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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

Hou book describes the need for modern property tax in China
Yilin Hou's new book, Development, Governance, and Real Property Tax in China (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), represents part of an expansive study on local property taxes that also includes Hou’s former work, The Property Tax in China: History, Pilots, and Prospects (Springer, 2014).
11/16/2018

PhD student Angie Mejia publishes paper on mental health, ethnicity
Angie Mejia's paper "Young, Foreign, and Depressed in America: Ruminations of an Immigrant to Prozac Nation" was published in Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. Mejia, a PhD student in sociology, writes "... this autoethnography aims to challenge sociological analyses on the subjective experience of mental health and most plots found in psychiatric memoirs written by U.S. (White) women.
11/15/2018

Geo PhD student Emily Bukowski publishes paper on Dutch elm disease
"Using the commons to understand the Dutch elm disease epidemic in Syracuse, NY," written by PhD student Emily Bukowski '14 MA (Geog), was published in Geographical Review. Bukowski argues "that elms and their pests are viewed as components of the urban commons but understanding them as such does not align with what strategies managers are able to enact in the patchwork of property ownership that occurs in cities."
11/9/2018

Heflin study on SNAP benefits, childhood asthma published
"SNAP benefits and childhood asthma," co-authored by Colleen Heflin, was published in Social Science & Medicine. The authors explore monthly patterns in children's emergency room (ER) claims for asthma to find out whether these patterns are sensitive to the timing and amount of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
11/5/2018

Michelmore publishes article on long-term effects of EITC on children
"The Anti-Poverty Policy that Keeps on Giving," written by Katherine Michelmore, was published in the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute (ESSPRI) blog. Michelmore examines how exposure to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in childhood affects subsequent educational attainment and labor market outcomes in adulthood.
10/31/2018

PhD student Jen Brooks publishes paper on disability, job satisfaction
"Just a Little Respect: Differences in Job Satisfaction Among Individuals With and Without Disabilities," written by PhD student Jennifer Brooks '17 MA (Soc), was published in Social Science Quarterly. Brooks explores the relationship between disability and job satisfaction; and examines how differences in job satisfaction between workers with and without disabilities may reflect educational attainment and perceived workplace respect.
10/29/2018

Khalil edits volume based on US and the World Workshop
Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of experts, "United States Relations with China and Iran," edited by Osamah Khalil, examines the past, present, and future of U.S. foreign relations toward the People's Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The volume is the product of the inaugural U.S. and the World Workshop hosted by the Maxwell School in 2017.
10/23/2018

Heflin and Rothbart receive grant to study SNAP and school readiness
Colleen Heflin and Michah Rothbart, professor and assistant professor, respectively, of public administration and international affairs, have received a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to research the relationship between student participation in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and school readiness.
10/2/2018

Rosenthal research cited in Wash Post article on market-rate housing
Stuart Rosenthal was referenced in the Washington Post article "Why do so many affordable-housing advocates reject the law of supply and demand?" As Rosenthal wrote in an American Economic Review article in 2014, the "direct evidence that housing filters down, on average," is so indisputable that "there should no longer be debate on this point."
9/24/2018

Flores-Lagunes to study effects of education on obesity, mental health
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, professor of economics, has received a $169,785 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the effects of educational attainment on obesity and mental health. The award forms part of a three-year project, “Genes, Education, and Gene-Education Interactions in Obesity and Mental Health,” led by Central Michigan University.
9/20/2018

Koch book offers new approach on the geopolitics of spectacle
The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia draws from Natalie Koch’s extensive work on Central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia to evaluate how autocratic rulers use spectacular projects, such as “lavishly built landscapes and celebrations,” to govern and legitimate their power.
9/18/2018

Philip Curtis '10 BA (Geo) article on forest loss published in Science
"Classifying drivers of global forest loss," co-authored by Philip Curtis '10 BA (Geog), was published in Science magazine. Curtis et al. used high-resolution Google Earth imagery to map and classify global forest loss since 2001 and found that 27 percent of global forest loss is due to deforestation through permanent land use change for the production of commodities.
9/17/2018

Anthropology student participates in community-based research
Anthropology student Grace Gugerty's experience in the Refugee Health Advocacy course is part of the Route 90 Collaborative, a growing effort among a group of faculty members at several New York state universities and colleges, including Syracuse University, to improve the integration of social determinants of health into professional health education.
9/17/2018

Schewe study on federal fishery program, Vietnamese fishers published
"NOAA fishery observers and Vietnamese American fishers in the Southeastern US," co-authored by Rebecca Schewe, associate professor of sociology, and Cassie Dutton '16 MA (Soc), was published in Marine Policy. The study examines the experience of Vietnamese American fishers in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama with this federal observer program.
9/13/2018

Rubinstein publishes paper on community violence in Syracuse
"Blood in the Rust Belt: Mourning and Memorialization in the Context of Community Violence," co-authored by Robert Rubinstein, was published in Current Anthropology. The paper is the latest product of the university-community collaboration in Syracuse addressing gun violence, its effects, and interventions to reduce the trauma it causes, and to reduce its incidence.
9/11/2018

Soc faculty publish study on veteran mortality, health care coverage
"Mortality Among Veterans and Non-veterans: Does Type of Health Care Coverage Matter?" written by sociology faculty members Scott Landes, Andrew London and Janet Wilmoth, was published in Population Research and Policy Review. The study examines the association between veteran status and mortality taking into account the type of military-veteran health care coverage and sex/gender.
9/6/2018

Engelhardt research cited in MarketWatch article on Social Security
A study on early Social Security claiming co-authored by Gary Engelhardt, professor of economics, was referenced in the MarketWatch article "Why people who claim Social Security early often live to regret it." Engelhardt and co-authors Jonathan Gruber and Anil Kumar found that early claiming leads to a significant increase in the number of retirees living in poverty.
9/6/2018

Abdelaaty article on attitudes towards refugees published in JEMS
"Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards refugees," co-authored by assistant professor of political science Lamis Abdelaaty, was published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Abdelaaty and co-author Liza Steele found that the relationship between ethnic diversity and support for refugees is highly dependent on the measure of diversity used.
8/27/2018

Purser article on problems with Eviction Lab published in Shelterforce
"Eviction Lab Misses the Mark," co-authored by Grechen Purser and published in Shelterforce, is a critique of Matthew Desmond's Eviction Lab and deals with housing policy, the politics of data production, and the methods of community-engaged research.
8/27/2018

Karas Montez addresses education, health disparities at ASA meeting
Educational disparities in U.S. adult health are the focus of a presentation by Jennifer Karas Montez, professor of sociology and Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar of Aging Studies, at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in Philadelphia.
8/21/2018

Alexis Dorner '18 BA (IR/PSc) publishes article on Nuclear Ban Treaty
"The Nuclear Ban Treaty: Advocates, Neutrals, and Opponents in the European Union," written by Alexis Dorner '18 BA (IR/PSc), was published in the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Politics, Economics and World Affairs. Dorner explains what has caused member countries of the European Union to fail to reach a consensus on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
8/17/2018

Soc faculty discuss impact of SCD on veteran mortality at ASA meeting
The impact of service-connected disability (SCD) on the U.S. veteran mortality rate is the subject of a presentation by Maxwell sociology professors Scott Landes, Andrew London, and Janet Wilmoth at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
8/16/2018

Thorson cited in Pacific Standard article on political misconceptions
Research by Emily Thorson, assistant professor of political science, was cited in the Pacific Standard article "How to Tackle Conspiracy Theories in Politics." In a report for the Knight Foundation published earlier this year, Thorson found that relatively simple corrections could reduce some misperceptions by as much as 20 percentage points or more.
8/15/2018

Heflin study on SNAP benefits, pregnancy-related ER trips published
Professor Colleen Heflin and co-authors examine how the date that benefits are issued for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) changes the probability that a woman will go to the Emergency Room (ER) for pregnancy-related conditions in their study "SNAP Benefits and Pregnancy-Related Emergency Room Visits," published in Population Research and Policy Review.
8/13/2018

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

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