Faculty

Name	Contact Information	PhD Institution	Policy Areas
Economics Program
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.
Marc Hellman Instructor	marc.hellman@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5917	Claremont Graduate School	Regulatory economics.
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.
Qinglai Meng Associate Professor	Qinglai.Meng@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-8744	New York University	Macroeconomics.
Todd Pugatch Assistant Professor	todd.pugatch@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-6628	University of Michigan	Labor economics, development economics and education economics.
Elizabeth Schroeder Assistant Professor	liz.schroeder@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1476	Georgetown University	Applied microeconomics and development.
Carol Horton Tremblay 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	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 Program
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
Alison Johnston Assistant Professor	alison.johnston@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-62343	London School of Economics	Comparative politics and economics
Philipp Kneis Instructor	philipp.kneis@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1325	University Potsdam, Germany	International, Social and Cultural politics
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.
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	Political theory, especially theories of justice and democracy, domestic and global inequality, race and ethnicity, environmental political theory.
Edward Weber Dubauch Professor of Environmental Policy	EdwardWeber@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2811	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Environmental politics and policy, public administration, science and politics.
Sociology Program
Scott Akins Associate Professor	sakins@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5370	Washington State University	Criminology and deviance, drug use and policy, research methods.
Hilary Boudet Associate Professor	Hilary.Boudet@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2641	Stanford University	Social movements, environmental policy, energy policy.
Brett Burkhardt Assistant Professor	brett.burkhardt@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2310	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Sociology of law, law and society, political sociology, criminal justice and criminology.
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	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 Professor and Director of School of Public Policy	denise.lach@oregonstate.edu	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.
Dwaine Plaza Professor	dplaza@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5369	York University (Canada)	Caribbean studies, migration and settlement, race and ethnic relations.
Jennifer Sykes Assistant Professor	Beginning in Fall Quarter 2011	Harvard University	Social Policy, poverty and inequality, social services administration, child and family welfare.
Becky Warner Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs	rwarner@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-0732	Washington State University	Gender and family policy; science policy; comparative and international gender policy.
Affiliated Faculty
Brenda O. Bateman Instructor, Institute for Water and Watersheds	brenda.o.bateman@state.or	University of Maryland, Baltimore	Environmental Policy
Stephanie Bernell Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy	stephanie.bernell@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-9162	Johns Hopkins University	Labor market effects of physical and mental health status, the relationship between place and obesity, and the causes of hunger and food insecurity.
Samuel Chan Oregon Sea Grant	samuel.chan@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-8692	Oregon State University	Aquatic ecosystems health, marine and coastal policy and outreach, invasive species.
Yong Chen Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics	yong.chen@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-3176	Ohio State University	Regional development and land use policy.
Chunhuei Chi Associate Professor and Coordinator, International Health Program	chunhuei.chi@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-3836	Harvard University	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.
Joe Cone Assistant Director & Program Leader, Oregon Sea Grant Communications	joe.cone@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-0756		Climate change; environmental policy; communication research.
Patti Duncan Associate Professor, Women Studies Program	patti.duncan@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-9274	Emory University	Transnational feminist theories; gender and the global economy; gender issues in Asia.
Sally Duncan Director, Oregon Policy Analysis Laboratory	sally.duncan@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2811	Oregon State University	Humans and their natural resources, in particular the intertwined roles of science, communications, and social acceptance of resource management.
Molly Engle Associate Professor, College of Education	molly.engle@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-4126	University of Arizona	Seamless evaluation, application of systems thinking and learning to evaluation, and evaluation of community-based programs.
Chinweike Eseonu College of Engineering	chinweike.eseonu@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-0024	Texas Tech University	Human Systems Engineering
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.
Mark Fermanich Assistant Professor, College of Education	Mark.Fermanich@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-4661	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Education Policy Analysis, education budgeting and finance.
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.
Hannah Gosnell Associate Professor, Geosciences	gosnellh@geo.oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1222	University of Colorado, Boulder	Rural geography, natural resource management, the U.S. West.
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.
Jacob Darwin Hamblin Associate Professor, History of Science	jacob.hamblin@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-3503	University of California, Santa Barbara	History of Science, History of Technology, Environmental History.
Felisha Herrera Assistant Professor, College of Education	Felisha.Herrera@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 758-2998	University of California, Los Angeles	Education Policy
Jack Higginbotham Professor and Director, Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium	jack.higginbotham@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-9949	University of California, Los Angeles	Space Policy
Katharine M. Hunter-Zaworski Associate Professor, College of Engineering	katharine.hunter-zaworski@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-4982	Oregon State University	Civil Engineering
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.
Andrew C. Klein Professor, College of Engineering	Andrew.Klein@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-7061	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Nuclear Engineering & Radiation Health Physics
Jeffrey Kline Research Forester, Pacific Northwest Research Station	JKline@fs.fed.us Phone: (541) 758-7776	University of Rhode Island	Land use, development effects on forestry, public forest values, open space.
Robert Lackey Professor, Fisheries and 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.
Larry Lev Professor and Extension Economist, Agricultural & Resource Econ	larry.lev@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) (541) 737-1417	Michigan State University	Agricultural & Resource Economics, local food systems and values-based agricultural supply chains.
Kate MacTavish Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences	kate.mactavish@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-9130	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.
Mark Needham Associate Professor, Forest Ecosystems and Society	mark.needham@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1498	Colorado State University	Human dimensions of natural resources, recreation, tourism and wildlife.
Leslie Richards Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences	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.
Randall Rosenberger Associate Professor, Forest Ecosystems and Society	r.rosenberger@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-4425	Colorado State University	Economics of Recreation Resources, valuation of non-market resources and economics of sustainable natural resources.
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.
Vijay A. Satyal Senior Policy Analyst, Oregon Department of Energy	Vijay.A.Satyal@state.or.us Phone: (503) 373-7806	Oregon State University	Renewable energy policy.
Susan Shaw Professor & Chair, Women Studies	sshaw@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-3082	Southern Baptist Seminary	Systems of oppression in women's lives.
Garry Stephenson Coordinator, Small Farms Program	garry.stephenson@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-5833	University of Oregon	Local and Regional Food systems, Alternative marketing systems, Farmers’ markets, Beginning farmer and rancher education
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
Karen Thompson Assistant Professor, Education	Karen.Thompson@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2988	Stanford University	Education Policy
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.
Gregg Walker Professor, Communications	gwalker@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-2461	University of Kansas	Environmental (conflict)
Haizhong Wang Assistant Professor, College of Engineering	Haizhong.Wang@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-8538	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Civil Engineering
Bruce Weber Professor and Director, Agriculture and Resource Economics, Rural Studies Program	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.
Eric D. Weber Assistant Professor, College of Education	Eric.Weber@oregonstate.edu Phone: (541) 737-1305	Arizona State University Madison	Mathematics Education
Justin Wettstein Instructor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences	jwettstein@coas.oregonstate.edu	University of Washington, Seattle	Environmental Policy
Aaron Wolf Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences	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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