Faculty & Staff Directory

Sherburne Abbott

University Professor, Geography and the Environment, by Courtesy Appointment; Director, Environment, Sustainability, and Policy ILM

144 Eggers Hall sbabbott@syr.edu

Climate change, energy, sustainability

M.F.S., Yale University

Lamis Abdelaaty

Assistant Professor, Political Science

311 Eggers Hall (315) 443-1744 labdelaa@maxwell.syr.edu

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

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2014

Edwin Ackerman

Assistant Professor, Sociology

329 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4030 efackerm@maxwell.syr.edu

Political sociology, comparative-historical sociology, Latin-American studies, social theory

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2016

Merima Ali

Assistant Professor, Economics

511 Eggers Hall maali100@maxwell.syr.edu

Development, micro-economic analysis of small-scale industries, state capacity, and taxation policy

Ph. D., Wageningen School of Social Science, the Netherlands, 2012

Alan Allport

Associate Professor, History

517 Eggers Hall (315) 443-0361 aallport@maxwell.syr.edu

Modern British and European history, war and society

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2007

Kristi Andersen

Professor Emeritus, Political Science; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence; Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence; Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy Emeritus

(315) 443-9341 andersen@maxwell.syr.edu

American politics, political parties, public opinion, women and politics, immigration

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1976

Douglas V. Armstrong

Professor and Chair, Anthropology; Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

209A Maxwell Hall (315) 443-2405 dvarmstr@maxwell.syr.edu

Global historical archaeology, archaeology of the African diaspora, the Atlantic world, ethnohistory, colonialism, ethnogenesis, culture contact and culture change, GIS, public policy and world heritage archaeology, collections management (Caribbean, American Northeast, California, Africa)

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1983

Elizabeth Ashby

Teaching Professor, Economics

110E Eggers Hall eakerste@maxwell.syr.edu

Public economics, labor economics

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2006

The Hon. James E. Baker

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs, by Courtesy Appointment; Director, Institute for Security Policy and Law; Professor, Law

300E Dineen Hall (315) 443-3421 jebaker@syr.edu

J.D., Yale Law School, 1990

Badi H. Baltagi

Distinguished Professor, Economics

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-1630 bbaltagi@syr.edu

Econometrics, health econometrics, wage curve, and gravity models

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1979