PARCC Faculty Research Associates in the Area of International and Intra-state Conflict  

Bruce Dayton is Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science and Assistant Director of the Global Affairs Institute. At the Moynihan Institute Dayton heads research projects on transboundary crisis management, human security, and the de-escalation of violent intrastate conflict. He also serves as the Executive Director of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), an international academic society with nearly one-thousand members across the globe dedicated to examining the relationship between political and psychological phenomena. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1999.

Miriam Elman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and one of the Faculty Research Directors of International and Intra-state Conflicts at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC).  She is also the Director of the Project on Democracy in the Middle East (DIME) at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and a member of the Advisory Board and Steering Committees for the Judaic Studies Program, the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT), and the Middle Eastern Studies Program. Dr. Elman received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1996.

Catherine M. Gerard serves as Associate Director of Executive Education Programs and Director of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. In that role, she manages the Master of Arts in Public Administration degree program, serves as graduate course professor for the Department of Public Administration, and designs and delivers executive education programs for domestic and international customers. Ms. Gerard teaches leadership for managers at many levels.  Her graduate course at the Maxwell School is targeted for mid-careers managers from public and nonprofit organizations in the United States and abroad. Ms. Gerard holds an M.A., University of Toronto and an M.P.A. from Rockefeller College.

Louis Kriesberg is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies, and founding director of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (1986–1994), all at Syracuse University.  In addition to over 125 book chapters and articles, his published books include: Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (co-ed, 2009), Constructive Conflicts (1998, 2003, 2007), International Conflict Resolution (1992), Timing the De-Escalation of International Conflicts (co-ed., 1991), Intractable Conflicts and Their Transformation (co-ed., 1989), Social Conflicts (1973, 1982), Social Inequality (1979), Mothers in Poverty (1970), Social Processes in International Relations (ed., 1968), and Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (ed., Vols. 1-14, 1978-1992). He was President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1983–1984), and he lectures, consults, and provides training regarding conflict resolution, security issues, and peace studies. He earned his Ph.D. in 1953 at the University of Chicago.

Robert A. Rubinstein is Professor of Anthropology and International Relations at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University Syracuse University. From July 1994-June 2005 he directed the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts at the Maxwell School. Rubinstein is an anthropologist with expertise in political and medical anthropology and in social science history and research methods. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1977. He received a master’s degree in public health from the University of Illinois in Chicago in 1983.

Bradford Vivian is an Assistant Professor in Communication and Rhetorical Studies with an interest in research in rhetorical theory and criticism. His work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy and Rhetoric, the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and the Western Journal of Communication. He is the author of Being Made Strange: Rhetoric beyond Representation. His current research includes two ongoing projects: one on the rhetoric of “public forgetting” (as opposed to conventional public memory) and one on models of freedom and citizenship in the history of rhetorical theory. He received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.