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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

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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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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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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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

 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

 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

 

 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

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 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

 Paul Thompson
Associate Professor and Associate Director - Economics

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Office: 541-737-8185

Policy Areas: Social Policy

PhD: Michigan State University

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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

 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