A total of 29 faculty members from the School of Public Policy (Economics, Political Science and Sociology) comprise the PhD faculty, serving the program in various functions.
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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 |
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Grant Jacobsen Associate Professor |
grant.jacobsen@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Energy & environmental economics & policy. PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara |
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Qinglai Meng Professor |
Qinglai.Meng@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Macroeconomics. PhD: New York University |
Hoang Pham |
phamhoa@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: International Trade, Labor economics PhD: Syracuse University |
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Todd Pugatch Professor
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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 Associate Professor |
paul.thompson@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Social Policy PhD: Michigan 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 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 Professor |
rorie.spillsolberg@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Judicial Politics. PhD: Ohio State University |
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Brent S. Steel Professor |
bsteel@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: International and comparative environmental policy, comparative rural policy, science and scientists in the policy process, state and local governance. PhD: Washington State University |
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Christopher Stout Associate 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 Associate Professor |
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 Professor |
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 Wolters Assistant Professor |
Erika.Wolters@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Environmental politics and policy, sustainability, science and politics, climate change politics and policy, water policy, US public lands. 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 & Graduate Program Director |
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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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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Shawn Hazboun Assistant Professor |
shawn.hazboun@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Environmental, natural resource, and community sociology; Global energy transition and community change; Public response to energy infrastructure; Rural community wellbeing, extractive histories, and just transitions. PhD: Utah State University |
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Allison Hurst 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 Associate 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 Associate Professor |
Ana.Spalding@oregonstate.edu Policy Areas: Marine and coastal policy, migration and development PhD: University of California, Santa Cruz |