Faculty

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

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

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2009

Areas of Expertise

Work and labor, urban poverty, law and punishment, housing and homelessness, precarity, social theory, ethnography, community-based action research

Srividya Ramasubramanian

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

Research Affiliate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Newhouse Professor and Endowed Chair, Communications, Newhouse School of Public Communications

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Areas of Expertise

Race, gender, nation, immigrants, youth, media literacy, communication, media studies, dialogues, community-engaged research, mixed methods, data justice

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

Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Yale University, 1992

Areas of Expertise

American politics, political representation and legislature behavior, health care policy, citizenship and democracy, public engagement, gun politics and policy

Gretchen Ritter

Vice President for Civic Engagement and Education

Professor, Political Science Department

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

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Areas of Expertise

History of women's constitutional rights; contemporary issues concerning democracy and citizenship in American politics

Robert A. Rubinstein

Distinguished Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Anthropology Department

Professor, International Relations

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

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

Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1977

Areas of Expertise

Peace, conflict and international security, medical anthropology and public health, methods, history and theory

Herbert Ruffin

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

Associate Professor, African American Studies, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, 2007

Mark Rupert

Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department

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

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1987

Areas of Expertise

International relations, political economy, politics of globalization, right-wing populism politics of globalization

Tod Rutherford

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

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

Advisory Board Member, Center for European Studies

Ph.D., Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales College of Cardiff, 1992

Areas of Expertise

Economic restructuring, labor and the automobile industry, labor market processes and policies, regional development

Shane Sanders

Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Political Science Department

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

Professor, Sport Management, Falk College

Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Public choice, social choice, applied game theory, microeconomic theory

Mara Sapon-Shevin

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

Professor, School of Education

Ed.D., University of Rochester, 1976

Areas of Expertise

Diversity and social justice issues, including full inclusion, anti-racism teaching, bullying and harassment, cooperative learning, and using the arts to teach against oppression

Rebecca Schewe

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

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

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2011

Areas of Expertise

Environmental and natural resource sociology

Susan Senecah

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

Visiting Professor, Environmental Studies, SUNY ESF

Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Minnesota

Areas of Expertise

The intersection of public participation and environmental policy. In particular, she studies communication aspects of public participation in the formation of environmental public policy decisions, especially the origins, dynamics, persuasive strategies, and tactics of environmental campaigns.

David A. Sonnenfeld

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

Professor, Environmental Studies, SUNY-ESF

Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz, 1996

Areas of Expertise

Environmental sociology; environment, development and sustainability; sociology of science and technology; East and Southeast Asia; historical and field research methods

Matt Spitzmueller

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

Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Falk College

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Areas of Expertise

Clinical social work practice, community mental health policy, Medicaid reform, street-level organizations, transformation of behavioral health policy

Anya Elizabeth Stanger

Part-time Instructor, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Alum, Social Science Ph.D. Program

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2015

Farhana Sultana

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Research Co-Director, Environmental Conflict and Collaboration

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

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Political ecology, international development, water governance, climate change, environmental justice, sustainability, citizenship, human rights, decolonizing, transnational feminisms, South Asia