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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).
Katie Bollman Assistant Professor |
katie.bollman@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Microeonomics; Inequality PhD: Michigan State University |
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Patrick Emerson Professor |
patrick.emerson@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: International development; industrial, labor, urban and environmental economics; policy analysis. PhD: Cornell University |
Grant Jacobsen |
grant.jacobsen@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Energy Economics PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara |
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Qinglai Meng Professor |
Qinglai.Meng@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Macroeconomics. PhD: New York University |
Assistant Professor |
phamoa@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: International Trade, labor economics PhD: Syracuse University |
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Todd Pugatch |
todd.pugatch@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Labor economics, development economics and education economics. PhD: University of Michigan |
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Elizabeth Schroeder Associate Professor |
liz.schroeder@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Applied microeconomics and development. PhD: Georgetown University |
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Paul Thompson Assistant Professor |
paul.thompson@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Social Policy PhD: Michigan State University |
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Carol Horton Tremblay Professor Emeritus |
ctremblay@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Public policy analysis, econometrics, economics of U.S. brewing industry. PhD: Washington State University |
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Victor J. Tremblay Professor Emeritus |
v.tremblay@oregonstate.edu 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 |
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David Bernell Associate Professor |
david.bernell@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: International policy, foreign relations, energy, environment, Latin America PhD: Johns Hopkins University |
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Sarah Henderson Associate Professor |
sarah.henderson@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Russia/Central and Eastern Europe, Democratization, Civil Society, Gender and Post-communism PhD: University of Colorado |
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Alison Johnston Associate Professor |
alison.johnston@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Comparative politics and economics, European politics and European Union politics PhD: London School of Economics |
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Hua-Yu Li Associate Professor |
hua-yu.li@oregonstate.edu 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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Rorie Solberg Associate Professor |
rorie.spillsolberg@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Judicial Politics. PhD: Ohio State University |
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Brent S. Steel Professor & Graduate Program Director |
bsteel@oregonstate.edu 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 |
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Christopher Stout Assistant Professor |
Christopher.Stout@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Public opinion, polling accuracy, race and politics, minority voting behavior PhD: University of California, Irvine |
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Andrew Valls |
andrew.valls@oregonstate.edu 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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Edward Weber Ulysses Dubach Professor of Environmental Policy |
Edward.Weber@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Environmental politics and policy, public administration, science and politics. PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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Erika Allen Wolters Assistant Professor; Coordinator B.S. in Public Policy |
Erika.Wolters@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Environmental politics and policy, science and politics. PhD: Oregon State University |
Sociology Program |
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Scott Akins Professor |
sakins@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Criminology and deviance, drug use and policy, research methods.
PhD: Washington State |
Catherine Bolzendahl School Director & Professor |
catherine [dot] bolzendahl [at] oregonstate.edu 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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Hilary Boudet Associate Professor |
Hilary.Boudet@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Social movements, environmental policy, energy policy. PhD: Stanford University |
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Brett Burkhardt Associate Professor |
brett.burkhardt@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Sociology of law, law and society, political sociology, criminal justice and criminology. PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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Flaxen Conway Professor, Director, Marine Resource Management Program |
flaxen.conway@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Communities coping with change and transition; personal and group leadership education; cooperative learning and research; renewable energy policy. |
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Lori Cramer Professor |
lcramer@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Natural resource sociology, environmental sociology, social impact assessment, rural sociology. PhD: Utah State University |
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Mark Edwards Professor |
medwards@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Poverty and inequality, food security, sociology of housing, research methods. PhD: University of Washington |
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Sally Gallagher Professor |
sgallagher@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Work and family, gender, sociology of religion, international development.
PhD: University of Massachusetts, |
Shawn Hazboun Assistant Professor |
shawn.hazboun@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Energy and Environmental Policy PhD: Utah State University |
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Allison Hurst Associate Professor |
allison.hurst@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Social Policy PhD: University of Oregon |
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Michelle Inderbitzin Associate Professor |
mli@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Juvenile delinquency, criminology, deviant behavior and social control, sociology of education. PhD: University of Washington |
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Kelsy Kretschmer Assistant Professor |
Kelsy.Kretschmer@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Social movements, gender inequality, organizations, political sociology PhD: University of California, Irvine |
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Dwaine Plaza Professor |
dplaza@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Caribbean studies, migration and settlement, race and ethnic relations. PhD: York University (Canada) |
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Ana Spalding Assistant Professor |
Ana.Spalding@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Marine and coastal policy, migration and development PhD: University of California, Santa Cruz |
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Rebecca Warner Professor Emeritus |
rwarner@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Gender and family policy; science policy; comparative and international gender policy. PhD: Washington State University |
Affiliated Faculty |
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Brenda O. Bateman Instructor, Institute for Water and Watersheds |
brenda.o.bateman@state.or Policy Areas: Environmental Policy
PhD: University of Maryland, |
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Stephanie Bernell |
stephanie.bernell@oregonstate.edu 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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Samuel Chan Oregon Sea Grant |
samuel.chan@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Aquatic ecosystems health, marine and coastal policy and outreach, invasive species. PhD: Oregon State University |
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Yong Chen Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics |
yong.chen@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Regional development and land use policy. PhD: Ohio State University |
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Chunhuei Chi Associate Professor and Coordinator, International Health Program |
chunhuei.chi@oregonstate.edu 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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Allison Davis-White Eyes Director of Community Diversity Relations, Office of Institutional Diversity |
Allison.Davis-WhiteEyes@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: American Indian policy, culture and society; international education policy; rural policy; diversity; gender policy PhD: Oregon State University |
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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 |
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Patti Duncan Associate Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
patti.duncan@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Transnational feminist theories; gender and the global economy; gender issues in Asia. PhD: Emory University |
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Lisa Gaines Director, Institute for Natural Resources |
lisa.gaines@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Environmental policy and decision-making, citizen participation, evaluation, and human dimensions of environmental risk. PhD: Oregon State University |
Drew Gerkey Assistant Professor, Ecological Anthropology |
drew.gerkey@oregonstate.edu Policy Area: Environmental Policy PhD: Rutgers University |
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin Associate Professor, History of Science |
jacob.hamblin@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: History of Science, History of Technology, Environmental History. PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara |
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Sunil Khanna Professor, Public Health and Human Sciences |
skhanna@oregonstate.edu 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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Jeffrey Kline Research Forester, Pacific Northwest Research Station |
JKline@fs.fed.us Policy Areas: Land use, development effects on forestry, public forest values, open space. PhD: University of Rhode Island |
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Bill Loges Associate Professor New Media Communications |
Bill.Loges@oregonstate.edu 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 |
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Kate MacTavish Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences |
kate.mactavish@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Human Development and family in small towns and rural areas PhD: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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Kenneth Maes Assistant Professor, Anthropology |
Kenneth.Maes@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Global health inequalities, primary health care, labor, food and water insecurity, mental health PhD: Emory University |
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Mark Needham Associate Professor, Forest Ecosystems and Society |
mark.needham@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Human dimensions of natural resources, recreation, tourism and wildlife. PhD: Colorado State University |
Gabrielle Roesch McNally Northwest Climate Hub Fellow, US Forest Service |
groeschmcnally@fs.fed.us Policy Areas: Environmental Policy, Rural Policy, Science and Technology Policy; Rural and Environmental Sociology PhD: Iowa State University |
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Randall Rosenberger Associate Professor, Forest Ecosystems and Society |
r.rosenberger@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Economics of Recreation Resources, valuation of non-market resources and economics of sustainable natural resources. PhD: Colorado State University |
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David Rothwell Assistant Professor Human Development and Family Sciences |
david.rothwell@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Social Welfare Policy, Poverty, Family Policy PhD: University of Hawai’i at Manoa
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Susan Shaw Professor & Chair, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
sshaw@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Systems of oppression in women's lives. PhD: Southern Baptist Seminary |
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Garry Stephenson Coordinator, Small Farms Program |
garry.stephenson@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Local and Regional Food systems, Alternative marketing systems, Farmers’ markets, Beginning farmer and rancher education PhD: University of Oregon |
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Karen Thompson Assistant Professor, Education |
Karen.Thompson@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Education Policy PhD: Stanford University |
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Robert Thompson Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies |
rthompson@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Contemporary African American social and political discourse; racial patterns of urbanization. PhD: University of California, Santa Cruz |
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Bryan Tilt Professor, Anthropology |
bryan.tilt@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Sustainable development, environmental risk assessment, pollution, community participation, natural resources, fisheries management PhD: University of Washington |
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Gregg Walker Professor, Communications |
gwalker@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Environmental (conflict) PhD: University of Kansas |
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Haizhong Wang Assistant Professor, College of Engineering |
Haizhong.Wang@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Civil Engineering PhD: University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
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Justin Wettstein Assistant Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences |
jwettstein@coas.oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Environmental Policy PhD: University of Washington, Seattle |
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Aaron Wolf Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences |
wolfa@geo.oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Transboundary water conflicts and conflict resolution, water basin technical and policy analysis, environmental policy analysis. PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison |