopher Stout
Professor - Political Science

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Office: 541-737-4729

Policy Areas: Public opinion, polling accuracy, race and politics, minority voting behavior 

PhD: University of California, Irvine

 Paul Thompson
Associate Professor and Associate Director - Economics

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Office: 541-737-8185

Policy Areas: Social Policy

PhD: Michigan State University

 Robert Thompson
Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies

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Office: 541-737-5742

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Contemporary African American social and political discourse; racial patterns of urbanization.

PhD: University of California, Santa Cruz

Bryan Tilt
Professor, Anthropology

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Office: 541-737-3896

Policy Areas: Sustainable development, environmental risk assessment, pollution, community participation, natural resources, fisheries management

PhD: University of Washington

 Andrew Valls
Professor - Political Science

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Office: 541-737-9577

Policy Areas: Political theory, especially theories of justice and democracy, domestic and global inequality, race and ethnicity, environmental political theory.

PhD: University of Pittsburgh

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Professor Emeritus, Communications

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Office: 541-737-2461

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Professor - College of Engineering

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Office: 541-737-8538

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Policy Areas: Civil Engineering

PhD: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Professor - Political Science; Associate Director, Public Policy Undergraduate Program

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Office: 541-737-6727

Policy Areas: Environmental politics and policy, public administration, science and politics.

PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Associate Professor - College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

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Office: 541-737-5177

Affiliated MPP Faculty

Policy Areas: Environmental Policy

PhD: University of Washington, Seattle

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Professor - College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

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Office: 541-737-2722

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Policy Areas: Transboundary water conflicts and conflict resolution, water basin technical and policy analysis, environmental policy analysis.

PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison

 Erika Wolters
Associate Professor in Political Science; Associate Director Water Resource Policy and Management Graduate Program

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Office: 541-737-1421

Policy Areas: Environmental politics and policy, science and politics.

PhD: Oregon State University

 Steve Wuhs
Professor & Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

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Office: 541-737-3850

Policy Areas:

Mexican and Latin American Politics

German Politics

Political Parties and Party Systems

PhD:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill