Faculty Specializations

Full-time FacultySpecializations
Grace Arnold, Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Committee Chair
URBN 450-L
503-725-3931
garnold@pdx.edu
Labor and Health Economic
Neal Becker, Teaching Professor
URBN 450-P
503-725-6847
nealb@pdx.edu
Sports economics and microeconomics
Randall Bluffstone, Professor
URBN 450-J
503-725-3938
bluffsto@pdx.edu
Environmental & resource economics, including climate change, energy, pollution control and deforestation in low-income countries
Sahan Dissanayake, Associate Professor
URBN 450-F
503-725-9315
sahan@pdx.edu
Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Mathematical Programming, Ecosystem Services, Non-Market Valuation
John Gallup, Associate Professor
URBN 450-G
503-725-3929
jlgallup@pdx.edu
Economic Development, Health Economics, Distribution and Inequality, Geography
John Hall, Professor
URBN 470-E
503-725-3939
hallj@pdx.edu
Comparative Economic Systems, Evolutionary-Institutional Economics, Economics of Innovation, Frontier Economy of Amazon River Valley
Hiro Ito, Professor
URBN 450-M
503-725-3930
ito@pdx.edu
Monetary economics, International finance, Economic development, Asian economics
Riju Joshi, Assistant Professor
URBN 450-K
503-725-3934
riju@pdx.edu
Econometric Methodology
Arnab Mitra, Associate Professor
URBN 450-C
503-725-3937
arnab@pdx.edu
Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics, and Microeconomics
Cesar M. Rodriguez, Associate Professor and 
Graduate Committee Chair
URBN 450-N
503-725-3943
cesar.rodriguez@pdx.edu
International Economics, Macroeconomics, Growth and Development Economics, Latin American Economies
Rajiv Sharma, Professor
URBN 450-D
503-725-3925
sharmar@pdx.edu
Access and disparities in health care; consumer preferences and behavior; cost-effectiveness analysis
Sarah Tinkler, Professor
URBN 450-E
503-725-3933
tinkler@pdx.edu
Economics education, computational linguistics, health economics
J. Forrest Williams, Assistant Professor and Department Chair
URBN 450-A
503-725-3908
forrest.williams@pdx.edu
Behavioral Economics, Charitable Giving, Experimental Economics
Jamie Woods, Assistant Professor
URBN 450-H
503-465-4883
woodsj@pdx.edu
Energy Economics

 

Part-time FacultyCourses Taught
Trish Atkinson, Adjunct Faculty
503-725-8851
paa@pdx.edu
Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics
Chantha Kim, Adjunct Faculty
503-725-3907
chantha@pdx.edu
Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics
Sudeshna Pal, Adjunct Faculty
503-725-3907
sudeshna@pdx.edu
Applied Econometrics, Environmental Economics and Regional Energy Policy