Name

Title and Affiliation

Interests

E-mail

FACULTY WITH IR APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations. Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978.

International relations methodology, arms-control negotiation.

jbennett@syr.edu

Professor, Political Science and International Relations, and former Chair, International Relations Program. Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967.

Foreign policy decision-making, international negotiation, discourse analysis, methodology.

gmbonham@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor,  International Relations.

International economics and finance, macroeconomics and the political economy of transitional countries.

ssbrown@maxwell.syr.edu

Emeritus Professor of Practice, International Relations. B.A., Harvard, 1953.

Former Ambassador, U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Asian, European, African, and Canadian experience.

gcooke@maxwell.syr.edu

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations. Director of Undergraduate Studies, International Relations Program. PhD, Cornell, 1989.

International relations, international law and organizations, comparative Government, Latin American politics, US security policy.

fjdamico@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor, Political Science. Ph.D., in Psychology, Northwestern, 1965.

Political leadership and its impact on foreign policy; political psychology.

mgherman@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor, International Relations. Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968.

Management of international organizations, evaluation of international programs and projects.

JRMathia@maxwell.syr.edu

Adjunct Assistant Professor, International Relations. Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1987.

Conflict resolution, ethnic conflict, women and politics.

northrup@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor of Practice and Chair, International Relations Program. MA, University of New Mexico, 1970.

Foreign Policy, Latin America, Europe.

djplanty@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor, Economics and International Relations, Gerald and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1970.

International economics, trade policy.

jdrichar@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor, Anthropology and International Relations, and Director, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts. Ph.D., SUNY, 1977.

The Middle East, conflict resolution, international peacekeeping, security and ethnic conflict.

rar@syr.edu

Professor and Director, International Relations Programs in Washington. Ph.D., the American University, 1978.

International Studies, environmental studies, East-West relations, diplomacy.

mischnei@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor Political Science and Professor of International Relations. Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1972.

Foreign policy, political theory, methodology.

thorson@syr.edu

ADJUNCT IR FACULTY

International Trade Attorney, Professor, University of Maryland,  MA, Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Commercial and legal issues in emerging markets.

Balkan politics, health and environmental security, and international migration.

Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, Kings College of London. Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, 1989.

Relationship between politics and war, Clausewitz and his influence, European security and foreign policy-making.  

jan.honig@kcl.ac.uk

Senior Director, Strategic Communications, National Security Council, career military affairs officier, MA, Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Terrorism, national security, strategic communications. 

Former ambassador, career diplomat. MS, Columbia University, MA, University of Chicago.

African, refugee, and humanitarian affairs.  

leaderje@yahoo.com

US Institute of Peace, career diplomat. MA, Syracuse University.

Southeast Asia, China, Northeast Asia, and South Asia.  

Adjunct Professor of Practice, International Relations, and Associate Director for Applied Conflict Resolution. J.D., University of Iowa College of Law, 1968.

Dispute resolution, Middle East conflict.

jsmurr02@maxwell.syr.edu

Brookings Institution, formerly US Treasury and Institute of International Finance.

Global finance, emerging markets.  

Formerly with US Institute of Peace, career diplomat. PhD, University of Kent.

Conflict resolution, negotiation, management, and international relations.  

AFFILIATED IR FACULTY

Afridi, Farzana          [ bio / web-site ]

Armstrong, Douglas V.
[ bio / web-site ]

Associate Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1983

Archeology of North America, historical archaeology, ethnohistory, Caribbean.

darmstrong@maxwell.syr.edu

Arzt, Donna
[ bio / web-site ]

Professor, Law. LL.M., Columbia University, 1988

Public international law, international human rights, comparative law.

dearzt@law.syr.edu

Barkun, Michael                     [ bio / web-site ]
 

Professor, Political Science. Ph.D., Northwestern, 1965

Millenarian and utopian movements, jurisprudence, international law.

mbarkun@maxwell.syr.edu

Bennett, David
[ bio / web-site ]

Professor, History. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1963.

Political extremism in America, 20th-century American history, modern military history

dhbennet@maxwell.syr.edu

International organizations, United Nations, humanitarian relief, economic and social development, education of girls, hunger and food policy.

Bhatia, Tej
[ bio / web-site ]

Professor, Foreign Languages and Literatures. Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1978.

Formal and socio-linguistics, language and social cognition, South Asian languages and linguistics, discourse analysis.

tkbhatia@syr.edu

Associate Professor, Political Science. Ph.D., American University, 1990.

The Middle East, comparative politics, international relations.

mboroujerdi@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor, Sociology. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989.

Environmental/ natural resource/ organizational sociology: cross-national comparisons and transnational processes and realities, environment and development; developing nations, public opinion, public policy, survey research methods.

sbrechin@maxwell.syr.edu
 

Professor, Anthropology. PhD., Columbia, 1966.

Latin America, particularly the Andes, and Europe. Individual and local variations in social behavior to wider regional, national and international phenomena.

hcbuechl@maxwell.syr.edu

Associate Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D., City University of New York, 1990.

Religious movements, politics, gender, medical, African Americans, Brazil, Latin America.

jsburdic@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor, African American Studies. Ph.D., Sussex University, 1979.

Comparative politics, African international relations, popular struggles for democracy, world economy since World War II.

hgcampbe@syr.edu

Associate Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988.

Applied anthropology, economic development, ecology, forestry, refugees, East Africa.

ahcastro@maxwell.syr.edu

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science and Assistant Director of the Global Affairs Institute.

Science and policy; perceptual frames, global climate politics, bureaucracy and politics.

bwdayton@maxwell.syr.edu

Assistant Professor, Public Administration. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1992.

International security, international organizations and regimes.

rdenever@maxwell.syr.edu

Gender studies, qualitative methodology, feminist studies, social interaction.

Associate Professor, Political Science. Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987.

Political conflict, political methodology, political behavior and communication.

gduffy@maxwell.syr.edu

History of modern Europe, Italy, Fascism, and political violence.

Assistant Professor, History. Ph.D., University College, London, 1995.

Modern Britain, History of Political Thought.

pjedward@maxwell.syr.edu

Associate Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1967.

Poverty and human services, economics, kinship, applied health care, child abuse, and land tenure.

mfreedma@maxwell.syr.edu

Assistant Professor, African American Studies and History. Ph.D., Emory University, 1998.

Post-Civil War African American history, South African history.

wgradywi@syr.edu

Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1984.

Teaching and research on popular religious practice in modern India, gender and religion, religions and the natural environment.

aggold@syr.edu

jhyndman@maxwell.syr.edu

Nonviolent conflict and change, conflict resolution.

Social and cultural theory, colonialism, work and class, ethnicity, social transformation, political violence, Europe, Northern Ireland, Cuba.

Associate Professor, Political Science. Ph.D. Cornell University, 1991

International Relations, transnational actors and activism.

aklotz@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor, Finance. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.  School of Management and Director, Kiebach Center for International Business Studies.

International business. International financial market behavior, economic systems in transition, theory and practice of financial system reform. Asia in general, and China and Shanghai in particular.

peter@som.syr.edu

Immigrants and immigration, religion, ethnicity, immigrant politics, India.

Associate Professor and Chair, History. Ph.D., Yale University, 1991; J.D., Boston College, 1985.

Cultural, social, and intellectual history of China.

nakutche@syr.edu

Associate Professor, Economics. Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1989.

International trade, public finance.

melovely@maxwell.syr.edu

Assistant Professor, Public Administration. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1999.

Development economics, natural resource economics, African agricultural development

jomcpeak@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor and Chair, Geography. Ph.D., McMaster, 1971.

Urban and political geography, housing, Canada/U.S. relations, comparative studies.

jmercer@maxwell.syr.edu

Associate Professor, Economics. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1996.

International Trade, Political Economy and Development Economics.

dmitra@maxwell.syr.edu

Assistant Professor, Geography. Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2003.

Social geographies of transnational migration; cultural geographies of power, the nation-state, and the border; feminist and urban geography; research methodologies

amountz@maxwell.syr.edu

Associate Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1974.

Women, urbanization, ethnicity, cultural aspects of space and design, Africa, China.

dpellow@maxwell.syr.edu

Assistant Professor, Geography. Ph. D. University of Colorado, 2000.

Political ecology, rural development, indigenous peoples' social movements, environmental conservation and resource management, and Latin America.

taperrea@maxwell.syr.edu

Associate Professor, Public Administration, Director, Campbell Institute. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1994.

Comparative administrative reform, public management

asrobert@maxwell.syr.edu

DellPlain Professor, Latin American Geography. Ph.D., London University, 1967.

Historical, Latin American colonial population, Peruvian development, Latin America.

drobins@maxwell.syr.edu 

Professor, History; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1981.

Renaissance Italy, early modern social history, Venice.

dromano@maxwell.syr.edu

Associate Professor, History. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1995.

Latin American history.

karosemb@maxwell.syr.edu

Associate Professor, Political Science. Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1987.

International political economy, politics of production.

merupert@maxwell.syr.edu

Associate Professor, Geography. Ph.D., University of Wales, 1992.

Economic restructuring, industrial reorganization related to regional change, labor market policy, North America and the U.K.

trutherf@maxwell.syr.edu

Assistant Professor, Political Science. Ph.D., European University Institute, 1999.

International norms and their transnational promotion by international governmental and non-governmental organizations; democratic transitions from authoritarian rule in the (East) African context.

hpschmit@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor, Public Administration. Ph.D., Wisconsin University.

Public sector economics; quantitative methods; financial management in local governments and developing countries.

ldshroe@maxwell.syr.edu

Associate Professor, Public Administration. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1998.

Development administration; international public health policy; political development; Chinese and Southeast Asian politics.

jrshiffm@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor, History. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1967.

U.S. diplomatic history, revolutionary war.

wcstinch@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1973.

Social change, demography, religions, folklores, gender issues, India.

sswadley@maxwell.syr.edu

Dean of the Maxwell school.  Ph.D. (1978) and M.S. (1977) in political science, M.I.T.

Assistant Professor, Political Science. Ph.D., Princeton University, 1996.

International political economy in the Pacific Rim; political economy theory; East Asian politics and political economy; culture and institutions in world politics.

Hwang04@maxwell.syr.edu

Associate Dean for Academic Administration and Professor of Economics.  Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975.

Fields of Specialization: Public Finance, Urban Economics Research Interests: Taxation, Business Location Decisions

mwasyl1enko@maxwell.syr.edu

Professor, Geography. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1978.

Social, cultural, comparative urbanization; Southern Africa.

jcwester@maxwell.syr.edu