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An
on-line list of Maxwell
School experts, available for comment on the news and trends of
the day. For further recommendations on Maxwell experts, contact
Jill Leonhardt, director of communications, at (315) 443-5492;
jlleonha@maxwell.syr.edu.
 David H. Bennett is
Meredith Professor
of History specializing in 20th century American
history, modern military history, terrorism and the history of
terrorism. He has written extensively on American right-wing movements
and political extremism. His
book The Party of Fear:
The American Far Right From Nativism to the Militia
Movement (Vintage Books, 1995) was named an “Outstanding
Book of the Year” by The New York Times Book Review in
1996. An earlier
edition won the Gustavus Meyers Prize, awarded to the best
scholarship of the subject of intolerance in the United States. He also
wrote Demagogues in the Depression:
American Radicals and the Union Party, 1932-36 (Rutgers
University Press, 1969). He was an editor of The Encyclopedia
of American Political History and wrote several pieces,
including one on President Bill Clinton, for that publication. Bennett is currently at work on a new
book, A Century of Scandal:
From Teapot Dome, Watergate, and Iran Contra to the
Politics of the 90s. Bennett
also has broad experience with intercollegiate athletics; he was
a founding member of the NCAA Faculty Athletics Representatives
Association and wrote "A Role Model for Faculty Committees
Concerned With Intercollegiate Athletics.”
Bennett received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago
in 1963. CATHERINE BERTINI cbertini@maxwell.syr.edu 315-443-1341  Catherine Bertini is professor of practice in public administration with areas
of expertise in humanitarian relief, international and nonprofit organizations,
and hunger and food policy. Bertini served for 10 years as executive
director of the United Nations World Food Program, the world’s largest
international humanitarian aid agency. Before serving in the U.N., Bertini was
assistant secretary of agriculture for food and consumer services, where she ran
the nation’s $33 billion domestic food assistance programs, including the food
stamp; school lunch and breakfast; and Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
programs. She also served in the Department of Health and Human Services, and
worked for the Illinois Human Rights Commission and the Container Corporation of
America. She received a B.A. from SUNY Albany in 1972. G. MATTHEW BONHAM gmbonham@maxwell.syr.edu 315-443-4277  G.
Matthew Bonham, professor of
political science and chair
of the international
relations program, works in
the area of international
political communications.
His research involves
information technology and
the development of computer
simulation models of policy
decision making. He
has done research on
relations between the United
States and Russia, the
Middle East conflict, and
the expansion of the
European Union. He is
currently conducting
research on communicative
aspects of the war on
terrorism. He has also
done research on active
learning and collaborative
learning through
applications of technology.
He has worked as a political
economist for the World
Bank's Sindh Project in
Karachi; an organizational
behavior specialist for the
Battelle Human Affairs
Research Centers; a
consultant for the Norwegian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Department of Policy
Planning and Research; and
as a learning specialist for
the Battelle Columbus
Laboratories.MEHRZAD
BOROUJERDI
STUART
BRETSCHNEIDER
315-443-9743
GOODWIN COOKE
WILLIAM
D. COPLIN
GAVAN DUFFY
DONALD
H. DUTKOWSKY
DANNY HAYES Danny Hayes is assistant professor of political science. A former journalist, he now studies the relationship between the media and politics, especially as it pertains to elections and campaigns, and the influence of news coverage on citizen attitudes, behavior, and opinions. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Political Communication, and American Politics Research. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in 2006.
MARGARET
(PEG) HERMANN
CHRISTINE
L. HIMES
W.
HENRY LAMBRIGHT
ROBERT
D. MCCLURE
MARK
MONMONIER
ROSEMARY
O’LEARY  Rosemary O’Leary is professor
of public administration and the author of five books and
over seventy articles on environmental management, environmental
policy, public management, dispute resolution, bureaucratic
politics, and law and public policy. An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Public
Administration, she was recently a senior Fulbright scholar
conducting research on environmental policy in Malaysia.
She was professor of public and environmental affairs at
Indiana University, and cofounder and co-director of the Indiana
Conflict Resolution Institute.
O’Leary has served as the director of policy and
planning for a state environmental agency and has worked as an
environmental attorney. She
was a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Interior, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Indiana Department of
Environmental Management, the International City/County
Management Association, the National Science Foundation, and the
National Academy of Sciences. She currently serves on the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's Return to Flight Task Group and the Aerospace
Safety Advisory Panel as a consultant to NASA management on
issues pertaining to organization culture and change. O’Leary received
a J.D. from the University of Kansas in
1981 and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1988.
JOHN
L. PALMER
DEBORAH
PELLOW
GRANT
REEHER
J. DAVID RICHARDSON
ALASDAIR
ROBERTS
DAVID
J. ROBINSON
KARIN
ROSEMBLATT
LARRY
SCHROEDER
MAUREEN
TRUDELLE SCHWARZ
JEREMY
SHIFFMAN
F.
WILLIAM SMULLEN III
JEFFREY
M. STONECASH
BRIAN TAYLOR
JOHN
MARSHALL TOWNSEND
SUSAN
S. WADLEY
MITCHEL B. WALLERSTEIN
HONGYING
WANG
JOHN
YINGER
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Kristi Andersen is professor of political science whose research focuses on women
and politics, political parties, American political history, and
how political parties and other civic organizations in the U.S. work to
incorporate immigrants into American political life.
Her book After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and
Electoral Politics Before the New Deal (University of
Chicago Press) won the Victoria Schuck Award from the American
Political Science Association for the best book on women and
politics in 1996. Her earlier book, The
Creation of a Democratic Majority, 1928-1936 (University of
Chicago Press), has been influential in shaping political
scientists' thinking about New Deal realignment.
Andersen has also published articles on such topics as the
gender gap, voting for male and female candidates, the effects
of entering the work force on women's political participation,
the prospects for electing more women to Congress, and the
changing meanings of U.S. elections.
Andersen received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1976. 
William
C. Banks is professor of public administration and law, and director of the
Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. He is an expert on
constitutional and national security law; he co-authored the definitive text
in the field, National Security Law, first published in 1990.
Banks also has written a number of other books, book chapters and articles.
His current research interests include domestic and international
terrorism, emergency powers, covert war powers, problems of official
corruption, civil/military relations, and appropriations powers. He was
named Special Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in
1994 and worked with the committee on the confirmation hearings for Supreme
Court nominee Stephen G. Breyer. Banks received a J.D. in 1974 and an M.A.
in 1982 from the University of Denver.
Michael Barkun is professor of
political science whose research includes domestic
terrorism, right-wing extremist groups, and the relationship
between religion and violence.
He has written 10 books, including A Culture of
Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (University of California Press, 2003); Religion and the
Racist Right: The
Origins of the Christian Identity Movement (University of
North Carolina Press, 1994 and 1997), which received the Myers
Center Award for the Study of Human Rights; and Disaster and the
Millennium (Yale University Press, 1974 and 1986).
Barkun, who has been a consultant to the FBI, serves on the editorial boards of Terrorism and Political
Violence and Nova Religio and was the editor of Communal
Societies from 1987 to 1994.
He edits the Religion and Politics books series
for the Syracuse University Press.
Barkun earned a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in
1965.
Jacob Bendix is associate
professor of geography and an adjunct associate professor of
earth sciences. He
researches the effects of disturbance (fire and flood) on plant
species patterns and biodiversity, primarily in the western U.S.
His recent projects have included an analysis of the
ecological impacts of Native American fire use on California
vegetation and a study of the impact of flood characteristics on
the distribution of species diversity in valley bottoms. Bendix has a particular interest in the ways in which human
activities may alter natural processes (e.g. through wildfire
control policies). He
has also conducted research on how news media cover
environmental issues: as an environmental scientist he is
interested in how the scientific aspects of these issues are
presented and as a citizen he is concerned with their impact on
policy formulation. Bendix
earned a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Georgia in
1992.
Mehrzad
Boroujerdi is associate professor of political science and
director of the Middle Eastern Studies program. He
specializes in the Middle East, particularly Iran, Iraq, and
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; oil and the role of OPEC; and
political Islam. He is an
Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute in
Washington, DC. Boroujerdi
is the author of Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The
Tormented Triumph of Nativism (Syracuse University Press,1996). His articles have appeared in Critique: Journal for
Critical Studies of the Middle East, Iranian Journal of
International Affairs, International Third World Studies Journal and
Review, Journal of Peace Research, Middle East Economic Survey, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World,
and 10 edited books.
He is the general editor of the Modern
Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East series
published by Syracuse University Press and the book review
editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Boroujerdi has done consulting work with the Academy for
Educational Development, the InterMedia
Survey Institute, Human Rights Watch, Educational Testing
Services/College Board, and The Research Council of Norway. He
received a Ph.D. in international relations from American
University in 1990.
Steven R. Brechin is professor of sociology whose
academic interests include environmental, natural resource and
organizational sociology. He is interested in better
understanding the forms of environmentalism that exist
throughout the world as well as developing theoretical
explanations for them. Brechin is also interested in the
social consequences and strategies related to biodiversity
conservation. Other interests include public attitudes and
knowledge about environmental issues, and the sociology of
international organizations from NGOs to the multi-lateral
organizations like the World Bank. A current book project,
“Organizing Nature,”explores organizational issues related to
nature protection. His most recent edited book is Contested
Nature: Power and the Dispossessed – Promoting
International Conservation with Social Justice in the 21st
Century (SUNY Press, 2003). Brechin also recently
co-authored the article, “Public Support for Both the
Environment and an Anti-Environmental President: Possible
Explanations for the George W. Bush Anomaly” in The Forum: A
Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics (2004).
He received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1989.
Stuart
Bretschneider is professor of public administration and director
of the Maxwell School’s Center for Technology and Information
Policy. He was
responsible for first integrating computer and information
management into Maxwell’s public administration program.
His current research interests include e-government,
e-democracy, public management
information systems, forecasting and decision making in public
organizations, and evaluation of environmental policy. Bretschneider
has published dozens of articles in journals including Management
Science, Information Systems Review, Public Administration
Review, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
He was director and past president of the
International Institute of Forecasting and served as associate
editor for the International Journal of Forecasting. Bretschneider
was also managing editor of the Journal of Public
Administration Research and Theory.
He has been a consultant to the U.S. General Accounting
Office; the states of New York, Ohio and Kentucky; and several
Fortune 500 companies. He
received a Ph.D. in public administration from Ohio State
University in 1980.
Arthur C. Brooks is
professor of public administration and director of the
nonprofit studies program at the Maxwell School. He specializes in
nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and the arts and culture.
Brooks has published more than 75 academic articles and books
and his work has regularly appeared in nonacademic publications
such as The Wall Street Journal and The Chronicle of
Philanthropy. Currently, he is writing a book on American
charity, which will be published in 2006 by Basic Books. Preceding his work
in academia,
Brooks spent 12 years as a professional musician, holding
positions with the Barcelona Symphony and other ensembles. He earned
an M.A. in economics from Florida Atlantic University in 1994
and a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in public policy analysis from the RAND Graduate
School of Policy Studies in 1998.
Keith J. Bybee holds the Michael
O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics in the
political science department and is associate professor at the
College of Law. His work focuses on American law
and courts; the politics of race; lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender politics; and issues of legal and
political theory. His current research examines the role of
ambivalence and hypocrisy in the judicial process. In particular, Bybee
considers the ways in which the practice of legal reasoning
mirrors the practice of common courtesy. On this basis, he
assesses the history of
American legal thought, beginning with the work of the Legal
Realists and extending through to the contemporary politics of
gay rights and affirmative action. Bybee's recent publications
include Legal Realism, Common Courtesy, and Hypocrisy
(Law, Culture, and the Humanities, 2005) and Mistaken Identity: The Supreme Court and the
Politics of Minority Representation (Princeton University
Press, second printing 2002). Prior to joining the
Maxwell School, he taught in the government department at
Harvard University for eight years. Bybee earned a Ph.D.
from the University of California, San Diego in 1995.
Goodwin Cooke is professor of international relations.
William
D. Coplin is professor of public affairs
whose interests span the fields of international relations,
public policy, political risk analysis, social science
education, and
volunteering. In 2000, he published How You Can Help: An
Easy Guide to Doing Good Deeds in Your Everyday Life (Routledge)
and co-authored Does Your Government Measure Up: Basic
Tools for Local Officials and Citizens. His
latest book, 10
Things Employers Want You to Learn in College (Ten
Speed Press, 2003), describes how undergraduates get the know-how from their college education to pursue successful
and fulfilling careers. This book is part of Coplin's
efforts to advocate a skills
approach to both high school and college education. Coplin has developed a community project-based
approach to citizenship education, which is used in more than 50
high schools throughout New York State.
His projects
to help youth develop citizenship skills include a program in
which Latino inner-city youth assisted police and other
government workers in communicating with the Spanish-speaking
community. His
website, genuinedogooder.com, describes his efforts to encourage
others to work for a better world. Coplin
received a Ph.D. in international relations from American
University in 1964.
Francine D’Amico is associate professor of
international relations. Her areas of expertise include women in the military, race and gender
in world politics, and Latin American politics and international relations. She
is the co-author of Gender Camouflage: Women and the U.S. Military;
Women in World Politics: An Introduction; and Women,
Gender and World Politics: Perspectives, Policies, & Prospects. A monograph entitled
Breaking Ranks: Women in Military, Police, & Fire Services Worldwide,
which deals with women in gender non-traditional occupations, is forthcoming.
D’Amico received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1989.
Christopher R. DeCorse is
professor of anthropology. His research interests
include culture contact and change, and material culture
studies, with a
primary area specialization on the archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography of sub-Saharan Africa,
particularly Sierra Leone and Ghana.
Since 1985, he has directed work in the central region of
coastal Ghana, particularly at the African settlement at Elmina,
the site of the first European trade post established in
sub-Saharan Africa. DeCorse
has published extensively,
including Record
of the Past: An
Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (Prentice Hall, 2000); West Africa During the Atlantic Slave
Trade: Archaeological
Perspectives (Leicester University Press, 2001);
and An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans
and Europeans on the Gold Coast (Smithsonian Press, 2001); Anthropology: A Global
Perspective (Prentice Hall, 2001), co-authored with Raymond
Scupin; and In the Beginning (Prentice Hall, 2005), with
Brian Fagan.
DeCorse earned a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1989. 
Renee de Nevers is assistant professor of public administration. Her research
interests are on international security, with a current focus on sovereignty and
the war on terror. Her book, Comrades No More: The Seeds of Change in Eastern
Europe, was published by MIT Press in 2003. She has published two
Adelphi Papers with the International Institute for Strategic
Studies, co-edited several monographs, and also published multiple journal
articles and book chapters. Prior to joining Syracuse University she was an
Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma, and she was a program officer
at the MacArthur Foundation, with responsibility for grantmaking in
international peace and security . She has been a research fellow at the Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs, the Center for International
Security and Cooperation and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and
the International Institute for Strategic Studies. de Nevers received a Ph.D.
from Columbia University in 1992.
Thomas Dennison is an adjunct professor of public policy whose
research and teaching focus on health services management and
policy. Before joining the Maxwell faculty, he was affiliated
with the health care consulting practice at
PricewaterhouseCoopers and earlier served as chief executive
officer of a hospital, administrator of a nursing home, and
executive director of a network of ambulatory care centers. Dennison currently serves as chair of the Commission for a
Healthy Central New York, a consortium of eight counties
sponsored by Upstate Medical University and Syracuse University
that undertakes regional public health initiatives. He is a
member of the boards of directors of the Home Care Association
of New York and The Foundation for Long Term Care, an affiliate
of the New York State Association of Homes and Services for the
Aging. Dennison is also a member of the faculty of the
Institute for Ethics in Health Care at Upstate Medical
University. He received a Ph.D. in health planning and
administration from Pennsylvania State University. 
Gavan Duffy is associate professor of political science whose
research interests include political conflict and political
methodology. His conflict studies include analyses of
mobilization and demobilization in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
He has also developed and analyzed computer simulations of
interstate conflict. His methodological research includes
development of text parsers, theorem provers, and other
computational techniques for analyzing political texts.
His articles have appeared in International Studies Quarterly,
Journal of Peace Research, Mathematics and Computer
Modeling, Millennium, and elsewhere. Duffy
received a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1987.
William
D. Duncombe is professor of public administration
whose specialties include school aid design, educational costs
and efficiency, program evaluation, demand for and costs of
state and local government services, and budgeting and fiscal
health. Duncombe’s
work has appeared in numerous public administration and
economics journals, and he coauthored Economic Growth &
Fiscal Planning: New York in the 1990s (Center for Urban
Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1991).
His current areas of research include developing
education cost indices for school aid programs; examining the
impacts of school and enrollment size on the cost of providing
education; studying the link between state and local fiscal
policy and economic growth and development; and examining the
fiscal impact of senior citizens on state and local governments.
He has taught courses in education policy and finance, public
financial administration, state and local public finance,
program evaluation, policy analysis, economics, and statistics.
Duncombe received a Ph.D. in public administration from
Syracuse University in 1989.
Donald
Dutkowsky is professor of economics.
His primary interests focus on macroeconomics, monetary
policy, and banking. His
current research uses macroeconomic data and estimation
techniques to assess how various types of monetary policy affect
output growth and inflation.
He also studies consumer and corporate behavior,
including their money-holding decisions; the effects of sweep programs in bank
checkable deposits on banking; and
monetary policy.
Dutkowsky has published more than 40 works in scholarly
journals, newspapers, and textbooks. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of
Buffalo in 1982.
Madonna
Harrington Meyer is professor of sociology, senior
research associate in the Center for Policy Research, and
director of the Syracuse University Gerontology Center.
Her work emphasizes health and economic inequality in old age.
She is editor of Care Work: Gender, Labor and the
Welfare State (Routledge, 2000). Harrington Meyer
has just completed a manuscript, to be published by Russell Sage,
entitled Retrenching Welfare, Entrenching Inequality:
Gender, Race and Age in the U.S. Her recent
publications include co-authored pieces entitled "Declining
Eligibility for Spouse and Widow Social Security Benefits in the
U.S.?" (Research on Aging), "Gender and Race
Differences in the Impact of Obesity on Work and Economic
Security in Later Life in the U.S." (Hallymn International
Journal of Aging, 2005), and "Overweight Over the Life Course"
(Generations), all forthcoming. She earned a Ph.D. in sociology from
Florida State University in 1991.
Margaret
(Peg) Hermann is Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global
Affairs and director of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Institute of Global Affairs. Her
research focuses on political leadership, foreign policy
decision making, and the comparative study of foreign policy.
Hermann developed techniques for assessing the
leadership styles of heads of government at a distance and
currently has such data on 130 world leaders. She has been president of the International Society of
Political Psychology (ISPP) and the International Studies
Association (ISA) as well as editor of Political
Psychology. She is editor of the International Studies Review,
a journal of the ISA, and
Advances in Political Psychology, an annual
sponsored by ISPP. Her books include The Psychological Examination of
Political Leaders; Describing Foreign Policy Behavior; Political Psychology: Issues and Problems;
and Leaders, Groups, and
Coalitions: Understanding the People and Processes in Foreign
Policymaking.
Her journal articles include “Presidents, Advisers,
and Foreign Policy,” “Leadership Styles of Prime Ministers,”
“Rethinking Democracy and International Peace: Perspectives from
Political Psychology”, "Ballots, a Barrier Against the Use of
Bullets and Bombs", and "The U.S. Use of Military Intervention to
Promote Democracy: Evaluating the Record." Hermann received
a Ph.D. in psychology from
Northwestern University in 1965.
Christine L. Himes is professor
of sociology and a senior researcher in Maxwell’s Center for
Policy Research, which serves as the major applied social and
behavioral research unit at the school.
Himes’s expertise is in the areas of family care
giving, population projections, and patterns of health and
mortality in later life. Himes
recently was awarded a research grant from the National
Institute on Aging to examine the role of obesity in health and
functioning at older ages. She has served as a consultant to the Bureau of the Census
and to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
In 1991, she was named a Brookdale National Fellow for
her gerontological research. Himes received a Ph.D.
in demography and sociology from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1989.
George Kallander is assistant professor of history whose
expertise includes Korean, Japanese, and Mongolian history and culture.
Thomas M. Keck is assistant
professor of political science whose research focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court,
contemporary American
conservatism, and the use of
legal strategies by movements for social change. He is the
author of
The Most Activist Supreme Court in History: The Road to Modern
Judicial Conservatism and is currently working on a book entitled
Rights and the Right: Judicial Politics in the Culture Wars. He received a
Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University in 1999.
Norman
Kutcher is associate professor of history, specializing in the
cultural and intellectual history of late imperial (1500-1900)
and modern China and the forces that shape rulership in China.
His book Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State (Cambridge, 1999) is in part a
study of the changing role of Confucianism as a limit on the
emperor's power. Kutcher’s
current research focuses on the domestic aspects of imperial
power; he spent 1999-2000 as a Research Scholar at the Qing
History Institute of Renmin University in Beijing, where he
studied the Yuanming Yuan, or Old Summer Palace.
He has written on subjects ranging from Chinese
nationalism, to the 1989 student movement, to the American
missionary experience in China. Recently, Kutcher published an essay in The Wilson
Quarterly on the debate in China over rebuilding the
Yuanming Yuan. Kutcher received a J.D. from Boston College in 1985 and
a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1991.
W.
Henry Lambright is professor of political science and public
administration and director of the Science and Technology Policy
Program of the Center for Environmental
Policy and Administration.
His research interests include federal decision-making on
space technology, environmental policy, trans-boundary
issues, national
security, the integration of science with policy, ecosystem
management, biotechnology, technology
transfer, and
leadership issues.
Lambright has written scores of articlesand has written or edited seven books, including Powering Apollo:
James E. Webb of NASA
(Johns Hopkins, 1995).
His most recent book, which he edited, is Space Policy in the
21st Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
He earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1966.
Robert
D. McClure is Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and
Democracy and professor of political science and public affairs. He
previously served as senior associate dean of the Maxwell School
and director of the University Honors Program.
His interests include political leadership and the
presidency; democratic institutions, particularly Congress and
political parties; and mass communication. McClure's publications (authored and co-authored) include Political
Ambition: Who Decides to Run for Congress; Misguided Democracy:
The Policy of Free-Lance Politics; and The Unseeing
Eye: The Myth of Television Power in National Elections,
which was named by the American Association for Public Opinion
Research as one of the field's most influential books written in
the past 50 years. Previously, McClure served as legislative assistant to
former Congressman Lee H. Hamilton and as a journalist for the
Scripps-Howard Newspapers and the St. Petersburg Times.
He earned a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1969.
Don Mitchell is professor of geography specializing in issues related to
migratory labor and agricultural landscapes, urban public spaces
(including their privatization), the homeless, hungry, and other marginal
populations in U.S. cities, and cultural geography.
He is the author of three books,
The Right to the
City: Social Justice and
the Fight for Public Space (2003);
Cultural Geography: A Critical
Introduction (Blackwell Publishers, 2000); and
The Lie of the Land:
Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (University of
Minnesota Press, 1996),
as well as
numerous articles on public space, homelessness, migratory
workers, and culture. In
1998 Mitchell was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and
in 2002 held a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Oslo. His research has also been supported by the National
Science Foundation. Mitchell
is the founder and director of The People’s Geography Project,
which brings the insights of radical and critical contemporary
geography to lay audiences, activists, and teachers.
He is also a member of the Syracuse Hunger Project, a
community-university consortium that examines and addresses the
changing geography of hunger and food insecurity in the Syracuse
area. He earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1992.
Mark
Monmonier is Distinguished Professor of Geography. His research
focuses on the history of cartography in the twentieth century; the use
of maps for surveillance and as analytical and persuasive tools
in journalism, politics, public administration, and science; map
design; and environmental cartography.
In 2001, he was awarded the American Geographical
Society’s O. M. Miller Medal for contributions to cartography. Monmonier has authored 13 books, including How to Lie with Maps (1991, 1996); Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize
Weather (1999); Bushmanders
and Bullwinkles: How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and
Census Data to Win Elections (2001); Spying with
Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
(2002); Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the
Mercator Projection (2004); and From
Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim,
and Inflame (2006). Monmonier has been editor of The American
Cartographer and president of the American Cartographic
Association. He has published numerous papers on map
design, automated map analysis, cartographic generalization, the
history of cartography, statistical graphics, and mass
communications. His current research projects include a
history of cartographic coastlines and their diverse uses in
navigation, science, and emergency planning. Monmonier received
a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State
University in 1969. 
John L. Palmer is
University Professor
and Dean Emeritus of the Maxwell School, where he has been
located since 1988, and a
public
trustee for the Medicare and Social Security programs.
Palmer was previously a senior fellow in the Economic
Studies Program of The Brookings Institution, assistant
secretary for planning and evaluation at the Department of
Health and Human Services, and senior fellow of The Urban
Institute. His
publications include 13 books and over 50 professional and
popular articles on a wide range of topics primarily relating to economic,
budgetary, and social policy.
Palmer has a long-standing professional interest in
income security and health care issues and was a founding member
and president of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
He has also served on various committees of the
National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council and
the Social Science Research Council.
He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public
Administration, chair of the Research Advisory Board of
the Committee for Economic Development, and a past member of the Visiting Committee of The Brookings Institution.
Palmer earned a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford
University in 1971.
Deborah Pellow is professor
of anthropology whose research focuses on cultural and
sub-cultural groups living in urban areas of plural society
under conditions of social change. Her primary geographic area
of interest is West Africa, particularly Ghana and northern
Nigeria. Pellow has also done research in Shanghai, China, while
a visiting professor of history at Fudan University, and in
Osaka and Kyoto, Japan, while a Fulbright lecturer. She is
director of the Maxwell program, Integrated Studies in Space
and Place, which explores how status, politics, social
relations, and cultural meanings are expressed through people’s
creation and use of physical space. Pellow is the author of four
books and numerous articles. She earned a Ph.D. from
Northwestern in 1974.
David
Popp is associate professor of public administration. He is an
economist with research interests in environmental policy and
the economics of technological change. His research focuses on
the links between environmental policy and innovation; Popp is
particularly interested in how environmental and energy policies
shape the development of new technologies to combat climate
change. His work has been published in a variety of economics
and policy journals, including American Economic Review,
RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management, and Journal of Policy Analysis
and Management. Popp is a faculty research fellow of the
National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of
Energy Economics. He has served as a consultant for the
Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development. He
received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1997.
Grant
Reeher is associate professor of political science.
His research and teaching interests focus on
American politics, the democratic process, legislative politics, and the
political role of the Internet.
He has published on legislative politics,
distributive justice, health care policy, and democratic
politics and the Internet, and is currently at work on two
books: one on health care reform and distributive justice,
and the second on the Internet and political life, focused on
the 2004 election cycle. Reeher is the author of
First Person Political: Legislative Life and the Meaning of
Public Service
J.
David Richardson is professor of economics and international
relations and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global
Affairs. Richardson
writes extensively on international trade policy and its
effects. Richardson’s
recent research has focused on globalization and its effects on
American socioeconomic groups (his manuscript Global Forces,
American Faces is under review) and on the role of religious and
other institutional forces in legitimizing global economic
integration. Richardson
is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic
Research and a senior fellow at the Institute for
International Economics. He
was a visiting scholar at the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System and a consultant to the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development, to the Economic Council of Canada,
to the Ford and Pew Foundations, and to the Educational Testing
Service. Richardson
received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan
in 1970.
Alasdair Roberts is associate
professor of public administration. His research focuses on public sector
restructuring, public management, and freedom of information
issues, and he has published widely in these areas. Roberts is
the author of Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the
Information Age (Cambridge University Press, 2006). He is a
member of the board of editors of Public Administration
Review, Public Management Review, the
Journal of Public Administration Research and Teaching,
International Public Management Journal, as well as other
journals. He serves on the Transparency Task Force of the Initiative for
Policy Dialogue and is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the School of
Public Policy, University College London. He has been a fellow of
the Open Society Institute, New York (2000-2001) and the Wilson
International Center for Scholars (1999-2000). A native of
Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, Roberts earned a J.D. from the
University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1984, a Master's in
public policy from Harvard University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in
public policy from Harvard University in 1994.
David
J. Robinson is DellPlain Professor of Latin American Geography
whose research focuses on how development is increasingly
affecting the day-to-day lives of Latin Americans, and the
reconstruction of past geographies of Latin America, especially
settlements and population patterns.
His current interests include decentralized development
in Latin America, particularly the Andean countries;
problems of municipal development; and the impact of Hispanic colonialism.
Robinson is editor of the Journal
of Latin American Geography; co-editor of the Journal of
Historical Geography; U.S. Representative to the
Geography Commission, Panamerican Institute of Geography and
History; and has written extensively on Latin American
geography, both in English and Spanish.
His English language books include Migration
in Colonial Spanish America
(Cambridge University Press, 1990) and Studies in
Spanish American Population History (Westview Press). His book, Laricollaguas: Economia, Sociedad y Poblacion,
1604-1605, was published by the Catholic University Press in
Lima in 2003. Robinson directed a USAID Technical Assistance team on
Integrated Regional Development in Peru for three years in the
1980s, and
also
has served as geographical advisor to the Argentine
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He earned a Ph.D. in geography from University College
in London.
Karin
Rosemblatt is associate professor of history and former Director of the
Program on Latin America and the Caribbean. She
studies how ideas about gender, race, and
poverty shape social policies and national identities. Her
first book, Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the
State in Chile, 1920-1950,
won the 2000 Berkshire prize for the best first book by a woman
historian. Rosemblatt has also co-edited an anthology on Race and Nation in
Modern Latin America. In a new book project on
conceptualizations of race and poverty in the Americas, Rosemblatt
examines the circulation of
ideas about social mobility, cultural difference, and national
development. She has received fellowships from the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Fulbright-CIES, and
Rockefeller Foundation Project on the Privatization of Culture
at New York University. Rosemblatt
received a Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Robert A. Rubinstein is professor of anthropology and international
relations. He is a political and medical anthropologist.
As a political anthropologist, he focuses on three areas: international security
and conflict resolution, multilateral peacekeeping and
humanitarian interventions, and
cross-cultural negotiation. In medical anthropology, he
focuses on racial and ethnic disparities in health, coordination
among disaster responders, and on international health and
infectious disease.
Rubinstein has conducted anthropological field research
in Yucatan, Mexico; Corozal District, Belize; Cairo and
Alexandria, Egypt; and in Atlanta, Chicago, and Syracuse in the
U.S. He has written
scores of journal articles and book chapters. Rubinstein
is the author
or editor of six books, including The
Social Dynamics of Peace and Conflict: Culture and International
Security (1997), Doing Fieldwork: The Correspondence of
Robert Redfield and Sol Tax (2001), and Peace
and War: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Larry
Schroeder, professor of public administration, is a public
finance economist with primary interest in state and local
public finance and financial management both in the U.S. and in
developing and transition economies.
His specific research includes decentralization,
intergovernmental fiscal relations, and the effects of
institutional arrangements on public services.
He is the
author or co-author of several books including Institutional
Incentives and Sustainable Development: Infrastructure Policies
in Perspective (with
Elinor Ostrom and Susan Wynne) and has published in a wide
variety of journals. Schroeder has led and worked on policy research projects sponsored by a
number of agencies including the United States Agency for
International Development, the World Bank, and the United
Nations Capital Development Fund.
He has worked in a number of countries in South and
Southeast Asia, as well as in Africa and East Europe. Schroeder
earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin
in 1971.
Maureen Trudelle Schwarz is a
cultural anthropologist and associate professor of anthropology
whose area of specialization is Native North Americans,
particularly the Navajo Indians. Her first book
(University of Arizona, 1997) studied Navajo perspectives on the
human body, with special emphasis on manipulations of the body
for ceremonial purposes. Her interest in contemporary
issues has resulted in a series of articles and a book entitled
Navajo Lifeways: Contemporary Issues, Ancient Knowledge
(University of Oklahoma, 2001).
Schwarz’s third book, entitled Blood and Voice
(University of Arizona, 2003) considers the life-courses of
Navajo women "singers", or ceremonial practitioners, a role
frequently believed to be reserved for men. Her current project focuses on
how native people negotiate between their own traditional
philosophical tenets about health and healing to accommodate
biomedical technologies such as organ transplantation. Schwarz earned an M.A. in museum studies
in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1995, both from the University of
Washington.
Jeremy
Shiffman is associate professor of public administration. His
research focuses on the political dynamics of public health
and population policy in poor countries. He has published in multiple journals,
including Social Science & Medicine, Health
Policy and Planning, and Studies in Family
Planning, on the subjects of maternal mortality, family
planning, reproductive rights, infectious disease control and
health sector reform. Shiffman teaches on health and population policy in developing countries,
public policy in developing countries
and public administration and democracy. He previously worked in
refugee relief in Asia and in the international public relations
industry and has conducted research on multiple countries,
including Indonesia, India, Nigeria, Honduras, Guatemala, and
Bangladesh. Shiffman earned a Ph.D. in political science
from the University of Michigan in 1999.
Timothy M. Smeeding is an
economist and Maxwell Professor of Public Policy.
He is director of the Center for Policy Research and of
the Luxembourg Income Study Project, which he founded in 1983.
Smeeding’s primary research focuses on national and
cross-national comparisons of income and wealth inequality and poverty among
vulnerable groups, including low-wage workers, children, the
aged, and the disabled. He
also studies health care finance and the EITC, and he has
written extensively on the economics of aging and children.
He published four recent books: Poor Kids in a Rich Country
(Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2003); The Economics of
an Aging Society (Blackwell Publishers, 2004); Public
Policy and the Family (edited with the late Daniel Patrick
Moynihan; Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2004); and
Immigration and the Transformation of Europe (edited
with Craig Parsons; Cambridge University Press, 2005). Smeeding also currently
is working on a book that examines the
effects of inequality on important social outcomes such as
health, public goods, educational opportunity, crime, and
related issues. Smeeding
earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1975. 
F.
William “Bill” Smullen is director of the Maxwell
School’s National Security Studies program, an integrated course
of academic and practical instruction for senior DOD military and civilian
officials. The program participants have the benefit of
interaction with senior government executives and leaders from
business, industry, Congress, and the media. Until August 2002,
Smullen was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell,
with whom he had worked for nearly 13 years, first as special
assistant when Powell was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and then later as Powell’s chief of staff at America’s
Promise-The Alliance for Youth, a nonprofit organization chaired
by Powell. Smullen also served as special assistant to Joint
Chiefs Chairman Admiral William Crowe, Jr. Smullen was a
professional soldier for 30 years, retiring from the Army in
1993 as a Colonel. He earned a B.A. in business and economics
from the University of Maine in 1962 and a M.A. in public
relations from the Newhouse School at Syracuse in 1974.
Jeffrey
M. Stonecash is professor of political science specializing in
political parties at the national and state level. His research focuses on parties and their role in shaping
debates about public policy.
Since
1985, he has done political polling for candidates across New York State,
including races for city council, state and county legislator,
mayor, county executive, district attorney, judge, and Congress.
Stonecash has published Class and Party in American
Politics (2000), which tracks the development of class
divisions in American politics, Diverging Parties (2002), an analysis of the sources of party
polarization in Washington, and
The Emergence of State
Government (2003), which examines why the role of state
governments has grown, using New Jersey as a case study, Political Polling, which
explains how polling is used in campaigns, and Parties Matter,
an analysis of realignment and how it has resulted in a
resurgence of partisanship.
He is co-editor of
Governing New York State (1994 & 2001) and has just completed the
fifth edition, which will appear in 2006. Stonecash
received a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1975.
Brian Taylor is assistant professor of political
science whose research focuses on the politics of Russia and the
post-Soviet region. He has studied the role of state coercive
agencies, including the military and the police, in domestic
politics. Taylor is the author of Politics and the Russian
Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000 (Cambridge
University Press, 2003). He has also written a number of
articles including “The Soviet Military and the Disintegration
of the USSR” in Journal of Cold War Studies (2003) and
“Law Enforcement and Russia’s Federal Districts” in The
Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin’s Reform of Federal-Regional
Relations, Volume II (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield).
His articles have appeared in Comparative Political
Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Cold
War Studies, Survival, Millennium, and several
edited volumes. Taylor received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1998.
Margaret
Thompson is associate professor of history specializing in the
American presidency and Congress, women and religion, Catholic
orders, and religion and politics. She has written extensively
on the Catholic Church -- nuns in particular -- and is currently
writing The Yoke of Grace: American Nuns and Social Change,
1808-1917, a history of Catholic sisters in America, to be
published by Oxford University Press. Thompson is also the
author of The "Spider Web": Congress and Lobbying in
the Age of Grant (Cornell University Press, 1985). She is a
regular panelist on the "Religion Matters" discussion program on
WCNY-TV, serves as
a consultant to ABC News on Catholicism and religious life, and
has consulted on a number of documentaries. Thompson earned a
Ph.D. in history from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1979.
John
Marshall Townsend is professor of anthropology and adjunct
professor at the School of Medicine, SUNY Health Science Center. His research interests include human sexuality, sexual
attraction, dating and courtship, marriage and divorce, culture
and mental illness, and evolutionary psychology.
He has published numerous articles and books; his most
recent work is What Women Want—What Men Want (Oxford
University Press, 1999).
His current research includes a study of highly sexually
active young adults. Townsend has appeared on national
television and numerous radio talk shows, and his work has been
profiled in a number of magazine and newspaper articles.
He has received grants from the National Institute of
Mental Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Newhouse
Center for the Study of Popular Television. He is an editor for Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Townsend received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the
University of California,
Santa Barbara. 
David Van Slyke is assistant professor of public
administration and a senior research associate in the Campbell
Institute of Public Affairs. His research focuses on
privatization and contracting and specifically how
government-nonprofit contracting relationships are structured
and managed. He also focuses on strategic management and
policy implementation in public and nonprofit organizations.
He has published on public and nonprofit management topics in
such journals as Public Administration Review,
Journal of Public Administration, Research and Theory,
Organization Science,
Administration and Society, and The American
Review of Public Administration. He received a Ph.D.
in public administration from the
University at Albany, State University of New York in 1999.
Susan
S. Wadley is professor of anthropology and director of the South Asia
Center.
Her work focuses on gender issues in modern South Asia,
on globalization as it affects rural Indians, on oral traditions, and on the world views of those who are
often illiterate and poor.
Her numerous books and articles have examined such issues
as female infanticide in rural India, the role of modern media
in the transformation of Indian religious systems, and the
impact of globalization — especially via new consumer products
and media such as cable TV — on issues of identity and
lifestyle in small towns in India.
Wadley has also taught more broadly on gender and
globalization, on the relationship between language and culture,
and on the role of folklore in modern lives.
Wadley
earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1973.
Mitchel Wallerstein is Dean of the Maxwell School and professor
of political science and public administration. He has authored
numerous books, articles, and other publications on issues
related to national security, the proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction, international science and technology policy,
global regime management, and international food aid and
development policy. Wallerstein previously was Vice
President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
where he directed the Program on Global Security
and Sustainability. Earlier, he served from 1993-1997 as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterproliferation Policy
and as Senior Representative for Trade Security Policy. During
this time, he led efforts in the Pentagon to counter the
proliferation of nuclear, radiological, chemical and biological
weapons and to improve defense readiness to deal with
adversaries using such weapons. Wallerstein helped to found and subsequently chaired the
NATO Senior Defense Group on Proliferation. Prior to his
government service, he was the Deputy Executive Officer
of the National Research Council of the National Academies of
Sciences and Engineering. Earlier in his career, Wallerstein was an
assistant professor at M.I.T. and Holy Cross College. He earned
an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School in 1972 and an M.S. and Ph.D.
in political science from M.I.T. in 1977-1978.
Hongying
Wang is associate professor of political science. Her teaching and research interests include comparative politics and international
relations focusing on China in particular. Wang is the author of Weak State, Strong Networks: The
Institutional Dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment in China
(Oxford University Press, 2001).
Her articles on Chinese political
economy, Chinese foreign policy, globalization, etc. have been
published in Asian Perspective, Asian Survey, The Pacific Review,
Global Governance, China: An International Journal, and
various edited volumes. She is currently engaged in research
projects on the diffusion of international
norms in China and China's national images. Wang
received a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1996.
Michael Wasylenko is professor
of economics and senior associate dean of the Maxwell School.
He specializes in public finance issues and has published
extensively on state and local finance, firm location, tax
incentives, and population decentralization within metropolitan
areas. Wasylenko
co-authored Foreign
Investment in the United States:
Issues, Magnitudes, and Location Choice of New
Manufacturing Plants, 1978 to 1987 (W.E. Upjohn Institute
for Employment Research, 1993).
He has worked as a fiscal policy advisor to Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Arizona.
In addition, Wasylenko has worked in a number of foreign
countries advising on public finance issues, including Jamaica,
Egypt, Jordan, Hungary, Thailand, the Philippines, and South
Africa. In the
1980s, he was a visiting scholar at the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban and Development.
Wasylenko earned a Ph.D. in economics from Syracuse
University in 1975.
Peter
Wilcoxen is associate professor of
Douglas
Wolf is Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies and
professor of public administration.
He is a demographer, policy analyst, and gerontological
researcher who studies the economic, demographic, and social
aspects of aging and long-term care.
He is interested in the well-being and life-course
patterns of the older population, including household
composition and parent-child co-residence; migration and the
spatial dispersion of families; patterns of
disability in old age; and the use of long-term care
resources. A
primary theme of Wolf's research is the role of family in
shaping the choices facing older people and their immediate kin
with respect to living and care arrangements.
Wolf is active in the development
and application of demographic methodology, including the use of microsimulation in population forecasting. Wolf earned
a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1977.
John
Yinger is Trustee Professor of Public Administration and
Economics; he also directs the Education Finance and
Accountability Program, which promotes research,
education, and debate about fundamental issues in the elementary
and secondary school system in the U.S. Yinger studies racial and ethnic discrimination in housing and mortgage
markets, as well as state and local public finance, particularly
education. He has
published widely in professional journals, and his book, Closed
Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing
Discrimination, won the 1995 Meyers Center Award for the
Study of Human Rights in North America.
He served as senior staff economist in the President’s
Council of Economic Advisers, and taught at Harvard University
and the University of Michigan.
Yinger earned a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1974.
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