Faculty

Economics Faculty

Name	Contact Information	PhD Institution	Policy Areas
Patrick Emerson Associate Professor	patrick.emerson@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1479	Cornell University	International child labor; environmental economics; discrimination.
Rolf Färe Professor	rolf.fare@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-8184	University of Lund	Production theory and performance measurement.
Shawna Grosskopf Professor	shawna.grosskopf@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-8185	Syracuse University	Production theory and performance measurement.
Carlos Martins-Filho Professor	carlos-martins@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1476	University of Tennessee	Theoretical and applied economics and statistics.
Bruce McGough Assistant Professor	bruce.mcgough@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1429	University of Oregon	Monetary and fiscal policy.
B. Starr McMullen Professor	s.mcmullen@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1480	University of California, Berkeley	Transportation economics, public policy analysis, industry structure, competitiveness, and regulation.
Santosh Mishra Assistant Professor	santosh.mishra@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1475	University of California, Riverside	Time series econometrics, risk modeling, and nonparametric and semi-parametric sstimation.
Ayca Tekin-Koru Assistant Professor	a.tekin-koru@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-9825	Purdue University	International trade.
Carol Horton Tremblay Associate Professor	carol.tremblay@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1468	Washington State University	Public policy analysis, econometrics, economics of U.S. brewing industry.
Victor J. Tremblay Professor & Chair	v.tremblay@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1471	Washington State University	Industrial organization, microeconomics, economics of U.S. brewing industry.
Political Science Faculty
James Foster Professor	james.foster@osucascades.edu Phone: (541) 713-1268	University of Washington	Constitutional law, administrative law, gender and law, and American political thought.
Sarah Henderson Associate Professor	sarah.henderson@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-6236	University of Colorado	Russia/Central and Eastern Europe, Democratization, Civil Society, Gender and Postcommunism.
Hua-Yu Li Associate Professor	hua-yu.li@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2811	Columbia University	China's political economy in the early 1950s, Sino-Soviet relations, elite politics in China, gender politics in China and Japan.
William Lunch Professor & Chair	Blunch@oregonstate.edu Phone: 541 737-2811	University of California, Berkeley	American national political institutions, Northwest regional politics, and environmental, natural resource, and science policy.
Robert Sahr Associate Professor	robert.sahr@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-6238	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Political communication, especially media coverage of presidents and of such complex public policy topics as economics, budget, taxes, and energy.
Rorie Spill Solberg Associate Professor	rorie.spillsolberg@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2811	Ohio State University	Judicial Politics.
Brent S. Steel Professor & MPP Director	bsteel@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-6133	Washington State University	International and comparative environmental policy, comparative rural policy, science and scientists in the policy process, state and local governance.
Andrew Valls Associate Professor	andrew.valls@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-9577	University of Pittsburgh	Liberal and democratic theory, race and racial justice, ethics of political violence.
Sociology Faculty
Scott Akins Assistant Professor	sakins@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5370	Washington State University	Criminology and deviance, drug use, abuse and policy, research methods and statistics, community studies.
Kristin Barker Associate Professor	kristen.barker@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5375	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Sociology of health and medicine, sociological theory, professions, gender and feminist theory, historical and textual methods.
Lori Cramer Associate Professor	lcramer@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5382	Utah State University	Natural resource sociology, environmental sociology, social impact assessment, rural sociology.
Mark Edwards Associate Professor	medwards@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5379	University of Washington	Stratification and inequality, public policy research methods and statistics, sociology of housing.
Sally Gallagher Professor & Chair	sgallagher@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5367	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Work and family, gender, sociology of religion, international development.
Roger Hammer Assistant Professor	rhammer@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5406	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Ecological demography, rural sociology, migration, housing.
Michelle Inderbitzin Associate Professor	mli@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-8921	University of Washington	Juvenile delinquency, criminology, deviant behavior and social control, sociology of education.
Denise Lach Associate Professor	denise.lach@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5471	University of Oregon	Environmental natural resource sociology, applied sociology including social impact assessment, program evaluation, and organizational development, organizational sociology, water conflict and dispute resolution.
William E. Loges Associate Professor	bill.loges@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-9855	University of Southern California	Media communication: communication infrastructures, media effects, politics, critical studies of media systems, interpersonal networks.
Dwaine Plaza Associate Professor	dplaza@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5369	York University (Canada)	Caribbean studies, migration and settlement, race and ethnic relations.
Rebecca Warner Professor	rwarner@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5381	Washington State University	Sociology of families, gender, research methods and statistics, comparative/international.
Affiliated Faculty
John Bliss Professor, Forest Resources	john.bliss@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-4427	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Private forest policy, forest-based rural development, natural resources sociology.
Joan Gross Professor, Anthropology	jgross@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-3852	University of Texas-Austin	International and rural policy.
Michael Harte Professor & Director, Marine Resources Mgt.	mharte@coas.oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1339	University of Victoria	Rights-based fishery management systems; capacity building for sustainable management of the environment; co-management of coastal marine resources; and decision support systems to assist environmental decision-making.
William Jaeger Associate Professor, AREC	WJaeger@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1419	Stanford University	land use regulation, water allocation, environmental taxation, the relationship between economic growth and natural resource allocation, and sustainable development.
Sunil Khanna Associate Professor, Anthropology	skhanna@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-3859	Syracuse University	International and rural policy.
Robert Lackey EPA, Fisheries & Wildlife	Robert.Lackey@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 754-4607	Colorado State University	Science, policy, and environmental protection; biological resource management, fisheries management.
Kate MacTavish Associate Professor, HDFS	kate.mactavish@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5382	University of Illinois, Urbana	My research centers on examining how small towns and rural places function for the children and families who call them home.
B. Starr McMullen Professor, AREC	s.mcmullen@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1480	University of California, Berkeley	Transportation economics, public policy analysis, industry structure, competitiveness, and regulation.
Kurt Peters Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies	kpeters@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5379	University of California, Berkeley	Twentieth century Native American experience and Native American wage labor.
Robert Thompson Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies	rthompson@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5367	University of California, Sant Cruz	Contemporary African American social and political discourse; racial patterns of urbanization.
Leslie Richards Professor, HDFS	Leslie.Richards@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1071	Cornell University	Impact of poverty on families and children; rural poverty; welfare reform; qualitative methodology; program evaluation.
Larry Roper Dean, CLA, Ethnic Studies	larry.roper@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5471	University of Maryland, College Park	Principal investigator and project director for a Kellogg Foundation grant for the Leadership for Institutional Change in Higher Education Initiative.
Gregg Walker Professor, Communications	gwalker@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2461	University of Kansas	Environmental (conflict)
Bruce Weber Professor, AREC	Bruce.Weber@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1432	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Causes of poverty and hunger in rural areas, particularly on the interaction of community characteristics, public policy and household economic outcomes for low-income people.
Aaron Wolf Associate Professor, Geosciences	wolfa@geo.oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5369	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Transboundary water conflicts and conflict resolution, water basin technical and policy analysis, environmental policy analysis.

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