Faculty & Staff

Faculty | Fixed Term Faculty | Staff | Adjunct Faculty | Affiliate Faculty | Emeriti Faculty | Visiting Scholars

Faculty

Faculty	Contact	Research Interests
Shirley A. Jackson, Ph.D., Professor	shja2@pdx.edu	Race, Social Movements, Gender
Daniel Jaffee, Ph.D., Professor	jaffee@pdx.edu	Environmental Sociology, Globalization, Food and Agriculture, Rural Sociology Social Movements, Political Economy
Maura Kelly, Ph.D., Professor	maura2@pdx.edu	Gender, Sexualities, Work and Occupations, Popular Culture
José Padin, Ph.D., Associate Professor	padinj@pdx.edu	Visions of Power, Immigration, Race, and Gender in the Media: Race Ethnicity in the U.S. an din Comparative Perspective; U.S. Power Elite; Educational Inequalities,; International Political Economy
Aaron Roussell, Ph.D., Associate Professor	roussell@pdx.edu	Racial Capitalism, Law and Society, Community Policing, Drug Policy and Addiction, Qualitative and Quantitative methodologies
Emily Shafer, Ph.D., Associate Professor	shafer4@pdx.edu	Gender, Family, Health, Work, Inequality, Social Demography, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Dara Shifrer, Ph.D., Associate Professor	dshifrer@pdx.edu	Education, Disability, Social Psychology, Teachers, Math and Science
Melissa Thompson, Ph.D., Professor	mthomp@pdx.edu	Criminology and Mental Illness
Lindsey Wilkinson, Ph.D., Associate Professor	lindsw@pdx.edu	Gender and Sexuality, Education, Health
Hyeyoung Woo, Ph.D., Department Chair, Professor	hyeyoung@pdx.edu	Family Demography, Health and Well-being, Race and Ethnic Relations, Korean Studies

Fixed-Term Faculty

Fixed-Term Faculty	Contact	Research Interests
Tina Burdsall, Ph.D., Teaching Assistant Professor	tdb@pdx.edu	Medical Sociology; Death and Dying; Health Disparities; Teaching Pedagogies; The Role of the Third Wave Digital Age on Health Care and Education

Staff

Staff	Contact
Kris Lucht Adams	luchtk@pdx.edu - 503-725-8904

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Faculty	Contract
Josh Bass	bassj@pdx.edu
JaDee Carathers	jadee@pdx.edu
Frances Stehle	frances1205@comcast.net
Elizabeth Withers	elizabew@pdx.edu
Carolyn Zook	zook@pdx.edu

Affiliate Faculty

Affiliate Faculty	Contact	Location
Miriam J. Abelson, Assistant Professor, Chair Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies School of Gender, Race, and Nations	abelson@pdx.edu	PKM 219
Robin Baker, Assistant Professor OHSU-PSU School of Public Health	bakrob@ohsu.edu	4th and Montgomery, 523G
Christopher Campbell, Assistant Professor Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice College of Urban and Public Affairs	ccampbell@pdx.edu	Urban Center, URBN 550B
Matthew Carlson, Associate Dean Undergraduate Programs College of Liberal Arts & Sciences	carlsonm@pdx.edu	Cramer Hall 314K
Veronica Dujon, Director, Academic Planning and Policy Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC)	veronica.dujon@state.or.us
Melissa Haeffner, Assistant Professor Environmental Science & Management	melh32@pdx.edu	SRTC-B1-04C
Mark Leymon, Associate Professor Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice College of Urban and Public Affairs	mleymon@pdx.edu	URBN 570E
Amy Lubitow, Professor Department of Environmental Sciences & Management College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	alubitow@pdx.edu	SRTC 218A
Curt Sobolewski, Associate Professor Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice College of Urban and Public Affairs	csobo2@pdx.edu	URBN
Beth Tarasawa, Instructor Educational Leadership & Policy College of Education	tarasawa@pdx.edu

Emeriti Faculty

Emeriti Faculty	Areas of Interest
Martha Balshem	Social inequalities; racism in U.S. culture and history; anti-racist pedagogy; inequality in higher education; college student success; ethnography.
Johanna Brenner	Class, race, gender. Political sociology. Feminist Theory
Grant Farr	Islam, Iran, Afghanistan, and refugees
Kathyrn Farr	Violence against women and children in armed conflicts; global human trafficking, especially of women and girls.
Robert Liebman	Organizations, Movements, and Social Change; Comparative-Historical Analysis
Alex Stepick	Social Inequalities, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Studies, Mexico and Caribbean
Michael Toth	Theory, religion, gender roles, organizations and leadership

Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholar
Akiko Hashimoto, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar	Interests: Cultural and Power, Global and Comparative Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Cultural Trauma, Memory, and National Identity, War and Peace in Popular Cartoons, Aging, Family, and Policy, Media and Popular Culture, Japanese Culture and Society.
Sooyoun Chang	Interests: Gender Equality, Low Fertility / Demographic Decline, Parenting Environments (Korea and the U.S.), Care Work and Labor Women’s Rights within the Family, Social Pressures on Working Mothers, Work–Family Balance Public Broadcasting in South Korea, Radio Production and Audio Documentary, K-pop Industry Systems
Mo Willow	Interests: Social stratification, labor market sociology, occupational attainment, earnings, race and gender, applied demography, Census and survey data methods, and public sector labor markets. Projects: My research examines patterns of occupational attainment and earnings stratification across race, gender, and institutional sector using Census and American Community Survey microdata. My dissertation traced these patterns in managerial employment from 1960 to 2021, drawing on harmonized IPUMS data to model access and compensation across six decades of structural change in the U.S. labor market. I am currently extending this work toward publication in sociology and related fields. Separately, through my affiliation with the Population Research Center at PSU, I am developing an applied research agenda focused on the demographic and socioeconomic dynamics of the Portland metropolitan region and Oregon, with a focus on questions of relevance to state and local planners and policymakers.

Visiting Scholar

Akiko Hashimoto, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar

Interests:

Cultural and Power, Global and Comparative Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Cultural Trauma, Memory, and National Identity, War and Peace in Popular Cartoons, Aging, Family, and Policy, Media and Popular Culture, Japanese Culture and Society.

Sooyoun Chang

Interests:

Gender Equality, Low Fertility / Demographic Decline, Parenting Environments (Korea and the U.S.), Care Work and Labor Women’s Rights within the Family, Social Pressures on Working Mothers, Work–Family Balance

Public Broadcasting in South Korea, Radio Production and Audio Documentary, K-pop Industry Systems

Mo Willow

Interests:
Social stratification, labor market sociology, occupational attainment, earnings, race and gender, applied demography, Census and survey data methods, and public sector labor markets.

Projects:
My research examines patterns of occupational attainment and earnings stratification across race, gender, and institutional sector using Census and American Community Survey microdata. My dissertation traced these patterns in managerial employment from 1960 to 2021, drawing on harmonized IPUMS data to model access and compensation across six decades of structural change in the U.S. labor market. I am currently extending this work toward publication in sociology and related fields. Separately, through my affiliation with the Population Research Center at PSU, I am developing an applied research agenda focused on the demographic and socioeconomic dynamics of the Portland metropolitan region and Oregon, with a focus on questions of relevance to state and local planners and policymakers.