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 development; industrial, labor, urban and environmental economics; policy analysis.
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, public economics.
Bruce McGough Associate 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.
Ayca Tekin-Koru Assistant Professor	a.tekin-koru@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-9825	Purdue University	International trade.
Carol Horton Tremblay Associate Professor	ctremblay@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, the economics of advertising, and the economics of the U.S. brewing and cigarette industries.
Political Science Faculty
Amy Below Assistant Professor	Amy.Below@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-6280	University of Southern California	International relations, foreign policy, foreign policy analysis, international environmental politics.
David Bernell Assistant Professor	david.bernell@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2811	Johns Hopkins University	International policy, foreign relations, energy, environment, Latin America
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) 737-6235	Columbia University	China's political economy in the early 1950s, Sino-Soviet relations, the CCP and its evolution and change.
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 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 and policy, research methods.
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.
Flaxen Conway Professor	flaxen.conway@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1418	Oregon State University	Communities coping with change and transition; personal and group leadership education; cooperative learning and research; renewable energy policy.
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	Poverty and inequality, food security, sociology of housing, research methods.
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 Associate 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.
Affiliated Faculty
Gail Achterman Director, Institute for Natural Resources	gail.achterman@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 740-3190	J.D., University of Michigan	State and national natural resource and environmental policy-making.
Samuel Chan Oregon Sea Grant	samuel.chan@oregonstate.edu Phone: (%41) 737-8692	Oregon State University	Aquatic ecosystems health, marine and coastal policy and outreach, invasive species.
Sally Duncan Program Manager, Institute for Natural Resources	sally.duncan@oregonstate.edu (541) 737-9918	Oregon State University	Humans and their natural resources, in particular the intertwined roles of science, communications, and social acceptance of resource management.
Lena Etuk Social Demographer Faculty	Lena.Etuk@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-6121	(M.S.) University of Wisconsin, Madison	Social demographic topics including poverty, stratification by race, class, and gender, labor, community development, community-based research, applied demography, migration, and housing.
Lisa Gaines Associate Director, Institute for Natural Resources	lisa.gaines@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1976	Oregon State University	Environmental policy and decision-making, citizen participation, evaluation, and human dimensions of environmental risk.
Joan Gross Professor, Anthropology	jgross@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-3852	University of Texas-Austin	Agrifood movements, rural anthropology, Europe, Latin America, food and discourse.
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 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 health, genetic privacy policy, HIPPA, rural-urban migration, gender and development, reproductive health, policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation.
Robert Lackey Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife	Robert.Lackey@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-0569	Colorado State University	Interface between science and policy, natural resource management, environmental policy.
Janet Lee Professor, Women Studies	jlee@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-6132	Washington State University	Gender and science, global women's issues, theories of feminisms, and feminist research.
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 Professor, Ethnic Studies	kpeters@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5668	University of California, Berkeley	Twentieth century Native American experience and Native American wage labor.
Randall Rosenberger Associate Professor, Forest Ecosystems and Society	r.rosenberger@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 7374425	Colorado State University	Non-market valuation, meta-analysis, recreation economics, environmental and resource economics.
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 Vice Provost, Student Affairs	larry.roper@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2759	University of Maryland, College Park	Racism and interracial dynamics, social distance.
Nancy Rosenberger Professor, Anthropology	nrosenberger@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-3857	University of Michigan	Gender, food systems, organic agriculture, rural anthropology, hegemony and resistance in market and nation, globalization/localization, ethnographic methods, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, Oregon
Darlene Russ-Eft Professor & Chair, Adult Education	darlene.russeft@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-9373	University of Michigan	Program evaluation, research design, work place learning, training and development, human resource development.
Susan Shaw Professor & Chair, Women Studies	sshaw@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-3082	Southern Baptist Seminary	Systems of oppression in women's lives.
Bryan Tilt Assistant Professor, Anthropology	bryan.tilt@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-3896	University of Washington	Sustainable development, environmental risk assessment, pollution, community participation, natural resources, fisheries management
Gregg Walker Professor, Communications	gwalker@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2461	University of Kansas	Environmental (conflict)
Becky Warner Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and International Programs	rwarner@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-0732	Washington State University	Gender and family policy; science policy; comparative and international gender policy.
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 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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