![El-Java Abdul-Qadir](/images/default-source/people-listings/el-java-abdul-qadir.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=26476a8e_3)
El-Java Abdul-Qadir
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.S.W., Syracuse University, 2002
PhD Advisor:
Rebecca Schewe
![Poonam Argade](/images/default-source/people-listings/poonam-argade.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=8efd5e8b_2)
Poonam Argade
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
![Saidakbar Askarov](/images/default-source/people-listings/saidakbar-askarov.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=2ffa400f_2)
Saidakbar Askarov
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.P.A., National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2014
PhD Advisor:
Prema Kurien
![Elvis Avdic](/images/default-source/people-listings/elvis-avdic.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=4bd6be79_3)
Elvis Avdic
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.S., Syracuse University, 2016
PhD Advisor:
Amy Lutz
Baurzhan Bokayev
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.P.A., Cornell University, 2016
401 Maxwell Hall
PhD Advisor:
Amy Lutz
![Mariah Brennan](/images/default-source/people-listings/mariah-brennan.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=d9aad8d9_3)
Mariah Brennan
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Areas of Expertise
Veteran affairs (education and health)
![Cory Cali](/images/default-source/people-listings/cali-cory.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=79299fad_1)
Cory Michael Cali
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
J.D./M.A. (IR), Syracuse University, 2013
PhD Advisor:
Osamah F. Khalil
![Erika Carter Grosso](/images/default-source/people-listings/erika-carter-grossof06f9a7a-c9a7-47e6-840b-1e8c3f5dc3e8.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=7c0f8d1d_1)
Erika Carter Grosso
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
M.A., Political Science, Syracuse University, 2010
C.A.S., Latin American Studies, 2010
M.A., Spanish Language, Literature and Culture, 1999
PhD Advisor:
Amy Lutz
![Samuel Castleberry](/images/default-source/people-listings/samuel-castleberry.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=616483ed_3)
![Hannah Connolly](/images/default-source/people-listings/hannah-connolly.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=c487880_3)
![Nicholas Croce](/images/default-source/people-listings/nicholas-croce.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=6253dc05_2)
Nicholas Croce
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.P.A., Brandeis University, 2017
415 Maxwell Hall
Areas of Expertise
![Amir Duric](/images/default-source/people-listings/amir-duric.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=b3496dff_3)
![Natalie Gallagher](/images/default-source/people-listings/natalie-gallagher.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=5d85dfec_2)
Natalie Gallagher
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
PhD Advisor:
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
![Samuel Gardner](/images/default-source/people-listings/samuel-gardner.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=db73d65d_3)
![Emmy Helander](/images/default-source/people-listings/emmy-helander.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=3a0d399_3)
Areas of Expertise
EMS operations and datasets, data science, pattern recognition, network algorithms, mathematical modeling, geospatial statistics.
![Fitore Hyseni](/images/default-source/people-listings/fitore-hyseni.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=8f601952_3)
Fitore Hyseni
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
![Harneet Kaur headshot](/images/default-source/people-listings/kaur-harneet-2023-resized.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=2011bb29_1)
Harneet Kaur
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
PhD Advisor:
Sarah Hamersma
Areas of Expertise
![Darzhan Kazbekova](/images/default-source/people-listings/darzhan-kazbekova.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=f1d0e09f_3)
Darzhan Kazbekova
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Design and Governance
415 Maxwell Hall
PhD Advisor:
Tina Nabatchi
![Bramsh Khan](/images/default-source/people-listings/bramsh-khan.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=3a22be5b_3)
Bramsh Khan
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
PhD Advisor:
Mona Bhan
![S. Samanta Lee](/images/default-source/people-listings/s-samanta-lee.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=51553ef9_2)
S. Samanta Lee
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
M.A., Columbia University, New York, 2013
PhD Advisor:
Tina Nabatchi
![Yooumi Lee](/images/default-source/people-listings/yooumi-lee.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=5fb91259_2)
![Melissa Lopoo](/images/default-source/people-listings/melissa-lopoo.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=2f00be48_3)
![C. Ren Morton](/images/default-source/people-listings/chelsea-renea-morton-600px.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=b78f673_1)
C. Ren Morton
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
401 Maxwell Hall
PhD Advisor:
Selina Gallo-Cruz
Faculty Research Collaborators:
Selina Gallo-Cruz
![Bashir Pazhwak](/images/default-source/people-listings/bashir-pazhwak-400px.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=5ed6b5d6_1)
Abdul Bashir Pazhwak
Ph.D. Student, Social Science, Ph.D.
MBA, Sejong-Syracuse University, South Korea
401 Maxwell Hall
PhD Advisor:
Jok Madut Jok
Areas of Expertise
Negotiation, diplomacy/protocol, international relations
![Krishna (Krushna) Ranaware](/images/default-source/people-listings/ranaware-krishna-krushna-.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=d0c57c23_2)
Krushna Ranaware
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
![Adelaide Rosa](/images/default-source/people-listings/adelaide-rosa.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=c8c7511b_2)
![Alexandra Scrivner](/images/default-source/people-listings/alexandra-scrivner.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=842a405b_4)
Areas of Expertise
Transitional justice, international institutions and governance, history of globalization, conflict studies, human rights, climate transitions, reparations, collective memory, collective trauma, participatory action research
![Taveeshi Singh](/images/default-source/people-listings/taveeshi-singh.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=24566102_3)
Taveeshi Singh
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
PhD Advisor:
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
![Aditya Srinivasan](/images/default-source/people-listings/aditya-srinivasan.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=318ed8ba_3)
![Jaisang Sun](/images/default-source/people-listings/jaisang-sun.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=c6777427_2)
![Cassidy Thomas](/images/default-source/people-listings/cassidy-thomas.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=709b5036_3)
Cassidy Thomas
M.A. Student, Geography and the Environment Department
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Faculty Research Collaborators:
Matthew T. Huber
Areas of Expertise
![Mirjahon Turdiyev](/images/default-source/people-listings/mirjahon-turdiyev.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=202a5710_2)
![Var Ongel headshot](/images/default-source/people-listings/var-ongel.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=91f8f89f_1)
Melodi Var Ongel
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Ph.D., Syracuse University, in progress
415 Maxwell Hall
![Wendy Wicker](/images/default-source/people-listings/wendy-wicker.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=cae103f8_2)
Wendy Wicker
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union
![Shiyang Xiao](/images/default-source/people-listings/shiyang-xiao.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=840a4c49_3)
Shiyang Xiao
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Science Ph.D. Program
PhD Advisor:
Yilin Hou
![Joonsik Yoon](/images/default-source/people-listings/joonsik-yoon.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=2c4be49d_3)
![Jun Zhang headshot](/images/default-source/people-listings/zhang-jun.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=aaa9097d_1)
Jun Zhang
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Design and Governance
Graduate Research Associate, East Asia Program
M.P.A., Renmin University of China, 2022
![Dongmei Zuo](/images/default-source/people-listings/dongmei-zuo.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=c3c2604f_3)
Dongmei Zuo
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Areas of Expertise
Aging and health, health-based public policy, food and nutrition policy, social gerontology