Maxwell School Faculty

New in the past year

Hide images

Shane Sanders

Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Professor, Sport Management, Falk College

sdsander@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Public choice, social choice, applied game theory, microeconomic theory

Rebecca Schewe

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9894 | rlschewe@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Environmental and natural resource sociology

Mark Schmeller

Associate Professor, History Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

310 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4639 | mschmell@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Larry D. Schroeder

Professor Emeritus, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

334 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2596 | ldschroe@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

State and local public finance, financial management

Tammy Schultz

Adjunct Professor, Maxwell in Washington, D.C.

Director of National Security and Professor of Strategic Studies, U.S. Marine Corps War College

202.550.3921 | tsschult@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

National strategy, defense, geopolitics, civilian instruments of power, civilian-military relations, counterinsurgency, ethnic conflict and civil war, ground forces, stability and reconstruction operations

Amy Ellen Schwartz

Professor Emerita, Economics Department

Professor Emerita, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

amyschwartz@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Maureen T. Schwarz

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Department

mtschwar@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Milton C. Sernett

Professor Emeritus, History Department

Professor Emeritus, African American Studies, College of Arts & Sciences

200 Sims Hall | 315.443.4302 | mcsernet@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

African American religious history, slavery and abolition

Yüksel Sezgin

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Director, Pre-law Program in Europe

O'Hanley Faculty Scholar

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

100F Eggers Hall | 315.443.4431 | ysezgin@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Martin S. Shanguhyia

Associate Professor, History Department

Senior Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

524 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3829 | mshanguh@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Africa; Eastern Africa

Naomi Shanguhyia

Associate Teaching Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

nyshangu@syr.edu

James Roger Sharp

Professor Emeritus, History Department

313B Maxwell Hall | 315.443.9649 | jrsharp@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Ying Shi

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

O'Hanley Faculty Scholar

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Research Affiliate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

430 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | yshi78@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Economics of education, labor economics, political economy

Takumi Shibaike

Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

315.443.2416 | tshibaik@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

global environmental politics, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civil society activism, global governance

Abdulaziz Shifa

Associate Professor, Economics Department

117 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3802 | abshifa@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Economic growth, development, political economy

Saba Siddiki

Professor and Director of the M.P.A. Program, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy

Director, Center for Policy Design and Governance

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

414 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | ssiddiki@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Merril Silverstein

Professor and Chair, Sociology Department

Professor, Human Development and Family Science, Falk College

Marjorie Cantor Endowed Professor in Aging

Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute

314 Lyman Hall | 315.443.3969 | merrils@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Close-up portrait of a smiling person with short black hair, wearing a gray shirt.

Perry Singleton

Associate Professor, Economics Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | psinglet@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Public finance, health economics

Theresa Singleton

Professor, Anthropology Department

209B Maxwell Hall | 315.443.2435 | tasingle@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Gregory Smith

Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

315.443.2416 | gsmith28@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

International relations theory, security studies, U.S. foreign policy, political methodology

Anya Stanger

Adjunct Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

’15 Ph.D., Social Science Ph.D. Program

aestange@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Transnational feminist praxis, nonviolent civil resistance, social movements, conflict resolution

Portrait of an individual smiling, wearing glasses and a blue shirt, set against a blurred green background.

Stephan Stohler

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

321 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2416 | sstohler@syr.edu

Jeffrey M. Stonecash

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department

315.443.3629 | jstoneca@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Jennifer Stromer-Galley

Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Hinds 220 | 315.443.1823 | jstromer@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Farhana Sultana

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Research Co-Director, Environmental Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

sultanaf@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Emily Sydnor

Associate Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Political Science Department

Research Affiliate, Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship

Associate Professor, Communications, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

eesydnor@syr.edu

Junko Takeda

Professor and Chair, History Department

Chair

Daicoff Faculty Scholar

139 Eggers Hall | 315.443.5868 | jtakeda@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Early modern European history, early modern France, Mediterranean world, early modern connected and global histories, migration, citizenship, race, history of medicine