Maxwell School Leadership, Faculty and Staff

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Kristen Patel

Professor of Practice, Policy Studies

Donald P. and Margaret Curry Gregg Professor of Practice in Korean and East Asian Affairs

Maxwell Advisory Board Member

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

321 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2348 | kbpatel@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

National security, intelligence issues, and illicit finance

Hannah Patnaik

Managing Director, Maxwell X Lab

426 Eggers Hall | apatnaik@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Development Economics, social policy, impact evaluation

Candi Patterson

Computer Systems Specialist, Center for Policy Research

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | cpaterso@syr.edu

Thomas Pearson

Assistant Professor, Economics Department

336 Eggers Hall | tpears01@syr.edu

Deborah Pellow

Professor Emerita, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

515 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4216 | dpellow@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Women and gender, urbanization, ethnicity, conflict, anthropology of space and place, African Studies

Tom Perreault

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

DellPlain Professor of Latin American Geography

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

144F Eggers Hall | 315.443.2607 | taperrea@syr.edu

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

Keli Perrin

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Managing Director, Institute for Security Policy and Law

Associate Teaching Professor, College of Law

300 Dineen Hall | 315.443.2284 | kaperrin@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Regulation of new technologies, homeland security, critical infrastructure, emergency management, unmanned vehicles, data protection, privacy law

Barbara Petzen

Adjunct Professor, Maxwell in Washington, D.C.

Director, Training Initiatives, Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Director, Middle East Connections

571.246.3494 | bepetzen@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Leadership, communication, learning design

Guido Pezzarossi

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director, Anthropology Department

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

206A Maxwell Hall / Lab 414A Lyman Hall | 315.443.1359 / 315.443.0178 | gpezzaro@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Archaeology of colonialism, historical anthropology, postcolonial theory, new materialism, archaeology of food

Heather Law Pezzarossi

Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department

318 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.5102 | hblaw100@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Archaeology of North America, collaborative Indigenous archaeology, critical heritage studies, historical anthropology, photography

David Popp

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2482 | dcpopp@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Environmental economics, economics of technological change

Shawn Powers

Adjunct Professor, Maxwell in Washington, D.C.

Chief Strategy Officer, U.S. Agency for Global Media

shpowers@syr.edu

Sarah Pralle

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

314 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2893 | sbpralle@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

U.S. public policy, agenda setting and policy change, environmental politics and policy, climate change and energy, interest groups and social movements

Alexandra Punch

Director, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9343 | aepunch@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Harm Reduction, drug use behavior, mental and behavioral health, applied research

Gretchen Purser

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Director of the Law, Society and Policy Integrated Learning Major

Research Co-Director, Advocacy and Activism

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

400H Eggers Hall | 315.443.5848 | gwpurser@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Work and labor, urban poverty, law and punishment, housing and homelessness, precarity, social theory, ethnography, community-based action research

Dana Radcliffe

Adjunct Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

dradclif@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Ethics and public policy, management ethics, leadership

Dennis C. Rasmussen

Professor, Political Science Department

Hagerty Family Fellow

Co-Director, Political Philosophy Program

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

313B Maxwell Hall | 315.443.5877 | dcrasmus@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Political theory, history of political thought

Jane M. Read

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Director, Integrated Learning Major, Environment, Sustainability and Policy

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

123 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4279 | jaread@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Geographic information systems and remote sensing, human-environment interactions, geohumanities, indigenous livelihoods, Latin America

Sara Reckless

Adjunct Professor, Maxwell in Washington, D.C.

Senior Transition Advisor, USAID Office of Transition Initiatives

sereckle@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Political transitions, conflict prevention and stabilization, countering violent extremism

Grant Reeher

Professor, Political Science Department

Director, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

313 Eggers Hall | 315.443.5046 | gdreeher@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

American politics, political representation and legislature behavior, health care policy, citizenship and democracy, public engagement, gun politics and policy

Gretchen Ritter

Vice Chancellor, Provost and Chief Academic Officer

Professor, Political Science Department

Faculty Affiliate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

500 Crouse-Hinds Hall | 315.443.2494 | ritterg@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

History of women's constitutional rights; contemporary issues concerning democracy and citizenship in American politics

Jacqueline Rivera

Program Coordinator, Maxwell in Washington, D.C.

CSIS | 202.800.6591 | jriver09@syr.edu

Jonnell A. Robinson

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Geography and the Environment Department

Co-Director, Community Geography

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

215C Lyman Hall | 315.443.4890 | jdallen@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Community geography, participatory geographic information systems (GIS)

Lars Rodseth

Associate Professor, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

516 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9710 | rodseth@syr.edu

Dennis Romano

Professor Emeritus, History Department

dromano@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Renaissance Italy, early modern social and cultural history, Venice

Stuart Rosenthal

Professor, Economics Department

Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Faculty Affiliate, Aging Studies Institute

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | ssrosent@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Urban economics, state and local public economies, real estate finance and housing

Michah W. Rothbart

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2868 | mwrothba@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Nonprofit and public financial management, public budgeting, education policy

Alexander Rothenberg

Assistant Professor, Economics Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | adrothen@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Urban economics, development economics, applied econometrics

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

405A Maxwell Hall | 315.443.3837 | rar@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Peace, conflict and international security, medical anthropology and public health, methods, history and theory

Cort Ruddy

Director, Communications and Media Relations Office

200 Eggers Hall | 315.443.5492 | cmruddy@syr.edu

Mark Rupert

Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

410A Maxwell Hall | 315.443.1748 | merupert@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Emily Rutherford

Associate Director of Admission, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

215 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2319 | earuther@syr.edu

Tod Rutherford

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Advisory Board Member, Center for European Studies

535 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2605 | trutherf@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Economic restructuring, labor and the automobile industry, labor market processes and policies, regional development

Chie Sakakibara

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

144D Eggers Hall | 315.443.3679 | csakakib@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Indigenous geographies, environmental humanities, humanistic geography, Arctic studies

Tammy Salisbury

Administrative Assistant, Social Science Ph.D. Program

413 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.2275 | mtsalisb@syr.edu

S. N. Sangmpam

Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Professor, African American Studies, College of Arts & Sciences

217 Sims Hall | 315.443.9943 | SnSangm@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Theoretic comparative politics, empirically oriented social/political theory, Third World politics and political economy, African politics, international politics, African American politics

Rebecca Schewe

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9894 | rlschewe@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Environmental and natural resource sociology

Mark Schmeller

Associate Professor, History Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

509 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4639 | mschmell@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

United States political and intellectual history, 18th and 19th centuries, communications history, legal history, political thought, Atlantic World

Amy Schmidt

Assistant Director, Citizenship and Civic Engagement

210 Eggers Hall | 315.443.1602 | aeschm01@syr.edu

Sabina Schnell

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

400C Eggers Hall | 315.443.4339 | dsschnel@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Transparency, open government, public values, democracy and bureaucracy, anti-corruption, human resources management, international and comparative public administration, public sector reform, development policy and administration.

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