Maxwell School Leadership, Faculty and Staff

James Roger Sharp
Professor Emeritus, History Department
313B Maxwell Hall | 315.443.9649 | jrsharp@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Ying Shi
Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9442 | yshi78@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Takumi Shibaike
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department
410A Eggers Hall | tshibaik@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Abdulaziz Shifa
Associate Professor, Economics Department
117 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3802 | abshifa@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Saba Siddiki
Associate 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
426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4589 | 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

Shaneya Simmelkjaer
Ph.D. Student, Sociology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | snsimmel@syr.edu

Perry Singleton
Associate Professor, Economics Department
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3690 | psinglet@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Theresa Singleton
Professor, Anthropology Department
209B Maxwell Hall | 315.443.2435 | tasingle@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Rachel Skipper
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Recruiting, Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences
301 Hall of Languages | 315.443.4322 | raskippe@syr.edu

Tara Slater
Administrative Assistant, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
400 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2367 | tdslater@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise


Joseph W. Stoll
Manager, Cartographic Lab, Geography and the Environment Department
002 Steele Hall | 315.443.3937 | jwstoll@syr.edu

Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department
315.443.3629 | jstoneca@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

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
Research Affiliate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute
Hinds 220 | 315.443.1823 | jstromer@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Farhana Sultana
Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Research Director, Environmental Conflict and Collaboration
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center
144 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2605 | 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

Azadeh Tajdar
Cramer Family Professor of Practice in Community Impact, Citizenship and Civic Engagement
206C Eggers Hall | 315.443.1305 | atajdar@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise
Collective social entrepreneurship; cross-sector social partnerships, social innovation, local impact

Junko Takeda
Professor, History Department
Interim Chair, Citizenship and Civic Engagement
Daicoff Faculty Scholar
139 Eggers Hall | 315.443.5868 | jtakeda@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise
Early modern European history, France, Mediterranean, economic globalization, immigration, history of medicine

Karen Tavernese
Assistant Director, Aging Studies Institute
314 Lyman Hall | 315.443.1398 | ktaverne@syr.edu

Brian Taylor
Professor, Political Science Department
Director, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
345 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3713 | bdtaylor@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Areas of Expertise

Anthony Terrinoni
Associate Director, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute
309B Maxwell Hall | aaterrin@syr.edu

Margaret Susan Thompson
Associate Professor, History Department
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
313C Maxwell Hall | 315.443.5882 | msthomps@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Emily Thorson
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
312 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3629 | eathorso@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Stuart Thorson
Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department
Professor Emeritus, International Relations Undergraduate Program
Donald P. and Margaret Curry Gregg Professor Emeritus
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
409 Crouse-Hinds | 315.443.9802 | thorson@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Areas of Expertise

Dale Tomich
Research Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Anthropology Department

Caroline Hai-Yan Tong
Program Manager, Executive Education Department
219 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.3759 | catong@syr.edu

Deborah Toole
Administrative Specialist, Geography and the Environment Department
144 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2606 | datoole@syr.edu

John Marshall Townsend
Professor, Anthropology Department
525 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4851 | jmtowsen@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Jessie Trudeau
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department
Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
530 Eggers | jtrudeau@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise
Politics of crime and violence, politics of geography, Brazilian politics, research methods.

Rick Trunfio
Adjunct Professor, Political Science Department
100 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2416 | dftrunfi@syr.edu

George Tsaoussis Carter
Events Coordinator, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
346 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9248 | gtsaouss@syr.edu

Michiko Ueda-Ballmer
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Design and Governance
426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9046 | miueda@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

David M. Van Slyke
Dean, Maxwell School
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business-Government Policy
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
200 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3461 | vanslyke@syr.edu
Areas of Expertise

Gabriela Vasquez Jimenez
Assistant to the Chair, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
215 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4000 | gvasqu01@syr.edu

Julie Ann Venditti
Administrative Assistant, Office of Development
204 Steele Hall | javendit@syr.edu

Susan M. Virgil
Administrative Assistant, National Security Studies, Executive Education Department
309A Maxwell Hall | 315. 443.9920 | smvirgil@syr.edu