MPP Faculty

A total of 48 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 Policy Concentrations:

Detailed Faculty Mentoring Information

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
	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
pham-hoang-web.jpg	Hoang Pham Assistant Professor	phamoa@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: International Trade, labor economics PhD: Syracuse University
	Todd Pugatch Associate 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 Assistant Professor	paul.thompson@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-8185 Policy Areas: Social Policy PhD: Michigan State University
	Carol Horton Tremblay Professor Emeritus	ctremblay@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1468 Policy Areas: Public policy analysis, econometrics, economics of U.S. brewing industry. PhD: Washington State University
	Victor J. Tremblay Professor Emeritus	v.tremblay@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1471 Policy Areas: Industrial organization, microeconomics, the economics of advertising, and the economics of the U.S. brewing and cigarette industries. PhD: Washington 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 Associate 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 Associate Professor	rorie.spillsolberg@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2811 Policy Areas: Judicial Politics. PhD: Ohio State University
	Brent S. Steel Professor & Graduate Program Director	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 Assistant 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,School of Public Policy	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 Ulysses Dubach Professor of Environmental Policy	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; Coordinator B.S. in Public Policy	Erika.Wolters@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-6243 Policy Areas: Environmental politics and policy, science and politics. PhD: Oregon State University
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_100.jpg	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	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
	Flaxen Conway Professor, Director, Marine Resource Management Program	flaxen.conway@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1339 Policy Areas: Communities coping with change and transition; personal and group leadership education; cooperative learning and research; renewable energy policy.
	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
	Sally Gallagher Professor	sgallagher@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5367 Policy Areas: Work and family, gender, sociology of religion, international development. PhD: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
	Shawn Hazboun Assistant Professor	shawn.hazboun@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2811 Policy Areas: Energy and Environmental Policy PhD: Utah State University
	Allison Hurst Associate 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 Assistant 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 Assistant 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 Instructor, Institute for Water and Watersheds	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 Assistant 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 Associate 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
	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
	Qwo-Li Driskill Assistant Professor Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	Policy Areas: American Indian culture and literature; gender and sexuality studies; performing arts PhD: Michigan State 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	Drew Gerkey Assistant Professor, Ecological Anthropology	drew.gerkey@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-3793 Policy Area: Environmental Policy PhD: Rutgers University
	Jacob Darwin Hamblin Associate 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
	Jeffrey Kline Research Forester, Pacific Northwest Research Station	JKline@fs.fed.us Phone: (541) 758-7776 Policy Areas: Land use, development effects on forestry, public forest values, open space. PhD: University of Rhode Island
	Bill Loges Associate Professor New Media Communications	Bill.Loges@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-9855 Policy Areas: New Media Communications; New Media and Society; Media Theory; Diffusion of Innovations; Media Ethics; Media Effects; History of Telecommunication PhD: University of Southern California
	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 Assistant 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 Associate 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
roesch_g.jpg	Gabrielle Roesch McNally Northwest Climate Hub Fellow, US Forest Service	groeschmcnally@fs.fed.us Phone: (541) 750-7091 Policy Areas: Environmental Policy, Rural Policy, Science and Technology Policy; Rural and Environmental Sociology PhD: Iowa State University
	Randall Rosenberger Associate Professor, Forest Ecosystems and Society	r.rosenberger@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-4425 Policy Areas: Economics of Recreation Resources, valuation of non-market resources and economics of sustainable natural resources. PhD: Colorado State University
	David Rothwell Assistant 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
	Garry Stephenson Coordinator, Small Farms Program	garry.stephenson@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5833 Policy Areas: Local and Regional Food systems, Alternative marketing systems, Farmers’ markets, Beginning farmer and rancher education PhD: University of Oregon
	Karen Thompson Assistant Professor, Education	Karen.Thompson@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2988 Policy Areas: Education Policy PhD: Stanford University
	Robert Thompson Assistant 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 Assistant Professor, College of Engineering	Haizhong.Wang@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-8538 Policy Areas: Civil Engineering PhD: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
	Justin Wettstein Assistant 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