A new book by political scientist Shana Gadarian explores how anxiety over public threats affects the political arena.

The Maxwell Citizenship Initiative aims to identify common interests in citizenship issues among faculty and students throughout the school, and then to provide new avenues and support for sharing ideas and collaborating. “Our goal,” says Prema Kurien, professor of sociology and one of the founders of the project, “is to create faculty clusters based on research interests.”

Visiting campus in April, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shared insights from her storied career with students and the University community.

The Maxwell School changed, grew and celebrated during Dean Steinberg’s five-year term. 

As he completes his deanship, James Steinberg reflects on the Maxwell School, its strengths and accomplishments, and his own priorities as a dean and teacher.

A new faculty scholars program, which recognizes top teachers with a special emphasis on lower-division, team-taught, interdisciplinary courses, is named the Robert D. McClure Professors of Teaching Excellence, named Bob McClure, former associate dean and current professor at the Maxwell School.

Former colleagues of Agehananda Bharati gather to mark 25 years since his passing.

Deborah Pellow is devoted to counseling anthropology undergrads, and will tell you it pays dividends for her and them.

Mike Wasylenko returns to full-time teaching and research, having spent almost 20 years as the associate dean who keeps Maxwell humming.

Fabiola Ortiz Valdez, an anthropology doctoral candidate at Maxwell, is shedding light on the stories and struggles of undocumented laborers, primarily from Mexico and Guatemala, who work on New York's dairy farms.

Fifteen years after 9/11 refocused American foreign policy — and the career of James Cunningham — the former ambassador says the collapse of Afghanistan remains an unacceptable option.

Danielle Thomsen’s book explores how the current political climate discourages politicians with moderate views from seeking national office.

Anthropologist John Burdick is not only a faculty member conducting research overseas (like so many others). His research team, in fact, spans the globe.

The annual student-organized networking trips to Washington and New York accelerate career planning and a student’s understanding of life after Maxwell.

At a time when America is sorting out its larger role in the world, experts remind us that U.S. aid is often much appreciated.

Renee Levy discusses the geopolitical dimensions of insurgents, criminals, and radical Islamists, who florish in areas in Afghanistan and Pakistan under a lack of government control. These are among 150 such "black spots" identified by researchers working to map global insecurity as part of an interdisciplinary project in Maxwell’s Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

As ever, to understand Russia you must know the man in charge.

While the term terrorism still conjures up images of bombs and snipers, the frightening future of terrorism resides across the Internet.

The web of relationships and mutual benefits between America and China is too complex to dismiss with campaign rhetoric.