Maxwell School News

A new faculty scholars program, which recognizes top teachers with a special emphasis on lower-division, team-taught, interdisciplinary courses, is named the Robert D. McClure Professors of Teaching Excellence, named Bob McClure, former associate dean and current professor at the Maxwell School.

Former colleagues of Agehananda Bharati gather to mark 25 years since his passing.

Deborah Pellow is devoted to counseling anthropology undergrads, and will tell you it pays dividends for her and them.

Mike Wasylenko returns to full-time teaching and research, having spent almost 20 years as the associate dean who keeps Maxwell humming.

Fabiola Ortiz Valdez, an anthropology doctoral candidate at Maxwell, is shedding light on the stories and struggles of undocumented laborers, primarily from Mexico and Guatemala, who work on New York's dairy farms.

Fifteen years after 9/11 refocused American foreign policy — and the career of James Cunningham — the former ambassador says the collapse of Afghanistan remains an unacceptable option.

Danielle Thomsen’s book explores how the current political climate discourages politicians with moderate views from seeking national office.

Anthropologist John Burdick is not only a faculty member conducting research overseas (like so many others). His research team, in fact, spans the globe.

The annual student-organized networking trips to Washington and New York accelerate career planning and a student’s understanding of life after Maxwell.

At a time when America is sorting out its larger role in the world, experts remind us that U.S. aid is often much appreciated.

Renee Levy discusses the geopolitical dimensions of insurgents, criminals, and radical Islamists, who florish in areas in Afghanistan and Pakistan under a lack of government control. These are among 150 such "black spots" identified by researchers working to map global insecurity as part of an interdisciplinary project in Maxwell’s Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

As ever, to understand Russia you must know the man in charge.

While the term terrorism still conjures up images of bombs and snipers, the frightening future of terrorism resides across the Internet.

The web of relationships and mutual benefits between America and China is too complex to dismiss with campaign rhetoric.

"The interesting question it raises is whether the seat will change parties," says Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. "That’s possible, given the district enrollment," adding "and with the Senate closely split, this particular election could become very important."

"My concern would not be economic, it would be political," says Professor of Economics Mary Lovely regarding last year's rise in the U.S. trade deficit. “I’m afraid this will be more fuel for an aggressive trade stance toward China, afraid that will lead to retaliation by China, and I think it will cause job destruction in the United States as well as in China.”

Instead of raising tariffs India should have emulated China by reforming labor laws and maintaining a low-tariff regime on intermediate goods to attract export-oriented global manufacturing firms, according to Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.

"They raise the already high risk of new U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, almost certainly to be quickly followed by a carefully targeted Chinese response," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics. "Unfortunately, while destructive of jobs both here and in China, these responses will not move the needle on the U.S. trade deficit."