• 2024 Fall
  • SOC 800 Selected Topics - Social Movements & Social Chan
  • SOC/WGS 305 Sociology of Sex and Gender
• 2024 Summer
  • SOS 600 Selected Topics - Nonviolence: Principles & Practice
  • SOC/WGS 305 Sociology of Sex and Gender
• 2023 Fall
  • SOC 800 Selected Topics - Visibility, Threat & Violence
  • SOC/WGS 305 Sociology of Sex and Gender
• 2023 Summer
  • SOC/WGS 305 Sociology of Sex and Gender
• 2023 Spring
  • SOC 600 Selected Topics - Social Movements & Social Changes
  • SOC/WGS 305 Sociology of Sex and Gender
• 2022 Fall
  • SOC/WGS 305 Sociology of Sex and Gender

Selina Gallo-Cruz is associate professor of sociology. She researches culture, conflict, gender, global change, NGOs, nonviolence, social movements and theory. She is author of “Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women Against State Violence (Routledge, 2021), winner of the American Sociological Association’s Peace, War and Social Conflict section’s Outstanding Book Award.

Prior to joining Syracuse, she served as an associate professor and assistant professor for the College of the Holy Cross and a visiting assistant professor at Emory University. In 2021, she was named a Fulbright-Tampere University Scholar and served as a Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center, and at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

She received a Ph.D. from Emory University in 2012.

• Book
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women against State Violence in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and Liberia. Routledge, 2021.
• Journal Articles
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Awaiting Spring and War: Insights from Ecofeminism." Deportate, esuli, profughe, Special issue on the war in Ukraine, 2022.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Circles of Threat and Spheres of Power: Reflections on Women’s Nonviolent Activism." Hamling, A. (ed.) Women and Nonviolence in the 20th and 21st Centuries, 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Marginalization and Mobilizing Power in Nonviolent Social Movements." Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., Remsberg, R., "Women, Peacebuilding, and the ‘Invisible Hand’ of Conflict in Post-War Liberia." Pagnucco, R. J. (ed.) The Journal of Social Encounters Special Issue: Women and Peacebuilding, 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., Hannah, T., "Restaging Women’s Sexual Politics: Receptivity and Resistance to the Vagina Monologues." Feminist Formations, 2020.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Nonviolence beyond the State: International NGOs and Nonviolent Mobilization." International Sociology, 2019.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "American Mothers of Nonviolence: Action and the Politics of Erasure in Women’s Nonviolent Activism." “Navigating the New, Transplanted Self: Recipients Manage the Cognitive Risks of Organ Transplantation” Sociology of Health and Illness, 2018.
• Book Reviews
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining." M., Caesar , A. and Gerald , F. (eds.) Peace Chronicle, 2022.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Films at the Fault Line of ‘Deep’ and ‘Bright’ Greens in the Environmental Movement." International Sociology Reviews, 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S. R., "Is there a strategic advantage to political invisibility?." Conflict(ed), 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "On Obedience and Outcome." ¡Presente! Nonviolent Politics and the Resurrection of the Dead by Kyle Lambelet, 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "The PR industry aims to demobilize environmental movements—here’s what organizers can do about it." Waging Nonviolence, 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Women, peace, and development: lessons from post-war Liberia." In GlobalDev blog. Is there a strategic advantage to political invisibility?, 2021.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Palestinian Women’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism." Humanity and Society, 2020.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Rethinking Civics (Dis)Empowerment in Our Schools." Critical Mass Bulletin, 2020.
• Encyclopedia Entries
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Nonviolence." Grasso, M., Giugno, M. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Political Sociology, 2023.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Violent and Nonviolent Conflict." Kurtz, . (ed.) Encyclopedia of Violence-Peace-Conflict, 2022.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Nonviolent Civil Disobedience." Thompson, S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice, 2014.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Global Nonviolence." Ritzer, G. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Globalization, 2011.
  • Boli, J., Gallo-Cruz, S. and Mathias, M., "World Polity Theory." Denemark, R. A. (ed.) The International Studies Compendium Project, 2011.
  • Gallo-Cruz, S., "Midwifery and Medicalization." Brackett, K. P. (ed.) Battleground Families: Encyclopedia of Current Controversies in Families, 2009.

Conflict Research Society Annual Conference, Queen's University Belfast, "Extractive Politics, Conflict, and Peacebuilding: Institutional and Structural Approaches" (September 7, 2022 - September 9, 2022)

European Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Meeting, Queen’s University Belfast, "Ontologies of Exclusion: Expert Repudiation over Limits to Growth" (July 26, 2022 - July 29, 2022)

Governing a sustainable transformation – The role of knowledge, expertise and the reflexivity of public institutions, Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference, "Policy Paradigms and Moral Orders: Sanctioning Governing Critical Research on the Biological Limits of Technological Solutions to Climate Change" (June 7, 2022 - June 9, 2022)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Leino, H., Laine, M., Finnish Urban Studies Conference, "Local Movements and Urban Environmental Policy" (April 28, 2022 - April 29, 2022)

Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, "Cities, Citizenship, and Climate Crisis" (April 28, 2022)

Environmental Policy Research Group, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, "On Layers of Climate Denial in City Politics" (April 8, 2022)

Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, "Violence and Resistance" (April 1, 2022)

California State University, "Response to After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda, Book Launch for author Nicole Fox" (March 15, 2022)

"Feminist Responses to Invisibility and Violence" United Nations Committee for the Status of Women Annual Meeting, "Restaging Private Abuse in Public Places: How Survivors Find the Courage to Leave" (March 14, 2022)

Sociology Research Seminar, "Sustainability and Disenchantment: Ceremony and Circumstance in Climate Policy and Practice" (March 8, 2022)

Las Casas Institute, University of Oxford, "Response to Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development and Ecology" (March 1, 2022)

Development Days Conference, University of Helsinki, "Policy Paradigms and Moral Orders: Sanctioning Governing Critical Research on the Biological Limits of Technological Solutions to Climate Change" (February 17, 2022)

Syracuse University Maxwell School of Public Polic, "Invisibility and Violence: From Women in War to Everyday Extraction" (February 4, 2022)

Sustainable Transformations in Urban Environments Program, Tampere University, "Social Movements and City Sustainability Politics: Insights from Worcester, Massachusetts" (January 17, 2022)

Tampere Peace Research Institute, "A Gendered Approach to Conflict and Peace: (In)visibility, Threat, and Power" (December 14, 2021)

Sustainable Transformation of Urban Environments, Tampere University, "The Future of Social Policy" (November 22, 2021)

International Studies Association Northeast Conference, The Politics and Practice of Social Movements, "A Method for All Humankind? Global Nonviolence as Cultural and Moral Order" (November 6, 2021)

The Great American Outdoors Panel at Fulbright Finland, Turku University, "Ecology and Environment: Lessons Learned" (October 8, 2021)

Globalization Seminar, Global and Transnational Sociology Master’s Degree Program, Tampere University, "Global Movements in World Society" (September 20, 2021)

European Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Climate Movements: Developments and Challenges, "On Conversion and Cooptation in Climate Movement: An Ethnographic Perspective" (September 1, 2021)

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Peace, War, and Social Conflicts Regular Panel, "Peacebuilding, Liberian Women, and the Invisible Hand of Conflict in the Postwar Era" (August 9, 2021)

Alternative Futures and Popular protest, University of Manchester, "The Lies Lie Somewhere in the Middle: On Climate Denial in City Sustainability Politics" (June 7, 2021)

Introduction to Peace Studies, Wellesley College, "Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women against State Violence in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and Liberia" (May 14, 2021)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Remsberg, R., Sociologists for Women in Society Delegation to 65th Annual Meeting of the Committee for the Status of Women, United Nations, "How They See Us, How We See Ourselves, and How We See Peace: Liberian Women, the International Community, and Peacebuilding After War" (March 20, 2021)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Heidemann, ., Gawerc, M., Leitz, L., Conversation, Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association, "Teaching Peace in Troubled Times" (March 8, 2021)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Remsberg, ., Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, Narratives, Meaning and Social Change, "How They See Us, How We See Ourselves, and How We See Peace: Liberian Women, the International Community, and Peacebuilding After War" (January 28, 2021)

Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, "Book Launch: Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women against State Violence in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and Liberia" (January 25, 2021)

Introduction to Peace Studies, Wellesley College, "Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women against State Violence in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and Liberia" (November 20, 2020)

EcoAction, College of the Holy Cross, "Environmental Sociology from the Margins" (November 17, 2020)

Speech for Voting Rights: 1870, 1920, 2020, University of Utah, "Invisibility, Resistance, and Women’s Political Power" (October 1, 2020)

Sociologists for Women in Society, Online Roundtable on Women’s Movements, "Circles of Threat and Spheres of Power: Reflections on Women’s Nonviolent Mobilization" (August 7, 2020)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Larson, K., Center for Nonviolent Solutions, College of the Holy Cross, "Walk with Me: The Life and Times of Fannie Lou Hamer" (March 23, 2020)

Worcester Women’s History Project, Annual Presentation of the Oral History Archives, Assumption College, "Building Community and Waging Peace: Worcester Women Activists Share Their Stories" (December 4, 2019)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Mohanka, V., Clean Water Action, College of the Holy Cross, "Confronting Climate Crisis in the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: An Insider’s Account" (November 6, 2019)

Mexican Peace and Justice Service, College of the Holy Cross, "Civil Disobedience as a Moral Weapon for Inhuman Times" (October 28, 2019)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Spanger-Siegfried, E., Union of Concerned Scientists, College of the Holy Cross, "Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days" (September 10, 2019)

XIIColoquio Mujeres, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, "Excavating Buried Sex-Role Resistance: A Social Theoretical Archeology of Androgyneity as a Feminist Solution" (April 3, 2019 - April 5, 2019)

Eastern Sociological Association, Annual Conference, "Restaging Women’s Sexual Politics: Receptivity and Resistance to the Vagina Monologues" (March 14, 2019 - March 18, 2019)

Gallo-Cruz, S., Berenson, B. F., College of the Holy Cross, "Massachusetts Leaders in the Woman Suffrage Movement: The Missing Half of the Story" (February 7, 2019)

Democracy Visiting Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School (2021 - 2022)

Fulbright-Tampere University Scholar Award (2021 - 2022)

KROC Institute for International Peace Studies, Gender, Peacebuilding and Post-Accord Transformation Fellowship (2015)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Diversity Fellow (2012)

American Sociological Association Minority Dissertation Fellow, Sociologists for Women in Society (2011 - 2012)