Maxwell School of Syracuse University: Political Science



		Political Science >> Faculty

	Kristi Andersen Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence and Director of Undergraduate Studies. General Interests: American politics, political participation, women and politics, migration and immigration, American political history. Current Research: Political incorporation of immigrants into US political and civic life, particularly the role of political parties, unions, and non-governmental organizations.

		Michael Barkun Professor General Interests: Terrorism; apocalyptic religious groups; religion and politics; international law. Current Research: Determining the balance between religious freedom and national security; influence of popular culture on perceptions of terrorism; renewed dissemination of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

		James Bennett Associate Professor International relations theory; EU expansion to Southeastern Europe; contemporary theory and practice of deterrence.

	G. Matthew Bonham Professor and Chair of International Relations General Interests: International relations, foreign policy decision-making, discourse analysis, computer simulation, e-learning, and e-governance. Current Research: Figurative Language in International Relations: Metaphor and Metonymy; E-Government and the Role of Leadership in Transitional Democracies: Cognitive Factors; Learning through Cooperation and Collaboration

		Mehrzad Boroujerdi Associate Professor; Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program General Interests: Middle East Politics, Islam and Modernity, Comparative Political Thought. Current Research: Analyzing the legacy of authoritarian modernization in Iran in the 1920s and 1930s.

		Keith Bybee Associate Professor; Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics Research Interests: American public law, legal and political theory, American politics, cultural studies, LGBT politics, and the politics of race. Current Research: An examination of how ambiguity and the appearance of hypocrisy sustain the exercise of legal power in the United States.

		Horace G. Campbell Professor of African American Studies and Political Science General Interests: Politics of Peace in the 21^st century, The Politics of Africa, Reconstruction beyond the Bretton Woods system, Ubuntu, African Fractals. Current Research: From War to Peace in Angola, Seeing Through Terror- Caribbean Visions of 9/11, Pan Africanism and Reparations, Militarism and Transformation, Rastafari and the New Politics of Freedom, Southern Africa and the African Union.

	Matthew R. Cleary Assistant Professor General Interests: Comparative Politics; Latin American Politics; Elections; Democratization and Democratic Responsiveness; Indigenous Ethnic Politics. Current Research: the political sources of democratic responsiveness in Mexico; the role of trust in democratic consolidation in Argentina and Mexico.

	Elizabeth F. Cohen Assistant Professor Political philosophy and theory, theories of citizenship.

		Gavan Duffy Associate Professor General Interests: Political conflict/cooperation, formal and linguistic discourse analysis, social constructivism, qualitative research methods. Current Research: Analyses of diplomatic conversations between Mao, Zhou, and Kissinger; Analyses of deliberations on Vietnam in the Johnson White House.

	Jonathan Hanson Assistant Professor General Interests: Political institutions and economic performance, Politics of East Asia, especially China Current Research: Context-dependent effects of political institutions on economic performance; social heterogeneity and public goods delivery.

	Danny Hayes Assistant Professor General Interests: American politics, political communication and behavior, mass media, political psychology, public opinion Current Research: the nature of news coverage of issues in political campaigns, and its effects on voters; the role of candidate personality traits in presidential elections.

	Margaret Hermann Professor General Interests: political leadership, comparative foreign policy analysis, foreign policy decision making. Current Research: Analyzing the leadership and decision making involved in managing crises that cross borders and political jurisdictions.

	Thomas Keck Assistant Professor General Interests: Judicial politics, the Supreme Court, American constitutional development, legal mobilization Current Research: Judicial independence, particularly in the context of abortion, affirmative action, LGBT rights, and other "culture war" conflicts

		Audie Klotz Associate Professor General Interests: International Relations Theory, Qualitative Methods, Transnational Social Movements, Migration, Southern African Politics, Global Race Politics. Current Research: The construction of state identity through migration policies in South Africa from the late 1800s to the present; the successes and failures of anti-racism movements.

		W. Henry (Harry) Lambright Professor of Public Administration and Political Science

	Christine Mahoney Assistant Professor General Interests: Comparative politics; civil society & NGOs; advocacy; in the European Union, the United States, and the developing world Current Research: Analyzing the determinants of civil society advocacy activity in the United States and the European Union; investigating the factors that promote and inhibit the mobilization and organization of civil society among the displaced.

		Robert D. McClure Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy, Political Science and Public Affairs; Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence American politics, political leadership and rhetoric, and mass communication.

		Sarah Pralle Assistant Professor Public policy processes, environmental politics and policy, interest groups.

		Thomas Raven Instructor General Interests: General Interests: American political development, national institutions, Congress, political economy, comparative state development. Current Research: Institutional development in the House of Representatives, particularly the transition between strong party leadership and the autonomous committee system over the past century and half.

		Grant Reeher Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. General Interests: American politics, citizenship and democracy, legislative politics, health care politics and policy Current Research: The use and impact of the Internet in American politics, and rethinking health care reform.

		Mark Rupert Professor and Chair General Interests: Globalization, Capitalism and Politics, Gramscian theory, Contemporary Imperialism Current Research: Ideological roots of popular support for imperial foreign policy.

		Hans Peter Schmitz Assistant Professor General Interests: Transnational relations, non-governmental activism, international norms, human rights, democratization, Eastern Africa, Current Research: An investigation of how internal differences among transnational non-governmental organizations account for their influence.

		Jeff Stonecash Maxwell Professor General Interests: political parties and their electoral bases over time; campaigns and elections. Current Research: An analysis of the decline and resurgence of partisan voting in the electorate, arguing that it reflects a long term realignment. Also working on an analysis of the incumbency effect in congressional elections, concluding that the ability of incumbents to increase their vote margin has not increased in recent decades.

		Brian Taylor Assistant Professor General Interests: Comparative politics, Russian/post-Soviet politics, comparative state formation, state coercion, civil-military relations. Current Research: Russian state-building, with a focus on the dynamics of center-regional control over state coercive agencies, particularly law enforcement.

		Laurence Thomas Professor of Philosophy and Political Science Moral theory and social philosophy.

	Stuart Thorson Professor Foreign policy, information technology policy, and democratic theory.

	Mitchel Wallerstein Dean of the Maxwell School Professor of Political Science and Public Administration

		Hongying Wang Associate Professor Comparative (Chinese and East Asian) politics and international relations.


	Linda Martin Alcoff Professor, Philosophy Department courtesy appointment, Political Science; Director of Women's Studies Program Continental philosophy, epistemology, feminist theory, and philosophy of race.

		Hossein Bashiriyeh Professor

	Kenneth Baynes Professor, Philosophy Department courtesy appointment, Political Science Social and political philosophy, critical theory (the "Frankfurt School") and modern and contemporary German philosophy.

	Thomas Boudreau Assistant Professor General Interests: Issues of war and peace, transformative diplomacy and global governance. He is particularly interested in issues such as the law of nations or global climate change that require or use the globe as a whole as the basic unit of analysis.

	Goodwin Cooke Professor of Practice General Interests: US foreign policy & diplomacy, international ethics.

	Francine D'Amico Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies in International Relations International Relations Theory, International Organizations, Latin American International Relations, Political Conflict, Military Policy, Nuclear Proliferation, Race, Gender, & Sexuality Issues.

		Bruce Dayton Part-Time Assistant Professor Associate Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs General Interests: Peace and Conflict Studies, Crisis Management, and Program Evaluation Current Research: Assessing the impact of third party conflict resolution on the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict. Comparative analysis of crisis management case studies across regions and issue areas.

	Jongwoo Han Adjunct Assistant Professor General Interests: Impacts of New Networked Information Technologies (NNITs) on social capital, politics, elections, and democracy. Current Research: Survey on young generations and their use of NNITs in the fields of politics, campaigns, and elections in the upcoming presidential election in December 2007, in Korea.
		Ralph Ketcham Professor Emeritus General Interests: American political thought; era of the American Revolution and Constitution; comparative political thought; especially East Asia. Current Research: The idea of citizenship in democracies.

		Edward McClennen Professor, Philosophy Department Courtesy appointment, Political Science Foundational issues in decision and game theory, the application of these theories to issues in social and political philosophy, public policy, political economy, moral theory, and practical reason.

		Terrell A. Northrup Assistant Professor, International Relations General Interests: International relations; information technology policy and governance in the information age; the role of identity (gender, race, culture and ethnicity) in political conflict. Current Research: The role of trust and technology in information sharing among public agencies.

		Rosemary O'Leary Distinguished Professor of Public Administration; Courtesy appointment, Political Science Public Management, Environmental Policy, Dispute Resolution, and Law.

		S. N. Sangmpam Associate Professor, African American Studies; Courtesy appointment, Political Science General Interests: The state-society relation in cross-national comparative politics, Politics of Developing Countries, Empirical theory of the state, African politics, African American politics. Current Research: The limits of new functionalism: Why the African Union cannot be the answer to Africa's transformations.

		Margaret Thompson Associate Professor, History Department; Courtesy appointment, Department of Political Science U.S. Politics and Governance (especially Modernization), Women and Politics, Religion and Politics, Women and Religion in U.S. History.

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