Selina Gallo-Cruz

• 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

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.

"Testimony and Transformation: A Comparative Study of State Legislative Sex Trade Policy Debates", Sponsored by Syracuse University Faculty Creative Research Grant.

"Mellon Scholarship in Action Grant", Sponsored by Community in the Classroom: A Living Curriculum in Grassroots Civics.

"Women’s Experiences with International Support Post-war", Sponsored by College of the Holy Cross Faculty Research and Publication Grant.

"Climate Resiliency Teaching Fellowship", Sponsored by Shelburne Farms, Castleton University.

"Mellon Scholarship in Action Grant", Sponsored by Community in the Classroom: A Living Curriculum in Grassroots Civics.

• 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., Morton, C. R., "On Continuity and Exceptionality in Our Present Crises: An Interview with Silvia Federici." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism , 2024.
  • 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. R., "Awaiting Spring and War: Insights from Ecofeminism." Deportate, esuli, profughe, Special issue on the war in Ukraine, 2022.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Awaiting Spring and War: Insights from Ecofeminism." Deportate, esuli, profughe, Special issue on the war in Ukraine, 2022.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Circles of Threat and Spheres of Power: Reflections on Women’s Nonviolent Activism." Hamling, A. (ed.) Women and Nonviolence in the 20th and 21st Centuries, 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Marginalization and Mobilizing Power in Nonviolent Social Movements." Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "The PR industry aims to demobilize environmental movements—here’s what organizers can do about it." Waging Nonviolence, 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., Remsberg, R., "Women, Peacebuilding, and the ‘Invisible Hand’ of Conflict in Post-War Liberia." Pagnucco, R. J. (ed.) The Journal of Social Encounters Special Issue: Women and Peacebuilding, 2021.
• Book Chapter
  • 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.
• Blogs
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Should We Compare the Violence of Rape, War, Racism, and Ecocide? Pacifist Feminists Have Long Argued We Must." Edinburgh University Press blog, 2024.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "The Long and Complex Story of Global Nonviolence." Conflict(ed), blog of the Peace, War, and Conflict section of the American Sociological Association, 2024.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Is there a strategic advantage to political invisibility?." Conflict(ed), 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Women, peace, and development: lessons from post-war Liberia." In GlobalDev blog. Is there a strategic advantage to political invisibility?, 2021.
• Book Reviews
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "A Review of The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan’s Frontline Women. By Fauzia Husain." American Journal of Sociology , 2025.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda, Nicole Fox." The Journal of Social Encounters, 2024.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Reassessing the (Still) Angry (but Savvy) Strategic Crowd: A Review of Street Rebellion: Resistance beyond Violence and Nonviolence by Ben Case." Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, 2024.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Book review of Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining, Montevecchio, Caesar A. and Powers, Gerald F. Eds.." The Journal of Social Encounters, 2023.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Book Review of Fighting Better: Constructive Conflicts in America, Louis Kriesberg." The Journal of Social Encounters, 2023.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Review of Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Pease, Development, and Ecology, by Caesar A. Montevecchio Gerald F. and Powers." In The Journal of Social Encounters. , 2023.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining." M., Caesar , A. and Gerald , F. (eds.) Peace Chronicle, 2022.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Book Review of Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining, Montevecchio, Caesar A. and Powers, Gerald F. Eds.." Peace Chronicle, 2022.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Films at the Fault Line of ‘Deep’ and ‘Bright’ Greens in the Environmental Movement." International Sociology Reviews, 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "On Obedience and Outcome." ¡Presente! Nonviolent Politics and the Resurrection of the Dead by Kyle Lambelet, 2021.
• Edited Special Issues
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., Isla, A., "Land and Life: Ecosocialist-Ecofeminist Responses to Capitalist Extractivism." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism , 2025.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Extractive Politics, Conflict, and Peacebuilding." The Journal of Social Encounters, 2023.
• Editorial
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "On Othering and Working Together: A Reflection on Our Work in PWSC." American Sociological Association Peace, War and Social Conflict Section, 2025.
• Encyclopedia Entries
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Nonviolence." Grasso, M., Giugno, M. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Political Sociology, 2023.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Violent and Nonviolent Conflict." Kurtz, . (ed.) Encyclopedia of Violence-Peace-Conflict, 2022.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Nonviolent Civil Disobedience." Thompson, S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice, 2014.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Global Nonviolence." Ritzer, G. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Globalization, 2011.
  • Boli, J., Gallo-Cruz, S. and Mathias, M., "World Polity Theory." Denemark, R. A. (ed.) The International Studies Compendium Project, 2011.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Midwifery and Medicalization." Brackett, K. P. (ed.) Battleground Families: Encyclopedia of Current Controversies in Families, 2009.

Syracuse University Lubin House, Syracuse University, "Subjects, Objects and Social Relationships: Teaching Personhood and Agency" (December 15, 2025)

Syracuse University Lubin House, Syracuse University, "Visibility, Invisibility and Violence: A Sociological Approach" (December 15, 2025)

Pedagogical Presentation for Syracuse University Project Advance High School Sociology Teacher Training, Syracuse University, "Subjects, Objects and Social Relationships: Teaching Personhood and Agency" (December 11, 2025)

Syracuse University Project Advance Teacher Training, Syracuse University, "Visibility, Invisibility and Violence: A Sociological Approach" (December 11, 2025)

XV Covegno di Sociologia dell’ Ambienta Torino, "On the Complex Pathways from Cognitive Understandings of Ecological Overshoot to Pragmatic Responses" (September, 2025)

Community talks given to Ithaca area grade school parents and Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Education Series, "What I Have Learned From my College Students Teaching on the Sex Trade" (March 28, 2025)

Community talks given to Ithaca area grade school parents and Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Education Series, "What I Have Learned From my College Students Teaching on the Sex Trade" (March 27, 2025)

Power 2-25: Hierarchy, Action, and Power in Question, "Political Invisibility and Power: The Sex Trade’s Hidden Figures and the Power of Policy Exclusion" (January 9, 2025 - January 12, 2025)

National Association for Women’s Studies Annual Meeting, "The Safety to See Oppression: Liberatory Consciousness After the Sex Trade" (November 14, 2024 - November 17, 2024)

Peace and Justice Studies Association Annual Meeting, Niagara University, "Feminist Responses to and Engagements with Nonviolence: From Rape to Ecocide" (October 24, 2024 - October 27, 2024)

Gallo-Cruz, S. R., Laine , M., Laino, H., ASA Roundtable, Urban Sociology, "Saving the Lungs of the City: emerging civic action in urban environmental policy" (August 12, 2024)

American Sociological Association Pavilion talk on Sections and Communities, "Opportunities and Contributions of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section" (August 11, 2024)

American Sociological Association Department Leaders Preconference, “Navigating Conflict as a Sociology Department Leader” , "Framing Conflicts as Opportunities for Growth" (August 9, 2024)

The 10th World Conference on Women’s Studies, "Feminism, Nonviolence and Rape Resistance" (May 30, 2024)

Peace, War and Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association Virtual Coffee Talk series, "Academic Trajectories in Peace and Conflict Research" (May 21, 2024)

Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs, Syracuse University, "The Successes, Failures, and Long Story of the Globalization of Nonviolence" (April 5, 2024)

a book talk for the Program on Conflict and Collaboration, Syracuse University, "From Rape to Ecocide: Feminists Respond to Nonviolence" (March 27, 2024)

Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, "Forbidden Solutions and Forsaken Oversights: Culture and Denial in Climate Policy" (March 3, 2024)

Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, "Prostitution Policy and Possibilities for Personhood: The Debate over Full or Partial Decriminalization" (January 27, 2024)

4S Conference, "Repudiated Knowledge of Ecological Decline: Parameters and Social Dynamics of Unknowing" (November 9, 2023)

International Summer School of Political Ecology in Ljubljana, Slovenia, University of Ljubljana, "Ecofeminist Responses to Social Justice" (August 22, 2023)

Roundtable Presentation, American Sociological Association Section on Community and Urban Sociology, "Protest, Public Relations, and Policy Paradoxes in City Sustainability Planning" (August 18, 2023)

The 31st Annual Africa and Diaspora International Conference, California State University, "Peace Studies and the Limits to Growth" (April 27, 2023 - April 29, 2023)

Visiting Scholar Invited Talk, Center for Teaching and Learning, California State University, "Visibility and Violence, Crime and Culpability: Insights from Women’s Movements" (April 25, 2023)

“No Woman Has Ever Written Enough: Memoir, Visibility, Possibility”, National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, "Rewriting the Script: Memoirs and the Delegitimation of Domestic Violence" (November 10, 2022 - November 13, 2022)

Conflict Research Society Annual Conference, Queen's University Belfast, "Extractive Politics, Conflict, and Peacebuilding: Institutional and Structural Approaches" (September 7, 2022 - September 9, 2022)

European Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Meeting, Queen’s University Belfast, "Ontologies of Exclusion: Expert Repudiation over Limits to Growth" (July 26, 2022 - July 29, 2022)

Governing a sustainable transformation – The role of knowledge, expertise and the reflexivity of public institutions, Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference, "Policy Paradigms and Moral Orders: Sanctioning Governing Critical Research on the Biological Limits of Technological Solutions to Climate Change" (June 7, 2022 - June 9, 2022)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Leino, H., Laine, M., Finnish Urban Studies Conference, "Local Movements and Urban Environmental Policy" (April 28, 2022 - April 29, 2022)

Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, "Cities, Citizenship, and Climate Crisis" (April 28, 2022)

Environmental Policy Research Group, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, "On Layers of Climate Denial in City Politics" (April 8, 2022)

Book Salon, Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, "Violence and Resistance" (April 1, 2022)

California State University, "Response to After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda, Book Launch for author Nicole Fox" (March 15, 2022)

"Feminist Responses to Invisibility and Violence" United Nations Committee for the Status of Women Annual Meeting, "Restaging Private Abuse in Public Places: How Survivors Find the Courage to Leave" (March 14, 2022)

Sociology Research Seminar, "Sustainability and Disenchantment: Ceremony and Circumstance in Climate Policy and Practice" (March 8, 2022)

Las Casas Institute, University of Oxford, "Response to Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development and Ecology" (March 1, 2022)

Development Days Conference, University of Helsinki, "Policy Paradigms and Moral Orders: Sanctioning Governing Critical Research on the Biological Limits of Technological Solutions to Climate Change" (February 17, 2022)

Syracuse University Maxwell School of Public Polic, "Invisibility and Violence: From Women in War to Everyday Extraction" (February 4, 2022)

Sustainable Transformations in Urban Environments Program, Tampere University, "Social Movements and City Sustainability Politics: Insights from Worcester, Massachusetts" (January 17, 2022)

Tampere Peace Research Institute, "A Gendered Approach to Conflict and Peace: (In)visibility, Threat, and Power" (December 14, 2021)

Sustainable Transformation of Urban Environments, Tampere University, "The Future of Social Policy" (November 22, 2021)

International Studies Association Northeast Conference, The Politics and Practice of Social Movements, "A Method for All Humankind? Global Nonviolence as Cultural and Moral Order" (November 6, 2021)

The Great American Outdoors Panel at Fulbright Finland, Turku University, "Ecology and Environment: Lessons Learned" (October 8, 2021)

Globalization Seminar, Global and Transnational Sociology Master’s Degree Program, Tampere University, "Global Movements in World Society" (September 20, 2021)

European Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Climate Movements: Developments and Challenges, "On Conversion and Cooptation in Climate Movement: An Ethnographic Perspective" (September 1, 2021)

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Peace, War, and Social Conflicts Regular Panel, "Peacebuilding, Liberian Women, and the Invisible Hand of Conflict in the Postwar Era" (August 9, 2021)

Alternative Futures and Popular protest, University of Manchester, "The Lies Lie Somewhere in the Middle: On Climate Denial in City Sustainability Politics" (June 7, 2021)

Introduction to Peace Studies, Wellesley College, "Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women against State Violence in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and Liberia" (May 14, 2021)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Remsberg, R., Sociologists for Women in Society Delegation to 65th Annual Meeting of the Committee for the Status of Women, United Nations, "How They See Us, How We See Ourselves, and How We See Peace: Liberian Women, the International Community, and Peacebuilding After War" (March 20, 2021)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Heidemann, ., Gawerc, M., Leitz, L., Conversation, Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association, "Teaching Peace in Troubled Times" (March 8, 2021)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Remsberg, ., Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, Narratives, Meaning and Social Change, "How They See Us, How We See Ourselves, and How We See Peace: Liberian Women, the International Community, and Peacebuilding After War" (January 28, 2021)

Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, "Book Launch: Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women against State Violence in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and Liberia" (January 25, 2021)

Democracy Visiting Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School (2021 - 2022)

Fulbright-Tampere University Scholar Award (2021 - 2022)

KROC Institute for International Peace Studies, Gender, Peacebuilding and Post-Accord Transformation Fellowship (2015)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Diversity Fellow (2012)

American Sociological Association Minority Dissertation Fellow, Sociologists for Women in Society (2011 - 2012)