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 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 from University of Pittsburgh	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. Projects: My book, The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan (Oxford University press, 2015) explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its catastrophic defeat in World War II. The book shows how and why defeat has become an indelible part of national collective life in Japan, especially in recent decades. Divisive war memories lie at the root of the contentious politics such as Japan's pacifist constitution and remilitarization, and fuel the frictions in East Asia known as Japan's "history problem." The Long Defeat has won the Scholarly Achievement Award of the North Central Sociological Association, and is now published also in Japanese and Chinese language editions. Prior to this project, I have also published three books in the area of aging, family, and policy. Scholarly activities: The Chinese edition of my book The Long Defeat (2019) has now sold 10,000 copies, and I am grateful that the publisher has just renewed the copyright for another 10,000 copies. In 2023, the total worldwide sales for The Long Defeat reached 17,000 copies (three languages). The Japanese education of The Long Defeat (2017) has now become a standard reference in the field. A new book has just been published based on the concept of cultural trauma that I introduced to Japan's scholarly community. I've been invited to join a research project at Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology that considers cutting-edge work in cultural sociology worldwide. The project will begin in the fall of 2023.

Visiting Scholar

Akiko Hashimoto, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar from University of Pittsburgh

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.

Projects:

My book, The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan (Oxford University press, 2015) explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its catastrophic defeat in World War II. The book shows how and why defeat has become an indelible part of national collective life in Japan, especially in recent decades. Divisive war memories lie at the root of the contentious politics such as Japan's pacifist constitution and remilitarization, and fuel the frictions in East Asia known as Japan's "history problem." The Long Defeat has won the Scholarly Achievement Award of the North Central Sociological Association, and is now published also in Japanese and Chinese language editions. Prior to this project, I have also published three books in the area of aging, family, and policy.

Scholarly activities:

The Chinese edition of my book The Long Defeat (2019) has now sold 10,000 copies, and I am grateful that the publisher has just renewed the copyright for another 10,000 copies.
In 2023, the total worldwide sales for The Long Defeat reached 17,000 copies (three languages).
The Japanese education of The Long Defeat (2017) has now become a standard reference in the field. A new book has just been published based on the concept of cultural trauma that I introduced to Japan's scholarly community.
I've been invited to join a research project at Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology that considers cutting-edge work in cultural sociology worldwide. The project will begin in the fall of 2023.