Associate Professor and Department Chair, Anthropology
Charles Klein designs and evaluates technology-delivered sexual health promotion programs that build on community resilience and utilize a harm reduction framework. Klein's current primary research focuses on first-generation university students through a global perspective. His sabbatical during the '25 to '26 academic year will be an ethnographic research on this topic in Belgium, Brazil, the US and South Africa. Klein also completed a small research project in 2023 on bar-based video lottery terminal gambling in Portland neighborhood bars.