Faculty

Lamis Abdelaaty

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2014

Areas of Expertise

International relations, human rights and humanitarian action, asylum and migration

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Patrick Berry

Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, College of Arts & Sciences

Keith J. Bybee

Professor, Political Science Department

Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media

Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor, College of Law

Professor, College of Law

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1995

Areas of Expertise

Public law, the judicial process, the politics of race, legal theory, political philosophy

Omar Cheta

Assistant Professor, History Department

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Ph.D., New York University, 2014

Areas of Expertise

Modern Middle East, Late Ottoman Empire, Egypt, capitalism, legal history

Andrew Wender Cohen

Professor, History Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Ph.D., Department of History, University of Chicago, 1999

Areas of Expertise

United States history, law, crime, political economy

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John Goodman

Assistant Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Political Science Department

Research Affiliate, Center for European Studies

Director, Syracuse Strasbourg Center in France, Syracuse Abroad

Ph.D., University of Geneva
J.D., University of Kentucky

Areas of Expertise

International humanitarian law, international organizations and humanitarian affairs; African and Middle Eastern politics; French and European politics; legal practice in the United States.

Thomas M. Keck

Professor, Political Science Department

Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1999

Areas of Expertise

U.S. Supreme Court, constitutional courts, freedom of expression, democratic erosion, Court reform

Gabriela Kirk-Werner

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2022

Audie Klotz

Distinguished Professor, Political Science Department

Heighberger Family Faculty Fellow of Public Service

Research Affiliate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1991

Areas of Expertise

International relations, qualitative methods, global and comparative immigration policy, global governance and transnational activism

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Radha Kumar

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, History Department

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2014

Areas of Expertise

Modern South Asia: policing and sovereignty, legal history, colonial and post-colonial politics

Lutchmie Narine

Professor, Public Health Department

Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Ph.D., Department of Community Health, University of Toronto, 1993

Gretchen Purser

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Research Co-Director, Advocacy and Activism

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2009

Areas of Expertise

Work and labor, urban poverty, law and punishment, housing and homelessness, precarity, social theory, ethnography, community-based action research

Katie Quinn

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 2021

Robert A. Rubinstein

Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Department

Professor, International Relations

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate and Faculty Advisory Committee Member, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1977

Areas of Expertise

Peace, conflict and international security, medical anthropology and public health, methods, history and theory

Mark Schmeller

Associate Professor, History Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001

Areas of Expertise

United States political and intellectual history, 18th and 19th centuries, communications history, legal history, political thought, Atlantic World

Yüksel Sezgin

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Director, Law, Society and Policy

Director, Pre-law Program in Europe

O'Hanley Faculty Scholar, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Associate Professor by Courtesy Appointment, College of Law

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Legal pluralism; informal justice systems; comparative religious law (Islamic, Jewish and Hindu); human and women’s rights in the context of the Middle East, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.