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Tessa Murphy

On research leave AY24-25 | temurphy@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

The Atlantic World, the early Americas in comparative perspective, the colonial Caribbean, slavery and race, the Age of Revolutions

Robert B. Murrett

Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Deputy Director, Institute for Security Policy and Law

300G Dineen Hall | rbmurret@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

National security, international relations, military and defense strategy, leadership

Tina Nabatchi

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration

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

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

400J Eggers Hall | 315.443.8994 | tnabatch@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Public management, policy and law; public participation; collaborative governance; conflict resolution

James L. Newman

Professor Emeritus, Geography and the Environment Department

jlnewman@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Population and settlement geography, diet and nutrition, human geography of Africa, prehistory

Terrell A. Northrup

Associate Teaching Professor Emerita, International Relations Undergraduate Program

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

315.443.5329 | northrup@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Information technology policy; international relations; the politics of gender, race, and ethnic identity

Shannon A. Novak

Professor, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

316A Maxwell Hall / 406 Lyman Hall (lab) | 315.443.4347 | snovak01@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Body and society, new materialism, anthropology of knowledge, historical bioarchaeology, gender, ritual, necropolitics, North America, Indo-Caribbean diaspora

Inge O'Connor

Teaching Professor, Economics Department

110F Eggers Hall | iwoconno@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Labor economics, public finance

Karl Offen

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

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

121 Eggers Hall | 315.443.5821 | khoffen@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Historical geography, political ecology, Latin America and the Caribbean, Atlantic world, map studies

Brian Ohl

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

400 Eggers Hall | bjohl@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Management, collaborative governance, sustainability, environmental policy, public budgeting

Sean O'Keefe

University Professor

Phanstiel Chair in Leadership

Distinguished Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

309 Eggers Hall | 315.443.8583 | scokeefe@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Public management, national security policy and strategy, public finance and public budgeting, financial management, technology development and innovation management, executive leadership

William Oliver

Assistant Teaching Professor, Sociology Department

wjoliver@syr.edu

(Pronouns: He, Him)

Tomás Olivier

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Design and Governance

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3114 | tolivier@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Water policy, environmental policy, policy design, policy process

Jan Ondrich

Professor, Economics Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9052 | jondrich@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Econometrics, labor economics, urban economics

Jackie Orr

Associate Professor Emeritus, Sociology Department

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

310C Maxwell Hall | 315.443.5758 | jtorr@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Cultural politics and performance; contemporary theory, science, technology and psychiatry; critical body studies; history and politics of psychopharmaceuticals

Arnisson Andre Ortega

Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Faculty Affiliate, Community Geography

215B Lyman Hall | acortega@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Community geography, urban geography, population geography, Global South cities, migration, transnationalism, suburbanization, population, socio-spatial theory, decolonization, quantitative methods, mixed-methods, critical demography, counter-mapping

John L. Palmer

University Professor and Dean Emeritus

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Faculty Affiliate, Aging Studies Institute

Maxwell Advisory Board Member

306C Eggers Hall | 315.443.9707 | jlpalmer@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Public policy, public management, public finance, U.S. and comparative social policy, Medicare and Social Security

Arthur Paris

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

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

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

409 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.2279 | aeparis@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Urban society and policy, race and ethnic relations, science and technology, non-white popular culture

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

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

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

Director, 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

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

Katie Quinn

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research

304 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.5758 | kquinn13@syr.edu

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

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

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

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

316 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