Advocacy & Activism

Julia Carboni
Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Chair, Citizenship and Civic Engagement
Research Director, Collaborative Governance
Areas of Expertise
Collaborative governance, nonprofit management, organizational networks, food systems

Linda Carty
Associate Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Sociology Department
Associate Professor, African American Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
Areas of Expertise
Race, class and gender studies; comparative sociology; international development; post-colonial discourse; Third World feminism

Todd Dickey
Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2018
Areas of Expertise
Public sector human resource management, labor and employment relations, workplace conflict management

Michael R. Ebner
Associate Professor, History Department
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
Areas of Expertise
History of modern Europe, Italy, Fascism and political violence

Kirk Emerson
Professor of Practice, Collaborative Governance, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997
Areas of Expertise
Collaborative governance, inter-agency cooperation and conflict management, particularly related to climate change, public lands management and border security.

Catherine M. Gerard
Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Research Director, Collaborative Governance
M.A., University of Toronto
M.P.A., SUNY-Albany
Areas of Expertise
Leadership, organizational development, total quality management.

Cecilia A. Green
Associate Professor Emerita, Sociology Department
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
Areas of Expertise
Race, class, gender, Caribbean studies

Areas of Expertise
Marxism, energy and capitalism, climate politics, resource geography

Louis Kriesberg
Professor Emeritus, Sociology Department
Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies
Areas of Expertise
Social conflicts, conflict resolution, interstate and intercommunal conflicts, constructive struggles

Prema Kurien
Professor, Sociology Department
Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center
Senior Research Associate, Sovereignty, Order and Conflict Working Group
Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
Areas of Expertise
Immigrants and immigration, religion, ethnicity, immigrant politics, India

Arthur Paris
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
Areas of Expertise
Urban society and policy, race and ethnic relations, science and technology, non-white popular culture

Tom Perreault
Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
DellPlain Professor of Latin American Geography
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence
Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
Areas of Expertise
Political ecology, environmental justice, water governance, critical resource geography, mining and extractivism, rural livelihoods, agrarian political economy, indigeneity and indigenous politics, Latin America

Gretchen Purser
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Research Director, Advocacy and Activism
Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
Areas of Expertise
Work and labor, urban poverty, law and punishment, housing and homelessness, precarity, social theory, ethnography, community-based action research

Robert A. Rubinstein
Distinguished Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Anthropology Department
Professor, International Relations
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program
Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
Ph.D., State University of New York, Binghamton, 1977
Ms.PH, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1983
Areas of Expertise
Peace, conflict and international security, medical anthropology and public health, methods, history and theory

Herbert Ruffin
Associate Professor, African American Studies, College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise
International relations, political economy, politics of globalization, right-wing populism politics of globalization

Tod Rutherford
Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Areas of Expertise
Economic restructuring, labor and the automobile industry, labor market processes and policies, regional development

Harvey Michael Teres
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
Dean's Professor of the Public Humanities in English, College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1986
Areas of Expertise
The public role of literature and criticism

Margaret Susan Thompson
Associate Professor, History Department
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Areas of Expertise
Modern American history, government and politics, religion, women's history

Jamie Winders
Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Syracuse University
Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute
Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
Areas of Expertise
Autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, international migration, race/ethnicity, gender, cultural and social geography, social theory, social reproduction, feminist geography, qualitative methods, digital geographies