Maxwell Announces Promotions, Tenure for 10 Faculty
The
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University is
pleased to announce the promotion of the following distinguished individuals to
Professor in their field.
Andrew Wender Cohen,
Professor, History
Professor
Cohen specializes in American law and political economy and is the author of
the recent book Contraband: Smuggling and
the Birth of the American Century. In 2005, he received the Daniel Patrick
Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research. He has won fellowships from numerous
foundations, including the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the
American Council of Learned Societies.
Robert Bifulco, Professor,
Public Administration and International Affairs
Professor
Bifulco is Director of Graduate Studies with PAIA and Senior Research Associate
with the Center for Policy Research. His areas of interest include education
finance and policy; program evaluation; school segregation; and state and local
government finance.
Thomas Keck, Professor,
Political Science
Professor
Keck is the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics and
Senior Research Associate with the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. His
research focuses on constitutional courts and the use of legal strategies by
contemporary political movements on the left and the right. He is author of
numerous books including Judicial
Politics in Polarized Times.
Leonard Lopoo, Professor,
Public Administration and International Affairs
Professor
Lopoo is the Director of the Center for Policy Research where he is also a
Senior Research Associate. His research interests primarily involve the family:
fertility, marriage, maternal employment, and the public policies designed to
assist the low-income population. He has received a number of awards for his
research and teaching, including the Birkhead-Burkhead Teaching Excellence
Award, a Meredith Professors Recognition Award, and the Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Award for Teaching and Research.
Jamie Winders, Professor,
Geography
Professor
Winders is Chair of the Geography Department and the O’Hanley Faculty Scholar. Her
research focuses on changing geographies of immigrant settlement to and within
the U.S. (i.e., new immigrant destinations); racial formations and dynamics;
the politics of social reproduction; and cultural geography. She is the
recipient of a number of teaching awards including the Meredith Teaching
Recognition Award and the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and
Research (2008).
In
addition, the following have received tenure and promotion to the rank of
Associate Professor:
Alan Allport, Associate
Professor, History
Associate Professor Allport’s
interests include modern British and European history, war, and society. He
is the author of the recent book Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British
Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945. His first book Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War, a study of the
post-1945 military demobilization experience
in Britain, won the 2010 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award.
Shana Gadarian, Associate
Professor, Political Science
Associate
Professor Gadarian is a Senior Research Associate with the Campbell Public
Affairs Institute. Her primary research focuses
on American politics, political psychology, political communication, and
experimental methods. Gadarian co-authored the book Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World,
recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Robert E. Lane Award
for best book in political psychology.
Yoonseok Lee, Associate
Professor, Economics
Associate Professor Lee is the Director of Masters Studies in Economics and a Senior Research Associate with the Center for Policy
Research. His research interests focus on econometric theory and
application, including semiparametric/nonlinear (dynamic) panel data models,
big data analysis, social interaction and spatial dependence, and income
polarization.
Laurie Marhoefer, Associate
Professor, History
Associate
Professor Marhoefer joined the faculty in 2009. Her research interests focus on
Modern European and German history and gender history. She is the author of the
2015 book Sex and the Weimar Republic:
German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis, the
culmination of an 11-year effort to write about the world’s first LGBT
movement.
Martin Shanguhyia, Associate
Professor, History
Associate
Professor Shanguhyia’s research interests include colonial and postcolonial rural
Agrarian transformation, land politics, environmental transformations that
impact on community livelihoods in rural populations of Africa, and modern
African state politics. He is the author of the recent book Population, Tradition & Environmental Control in
Colonial Kenya, 1920-1963.
“Maxwell
faculty are committed to excellence both inside and outside of the classroom,” says
James B. Steinberg, Dean of the Maxwell School. “We are very proud of their
accomplishments and thankful for their many contributions to the school.”
06/28/16