Faculty 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 (Non-Tenure Track)

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 (Non-Tenure Track)

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@maxwell.syr.edu

Econometrics, health econometrics, wage curve, and gravity models

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1979

William C. Banks

Professor Emeritus, Public Administration and International Affairs; Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor (Law); Founding Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

300G Dineen Hall (315) 443-3678 wcbanks@law.syr.edu

National security law, domestic and international terrorism, emergency powers, covert war powers, problems of official corruption, civil/military relations, appropriations powers

J.D., University of Denver, 1974

Michael Barkun

Professor Emeritus, Political Science

508 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9339 mbarkun@maxwell.syr.edu

Millenarian and utopian movements, radical right, terrorism

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1965

Hossein Bashiriyeh

Teaching Professor, Political Science

408 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-3917 hbashiri@maxwell.syr.edu

Political sociology of the Middle East

Ph.D., Political Theory, University of Liverpool, England, 1982

J. E. Beagles

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

324 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5847 jebeagle@maxwell.syr.edu

Nonprofit management, network and nonprofit governance, international non-governmental organizations

Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2017

Jacob Bendix

Professor, Geography and the Environment

144A Eggers Hall (315) 443-3819 jbendix@maxwell.syr.edu

Biogeography, pyrogeography, geomorphology, human impacts on environmental systems, media coverage of the environment

Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1992

David H. Bennett

Professor Emeritus, History; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

313B Maxwell Hall (315) 443-5872 dhbennet@maxwell.syr.edu

Political extremism in America, 20th-century American history, modern military history

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1963

James P. Bennett

Associate Professor Emeritus, Political Science

405B Maxwell Hall (315) 443-1749 jbennett@maxwell.syr.edu

International relations theory

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978

Catherine Bertini

Emeritus Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs

cbertini@maxwell.syr.edu

International relations, foreign affairs, international organizations, United Nations, leadership, humanitarian relief, agricultural development, education of girls, hunger and food security.

B.A., State University of New York at Albany, 1971

Mona Bhan

Associate Professor, Anthropology; Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies

327 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4198 mobhan@syr.edu

Border wars and counterinsurgency; militarism and humanitarianism; race, gender, and religion; environmentalism and climate change; occupation and human rights; space and place; water and infrastructure.

Ph.D. Anthropology, Rutgers University, 2006 

Robert Bifulco

Associate Dean, Chair and Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

215B Eggers Hall (315) 443-3232 rbifulco@maxwell.syr.edu

Education finance and policy, program evaluation

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2001

Susan R. Borker

Associate Professor Emeritus, Sociology

borker@maxwell.syr.edu

Quantitative methods, sex and gender, work and labor force issues, health care

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971

Susan Branson

Professor and Chair, History

512 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4144 branson@syr.edu

Early American women, early American society and culture, science and American society

Ph.D., Northern Illinois University, 1992

Richard G. Braungart

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

rgbraung@maxwell.syr.edu

Political sociology, life course and generational politics, political psychology

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1969

Brian Brege

Assistant Professor, History

518 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4303 babrege@maxwell.syr.edu

Medieval and early modern Europe, history of globalization, the scientific revolution, diplomatic and imperial history

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2014

Stuart Bretschneider

Maxwell Professor Emeritus, Public Administration and International Affairs; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

434 Crouse Hinds (315) 443-3712 sibretsc@maxwell.syr.edu

Quantitative methods, computers, information management

Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1981

Walter Broadnax

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Public Administration and International Affairs

319 Eggers Hall

Public policy and management

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975

Stuart Brown

Professor of Practice Public Administration and International Affairs; Senior Research Associate, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

323 Eggers Hall (315) 443-7097 ssbrown@maxwell.syr.edu

International macroeconomics and finance, international political economy

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1985

Hans C. Buechler

Professor, Anthropology

209B Maxwell Hall (315) 443-1194 hcbuechl@maxwell.syr.edu

Culture change, migration, urban problems, political anthropology, Andes, Latin America, Spain, Switzerland

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1966

Leonard Burman

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs ; Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics; Institute Fellow, Urban Institute

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3115 leburman@maxwell.syr.edu

Federal tax policy, budget policy, tax expenditures, the individual alternative minimum tax, the changing role of taxation in social policy.

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1985

Kristy Buzard

Associate Professor, Economics

131 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4079 kbuzard@syr.edu

International trade, contract theory, political economy, urban/regional, conflict

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2012

Keith J. Bybee

Professor, Political Science; Vice Dean (College of Law); Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor (College of Law); Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media

321 Eggers Hall (315) 443-8678 kjbybee@maxwell.syr.edu

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

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

Horace G. Campbell

Professor, Political Science and African American Studies

200 Sims Hall hgcampbe@maxwell.syr.edu

Comparative politics of Africa and the Caribbean, African international relations, armaments culture, pan Africanism, peace studies, political economy

Ph.D., Sussex University, 1979

Julia Carboni

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

400E Eggers Hall (315) 443-1462 jlcarbon@maxwell.syr.edu

Collaborative governance, nonprofit management, organizational networks, food systems

Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2012

Frederick Carriere

Research Professor, Political Science; Pacific Century Institute Senior Fellow, Korean Peninsula Affairs Center

100B Eggers Hall (347) 675-8807 ffcarrie@maxwell.syr.edu

Foreign Relations – Korea (North & South), Geopolitics – Northeast Asia, Track II Diplomacy, culture & history of the Korean Peninsula

M.A., Cornell University, 1976

Carmen Carrión-Flores

Research Assistant Professor, Economics (Non-Tenure Track); Director of Undergraduate Studies

119 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3717 cecarrio@maxwell.syr.edu

Environmental economics, regional and urban economics, labor economics, applied econometrics

Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 2007

James J. Carroll

Research Associate Professor, Maxwell School

jajcarro@maxwell.syr.edu

Public school teaching of American history, public policy skills, and constitutional law, using Internet applications

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1985

Linda Carty

Associate Professor, Sociology by Courtesy Appointment, African American Studies

Race, class, and gender studies; comparative sociology; international development; post-colonial discourse; Third World feminism

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1989

A.H. Peter Castro

Professor, Anthropology; Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence

410A Maxwell (315) 443-1971 ahcastro@maxwell.syr.edu

Applied anthropology, rural development policy and planning, environmental conflict management,climate change, forestry, food security, refugees, East Africa

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988

Craige B. Champion

Professor, History

310B Maxwell Hall (315) 443-2781 cbchamp@maxwell.syr.edu

Hellenistic Greece, Greek democracy and republican Rome, ancient imperialism, ethnic identity formation in classical antiquity, the politics of culture in ancient Greece and Rome, classical historiography

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1993

Matthew R. Cleary

Associate Professor, Political Science; Chair, International Relations Program (Undergraduate)

225 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4288 macleary@maxwell.syr.edu

Latin American politics, political institutions, democratization, and ethnic politics

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2004

Ethan Coffel

Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment

edcoffel@maxwell.syr.edu

climate science, climate impacts, extreme weather, agriculture, energy, infrastructure

PhD Columbia University, 2018

Andrew Wender Cohen

Professor, History; Dr. Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History

305 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-3320 awcohe01@maxwell.syr.edu

United States history, law, crime, and political economy

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999

Elizabeth F. Cohen

Professor, Political Science

310 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5870 efcohen@maxwell.syr.edu

Contemporary and modern political theory, history of political thought, immigration and citizenship

Ph.D., Yale University, 2003

Goodwin Cooke

Professor of Practice Emeritus, International Relations

gcooke@maxwell.syr.edu

Former U.S. foreign service officer, experience in Asia, Europe, Canada, and Africa; ambassador to Central African Republic

B.A., Harvard University, 1953

Bill Coplin

Professor and Chair, Policy Studies; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

102 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-2348 wdcoplin@maxwell.syr.edu

Higher education, citizenship and urban education, public policy analysis, pedagogical partners with undergraduates

Ph.D., American University, 1964

Francine D’Amico

Teaching Professor, International Relations; Director of Undergraduate Studies in International Relations; Affiliated Faculty Member, Department of Political Science, Maxwell School; Affiliated Faculty Member, Department of Women’s & Gender Studies

225 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2306 fjdamico@maxwell.syr.edu

International law and organizations, global governance, United Nations, human rights/LGBTIQ global issues, international security and diplomacy, race/gender/sexual identity & the US military, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1989

Renée de Nevers

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs; Chair, Social Science Program; Associate Professor, Political Science, Courtesy Appointment

351 Eggers Hall (315) 443-7093 denevers@maxwell.syr.edu

International security, international relations, private military and security companies

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1992

Christopher DeCorse

Professor, Anthropology

207 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-4647 crdecors@maxwell.syr.edu

General anthropology, African archaeology and history, African diaspora studies, culture contact, colonialism and change, archaeology and popular culture

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1989

Thomas Dennison

Professor of Practice Emeritus, Public Administration and International Affairs

thdennis@maxwell.syr.edu

Health care management, health care finance, home and community based care, non-profit governance

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1987

Todd Dickey

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

400C Eggers Hall (315) 443-1282 tdickey@maxwell.syr.edu

Public sector human resource management, labor and employment relations, and workplace conflict management

Ph.D., Cornell University,  2018

Albrecht Diem

Associate Professor, History and Director of Undergraduate Studies

538 Eggers Hall (315) 443-0785 adiem@maxwell.syr.edu

History of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, early Medieval monasticism, hagiography, gender and sexuality

Ph.D., University of Utrecht, 2000

Gavan Duffy

Associate Professor Emeritus, Political Science

315 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-5764 gduffy@maxwell.syr.edu

Political methodology, political conflict, international relations

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987

Donald H. Dutkowsky

Professor Emeritus, Economics

315 Maxwell Hall dondutk@maxwell.syr.edu

Macroeconomics, monetary policy, bank behavior, personal finance, and economics education

Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1982

Maraam Dwidar

Assistant Professor, Political Science

531 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5764 madwidar@maxwell.syr.edu

American national institutions, public policy, representation, organized interests, bureaucratic politics

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2020

Michael R. Ebner

Associate Professor, History

531 Eggers Hall (315) 443-1264 mebner@maxwell.syr.edu

History of modern Europe, Italy, Fascism, and political violence

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004

Colin Elman

Professor, Political Science; Director, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry; Director, Qualitative Data Repository

347 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4068 celman@maxwell.syr.edu

International relations, national security, qualitative methods

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1999

Miriam F. Elman

Associate Professor, Political Science

400G Eggers Hall (315) 443-7404 melman@maxwell.syr.edu

International relations, international and national security, Middle East, Israel studies, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, BDS & anti-Semitism, academic freedom and free speech

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1996

Gary V. Engelhardt

Professor, Economics; Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute

320F Lyman Hall (315) 443-4598 gvengelh@syr.edu

Housing markets and policies, taxation, saving behavior, pensions, Social Security, and aging

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993

Margarita Estevez-Abe

Associate Professor, Political Science

308 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-3859 mestev02@maxwell.syr.edu

Political economy, Japan, gender

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1999

Jerry Evensky

Professor Emeritus, Economics; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

315 Maxwell Hall jevensky@maxwell.syr.edu

Adam Smith's moral philosophy, ethics and liberal society, economic education

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1984

Christopher Faricy

Associate Professor, Political Science

316 Eggers Hall (315) 443-8828 cgfaricy@maxwell.syr.edu

American politics, social policy, income inequality, tax policy, public opinion on government spending, budgetary politics, political economy, and political parties

Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010

Carol Faulkner

Associate Dean; Professor, History; Interim Chair, Citizenship and Civic Engagement; Tenth Decade Faculty Scholar

200 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9500 cfaulkne@maxwell.syr.edu

19th-century America, U.S. women, gender, sexuality, social movements

Ph.D., Binghamton University, 1998

Jennifer Flad

Assistant Teaching Professor, Sociology

412 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-7668 jrflad@maxwell.syr.edu

Health and illness, gender and sexuality, sustainability, disability studies, food and food politics

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2009

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

Professor, Economics; Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar; Director of Graduate Studies

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9045 afloresl@maxwell.syr.edu

Labor economics, applied and theoretical econometrics

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2001

Shana Kushner Gadarian

Associate Professor and Chair, Political Science

100 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3718 sgadaria@maxwell.syr.edu

American politics, political psychology, political communication, public opinion, experimental methods

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2008

Peng Gao

Professor, Geography and the Environment; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Geography and the Environment; Coordinator, Environmental and Society Minor

144 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3679 pegao@maxwell.syr.edu

River environment and morphodynamics, Geospatial-based (GIS, Remote Sensing, and UAV) urban planning and reforming

Ph.D., University of Buffalo, State University of New York, 2003

Catherine M. Gerard

Associate Director for the Executive Education Programs

400 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2756 cgerard@maxwell.syr.edu

Leadership; organizational development; total quality management.

M.A. (University of Toronto), M.P.A. (SUNY-Albany)

Jeffrey Gonda

Associate Professor, History

318 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9503 jdgonda@maxwell.syr.edu

African American history, 20th century U.S. legal, urban, political.

Ph.D., Yale University, 2012

Cecilia A. Green

Associate Professor, Sociology

307 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-3079 cagree01@syr.edu

Race, class, gender, Caribbean studies

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1998

Vernon L. Greene

Professor Emeritus, Public Administration and International Affairs

vgreene@maxwell.syr.edu

Social research methods, political theory

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1978

Ryan Griffiths

Associate Professor, Political Science

331 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4032 rgriff01@maxwell.syr.edu

International Relations and Comparative Politics

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2010 

Dimitar Gueorguiev

Assistant Professor, Political Science

332 Eggers Hall (315) 443-8678 ddgueorg@maxwell.syr.edu

Comparative political economy, authoritarian institutions, governance, survey methods

Ph.D., University of California at San Diego, 2014

Paul M. Hagenloh

Associate Professor, History

405B Maxwell Hall (315) 443-7626 phagenlo@syr.edu

Modern Russia

Ph.D., University of Texas, 1999

Sarah Hamersma

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs; PhD Director

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5455 sehamers@maxwell.syr.edu

Public economics, labor economics, applied econometrics

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004

Timur Hammond

Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment

144C Eggers Hall (315) 443-3533 twhammon@maxwell.syr.edu

Middle East, Turkey, cultural geography, urban geography, religion, identity

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2016

Madonna Harrington Meyer

University Professor, Sociology; Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, Sociology; Faculty Research Affiliate, Lerner Center; Faculty Affiliate, Aging Studies Institute

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3114 mhm@maxwell.syr.edu

Social policy, aging, gender, life course

Ph.D., Florida State University, 1991

Colleen Heflin

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

426 Eggers Hall 315-443-9042 cmheflin@maxwell.syr.edu

Social policy, poverty policy, child and family policy

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2002

Petra Hejnova

Assistant Professor, Political Science, Courtesy Appointment; Director of Curriculum and Academic Services, SU Abroad

106 Walnut Place phejnova@syr.edu

Comparative politics, women and politics, politics of Central and Eastern Europe, social movements

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2012

Margaret Hermann

Professor, Political Science; Director, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs; Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs

345 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4022 mgherman@maxwell.syr.edu

Political leadership, foreign policy decision making, crisis management, influence of non-state actors on foreign policy, comparative foreign policy

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1965

Erin Hern

Assistant Professor, Political Science

400B Eggers Hall (315) 443-9119 ehern@maxwell.syr.edu

Comparative politics, African politics, political participation, women and gender

Ph.D., Cornell University, 2015

Samantha Kahn Herrick

Associate Professor, History

527 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4387 sherrick@maxwell.syr.edu

Medieval European history, Christian hagiography and apostolic legends, France

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002
M.Phil., Oxford University, 1993

Johannes Himmelreich

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

510 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9325 jrhimmel@maxwell.syr.edu

Applied ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of public policy, ethics of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems

Ph.D. London School of Economics, 2016 

William C. Horrace

Distinguished Professor, Economics; Director of Masters Studies

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9061 whorrace@maxwell.syr.edu

Econometrics, firm-level production and efficiency analysis, peer effects and strategic interactions, crime and policing

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1996

Yilin Hou

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs ; Tenth Decade Faculty Scholar

426 Eggers Hall (315)443-9072 yihou@maxwell.syr.edu

Fiscal policy, public budgeting, intergovernmental fiscal relations

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2002

Azra Hromadžić

Associate Professor, Anthropology; O'Hanley Faculty Scholar

209C Maxwell Hall (315) 443-5782 ahromadz@maxwell.syr.edu

Political anthropology; ethno-political violence and post-conflict reconciliation; socialism and post-socialism; gender; youth cultural practices; social policy and welfare; aging, care, and responsibility; and the Balkans.

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (U.S.A.) 2009

Matthew T. Huber

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment; Director of Graduate Studies, Geography

522 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3845 mthuber@maxwell.syr.edu

Political economy, historical geography, energy and capitalism, climate politics, resource governance and social theory

Ph.D., Clark University, 2009

Zach Huitink

Assistant Teaching Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

zshuitin@syr.edu

Acquisition and government contracting, public-private partnerships, human capital management, and policy implementation.

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2017

Masood Hyder

Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs

338 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4339 mhyder@maxwell.syr.edu

Humanitarian action, United Nations organization, food security

M.Sc., University of Wales, 1976

Jenn M. Jackson

Assistant Professor, Political Science; Affiliate, Women’s and Gender Studies; Affiliate, African American Studies; Affiliate, LGBT Studies

528 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9802 jjacks37@maxwell.syr.edu

Black Politics, Gender and Sexuality, Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Social Movements, Mixed Methods

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2019

Mark Jacobson

Assistant Dean, Washington Programs, Maxwell School

mrjacobs@maxwell.syr.edu

PhD, Ohio State University

Hugo Jales

Assistant Professor, Economics

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9230 hbjales@maxwell.syr.edu

Labor economics, econometrics

Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2015

Jok Madut Jok

Professor, Anthropology

400 F Eggers Hall (315) 443-6231 jjok01@syr.edu

Violence and public health, women’s reproductive health, Pastoralism, seasonal migration and cattle raiding in East Africa, medical anthropology, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda

Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996

Seth Jolly

Associate Professor, Political Science; Director of Graduate Studies, Political Science

100E Eggers Hall (315) 443-8678 skjolly@maxwell.syr.edu

European politics, political parties, nationalism, European Union

Ph.D., Duke University, 2006

Andrew Jonelis

Teaching Assistant Professor, Economics (Non-Tenure Track)

319 Maxwell Hall awjoneli@syr.edu

Macroeconomics

Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 2019

Amy Aisen Kallander

Associate Professor, History

306 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-5883 akalland@maxwell.syr.edu

Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire, women and gender, Tunisia

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007

George L. Kallander

Associate Professor, History

313A Maxwell Hall (315) 443-4832 glkallan@maxwell.syr.edu

Korean and northeast Asian history and culture

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2006

Chihwa Kao

Professor Emeritus, Economics

dkao@maxwell.syr.edu

Econometrics of panel data, financial econometrics

Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1983

Leyla Karakas

Assistant Professor, Economics

133 Eggers Hall lkarakas@syr.edu

Political Economy, Economics and Law

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2014

Sebastian Karcher

Associate Director, Qualitative Data Repository; Research Assistant Professor of Political Science

346H Eggers Hall (315) 443-1634 skarcher@maxwell.syr.edu

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2014 

Neil Katz

Associate Professor Emeritus, Public Affairs

400D Eggers Hall (315) 443-3163 neilkatz44@gmail.com

Nonviolent conflict and change, conflict resolution

Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1974

Thomas M. Keck

Professor, Political Science; Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics

312 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5862 tmkeck@maxwell.syr.edu

U.S. Supreme Court, constitutional courts, legal mobilization, freedom of speech, LGBT rights

Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1999

Jerry S. Kelly

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Economics

jskelly@maxwell.syr.edu

Social choice, econometric theory

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969

Osamah F. Khalil

Associate Professor, History

539 Eggers Hall (315) 443-0464 ofkhalil@maxwell.syr.edu

U.S. foreign relations, modern Middle East, Cold War, Arab-Israeli conflict

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2011

Audie Klotz

Professor, Political Science

330 Eggers Hall (315) 443-8678 aklotz@maxwell.syr.edu

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

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1991

Thomas J. Kniesner

Emeritus Professor, Economics; Krisher Professor Emeritus

tkniesne@maxwell.syr.edu

Labor economics, applied economics, program evaluation, and health economics

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1974

Natalie Koch

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment

144B Eggers (315) 443-5637 nkoch@maxwell.syr.edu

Political geography, nationalism, energy and the environment, sport, Gulf and Arabian Peninsula studies

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2012

Louis Kriesberg

Professor Emeritus, Sociology; Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies

400 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3170 lkriesbe@maxwell.syr.edu

Social conflicts, conflict resolution, interstate and intercommunal conflicts, constructive struggles

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1953

Jeffrey D. Kubik

Professor, Economics

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9063 jdkubik@maxwell.syr.edu

Public finance, labor economics

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997

Radha Kumar

Assistant Professor, History

514 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5875 rkuma100@syr.edu

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

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2015

Prema Kurien

Professor, Sociology; President-Elect, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion 2019-2020, President 2020-2021; Past Chair, Department of Sociology (2017-2020); Dr. Thomas Tam Visiting Professor (2014-2015), CUNY; Founding Director, Asian/Asian American Studies

317 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-1152 pkurien@maxwell.syr.edu

Immigrants and immigration, religion, ethnicity, immigrant politics, India

Ph.D., Brown University, 1993

Norman Kutcher

Professor, History; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

135 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2594 nakutcher@maxwell.syr.edu

Cultural, social, and political history of late imperial China

J.D., Boston College, 1985; Ph.D., Yale University, 1991

Chris R. Kyle

Associate Professor, History

153 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2210 chkyle@maxwell.syr.edu

Toponomology, society, law and culture of Westminster and London, the social history of parliaments in early modern Britain

Ph.D., Auckland University, 1994

Derek Laing

Associate Professor, Economics

311 Maxwell Hall dlaing@maxwell.syr.edu

Macroeconomics, monetary theory, labor economics

Ph.D., University of Essex, 1990

W. Henry Lambright

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs and Political Science

413 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-3308 whlambri@maxwell.syr.edu

Science and technology policy, environmental policy and administration

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1966

Scott Landes

Associate Professor, Sociology; Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Sociology

320B Lyman Hall (315) 443-3233 sdlandes@maxwell.syr.edu

Sociology of Disability, Medical Sociology, Aging and the Life Course, Military Veterans

Ph.D., University of Florida, 2014

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

Professor, History

322 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2700 edlasch@maxwell.syr.edu

Modern American society, culture, thought; cultural criticism; intellectual history; history of ideas; self, emotion, art of living, ancient and modern; therapeutic culture, civil society, community, race, family; contemplative learning

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990

Yoonseok Lee

Associate Professor, Economics; Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9529 ylee41@maxwell.syr.edu

Econometric theory, applied econometrics

Ph.D., Yale University, 2006

Jun Li

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

314 Lyman Hall (315) 443-8009 jli208@maxwell.syr.edu

PhD, Health Services Organization and Policy (Economics Cognate) 

University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI

Chung-Chin Liu

Teaching Assistant Professor, Economics (Non-Tenure Track)

110G Eggers Hall cliu09@maxwell.syr.edu

Labor economics, international economics, innovation and technology

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2006

Mengxiao Liu

Assistant Professor, Economics

125 Eggers Hall mliu34@syr.edu

International trade, innovation, and global supply chains

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2016

Andrew S. London

Associate Dean and Professor, Sociology; Tenth Decade Faculty Scholar

200 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4597 anlondon@maxwell.syr.edu

Medical sociology; HIV/AIDS; demography; aging and the life course; families, poverty, welfare, and low-wage work; carework; veterans; LGBT/sexuality studies

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993

Leonard M. Lopoo

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs; Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Public Policy; Director, Center for Policy Research; Director, Maxwell X Lab

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3114 lmlopoo@maxwell.syr.edu

Child and family policy, economic demography

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001

Michael Lorenzo

Teaching Assistant Professor, Economics (Non-Tenure Track)

316C Maxwell Hall mwlorenz@syr.edu

Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 2018

Julia Loughlin

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

jloughli@maxwell.syr.edu

Race, class and gender, science and technology

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1971

Mary E. Lovely

Professor, Economics; Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence; Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar; Peterson Institute for International Economics Nonresident Senior Fellow

336 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9048 melovely@maxwell.syr.edu

International trade and investment, China's trade and sustainable development

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Amy Lutz

Associate Professor, Sociology; Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3842 aclutz@maxwell.syr.edu

Race and ethnicity, immigration, bilingualism, educational inequality

Ph.D., University of Albany, State University of New York, 2002

Steven Lux

Director, Executive Education Program

219 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-3070 sjlux@syr.edu

Managerial Leadership, NGO Management

MPA (Syracuse University)

Yingyi Ma

Associate Professor, Sociology; Director of Asian/Asian American Studies

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3716 yma03@maxwell.syr.edu

Education, migration, Asian/Asian American studies

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2007.

Frederick D. Marquardt

Assistant Professor Emeritus, History; Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence

145 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2210 fdmarqua@gmail.com

German social history

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1973

Allan C. Mazur

Professor, Policy Studies

(315) 445-1970 amazur@maxwell.syr.edu

Biosociology, sciences, and technology

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1969

Robert D. McClure

Professor Emeritus, Political Science and Public Affairs; Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy; Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence

408 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-5846 rdmcclur@maxwell.syr.edu

American politics, leadership, mass communication

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1969

Gladys McCormick

Associate Professor, History; Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations; Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Maxwell School

325 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2006 gmccormi@maxwell.syr.edu

Latin America and the Caribbean, 19th and 20th century Mexico

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009

Daniel McDowell

Associate Professor, Political Science; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science

334 Eggers Hall (315) 443-8678 dmcdowel@maxwell.syr.edu

International political economy, international finance, international monetary system, IMF

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2012

John McPeak

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

333 Eggers Hall (315) 443-6146 jomcpeak@maxwell.syr.edu

Development economics, natural resource economics, African agricultural development

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1999

John Mercer

Professor Emeritus, Geography and the Environment

jdmerc@maxwell.syr.edu

Urban and political geography, housing, comparative studies

Ph.D., McMaster University, 1971

Katherine Michelmore

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9049 kmmichel@syr.edu

Family policy, economics of education, labor economics

Ph.D., Cornell University, 2014

Susan W. S. Millar

Associate Professor Emeritus, Geography

532 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5635 swmillar@maxwell.syr.edu

Physical geography, periglacial geomorphology, arctic science, climate change

Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1995

Jerry Miner

Professor Emeritus, Economics

315 Maxwell Hall jminer@maxwell.syr.edu

Public economics, human resources economics, school finance

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1958

Don Mitchell

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Geography and the Environment

(315) 443-3533 dmmitc01@maxwell.syr.edu

Cultural, political economy of landscape, social theory, labor, geographies of power and marginalization, Marxism

Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1992

Devashish Mitra

Professor, Economics; Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs; Director of Graduate Placement

340 Eggers Hall (315) 443-6143 dmitra@maxwell.syr.edu

International trade,political economy development economics and Indian economy

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1996

Mark Monmonier

Distinguished Professor, Geography and the Environment

318 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-5641 mon2ier@syr.edu

Geographic information (technology, policy, and societal role), history of cartography in the 20th century (esp. innovation and intellectual property), map design, environmental mapping

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1969

Shannon Monnat

Associate Professor, Sociology; Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion; Co-Director of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab, Aging Studies Institute

426 Eggers Hall 315-443-2692 smmonnat@maxwell.syr.edu

Social demography, social determinants of health and health disparities, spatial differences in morbidity and mortality, inequality and social stratification

Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY, 2008

Jennifer Karas Montez

Professor, Sociology ; Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar in Aging Studies; Co-Director of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab; Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute

314H Lyman Hall (315) 443-9064 jmontez@maxwell.syr.edu

Social demography, social determinants of health, women's health, spatial patterns and trends in mortality

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2011

Glyn Morgan

Associate Professor, Political Science

540 Eggers Hall (315) 443-8678 dgmorgan@maxwell.syr.edu

Political theory, European Union

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2001

Anne E. Mosher

Associate Professor, Geography

404C Maxwell Hall (315) 443-1510 amosher@maxwell.syr.edu

Urban planning and geographies of infrastructure, crisis and disaster management, public scholarship and community engagement, digital humanities

Ph.D., Geography, Pennsylvania State University, 1989

Tessa Murphy

Assistant Professor, History

520 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5456 temurphy@maxwell.syr.edu

The Atlantic World; the early Americas in comparative perspective; the colonial Caribbean; slavery and race; the Age of Revolutions.

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2016

Robert B. Murrett

Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs; Deputy Director, Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law

300G Dineen Hall rbmurret@syr.edu

National security, international relations, military and defense strategy, leadership

M.A., Georgetown University
M.S.S.I., National Defense Intelligence College

Tina Nabatchi

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs; Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration; Director, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration; Tenth Decade Faculty Scholar; Co-Director, Collaborative Governance Initiative

400F Eggers Hall (315) 443-8994 tnabatch@maxwell.syr.edu

Public management, policy, and law; public participation; collaborative governance; conflict resolution

Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, 2007

James L. Newman

Professor Emeritus, Geography and the Environment

jlnewman@maxwell.syr.edu

Population and settlement geography, diet and nutrition, human geography of Africa, prehistory

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1968

Terrell A. Northrup

Associate Teaching Professor, International Relations

225 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5329 northrup@syr.edu

Information technology policy; international relations; the politics of gender, race, and ethnic identity

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1987

Shannon A. Novak

Professor, Anthropology

316A Maxwell Hall (315) 443-4347 snovak01@maxwell.syr.edu

Bioarchaeology, ethnohistory, gender, political violence, materiality of the body, North America

Ph.D., University of Utah, 1999

Inge O'Connor

Teaching Professor, Economics (Non-Tenure Track)

110F Eggers Hall iwoconno@maxwell.syr.edu

Labor economics, public finance

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1996

Sean O'Keefe

University Professor; Howard G. and S. Louise Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management and Leadership; Distinguished Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies

309 Eggers Hall (315) 443-8583 scokeefe@maxwell.syr.edu

Public management, national security policy and strategy, public finance and public budgeting, financial management, technology development and innovation management, executive leadership

M.P.A., Syracuse University, 1978

Jan Ondrich

Professor, Economics

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9052 jondrich@maxwell.syr.edu

Econometrics, labor economics, urban economics

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1983

Jackie Orr

Associate Professor, Sociology; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

310C Maxwell Hall (315) 443-5758 jtorr@maxwell.syr.edu

Cultural politics and performance; contemporary theory, science, technology, and psychiatry; critical body studies; history and politics of psychopharmaceuticals

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1999

Arnisson Andre Ortega

Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment

215B Lyman Hall acortega@maxwell.syr.edu

Community geography, Urban geography, Population Geography, Global south cities, Migration, Transnationalism, Suburbanization, Population, Socio-spatial theory, Decolonization, Quantitative Methods, Mixed-methods, Critical Demography, Counter-mapping

Ph.D. Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, 2012

John L. Palmer

University Professor and Dean Emeritus

321 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9439 jlpalmer@maxwell.syr.edu

Public policy, public management, public finance, U.S. and comparative social policy, Medicare and Social Security

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1971

Arthur Paris

Associate Professor, Sociology

409 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-2279 aeparis@maxwell.syr.edu

Urban society and policy, race and ethnic relations, science and technology, non-white popular culture

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1974

Deborah Pellow

Professor, Anthropology

515 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4216 dpellow@maxwell.syr.edu

Women and gender, urbanization, ethnicity, conflict, anthropology of space and place, African Studies

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1974

Tom Perreault

Professor and Chair, Geography and the Environment; DellPlain Professor of Latin American Geography; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence

144F Eggers Hall (315) 443-2607 taperrea@maxwell.syr.edu

political ecology; environmental justice; water governance; critical resource geography; mining and extractivism; rural livelihoods; agrarian political economy; indigeneity and indigenous politics; Latin America

Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2000

Guido Pezzarossi

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

206A Maxwell Hall / Lab 414A Lyman Hall (315) 443-1359 / (315) 443-0178 gpezzaro@maxwell.syr.edu

Archaeology of colonialism, historical anthropology, postcolonial theory, new materialism, and archaeology of food

Ph.D. Stanford University, 2014

David Popp

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs ; Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2482 dcpopp@maxwell.syr.edu

Environmental economics, economics of technological change

Ph.D., Yale University, 1997

Sarah Pralle

Associate Professor, Political Science; Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

314 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2893 sbpralle@maxwell.syr.edu

U.S. public policy, agenda setting and policy change, environmental politics and policy, climate change and energy, interest groups and social movements

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2001

Gretchen Purser

Associate Professor, Sociology; Inaugural Dr. Ralph E. Montonna Professor at the Maxwell School; Research Director on Activism and Advocacy, PARCC

400H Eggers Hall (315) 443-5848 gwpurser@maxwell.syr.edu

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

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

Dennis C. Rasmussen

Professor, Political Science

313B Maxwell Hall (315) 443-5877 dcrasmus@maxwell.syr.edu

Political theory, history of political thought

Ph.D., Duke University, 2005

Jane M. Read

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment

123 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4279 jaread@maxwell.syr.edu

Geographic information systems and remote sensing, human-environment interactions, geohumanities, indigenous livelihoods, Latin America

Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1999

Grant Reeher

Professor, Political Science; Director, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

313 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5046 gdreeher@maxwell.syr.edu

American politics, political representation and legislature behavior, health-care policy, citizenship and democracy, public engagement, gun politics and policy

Ph.D., Yale University, 1992

Jonnell A. Robinson

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment; Director, Community Geography

215C Lyman Hall (315) 443-4890 jdallen@maxwell.syr.edu

Community geography, participatory geographic information systems (GIS)

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010

Lars Rodseth

Associate Professor, Anthropology

516 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9710 rodseth@syr.edu

Political and historical anthropology, social theory, history of the human sciences, kinship, nationalism, violence, ideology, South Asia, Tibet, United States

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1993

Dennis Romano

Professor Emeritus, History; Dr. Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History, Emeritus

dromano@maxwell.syr.edu

Renaissance Italy, early modern social and cultural history, Venice

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1981

Stuart Rosenthal

Professor and Chair, Economics; Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3809 ssrosent@maxwell.syr.edu

Urban economics, state and local public economies, real estate finance and housing

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986

Michah Rothbart

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2868 mwrothba@syr.edu

Nonprofit and public financial management, public budgeting, education policy

Ph.D., New York University, 2016

Alexander Rothenberg

Assistant Professor, Economics

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9056 adrothen@maxwell.syr.edu

Urban economics, development economics, applied econometrics

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2012

Robert A. Rubinstein

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Professor of International Relations

405A Maxwell Hall (315) 443-3837 rar@maxwell.syr.edu

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

Ph.D., State University of New York, Binghamton 1977
MsPH, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1983

Mark Rupert

Professor, Political Science; Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy

410A Maxwell Hall (315) 443-1748 merupert@maxwell.syr.edu

International relations, political economy, politics of globalization, right-wing populism politics of globalization

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1987

Tod Rutherford

Professor, Geography and the Environment

535 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2605 trutherf@maxwell.syr.edu

Economic restructuring, labor and the automobile industry, labor market processes and policies, regional development

Ph.D., University of Wales, Cardiff, 1992

S. N. Sangmpam

Professor, African American Studies; Courtesy Appointment, Political Science

217 Sims Hall (315) 443-9943 SnSangm@syr.edu

Theoretic comparative politics, empirically oriented social/political theory, Third World politics and political economy, African politics, international politics, and African American politics

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Rebecca Schewe

Associate Professor, Sociology; O'Hanley Faculty Scholar

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9894 rlschewe@maxwell.syr.edu

Environmental and natural resource sociology

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011

Mark Schmeller

Associate Professor, History

509 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4639 mschmell@syr.edu

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

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001

Michael Schneider

Professor, Washington Public Diplomacy Program; Former Director, Maxwell-in-Washington

mischnei@maxwell.syr.edu

Statecraft, smart power, public diplomacy

PhD, American University

Sabina Schnell

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

400C Eggers Hall (315) 443-1282 dsschnel@syr.edu

Transparency, open government, anti-corruption, good governance, comparative public administration, public sector reform in developing countries, development policy and administration

Ph.D., George Washington University, 2014

Larry D. Schroeder

Professor Emeritus, Public Administration and International Affairs; Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence

334 Eggers Hall (315) 443-2596 ldschroe@maxwell.syr.edu

State and local public finance and financial management

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971

Amy Ellen Schwartz

Professor, Economics and Public Administration and International Affairs; Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9362 amyschwartz@syr.edu

Public economics, economics of education, urban economics, health economics

Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University, 1989

Maureen T. Schwarz

Professor Emerita, Anthropology

mtschwar@maxwell.syr.edu

Advocate of Native North Americans and their rights, Navajo reservation, issues of representation, personhood, organ transplantation, blood transfusion, medical and religious pluralism.

Ph.D., University of Washington, 1995

Milton C. Sernett

Professor Emeritus, History and African American Studies

200 Sims Hall (315) 443-4302 mcsernet@syr.edu

African American religious history, slavery and abolition

Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1972

Yüksel Sezgin

Associate Professor, Political Science; Director, Middle Eastern Studies Program

100F Eggers Hall (315) 443-4431 ysezgin@maxwell.syr.edu

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

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2007

Martin S. Shanguhyia

Associate Professor, History

524 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3829 mshanguh@syr.edu

Colonial and postcolonial rural agrarian transformation, land politics, environmental transformations that impact community livelihoods in rural populations of Africa, modern African state politics

Ph.D., West Virginia University, 2007

James Roger Sharp

Professor Emeritus, History

313B Maxwell Hall (315) 443-9649 jrsharp@maxwell.syr.edu

American political history, early national and middle period, 1789-1860

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1966

Ying Shi

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9442 yshi78@maxwell.syr.edu

Economics of education, labor economics, political economy

Ph.D., Duke University, 2017 

Abdulaziz Shifa

Assistant Professor, Economics

117 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3802 abshifa@syr.edu

Economic growth, development and political economy

Ph.D., Stockholm University, 2013

Saba Siddiki

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4589 ssiddiki@syr.edu

Policy design, implementation, and compliance, collaborative governance, institutional analysis, sustainability technology and behavior, environmental policy, food policy

Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver, 2011

Merril Silverstein

Professor, Sociology and Human Development and Family Science ; Marjorie Cantor Endowed Professor in Aging

314 Lyman Hall (315) 443-3969 merrils@syr.edu

Aging, family, intergenerational relationships, demographic, policy and cultural contexts, quantitative methods

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1990

Perry Singleton

Associate Professor, Economics

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3690 psinglet@syr.edu

Public finance, health economics

Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2007

Theresa Singleton

Professor, Anthropology

209B Maxwell Hall (315) 443-2435 tasingle@maxwell.syr.edu

Historical archaeology, African American history and culture, slavery in plantation America, Archaeology of the African Diaspora

Ph.D., University of Florida, 1980

James B. Steinberg

University Professor, Social Science, International Affairs, and Law

312 Maxwell Hall jimsteinberg@syr.edu

Foreign policy

J.D., Yale Law School, 1978

Jeffrey M. Stonecash

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Political Science

(315) 443-3629 jstoneca@syr.edu

Political parties, realignment of their electoral bases, and the impact of changing alignments on the nature of policy debates

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1975

Jennifer Stromer-Galley

Professor, School of Information Studies; Professor, Political Science, Courtesy

Hinds 220 (315) 443-1823 jstromer@syr.edu

Digital politics, e-government, online deliberation, influence and leadership in social media, decision-making and behavior in games.

PhD. University of Pennsylvania, 2002

Farhana Sultana

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment; Research Director for Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts, PARCC (Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration)

144 Eggers Hall 315-443-2605 sultanaf@syr.edu

Political ecology, international development, water governance, climate change, citizenship, human rights, decolonizing, feminisms, South Asia

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007

Junko Takeda

Associate Professor, History

139 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5868 jtakeda@maxwell.syr.edu

Early modern European history, modern European history, France, Mediterranean, economic globalization, history of science and medicine

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006

Brian Taylor

Professor, Political Science

403 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-3713 bdtaylor@maxwell.syr.edu

Russian politics, comparative politics, security studies

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998

Robert Terrell

Assistant Professor, History

532 Eggers Hall rsterrel@syr.edu

Modern Germany and Europe, commodity and food history, global and transnational history, the history of Islam and Muslims in Europe

Ph.D., University of California San Diego, 2018

Margaret Susan Thompson

Associate Professor, History and Political Science

313C Maxwell Hall (315) 443-5882 msthomps@maxwell.syr.edu

Modern American history, government and politics, religion, women's history

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1979

Emily Thorson

Assistant Professor, Political Science; Campbell Senior Research Associate

308 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3629 eathorso@maxwell.syr.edu

American politics, misinformation and misperceptions, experimental methodology, political psychology, media and politics

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2013

Stuart Thorson

Professor Emeritus, Political Science and International Relations; Donald P. and Margaret Curry Gregg Professor Emeritus

409 Crouse-Hinds (315) 443-9802 thorson@syr.edu

Information technology policy, international relations, political theory and methodology

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1972

Áron Tóbiás

Assistant Professor, Economics

129 Eggers Hall adtobias@syr.edu

Microeconomic theory, public finance, political economy

Ph.D., Yale University, 2016

John Marshall Townsend

Professor, Anthropology

525 Eggers Hall (315) 443-4851 jmtsu44@aol.com

Psychological and medical anthropology, human sexuality, cross-cultural mental health, ethnic relations, symbolic interaction, United States, Germany

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

A. Dale Tussing

Professor Emeritus, Economics

tussing@maxwell.syr.edu

Health economics, poverty, Marxian economics

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1964

David M. Van Slyke

Dean; Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs; Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business-Government Policy

200 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3461 vanslyke@maxwell.syr.edu

Public and nonprofit management, government contracting, public-private partnerships, policy implementation, strategic management

Ph.D., Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1999

Susan Snow Wadley

Professor Emerita, Anthropology; Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies

sswadley@syr.edu

Social change, religion, folklore, gender issues, folk art traditions, India and Upstate New York

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1973

Yulong Wang

Assistant Professor, Economics

127 Eggers Hall ywang402@maxwell.syr.edu

Econometrics, applied econometrics

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2017

Michael J. Wasylenko

Professor Emeritus, Economics ; Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics

mjwasyle@maxwell.syr.edu

Public finance, public finance in developing countries, urban economics

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975

Stephen Saunders Webb

Professor Emeritus, History; Maxwell Professor Emeritus, History and Social Science

542A Eggers Hall (315) 443-5873 sswebb@maxwell.syr.edu

Early America, Anglo-American social and political, Native American

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1965

Simon Weschle

Assistant Professor, Political Science

530 Eggers Hall (315) 443-8678 swweschl@maxwell.syr.edu

Comparative political economy, democratic accountability and representation, quantitative methods

Ph.D., Duke University, 2015

John Western

Professor Emeritus, Geography and the Environment; Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence; Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence

528 Eggers Hall (315) 443-3063 jcwester@maxwell.syr.edu

Social, cultural, urban geography; Southern Africa, Europe

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1978

Steven White

Assistant Professor, Political Science; Campbell Senior Research Associate

315 Eggers Hall (315) 443-8678 swhite10@maxwell.syr.edu

American politics, American political development, race and politics

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2014

Emily Wiemers

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

320C Lyman Hall (315) 443-3749 eewiemer@maxwell.syr.edu

Labor economics, demography, economics of aging, household behavior and family economics, health economics

Ph.D., University of California, 2009 

Peter Wilcoxen

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs; Ajello Professor in Energy and Environmental Policy; Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence; Director, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-0268 wilcoxen@maxwell.syr.edu

Natural resource, environmental economics

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1989

Michael J. Williams

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs; Director, Master of Arts in International Relations (MAIR), Executive Master of International Relations (EMIR) programs

215 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9047 mjwill14@maxwell.syr.edu

Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education with Merit, 2011

University of London, United Kingdom

Ph.D. in International Relations, 2006

London School of Economics & Political Science, United Kingdom

M.A. with Distinction in Contemporary European History, 2003

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany University of Bath, United Kingdom  

Janet M. Wilmoth

Professor and Chair, Sociology; Director, Aging Studies Institute

314 Lyman Hall (315) 443-5053 jwilmoth@maxwell.syr.edu

Sociology of aging and the life course, demography, health

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1995

Robert Wilson

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment

533 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9433 rmwilson@maxwell.syr.edu

Environmental history, historical geography, environmental humanities, animals and society, climate change history and politics

Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2003

Jamie Winders

Professor, Geography and the Environment; Director, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute; https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/autonomous-policy/

310A Maxwell Hall (315) 443-9554 jwinders@maxwell.syr.edu

Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2004

Douglas A. Wolf

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs; Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies

314 Lyman Hall (315) 443-9066 dawolf@maxwell.syr.edu

Aging and public policy, population studies, quantitative methods

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1977

John M. Yinger

Trustee Professor, Economics and Public Administration and International Affairs ; Director, Education Finance and Accountability Program (EFAP); Associate Director, Center for Policy Research

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9062 jyinger@maxwell.syr.edu

State and local government finance, education, urban policy, and discrimination in housing

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1975

Matt Young

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs

320 Eggers Hall (315) 443-5849 myoung10@maxwell.syr.edu

Public management, public sector innovation and technology, public service delivery, governance, civic engagement, social justice

Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2017

Yael Zeira

Associate Professor, Political Science

526 Eggers Hall (315) 443-1749 yzeira@maxwell.syr.edu

Middle East politics, comparative politics, political conflict and violence

Ph.D., New York University, 2012

Maria Zhu

Assistant Professor, Economics

426 Eggers Hall (315) 443-9043 mzhu33@maxwell.syr.edu

Labor economics, economics of education

Ph.D., Duke University, 2019 

Corri Zoli

Research Assistant Professor, Political Science; Director of Research, Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law

300J Dineen Hall (315) 443-4523 cbzoli@maxwell.syr.edu

National and international security and humanitarian issues, gender and identity, culture, and diversity, critical theory, and globalization, U.S. military veterans

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2004

Austin Zwick

Assistant Teaching Professor, Policy Studies; Assistant Director, Policy Studies; Director of Honors, Policy Studies

102 Maxwell Hall (315) 443-3934 alzwick@maxwell.syr.edu

Smart Cities, Platform Economy, Autonomous systems, Urban and regional planning, and quantitative methods

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2018