Jiahuan Lu, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, has co-edited a new research handbook, Nonprofit Organization Management in China: Research and Practice (Routledge, 2026). The volume examines nonprofit management in China through a comparative, organizational lens rather than the state-society framework common in earlier scholarship. 

Four faculty members have received tenure in their promotion to associate professor, while one has been promoted to full professor and another to associate teaching professor.

Bob Bifulco has joined the dean’s office leadership team and faculty have stepped into new roles guiding the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and the Law, Society and Policy program.

Susan Coots brings expertise in family planning and reproductive health to her new faculty role, teaching and mentoring public health students. 

The program brings senior international professionals to Syracuse for intensive executive education on disrupting the global drug supply chain.

The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research draws graduate students and scholars from around the globe to Maxwell. 

The sociology chair will be honored by the national association for his guidance of students and junior scholars in aging research.

Aaron Lener ’27, an international relations major, has followed an insight, that language is about power, from Homer, New York, to the halls of the Council of Europe.

The Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award recognizes outstanding books about food published within the two previous calendar years, with prizes given in three categories: monograph, edited volume and first book.

The annual Matthew Ross Wanetik Memorial Scholarship recognizes Maxwell undergraduate Angelie “Angie” Serrano Baéz for academic excellence and a deep commitment to service.

Howie ’70, G’71, H’22 and Louise Phanstiel's gift, boosted by a $500,000 Syracuse Promise match, endows scholarship honoring Dean David M. Van Slyke and supporting future leaders.

Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs, has co-edited a new reference work, Elgar Encyclopedia of International Trade (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026), with Priyaranjan Jha, professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine. The volume is part of the Elgar Encyclopedias in Economics and Finance series.

The Maxwell sociologist recently began his term leading the international organization focused on the study of food, agriculture and health. 

Minju Kim, assistant professor of political science, has written Taming the Careerists: The Politics of Foreign Policy Implementation (Cambridge University Press, 2026). The book asks how the design of employment contracts, specifically, the features that strengthen or weaken job protections, shapes bureaucratic behavior and, in turn, American foreign policy. 

From international law to executive power, Maxwell's national security studies program tackles the defining security questions of the moment.

The rising senior grew up in the California congressional district where she would later intern—an opportunity made possible by Maxwell in Washington.

Lauren Woodard, assistant professor of anthropology, has written Ambiguous Inclusion: Migration and Race on the Russia-China Border (University of Toronto Press, 2026). The book draws on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Moscow and Vladivostok, Russia, and Almaty, Kazakhstan. 

She will help shape the panelist selection process for the organization’s fellowships and grants programs, which have awarded more than $29.6 million to nearly 1,600 women scholars and community projects.

Glyn Morgan, associate professor of political science, has written The Rise and Fall of American Europe (Polity Press, 2026). The book traces how the post-World War II American-led project of European integration—a political order grounded in U.S. military protection and transatlantic trade—came to be, and why it is now unraveling. 

The Maxwell sociologist has been appointed to lead a flagship American Sociological Association publication.