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The 150-plus faculty members and roughly 800 graduate students are responsible for research that is influential and innovative.

Much of that research is conducted within the School’s research centers and institutes, but much is also completed by individuals working within their disciplines, toward purely scholarly ends. Similarly, much of Maxwell’s research is externally funded, and yet, much leads to the published books and articles that mark the progress of concepts and ideas in the academy.
In a typical year, Maxwell faculty members publish dozens of books and monographs and hundreds of book chapters and journal articles. Their work provides up-to-date material for the classroom.

It is one of the great distinctions of the Maxwell School that an institution so widely praised for its professional programs is, in fact, a home for esteemed research and scholarship across so a wide range of disciplines.
Research News

Hromadžić publishes article on civility in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
In her new article "Streets, scum and people: Discourses of (in)civility in postwar Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina," published in Anthropological Theory, Azra Hromadžić examines the limits of civility among groups in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, and its connection to the physical condition of urban spaces.
8/7/2018

Study by Rosenthal featured in CityLab article on vertical economy
"The vertical city: Rent gradients, spatial structure, and agglomeration economies," co-authored by Stuart Rosenthal, was published in the Journal of Urban Economics. The study examines the organization of economic activity in our increasingly vertical cities and is featured in the CityLab article "Cities and the Vertical Economy."
7/19/2018

Green article on harvesting rain, hurricanes published in Conversation
Cecilia Green and co-author Farah Nibbs suggest that rainwater harvesting could be deployed across the Caribbean to improve communities’ access to water both after storms and in everyday life. Their article "Harvesting rain could help Caribbean countries keep the water on after hurricanes" was published in the Conversation.
7/18/2018

Michelmore publishes study on union stability, couples with children
"Cross-National Comparisons of Union Stability in Cohabiting and Married Families With Children," co-authored by Katherine Michelmore, was published in Demography. The article provides a rich, descriptive account of union instability in the U.S. compared with seven European countries and focuses on the stability of couples who have had a child together, who arguably have the most at stake in staying together.
7/18/2018

Maxwell’s Schwartz and team secure DOE grant to study school choice
The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to establish the first national research center to study how different approaches to school choice, such as voucher programs and charter schools, can better serve disadvantaged students.
7/17/2018

Koch study on sports, urban geography published in Geography Compass
"Sports and the city," written by Natalie Koch, was published in Geography Compass. Koch suggests that sports studies has just as much to offer urban geography as the other way around. She also points to some key directions that might deepen urban geographers' contribution to the interdisciplinary research on sport, as well as critical approaches to urbanism.
7/9/2018

Karas Montez paper on health/education disparity published in Scientia
In their article "Education and Health Disparity Across the US," Jennifer Karas Montez, Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar of Aging Studies, and Mark Hayward of the University of Texas at Austin investigate differences in health and explore their relationship with educational attainment and state-specific policies.
7/3/2018

Zoli, Hermann paper on terrorist critical infrastructures published
Corri Zoli and Peg Hermann published "Terrorist critical infrastructures, organizational capacity and security risk" in the engineering journal Safety Science. The article addresses gaps between studies of terrorism and infrastructure resilience to explore "terrorist critical infrastructures" (TCIs) as one critically missing framework to understand the rise of terrorist political violence globally.
7/2/2018

Monnat brief on opioid crisis in rural America published by UNH
"The Opioid Crisis in Rural and Small Town America," co-authored by Shannon Monnat, was published by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. Monnat and co-author Khary Rigg examine the variation in the opioid problem across rural America and the unique challenges rural areas face in dealing with the crisis.
7/2/2018

Van Slyke paper on complex contracting published in PAR
"Complex Contracting: Management Challenges and Solutions," co-authored by David Van Slyke, was published in Public Administration Review. The authors present a framework that provides guidance on how managers can harness the upsides of complex contracting while avoiding its pitfalls.
6/28/2018

Taylor shows how Putin's mentality shapes Russian politics in new book
Brian Taylor, professor and chair of political science and scholar of Russian and comparative politics, is the author of The Code of Putinism (Oxford University Press, 2018), a new book about how Putin’s mentality shapes his country’s politics.
6/27/2018

Faculty, alumnus study on public health insurance, fertility published
"Pregnancy Medicaid Expansions and Fertility: Differentiating Between the Intensive and Extensive Margins," written by Sarah Hamersma, Len Lopoo, and Lincoln Groves '15 PhD (PA), was published in Population Research and Policy Review.
6/26/2018

Book provides ambitious data-based overview of Iran
Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook, co-authored by Maxwell School political scientist Mehrzad Boroujerdi, offers an unprecedented range of data about and descriptions of the political landscape of Iran since the nation’s 1979 revolution.
6/25/2018

Michelmore paper on EITC, household finances published in JPAM
"The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Household Finances," co-authored by Katherine Michelmore, was published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Michelmore and co-author Lauren E. Jones found that a $1,000 policy-induced increase in the average household EITC leads to a 3 percentage point increase in the likelihood of holding money in a savings or checking account.
6/14/2018

Orr's research cited in Al Jazeera article on Trump's space force
"Constructing Civilian-Soldiers: The Militarization of Inner Space," written by Jackie Orr was referenced in the Al Jazeera article "Trump's astronomically misguided 'space force'." Orr contends that the duties of the civilian-soldier extend to outer space, as well: that "final, fantastic frontier for the US military's imaginary and material battlefields."
6/13/2018

New book edited by Hromadžić, Care across Distance, published
Care across Distance (Berghahn Books, May 2018), co-edited by Azra Hromadžić, investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad.
6/12/2018

Econ faculty publish paper on food insecurity, Great Recession in AEA
"The Differential Incidence and Severity of Food Insecurity by Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups over the Great Recession in the United States," co-authored by Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, professor of economics, and Hugo Jales, assistant professor of economics, was published in American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings.
6/12/2018

Heflin study on impact of food program coverage gap published in AEPP
"Design Flaws: Consequences of the Coverage Gap in Food Programs for Children at Kindergarten Entry," co-authored by Colleen Heflin, was published in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. The authors examine the effects of the duration of the coverage gap between the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) on kindergarteners’ skills.
6/6/2018

Mitchell's book Revolting New York featured in CityLab article
Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City, edited by Don Mitchell, was featured in the CityLab article "How Centuries of Protest Shaped New York City." Mitchell discusses how the nature of riots and rebellions has changed over the centuries and New York’s place within the history of protest.
6/1/2018

Sultana paper on academic integrity in higher ed published in ACME
"The false equivalence of academic freedom and free speech," written by Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography, was published in ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. Sultana addresses critical issues of the misuse of free speech in higher education and the increasing threats to academic freedom.
6/1/2018

Hamersma research on parental medicaid expansions published in CEP
"The Effect of Parental Medicaid Expansions on Children's Health Insurance Coverage," co-authored by Sarah Hamersma was published in Contemporary Economic Policy. The authors investigate the spillover effects of parental Medicaid expansions on child participation in Medicaid/State Children's Health Insurance Program.
5/31/2018

Engelhardt research cited in Fiscal Times article on Social Security
A paper on early Social Security co-authored by Gary Engelhardt was referenced in the Fiscal Times article "The Unintended Consequence of Letting Workers Take Social Security at Age 62." Engelhardt and his co-authors found that the introduction of the early retirement option lowered Social Security income by an average of 1.5 percent for male-headed retired households.
5/31/2018

PARCC scholars collaborate on new book on conflict
Louis Kriesberg, professor emeritus of sociology, and Catherine Gerard, director of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC), edited a new book, Conflict and Collaboration: For Better or Worse, that was written mostly by Syracuse University faculty.
5/25/2018

Sultana paper on water justice published in Water International
"Water justice: why it matters and how to achieve it," written by Farhana Sultana, was published in Water International. Sultana analyzes the importance of "advancing knowledge and civic action in water justice as well as how to involve the general public in creating more equitable and inclusive water worlds."
5/25/2018

Lovely featured in Bloomberg article on impact of US tariffs on China
A policy brief written by Mary Lovely and Yang Liang was featured in the Bloomberg News article "Trump's China Tariffs Would Hit U.S. Firms More, Peterson Says." "Tariffs can diminish trade flows, but ideas are easily relocated," Lovely and Liang say. "American workers would bear the burden if high-value activity moves offshore due to the ill-conceived tariffs."
5/17/2018

Monnat research on deaths of despair cited in Atlantic article
Shannon Monnat's research on deaths of despair and support for Trump was referenced in the Atlantic article "The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy." Monnat found that the Rust Belt counties that put the anti-government-health-care candidate over the top were those that lost the most people in recent years to deaths due to alcohol, drugs, and suicide.
5/16/2018

QDR's Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) Initiative
The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) at the Maxwell School has partnered with Cambridge University Press and Hypothesis to pioneer a new approach to making qualitative and multi-method research more transparent. The Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) creates a digital overlay on top of articles on publisher web pages that connects specific passages of text to author-generated annotations.
5/14/2018

New research on PPPs by Van Slyke published in ARPA and LGS journals
"Citizen Attitudes Towards Public–Private Partnerships" and "Analysing managerial perceptions of when and how to structure public involvement in public-private partnerships," two new studies co-authored by David Van Slyke, were published in the American Review of Public Administration and in Local Government Studies, respectively.
5/11/2018

Karas Montez study on education–mortality association published in BSB
"Does the Functional Form of the Association Between Education and Mortality Differ by U.S. Region?," co-authored by Jennifer Karas Montez, was published in Biodemography and Social Biology. The study makes an important first step in documenting geographic heterogeneity in the education–mortality association using a meaningful demarcation of context.
5/10/2018

Castro paper on conflict in Sudan published in World Development
"Promoting natural resource conflict management in an illiberal setting: Experiences from Central Darfur, Sudan," written by Peter Castro was published in World Development. The article draws attention to ongoing conflict and insecurity in the Darfur region of Sudan, still one of the world’s largest humanitarian situations.
5/7/2018

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