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Master of Public Policy

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

David Bernell
Assistant Professor
david.bernell@oregonstate.edu
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) 737-2811
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.