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Maxwell School Faculty


Minchin Lewis

Minchin Lewis

Adjunct Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Part-Time Instructor, President of On-Info-Serv, Inc.

215G Eggers Hall | 315.443.4000 | mglewis@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Financial management and social programming in urban government, small business management, real estate development

Areas of Expertise

Women's health, program evaluation, health professions education

Jun Li

Jun Li

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Research Affiliate, Center for Aging and Policy Studies

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research

Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute

314 Lyman Hall | 315.443.8009 | jli208@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Health economics, health services research, post-acute and long-term care

Areas of Expertise

Regional Expertise: China, Regional Expertise: Asia, Regional Expertise: Eurasia, Space Industry, Maritime Security, Eurasian Geopolitics, Energy Policy, Transport Infrastructure Development, Asian Regionalism, Chinese Politics and Economic Development


Chung-Chin Liu

Chung-Chin Liu

Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Economics Department

110G Eggers Hall | cliu09@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Labor economics, international economics, innovation and technology

Andrew S. London
(Pronouns: He, Him)

Andrew S. London

Professor, Sociology Department

Associate Dean for Washington Programs, Maxwell in Washington, D.C.

Tenth Decade Faculty Scholar

Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute

200 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4597 | anlondon@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Medical sociology, demography, aging and the life course, veterans, adult ADHD, poverty and family well-being, LGBT/sexuality studies, social policy

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Leonard M. Lopoo

Associate Dean, Chair and Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics

Director, Maxwell X Lab

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9055 | lmlopoo@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Child and family policy, behavioral economics, economic demography

Michael Lorenzo

Michael Lorenzo

Teaching Assistant Professor, Economics Department

316C Maxwell Hall | mwlorenz@syr.edu


Areas of Expertise

Race, class and gender, science and technology

Mary E. Lovely

Mary E. Lovely

Professor Emerita, Economics Department

Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence

Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar

Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

336 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9048 | melovely@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

International trade and investment, China's trade and sustainable development

Jiahuan Lu
(Pronouns: He, Him)

Jiahuan Lu

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

215 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4000 | jlu183@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Public & Nonprofit Management, Government Contracting, Government-Nonprofit Relations, Nonprofit Financial Management

Aaron Luedtke

Aaron Luedtke

Assistant Professor, History Department

Faculty Affiliate, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program

Faculty Affiliate, Lender Center for Social Justice

Faculty Affiliate, Research for Social Action and Equity (RISE) Center, Northwestern University

akluedtk@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

United States history and Native American and Indigenous studies engaging specifically with the intersection of settler colonialism theory and Native survivance

Amy Lutz

Amy Lutz

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Chair, Social Science Ph.D. Program

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | aclutz@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Race and ethnicity, immigration, bilingualism, educational inequality

Areas of Expertise

Managerial leadership, NGO management

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India Luxton

Postdoctoral Fellow, Geography and the Environment Department

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Policy Research

426 Eggers Hall | imluxton@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Food systems, animal agriculture, environmental justice, environmental and applied sociology, green criminology, labor policy


Tidiane Ly
(Pronouns: He, Him)

Tidiane Ly

Assistant Professor, Economics Department

508 Eggers Hall | tvly@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Public economics, urban Economics, public policy evaluation

Yingyi Ma

Yingyi Ma

Professor and Graduate Director, Sociology Department

Director, Asian/Asian American Studies

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, East Asia Program

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3716 | yma03@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Education, migration, Asian/Asian American studies

Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department

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

125 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4216 | kmallona@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Medical and environmental anthropology, Caribbean, maritime studies, fishing, multispecies, environmental governance, conservation, risk and injury, the Dominican Republic

Frederick D. Marquardt

Frederick D. Marquardt

Assistant Professor Emeritus, History Department

Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence

fdmarqua@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

German social history

Elizabeth Martin

Elizabeth Martin

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | emarti81@syr.edu


Robert D. McClure

Robert D. McClure

Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department

Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence

rdmcclur@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

American politics, leadership, mass communication

Gladys McCormick

Gladys McCormick

Associate Professor, History Department

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations

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

200 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2006 | gmccormi@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Latin America and the Caribbean, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico

Daniel McDowell

Daniel McDowell

Professor, Political Science Department

Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of International Affairs

Co-Director, Study of Global Politics Speaker Series, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

334 Eggers Hall | 315.443.8678 | dmcdowel@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

International political economy, international finance, international monetary system, IMF

Sean McFate

Sean McFate

Adjunct Professor, Maxwell in Washington, D.C.

Professor, The National Defense University, College of International Security Affairs

Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council

202.685.7770 | ssmcfate@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Grand strategy, national security, future warfare


Areas of Expertise

Development economics, natural resource economics, African agricultural development


Areas of Expertise

Urban and political geography, housing, comparative studies


Susan W. S. Millar

Susan W. S. Millar

Associate Professor Emeritus, Geography and the Environment Department

532 Eggers Hall | 315.443.5635 | swmillar@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Physical geography, periglacial geomorphology, arctic science, climate change

Jerry Miner

Jerry Miner

Professor Emeritus, Economics Department

315 Maxwell Hall | jminer@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Public economics, human resources economics, school finance

Areas of Expertise

Food systems, immigration and racial justice, agrarian political ecology, labor movements, environmental and agricultural policy

Areas of Expertise

Cultural and political economy of landscape, social theory, labor, geographies of power and marginalization, Marxism

Devashish Mitra

Devashish Mitra

Professor and Chair, Economics Department

Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs

Senior Research Associate, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

340 Eggers Hall | 315.443.6143 | dmitra@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

International trade, political economy, development economics, Indian economy

Areas of Expertise

International trade, supply chains, U.S.-China trade

Mark Monmonier

Mark Monmonier

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Geography and the Environment Department

318 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.5641 | mon2ier@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Geographic information (technology, policy and societal role), history of cartography in the 20th century (esp. innovation and intellectual property), map design, environmental mapping

Shannon Monnat

Shannon Monnat

Professor, Sociology Department

Lerner Chair in Public Health Promotion and Population Health

Director and Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Co-Director, Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2692 | smmonnat@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Rural demography, social and structural determinants of health and health disparities, spatial differences in morbidity and mortality

Jennifer Karas Montez

Jennifer Karas Montez

University Professor, Sociology Department

Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar in Aging Studies

Director, Center for Aging and Policy Studies

Co-Director of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab

314H Lyman Hall | 315.443.9064 | jmontez@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Demography, political economy and population health, life course and aging

Glyn Morgan

Glyn Morgan

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Director, Center for European Studies

540 Eggers Hall | 315.443.8678 | dgmorgan@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Political theory, European Union

Anne E. Mosher

Anne E. Mosher

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

404C Maxwell Hall | 315.443.1510 | amosher@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Urban planning and geographies of infrastructure, crisis and disaster management, public scholarship and community engagement, digital humanities