A total of 58 faculty members from the School of Public Policy and affiliated disciplines comprise the MPP faculty, serving the program in various functions (see also: MPP Core Faculty).

Faculty Listing by Program:

Economics Program

Katie Bollman
Assistant Professor

katie.bollman@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-2811

Policy Areas: Microeonomics; Inequality

PhD: Michigan State University

Patrick Emerson
Professor

patrick.emerson@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-1479

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

PhD: Cornell University

Ed Feser
Professor & University Provost

osu.provost@oregonstate.edu

Policy Areas: Regional economic development, innovation, and technology policy

PhD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Grant Jacobsen
Associate Professor

grant.jacobsen@oregonstate.edu

Policy Areas: Energy Economics

PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara

Qinglai Meng
Professor

Qinglai.Meng@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-8744

Policy Areas: Macroeconomics.

PhD: New York University

Hoang Pham

Assistant Professor

phamoa@oregonstate.edu

Policy Areas: International Trade, labor economics

PhD: Syracuse University

Todd Pugatch
Professor

todd.pugatch@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-6628

Policy Areas: Labor economics, development economics and education economics.

PhD: University of Michigan

Elizabeth Schroeder
Associate Professor

liz.schroeder@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-1476 

Policy Areas: Applied microeconomics and development.

PhD: Georgetown University

Paul Thompson
Associate Professor

paul.thompson@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-8185

Policy Areas: Social Policy

PhD: Michigan State University

Political Science Program

David Bernell
Associate Professor

david.bernell@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-2811

Policy Areas: International policy, foreign relations, energy, environment, Latin America

PhD: Johns Hopkins University

Sarah Henderson
Associate Professor

sarah.henderson@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-6236

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

PhD: University of Colorado

Alison Johnston
Professor

alison.johnston@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-6243 

Policy Areas: Comparative politics and economics, European politics and European Union politics

PhD: London School of Economics

Hua-Yu Li
Associate Professor

hua-yu.li@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (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

Rorie Solberg
Professor

rorie.spillsolberg@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-2811

Policy Areas: Judicial Politics.

PhD: Ohio State University

Brent S. Steel
Professor

bsteel@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-6133

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

Christopher Stout
Associate Professor

Christopher.Stout@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-4729

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

PhD: University of California, Irvine

Andrew Valls
Professor

andrew.valls@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (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

Edward Weber
Professor

Edward.Weber@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-2811

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

PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison

Erika Allen Wolters
Assistant Professor

Erika.Wolters@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-6243

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

PhD: Oregon State University

Steve Wuhs
Professor & Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

steve.wuhs@oregonstate.edu

Policy Areas: Mexican and Latin American Politics

PhD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

 

Sociology Program

Scott Akins
Professor

sakins@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-5370

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

PhD: Washington State University

Catherine Bolzendahl
School Director & Professor

catherine [dot] bolzendahl [at] oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-2811

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

Hilary Boudet
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director

Hilary.Boudet@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-5375

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

PhD: Stanford University

Brett Burkhardt
Associate Professor

brett.burkhardt@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-2310

Policy Areas: Sociology of law, law and society, political sociology, criminal justice and criminology. 

PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison

Lori Cramer
Professor

lcramer@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-5382

Policy Areas: Natural resource sociology, environmental sociology, social impact assessment, rural sociology.

PhD: Utah State University

Mark Edwards
Professor

medwards@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-5379

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

PhD: University of Washington

Shawn Hazboun
Assistant Professor

shawn.hazboun@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-2811

Policy Areas: Energy and Environmental Policy

PhD: Utah State University

Allison Hurst
Professor

allison.hurst@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-3391

Policy Areas: Social Policy

PhD: University of Oregon

Michelle Inderbitzin
Associate Professor

mli@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-8921

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

PhD: University of Washington

Kelsy Kretschmer
Associate Professor

Kelsy.Kretschmer@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-3077 

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

PhD: University of California, Irvine

Dwaine Plaza
Professor

dplaza@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-5369

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

PhD: York University (Canada)

Ana Spalding
Associate Professor

Ana.Spalding@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-2073

Policy Areas: Marine and coastal policy, migration and development 

PhD: University of California, Santa Cruz

Rebecca Warner
Professor
Emeritus

rwarner@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-0732 

Policy Areas: Gender and family policy; science policy; comparative and international gender policy. 

PhD: Washington State University

Affiliated Faculty

Brenda O. Bateman
Director, Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development

brenda.o.bateman@state.or

Policy Areas: Environmental Policy

PhD: University of Maryland, Baltimore

Stephanie Bernell
Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy

stephanie.bernell@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-9162

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

Samuel Chan
Oregon Sea Grant

samuel.chan@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-8692

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

PhD: Oregon State University

Yong Chen
Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics

yong.chen@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-3176

Policy Areas: Regional development and land use policy.

PhD: Ohio State University

Chunhuei Chi
Professor and Coordinator, International Health Program

chunhuei.chi@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-3836

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

Mindy Crandall
Associate Professor in Forest Policy

mindy.crandall@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-2004

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

PhD: Oregon State University

Allison Davis-White Eyes
Director of Community Diversity Relations, Office of Institutional Diversity

Allison.Davis-WhiteEyes@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-3099

Policy Areas: American Indian policy, culture and society; international education policy; rural policy; diversity; gender policy

PhD: Oregon State University

Marina Denny

Associate Vice Provost for Engagement, OSU Extension Service

marina.denny@oregonstate.edu

Policy Areas: Academic Institutional Engagement with Communities

Ed.D: Nova Southeastern University

Patti Duncan
Associate Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

patti.duncan@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-9274

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

PhD: Emory University

Lisa Gaines
Director,
Institute for Natural Resources

lisa.gaines@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-1976

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

PhD: Oregon State University

Drew Gerkey
Associate Professor, Ecological Anthropology

drew.gerkey@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-3793

Policy Area: Environmental Policy

PhD: Rutgers University

Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Professor, History of Science

jacob.hamblin@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-3503 

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

PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara

Sunil Khanna
Professor, Public Health and Human Sciences

skhanna@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-3859

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

PhD: Syracuse University

Kate MacTavish
Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences

kate.mactavish@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-9130

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

PhD: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Kenneth Maes
Associate Professor, Anthropology

Kenneth.Maes@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-7870

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

PhD: Emory University

Mark Needham 
Professor, Forest Ecosystems and Society

mark.needham@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-1498

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

PhD: Colorado State University

David Rothwell
Associate Professor
Human Development and Family Sciences

david.rothwell@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-1081

Policy Areas: Social Welfare Policy, Poverty, Family Policy

PhD: University of Hawai’i at Manoa

 

Susan Shaw
Professor & Chair, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

sshaw@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-3082

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

PhD: Southern Baptist Seminary

Karen Thompson
Associate Professor, Education

Karen.Thompson@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-2988

Policy Areas: Education Policy

PhD: Stanford University

Robert Thompson
Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies

rthompson@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-5367

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

PhD: University of California, Santa Cruz

Bryan Tilt
Professor, Anthropology

bryan.tilt@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-3896

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

PhD: University of Washington

Gregg Walker
Professor, Communications

gwalker@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-2461

Policy Areas: Environmental (conflict)

PhD: University of Kansas

Haizhong Wang
Professor, College of Engineering

Haizhong.Wang@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-8538

Policy Areas: Civil Engineering

PhD: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Justin Wettstein
Associate Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

jwettstein@coas.oregonstate.edu

Policy Areas: Environmental Policy

PhD: University of Washington, Seattle

Aaron Wolf
Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

wolfa@geo.oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-5369

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

PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

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