Affiliated Faculty

Matthew S. Bahr, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Gonzaga University received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Purdue University (2002). Dr. Bahr teaches courses in quantitative research methods, statistics, sociology of religion, and population and demography.  His research interests include sociology of religion and public policy.  His most recent project appearing in Social Science Research, explores correlates of financial giving to religious organizations.

Ph.D. in Sociology,  Loyola University Chicago, 2003
M.A. in Sociology, Loyola University Chicago, 1999
B.A. in Sociology and Spanish, Gonzaga University, 1996

Areas of interest: medical sociology, women's health, the environment, power and inequality, statistical methods and social justice.

Office Location
Hughes Hall 038B

Office Hours
Spring 2013

Monday:  12:10 - 1:00 and 3:10 - 4:00
Wednesday: 1:10 - 2:00
Friday: 11:00 - 11:50

Office Location
AD 335

Office Hours
Spring 2013
Monday and Wednesday 12:30-2:30
Tuesday 12:15-1:30
Thursday 12:15-1:00
or by appointment

Professor Besty Downey received a PhD in history from the University of Denver in 1971.  She is an American Historian whose interest, in keeping with her American Studies major, are wide-ranging. She has studied the Cold War, the New Deal, women in American Literature, and women in European History in post-doctoral seminars.  She has published on the Cold War, domestic violence on the frontier, and the works of Mari Sandoz.  She has developed courses on the Roosevelts, African-American history, American women's history, and Yellowstone National Park.

Office Location
Jepson 204

Education:
B.A., Economics and Spanish, University of Montana, 1999: M.S., Economics, University of Oregon, 2005: Ph.D., Economics, University of Oregon, 2009

Brief Bio:
Erica specializes in environmental and health economics. She teaches Health Economics, Microeconomics, Econometrics and MBA courses in economics. Her current research interests include estimating the benefits of reducing risks to human health; these estimates can be used in cost-benefit analyses of environmental and health policies.

Selected Publications:
Henrickson, Kevin E. and Erica H. Johnson (2013) "The Demand for Spatially Complementary National Parks" Land Economics, 89 (2): 330-345.

Cameron, T. A., J. R. DeShazo and E. H. Johnson. (2011) "Scenario adjustment in stated preference research" Journal of Choice Modelling, 4(1): 9-43.

Cameron, Trudy Ann, J.R. DeShazo and Erica Johnson.  (2010) “The Effect of Children on Adult Demands for Health-Risk Reductions,”  Journal of Health Economics, 29: 364-376.

Office Location
Hughes 218

Office Hours
Fall 2012

Monday:  11:00 - 11:50
Tuesday:  12:10 - 1:00
Thursday:  11:00 - 11:50

Associate Professor of Biology, 1999
Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1993
B.A., University of Washington, 1985

Office Location
College Hall 306B

Ph.D.: Saint Louis University, Social Psychology

Areas of Expertise: Attitude change; Environmental Psychology.

Research Interests: Mass media persuasion; College study habits.

Courses Taught: General Psychology, Social Psychology, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Environmental Psychology.

Office Location
Schoenberg Center, Room 010

Office Hours
Variable

Office Location
Robinson House 014

Office Hours

Monday 12:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Wednesday 12:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Friday 12:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

schearing@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Linda S. Schearing is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Gonzaga University, where she has taught since 1993.  Before coming to Gonzaga she taught at Luther College (Decorah, IA), Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), and Emory University (Atlanta, GA). She has co-authored two books, Eve & Adam:  Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender (Indiana University Press, 1999) and Those Elusive Deuteronomists: The Phenomenon of Pan-Dueteronomism (JSOT, 268; 1999), authored several articles, and has been a contributing writer for the Anchor Bible Dictionary, Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible,  The New Interpreters Bible Dictionary,  and to Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, The apocryphal/Deuterocanoncial Books and the New Testament. In addition to these publication activities, she has served as a consultant for various presses as well as a speaker in both local and national venues.  Her research interests are Hebrew Scriptures, Biblical Interpretation, the Bible and popular cultures, and women’s studies.

Office Location
Hughes 236

Office Hours
Fall 2012

Tuesday:  1:30 - 4:30
Thursday:  1:10 - 2:00

B. A., Chemistry, College of St. Thomas, 1982
Ph. D., Inorganic Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 1986

Office Location
HU 230A

Office Hours
Fall 2012

Monday:  2:10 - 4:00
Wednesday:  2:10 - 4:00