Selina Gallo-Cruz

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

O’Hanley Faculty Scholar

Research Co-Director, Advocacy and Activism

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

Research Affiliate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Affiliate, Women’s and Gender Studies

Courses

2026 Spring
- PAI 601 Fundamentals of Conflict Studies
- SOC 600 Selected Topics - Fundamentals of Conflict Studi
- SOC 300 Selected Topics - Sexual Inequality, Violence &
2025 Fall
- SOC 800 Selected Topics - Sociology of Violence
- SOC 406 Sociological Theory
2025 Summer
- SOS 600 Selected Topics - Nonviolence: Princ & Practice
- SOC/WGS 305 Sociology of Sex and Gender
2024 Fall
- SOC 800 Selected Topics - Social Movements & Social Chan
- SOC/WGS 305 Sociology of Sex and Gender
2024 Summer
- SOS 600 Selected Topics - Nonviolence: Principles & Practice
- SOC/WGS 305 Sociology of Sex and Gender

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., Emory University, 2012

Bio

Selina Gallo-Cruz is associate professor of sociology. She researches culture, conflict, gender, global change, NGOs, nonviolence, social movements and theory. She is author of “Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women Against State Violence (Routledge, 2021), winner of the American Sociological Association’s Peace, War and Social Conflict section’s Outstanding Book Award.

Prior to joining Syracuse, she served as an associate professor and assistant professor for the College of the Holy Cross and a visiting assistant professor at Emory University. In 2021, she was named a Fulbright-Tampere University Scholar and served as a Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center, and at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

She received a Ph.D. from Emory University in 2012.

Selected Publications

Books
- Gallo-Cruz, S. R., Feminism, Violence, and Nonviolence: An Anthology. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
- Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Have Repertoire, Will Travel: Nonviolence as Global Contentious Performance." In Elements in Contentious Politics Series. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Gallo-Cruz, S., Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women against State Violence in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and Liberia. Routledge, 2021.
Journal Articles
- Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Dressed in Nylon Lunares: On the work of Maria Mies, the interconnected fibers of women’s lives, and ecofeminist mothering." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Special Issue: “Land and Life: Ecosocialist-Ecofemnist Responses to Capitalist Extractivism”, 2025.
- Laine, M., Gallo-Cruz, S. R. and Leino, H., "Saving the “lungs of the city”: emerging civic action in urban environmental policy: case studies from Tampere, Finland and Worcester, Massachusetts." Local Environment, 2025.
- Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Policy for People with the Fewest Choices: Ontology and Actorhood for Sex Trade Abolition." Sociologists Speak Out: How the Discipline Can Help People Better Understand (or Solve) Current Social Events, Social Problems, Structural Inequality, or Issues of Social Justice, Special Section of Sociological Forum, 2023.
- Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Peace Studies and the Limits to Growth." The Journal of Social Encounters, Special Issue: Extractive Politics, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, 2023.
- Gallo-Cruz, S., "Awaiting Spring and War: Insights from Ecofeminism." Deportate, esuli, profughe, Special issue on the war in Ukraine, 2022.
- Gallo-Cruz, S., "Marginalization and Mobilizing Power in Nonviolent Social Movements." Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, 2021.
- Gallo-Cruz, S., Remsberg, R., "Peacebuilding, Liberian Women, and the Invisible Hand of Conflict in the Postwar Era." Pagnucco, R. J. (ed.) The Journal of Social Encounters, Special Issue: Women and Peacebuilding, 2021.
Book Chapters
- Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Ontology, Biology, and Care: Ecofeminist Perspectives on Social Justice." In Overcoming the Inequalities of Green Transition. Lukšič, A. A., Jovanovska, S. and Remic, B. (eds.) ČZK Zbornik Rumena, 2024.
- Gallo-Cruz, S., "Circles of Threat and Spheres of Power: Reflections on Women’s Nonviolent Activism." In Women and Nonviolence in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Hamling, A. (ed.) Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.
- Gallo-Cruz, S., "American Mothers of Nonviolence: Action and the Politics of Erasure in Women's Nonviolent Activism." In 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism. McCammon, H. J., Banaszak, L. (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Gallo-Cruz, S., "Cleansing Our Hands of the Dirty War: The Colombian Domestication of Human Rights." In National Policy Making: Domestication of Global Trends. Alasuutari, P., Qadir, A. (eds.) Routledge, 2013.
Edited Special Issues
- Isla, A., Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Land and Life: Ecosocialist-Ecofeminist Responses to Capitalist Extractivism." In Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. , 2025.
- Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Extractive Politics, Conflict, and Peacebuilding." In The Journal of Social Encounters. , 2023.

Presentations and Events

Peace, War and Conflict, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, "Globalizing a Repertoire: INGOs and the Global Growth of Nonviolence" (August 19, 2011)

The Second International Conference for Power and Knowledge, Panel: The local-global interfaces and domestication of transnational models, "Culture, Diffusion, and Power: How Global Organizations ‘Build Capacity’" (September 6, 2010 - September 8, 2010)

International Studies Association Annual Conference, "The Global Diffusion of Nonviolent Protest" (February 19, 2010)

Annual Sociological Association Meeting, "The Insufficient Imagery of Top-down, Bottom-up in Global Analysis" (August 8, 2009 - August 11, 2009)

Shaping Europe in a Globalized World: Marie Curie Conferences- European Protests Movements since the Cold War, University of Zurich, "Have Repertoire, Will Travel: The Global Diffusion of Nonviolence" (June 22, 2009 - June 24, 2009)