Maxwell School Leadership, Faculty and Staff

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Matthew T. Huber

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

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

522 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2605 | mthuber@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Marxism, energy and capitalism, climate politics, resource geography

Zach Huitink

Assistant Teaching Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Design and Governance

529 Eggers Hall | zshuitin@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Vivian Ike

Assistant Teaching Professor, International Relations Undergraduate Program

102 Maxwell Hall | vike01@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

International relations, global environmental politics, climate change policy

Jenn M. Jackson

Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Affiliate, Women’s and Gender Studies

Affiliate, African American Studies

jjacks37@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Black politics, gender and sexuality, political behavior, public opinion, social movements, mixed methods

Zia Jackson

Office Coordinator, Center for Policy Research

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | zrjackso@syr.edu

Hugo Jales

Associate Professor, Economics Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | hbjales@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Labor economics, econometrics

Denisa Jashari

Assistant Professor, History Department

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

538 Eggers Hall | djashari@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Modern Latin America, urban history, social history, Chile, social movements, the Cold War

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Lionel C. Johnson

Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

308 Eggers Hall | ljohns41@syr.edu

Jok Madut Jok

Professor, Anthropology Department

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

206B Maxwell Hall | 315.443.6231 | jjok01@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Seth Jolly

Associate Professor and Chair, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for European Studies

325 Eggers Hall | 315.443.8678 | skjolly@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

European politics, political parties, nationalism, European Union

Andrew Jonelis

Teaching Assistant Professor, Economics Department

319 Maxwell Hall | awjoneli@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Macroeconomics

Amy Aisen Kallander

Professor, History Department

Faculty Affiliate, Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

306 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.5883 | akalland@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Modern Middle East and North Africa, Ottoman Empire, women and gender, Tunisia, French and French Empire, colonialism

George L. Kallander

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, History Department

Director, East Asia Program

313A Maxwell Hall | 315.443.4832 | glkallan@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Korean and northeast Asian history and culture

Chihwa Kao

Professor Emeritus, Economics Department

dkao@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Econometrics of panel data, financial econometrics

Havva Karakas Keles

Assistant Director, International Relations Undergraduate Program

Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science Department

102 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.9931 | hkarakas@syr.edu

Sebastian Karcher

Associate Director, Qualitative Data Repository, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Research Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

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

346H Eggers Hall | 315.443.1634 | skarcher@syr.edu

Neil Katz

Associate Professor Emeritus, Public Affairs

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

400D Eggers Hall | 315.443.3163 | neilkatz44@gmail.com

Areas of Expertise

Nonviolent conflict and change, conflict resolution

Thomas M. Keck

Professor, Political Science Department

Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

313 Eggers Hall | 315.443.5862 | tmkeck@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

U.S. Supreme Court, constitutional courts, freedom of expression, democratic erosion, Court reform

Jerry S. Kelly

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Economics Department

jskelly@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Social choice, econometric theory

Kenneth G. Kelly

Research Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Anthropology Department

kennethgkelly@gmail.com

Areas of Expertise

Historical archaeology, African diaspora, slavery and slave trade

Meghan Kelly

Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

144A Eggers Hall | mkelly51@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Cartography, feminist mapping, critical GIS, community geography, digital storytelling, feminist digital geographies

Martha Haddad Ketcham

Assistant Program Manager, Executive Education Department

Associate Coordinator, Humphrey Fellowship

219 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.3759 | mhketcha@syr.edu

Osamah F. Khalil

Professor, History Department

Chair, International Relations Undergraduate Program

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

102 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.0464 | ofkhalil@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Shafaat Yar Khan

Assistant Professor, Economics Department

542A Eggers | skhan78@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Quantitative analysis using frameworks of short- and long-run trade dynamics
Empirical estimation of trade effects with firm- and product-level census datasets