El-Java Abdul-Qadir
Recent Graduate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.S.W., Syracuse University, 2002
Advisor:
Rebecca Schewe
Dissertation Title
"Ethnic Entrepreneurship Revisited: A Sequential Explanatory Study of Ethnic Pluralism and Heterogeneity Among Entrepreneurs in the United States"
Poonam Argade
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
Saidakbar Askarov
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.P.A., National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2014
Advisor:
Prema Kurien
Elvis Avdic
Recent Graduate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.S., Syracuse University, 2016
Advisor:
Amy Lutz
Dissertation Title
"Lives and Dreams: A Study of the Entrepreneurial Journeys of Bosnian Immigrants in the Startup World"
Olga Boichak
Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
’15 M.P.A., ’19, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Baurzhan Bokayev
Recent Graduate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.P.A., Cornell University, 2016
401 Maxwell Hall
Advisor:
Azra Hromadžić
Yingyi Ma
Jenn M. Jackson
Dissertation Title
Making a Bridge between Countries: Kazakh Students' Socialization and Professional Development within American Universities.
Mariah Brennan
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Areas of Expertise
Veteran affairs (education and health)
Austin McNeill Brown
Alum, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Advisor:
Shannon Monnat
Faculty Research Collaborators:
Jamie Winders
Dissertation Title
Suburban Subjectivities; A Genealogical Account of the American Dreamscape
Areas of Expertise
Recovery science, addiction recovery wellness, substance use disorders
Cory Michael Cali
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
J.D./M.A. (IR), Syracuse University, 2013
Advisor:
Osamah F. Khalil
Erika Carter Grosso
Recent Graduate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
M.A., Political Science, Syracuse University, 2010
C.A.S., Latin American Studies, 2010
M.A., Spanish Language, Literature and Culture, 1999
Advisor:
Amy Lutz
Dissertation Title
Three essays on intergenerational transfers.
Dissertation Title
"Don't Rock the Boat": The Social Reproduction of Inequality in Medical Education
Nicholas Croce
Recent Graduate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.P.A., Brandeis University, 2017
415 Maxwell Hall
Advisor:
Gretchen Purser
Dissertation Title
Hospitals of Industry: New York's Progressive Era Labor Colonies
Areas of Expertise
Natalie Gallagher
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Advisor:
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Areas of Expertise
EMS operations and datasets, data science, pattern recognition, network algorithms, mathematical modeling, geospatial statistics.
Fitore Hyseni
Recent Graduate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2024
462 Dineen Hall
Advisor:
Gretchen Purser
Peter Blanck
Scott D. Landes
Dissertation Title
"Three Essays on Socio-Spatial Exclusion of Disabled People."
Sam Jackson
Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, SUNY Albany
’16 M.A. (PSc), ’18 Ph.D., Social Science Ph.D. Program
Kimberly Johnson
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, College of Education & Social Work, West Chester University
’14 Ph.D., Social Science Ph.D. Program
Darzhan Kazbekova
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Design and Governance
415 Maxwell Hall
Advisor:
Tina Nabatchi
Bramsh Khan
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
Advisor:
Mona Bhan
Shin Yon Kim
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Critical RGC Studies, American University
'20 Ph.D., Social Science Ph.D. Program
Advisor:
Margaret Hermann
Dissertation Title
Kim Dae-Jung's Leadership as Relevant to the Sunshine Policy (1998-2003)
S. Samanta Lee
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.A., Columbia University, New York, 2013
Advisor:
Tina Nabatchi
Dissertation Title
"Widowhood, Health and Depression: Intergenerational Relationship, Social Support, and Psychological Well-Being Among Korean Older Adults"
Melissa Lopoo
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Advisor:
Gretchen Purser
Rebecca Schewe
Dissertation Title
The Emotional Labor of College Football Players
Areas of Expertise
C. Ren Morton
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.P.A., University of Kansas, 2018
401 Maxwell Hall
Advisor:
Selina Gallo-Cruz
Faculty Research Collaborators:
Selina Gallo-Cruz
Dissertation Title
“Welfare reform in the twenty-first century” (working title)
Areas of Expertise
Feminist welfare state studies, feminist witch studies, division of labor studies, maternal and matrilineal studies
Abdul Bashir Pazhwak
Ph.D. Student, Social Science, Ph.D.
MBA, Sejong-Syracuse University, South Korea
401 Maxwell Hall
Advisor:
Jok Madut Jok
Areas of Expertise
Negotiation, diplomacy/protocol, international relations
Krushna Ranaware
Recent Graduate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
Advisor:
Rebecca Schewe
Dissertation Title
(In)visible Work: Gender, Labor and Agricultural Markets in India
Natasha S.K. Koshy
Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
’17 Ph.D., Social Science Ph.D. Program
Alexandra Scrivner
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Transitional justice, international institutions and governance, history of globalization, conflict studies, human rights, climate transitions, reparations, collective memory, collective trauma, participatory action research
Gary Shaheen
Project Director, Syracuse University Burton Blatt Institute
’86 M.P.A., ’16 Ph.D., Social Science Ph.D. Program
Taveeshi Singh
Recent Graduate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
Advisor:
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Dissertation Title
"Domestic Exertions: Soldier-servants, Military Elites and Securitized Labor in India"
Amy Tweedy
Institutional Effectiveness Specialist, Skidmore College
’14 Ph.D., Social Science Ph.D. Program
Wendy Wicker
Recent Graduate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union
Advisor:
Margaret Hermann
John McPeak
Catherine Herrold
Dissertation Title
Who are we? What do we do? How do we engage with others?
A study of philanthropic foundations and stakeholder relationships through the lens of identity.
Shiyang Xiao
Recent Graduate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Advisor:
Yilin Hou
Jun Zhang
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Design and Governance
Graduate Research Associate, East Asia Program
M.P.A., Renmin University of China, 2022
Jeanette Zoeckler
Director of Preventive Services at Occupational Health Clinical Center
’17 Ph.D., Social Science Ph.D. Program
Dongmei Zuo
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Areas of Expertise
Aging and health, health-based public policy, food and nutrition policy, social gerontology