Social Science

Social Science PhD Listings

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Maria Brown - mbrown08@maxwell.syr.edu

 Dr. Brown is Professor of Practice in the School of Social Work at Syracuse University and Research Project Coordinator, Center for Policy Research, The Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She was a Hartford Geriatric Social Work Doctoral Fellow for 2008-2010. Her research interests include the experiences of underserved and underrepresented groups of elderly (racial/ethnic and sexual minorities, the poor and the mentally ill). 

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Brendan T. Casey - Brendan@brendancasey.net

Dr. Casey has a private consultancy in media production. His research interests include the social effects of computer-mediated communication, social network analysis in the online community context, the network structure of computer-supported collaborative work, and the role of emergent leadership in ad-hoc virtual teams. 

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Changyong Choi - cchoi01@maxwell.syr.edu

Dr. Choi is currently Assistant Professor at the Korea Development Institute, Seoul, South Korea. His research interests are in market development, democratization, and governance reform in former communist countries. His current work explores the phenomenon of “marketization from the bottom” in North Korea since the mid 1990s and its impact on information flow, behavior and motivation in both the state apparatus and the populace of the country.  

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Matthew Hidek - mahidek@maxwell.syr.edu

Dr. Hidek is currently Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Cazenovia College, in Cazenovia, NY. He is a U.S. Army veteran and antiterrorism analyst, with extensive leadership and management experience from various assignments in the military, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Lindsey Kingston - lkingston54@webster.edu

 Dr. Kingston is currently Assistant Professor of International Human Rights in the Department of History, Politics, and International Relations at Webster University in St. Louis, MO.  She also serves as Director of the B.A. program in International Human Rights and as Associate Director of the Institute for Human Rights & Humanitarian Studies. Her research interests include citizenship theory, conflict resolution, human rights, and issues surrounding the condition of statelessness.    

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Jesse D. Lecy - padjdi@langate.gsu.edu

Dr. Lecy is currently Assistant Professor of Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. His research focuses on discerning how structural components of civil society, such as resource constraints and accountability measures, create incentive systems that influence transnational NGO behavior and performance.  He also works on empirical issues of poverty measurement and statistical modeling of community development outcomes. 

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Gearoid Millar - g.millar@fm.ru.nl

Dr. Millar is Assistant Professor at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and an affiliate of the Center for International Conflict Analysis and Management in the Political Science Department. His research focuses on international conflict resolution, post-conflict peacebuilding and reconciliation in light of how alternate concepts of justice, truth, reconciliation, and peace complicate the application of western derived peacebuilding projects constructed on normative western conceptions of these social goods.

Christopher P. Morley

Christopher Morley - MorleyCP@upstate.edu

Dr. Morley is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Upstate Medical University of New York. His main research interests are in health disparities in primary care. He is also active in medical education, and maintains secondary interests in psychiatric genetics, research design, practice-based research networks, and medical ethics.   

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Anthony J. Nocella, II - ajnocell@maxwell.syr.edu

Dr. Nocella is a visiting professor at Hamline University School of Education. His research interests include peace and conflict studies, terrorism and security studies, criminal and restorative justice, critical pedagogy, and disability studies.

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Umut Ozkaleli - umuto@ciu.edu.tr

Dr. Ozkaleli is currently Assistant Professor of  International Relations and of Social Work at Cyprus International University-North Cyprus. Her research interests are in the areas of Conflict Resolution and Feminist Studies.   

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Bandita Sijapati - bsijapat@maxwell.syr.edu

Dr. Sijapati is Assistant Professor at the University of Nepal. Her principal research interests are in the areas of political socialization, citizenship and immigration, as well as conflict studies, democratic transition, and identity politics. 

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Todd Sodano - tsodano@sjfc.edu

Todd Sodano is an Assistant Professor of Communications at St. John Fisher College. His current research examines the production, distribution and reception of the HBO series The Wire and the influence of television critics during its five-season run. His general areas of  research interest are in the social impact of mass media and include cable television's fragmentation of the TV viewing audience and how this has influenced television industrially, artistically and socially.

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Vivek Srinivasan - vivekdse@stanford.edu

Dr. Srinivasan is program manager at the Liberation Technology Institute at Stanford University.  The Institute is concerned with the role of technology in fostering democracy, human rights and development. His primary research interest is in the right to food, and the influence of grass roots campaigns and social movements on this issue in India and Brazil.  

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Lili Wang - lwang05@maxwell.syr.edu

Dr. Wang is Instructor in the Management Division at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY.My research interests are in information technology application and management, user-centered evaluation of IT initiatives, and the experimental study of IT implementation within organizations. 


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