Maxwell School Leadership, Faculty and Staff

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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, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

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

Director, Maxwell African Scholars Union

O'Hanley Faculty Scholar

524 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3829 | mshanguh@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Colonial and postcolonial Africa; environmental and economic history; rural economic transformation; access to critical natural resources; development; resource governance; and production and flow of commodities

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

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

426 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

410A Eggers Hall | tshibaik@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Global Environmental Politics, NGOs, Global Governance, Civil Society Activism

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

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 | 315.443.3114 | 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

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

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

Gregory Smith

Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

gsmith28@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Anya Elizabeth Stanger

Part-time Instructor, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Alum, Social Science Ph.D. Program

aestange@syr.edu

Jason Steinhauer

Adjunct Professor, Maxwell in Washington, D.C.

jstein20@syr.edu

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

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