Faculty
Director
Camille Walsh
Associate Professor
Ph.D., History, University of Oregon; J.D. Harvard Law School
Research Fields: Legal and Policy History; Education Policy; Critical Race and Gender Studies; Human Rights; Tax Policy
Methodological Expertise: Qualitative Methods; Legal Research; Textual Analysis; Archival Research/Historical Analysis
Faculty
Shauna Elbers Carlisle
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Social Welfare, University of Washington
Research Fields: Social Welfare, Social Policy, Social Services and Nonprofit Administration, Health Disparities
Methodological Expertise: Quantitative Methods, Multilinear models, Program Evaluation/Evaluation Science
Charlie Collins
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Ecological Community Psychology, Michigan State University
Research Fields: Community psychology, community organizing, racial and social justice
Methodological Expertise: advanced quantitative methods and analysis, social network analysis, survey methods, interview methods, hard to reach populations
Joseph J. Ferrare
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Curriculum Theory & Research Methods, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Fields: Education policy, policy formation, policy networks
Methodological Expertise: Social network analysis, clustering and scaling, mixed methods, research design
Martha Groom
Professor
Ph.D., Zoology, University of Washington
Research Fields: Biodiversity Conservation, Land Use Planning, Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice, Ecology
Methodological Expertise: Experimental design, Quantitative and some Qualitative methods (survey and interview)
Cinnamon Hillyard
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, Utah State University
Research Fields: Undergraduate Mathematics Education, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Ethnomathematics
Dan Jacoby
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Economics, University of Washington
Research Fields: Economics Labor, Education, Public Policy and Law
Methodological Expertise: Economic Analysis
Jin-Kyu Jung
Professor
Ph.D., Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo
Research Fields: Urban Geography, Urban Planning
Methodological Expertise: Geographic Information Sciences (GIS); participatory mapping; qualitative/mixed methods
Lauren Lichty
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, Ecological-Community Psychology
Research Fields: Adolescent Health, Sexual Health, Community Psychology
Melanie Malone
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Earth, Environment, and Society, Portland State University
Research Fields: Soils, Geomorphology, Contaminants, Spatial Analysis, Critical Physical Geography
Methodological Expertise: Soil and water quality sampling techniques, GIS and Remote Sensing
Keith Nitta
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Research Fields: Education Policy, Policy Process, Politics
Methodological Expertise: Interviewing, Focus Groups, Survey, Program Evaluation
Margaret H. Redsteer
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Trace Element Geochemistry/ Geosciences, Oregon State University
Research Fields:Desertification, Natural Hazards
Methodological Expertise: Geochemistry, Sedimentology, Geologic and surficial mapping
David Stokes
Professor
Ph.D., Zoology, University of Washington
Research Fields: Conservation Biology, Ecology
Methodological Expertise: Field Ecology, Quantitative Methods
Robert Turner
Teaching Professor
Ph.D. Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research fields: Environmental management and monitoring, Enviromental geography, Environment and Sustainability
Denise Vaughan
Lecturer
Ph.D. Political Science, Washington State University
Research Fields: Political Psychology, International Relations Health Policy.
Methodological Expertise: Qualitative Analysis, Content Analysis, Grounded Theory.