Maxwell Student News

Maxwell Student News
IR/CCE student Dina Eldawy named second Marshall Scholar in SU history
Dina Eldawy, an international relations and CCE student, has been named a 2019 recipient of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. She is the second Marshall Scholar in Syracuse University history. Funded by the British government, the Marshall Scholarship finances outstanding American students to study in the United Kingdom.

Shybalkina, Bifulco article on participatory budgeting published
"Does Participatory Budgeting Change the Share of Public Funding to Low Income Neighborhoods?," co-authored by PhD student Iuliia Shybalkina and Robert Bifulco, was published in Public Budgeting & Finance. Shybalkina and Bifulco measure the effects of participatory budgeting on the allocation of capital funding among areas of different income levels within NYC council districts.

Four Maxwell students selected as 2019 PMF finalists
The Maxwell School is proud to announce that four of its current students have been selected as finalists for the highly competitive 2019 Presidential Management Fellows Program (PMF).

Maxwell's first-ever Huxley scholar has found her intellectual home
From the moment Brielle Valenza stepped foot in the Maxwell Auditorium as a first-year student, she knew she had come to the right place. "The sense of history in that room is palpable."

PhD student Angie Mejia publishes paper on mental health, ethnicity
Angie Mejia's paper "Young, Foreign, and Depressed in America: Ruminations of an Immigrant to Prozac Nation" was published in Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. Mejia, a PhD student in sociology, writes "... this autoethnography aims to challenge sociological analyses on the subjective experience of mental health and most plots found in psychiatric memoirs written by U.S. (White) women.

Geo PhD student Emily Bukowski publishes paper on Dutch elm disease
"Using the commons to understand the Dutch elm disease epidemic in Syracuse, NY," written by PhD student Emily Bukowski '14 MA (Geog), was published in Geographical Review. Bukowski argues "that elms and their pests are viewed as components of the urban commons but understanding them as such does not align with what strategies managers are able to enact in the patchwork of property ownership that occurs in cities."

PhD student Jen Brooks publishes paper on disability, job satisfaction
"Just a Little Respect: Differences in Job Satisfaction Among Individuals With and Without Disabilities," written by PhD student Jennifer Brooks '17 MA (Soc), was published in Social Science Quarterly. Brooks explores the relationship between disability and job satisfaction; and examines how differences in job satisfaction between workers with and without disabilities may reflect educational attainment and perceived workplace respect.

PhD student Davor Mondom discusses political legacy of Amway in WaPo
Current PhD student Davor Mondom ’12 BA (Econ/Hist)/’15 MA (Hist)/’16 MPhil (Hist) writes about the political legacy of Amway in the wake of Richard DeVos's death in his article "The conservative business model that paved the way for the Trump presidency," published in the Washington Post.

Anthropology student participates in community-based research
Anthropology student Grace Gugerty's experience in the Refugee Health Advocacy course is part of the Route 90 Collaborative, a growing effort among a group of faculty members at several New York state universities and colleges, including Syracuse University, to improve the integration of social determinants of health into professional health education.

New PAIA class includes four Robertson Fellows
The Maxwell School is pleased to announce that four new Robertson Foundation for Government Fellows are among the 2018-19 cohort of master’s students in Public Administration and International Affairs who began classes in July. They join three who started programs last year, bringing the total number of Fellows to seven.

Maxwell alum Chris Meek speaks with Fox News about empowering veterans
Chris Meek '92 BA (Econ/PSc), current EMPA student and Chairman of SoldierStrong, was interviewed on Fox News for the segment "Capitol Hill explores ways to empower veterans through tech." Meek discusses how technology can help injured veterans get back on their feet.

Maxwell students Marcus Lane, Taj Harris receive Clements Awards
Tajanae (Taj) Harris '20 BA (Anth) and Marcus Lane '19 BA (PSt) were among the 2018 recipients of the Mark and Pearle Clements Internship Award. The award is intended to enable Syracuse University students to undertake unique internships that wouldn't be possible without financial help.

Student Antonio Michel discusses participatory budgeting in PA Times
"A Bright Hope in The City of Lights," written by MPA student Antonio Michel, was published in PA Times. Michel writes about the success of participatory budgeting — a decision-making process through which citizens deliberate and negotiate over the distribution of public resources — in Paris, France.

London, Hoy paper on same-sex sexuality, heterosexuals published in SC
"The experience and meaning of same‐sex sexuality among heterosexually identified men and women: An analytic review," written by Andrew London and PhD candidate Aaron Hoy '14 MA (Soc), was published in Sociology Compass. Their research review shows heterosexual individuals make sense of their experiences with same‐sex sexuality in many complex ways.

Maxwell students receive Fulbright UK Summer Institute grants
Kevin Treadway, a freshman history and political science major, and Janaisa Walker, a sophomore policy studies major, have been named as student cultural ambassadors through the US-UK Fulbright Commission’s UK Summer Institute program. The Fulbright UK Summer Institutes are fully funded three- to four-week summer study programs for first- and second-year U.S. undergraduates.

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