MPP Faculty

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	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-2811 Policy Areas: Microeonomics; Inequality PhD: Michigan State University
Patrick Emerson Professor	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-1479 Policy Areas: International development; industrial, labor, urban and environmental economics; policy analysis. PhD: Cornell University
Ed Feser Professor & University Provost	[email protected] Policy Areas: Regional economic development, innovation, and technology policy PhD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Grant Jacobsen Associate Professor	[email protected] Policy Areas: Energy Economics PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara
Qinglai Meng Professor	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-8744 Policy Areas: Macroeconomics. PhD: New York University
Hoang Pham Assistant Professor	[email protected] Policy Areas: International Trade, labor economics PhD: Syracuse University
Todd Pugatch Professor	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-6628 Policy Areas: Labor economics, development economics and education economics. PhD: University of Michigan
Elizabeth Schroeder Associate Professor	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-1476 Policy Areas: Applied microeconomics and development. PhD: Georgetown University
Paul Thompson Associate Professor	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-8185 Policy Areas: Social Policy PhD: Michigan State University
Political Science Program
David Bernell Associate Professor	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-2811 Policy Areas: International policy, foreign relations, energy, environment, Latin America PhD: Johns Hopkins University
Sarah Henderson Associate Professor	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-2811 Policy Areas: Judicial Politics. PhD: Ohio State University
Brent S. Steel Professor	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-4729 Policy Areas: Public opinion, polling accuracy, race and politics, minority voting behavior PhD: University of California, Irvine
Andrew Valls Professor	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Policy Areas: Mexican and Latin American Politics PhD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sociology Program
Scott Akins Professor	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-5375 Policy Areas: Social movements, environmental policy, energy policy. PhD: Stanford University
Brett Burkhardt Associate Professor	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-5382 Policy Areas: Natural resource sociology, environmental sociology, social impact assessment, rural sociology. PhD: Utah State University
Mark Edwards Professor	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-5379 Policy Areas: Poverty and inequality, food security, sociology of housing, research methods. PhD: University of Washington
Shawn Hazboun Assistant Professor	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-2811 Policy Areas: Energy and Environmental Policy PhD: Utah State University
Allison Hurst Professor	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-3391 Policy Areas: Social Policy PhD: University of Oregon
Michelle Inderbitzin Associate Professor	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-3077 Policy Areas: Social movements, gender inequality, organizations, political sociology PhD: University of California, Irvine
Dwaine Plaza Professor	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-5369 Policy Areas: Caribbean studies, migration and settlement, race and ethnic relations. PhD: York University (Canada)
Rebecca Warner Professor Emeritus	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Policy Areas: Environmental Policy PhD: University of Maryland, Baltimore
Stephanie Bernell Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-3176 Policy Areas: Regional development and land use policy. PhD: Ohio State University
Chunhuei Chi Professor and Coordinator, International Health Program	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Policy Areas: Academic Institutional Engagement with Communities Ed.D: Nova Southeastern University
Patti Duncan Associate Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-3793 Policy Area: Environmental Policy PhD: Rutgers University
Jacob Darwin Hamblin Professor, History of Science	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-3082 Policy Areas: Systems of oppression in women's lives. PhD: Southern Baptist Seminary
Karen Thompson Associate Professor, Education	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-2988 Policy Areas: Education Policy PhD: Stanford University
Robert Thompson Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies	[email protected] 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	[email protected] 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	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-2461 Policy Areas: Environmental (conflict) PhD: University of Kansas
Haizhong Wang Professor, College of Engineering	[email protected] Phone: (541) 737-8538 Policy Areas: Civil Engineering PhD: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Justin Wettstein Associate Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences	[email protected] Policy Areas: Environmental Policy PhD: University of Washington, Seattle
Aaron Wolf Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences	[email protected] 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

Faculty Listing by Program:

Economics Program

Political Science Program

Sociology Program

Affiliated Faculty