Maxwell School Leadership, Faculty and Staff

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Megan Snow

Internship Coordinator, Public Health Department

444D White Hall | 315.443.4100 | mesnow@syr.edu

Anya Stanger

Adjunct Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

’15 Ph.D., Social Science Ph.D. Program

aestange@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Transnational feminist praxis, nonviolent civil resistance, social movements, conflict resolution

Jason Steinhauer

Adjunct Professor, Maxwell in Washington, D.C.

jstein20@syr.edu

Stephan Stohler

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

321 Eggers Hall | sstohler@syr.edu

Jeffrey M. Stonecash

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department

315.443.3629 | jstoneca@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Political parties, realignment of their electoral bases, the impact of changing alignments on the nature of policy debates

Jennifer Stromer-Galley

Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

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

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Hinds 220 | 315.443.1823 | jstromer@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Digital politics, e-government, online deliberation, influence and leadership in social media, decision-making and behavior in games.

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

144 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2605 | sultanaf@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

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

Emily Sydnor

Associate Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Political Science Department

Research Affiliate, Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship

Associate Professor, Communications, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

eesydnor@syr.edu

Junko Takeda

Professor and Chair, History Department

Chair, Citizenship and Civic Engagement

Daicoff Faculty Scholar

139 Eggers Hall | 315.443.5868 | jtakeda@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Early modern European history, early modern France, Mediterranean world, early modern connected and global histories, migration, citizenship, race, history of medicine

Margaret Talev

Kramer Director, Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship

Professor of Practice, Magazine, News and Digital Journalism, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

metalev@syr.edu

Cristie Tamoutselis

Office Coordinator, Political Science Department

100 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2416 | ctamouts@syr.edu

Karen Tavernese

Assistant Director, Aging Studies Institute

314 Lyman Hall | 315.443.1398 | ktaverne@syr.edu

Brian Taylor

Professor, Political Science Department

Director, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

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

345 Eggers Hall | 315.443.3713 | bdtaylor@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Russian politics, comparative politics, security studies

Robert Terrell

Associate Professor, History Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for European Studies

532 Eggers Hall | rsterrel@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Modern Germany and Europe, commodity and food history, global and transnational history, the history of Islam and Muslims in Europe.

Britt Tevis

Assistant Professor, History Department

Phyllis Backer Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

119 Eggers Hall | bptevis@syr.edu

Margaret Susan Thompson

Professor, History Department

Professor, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

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

313C Maxwell Hall | 315.443.5882 | msthomps@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Modern American history, government and politics, religion, women's history

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Maureen Thompson

Associate Professor, Public Health Department

444B White Hall | 315.443.9815 | mlthomps@syr.edu

Emily Thorson

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

312 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2416 | eathorso@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

American politics, misinformation and misperceptions, experimental methodology, political psychology, media and politics

Stuart Thorson

Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department

Professor Emeritus, International Relations Undergraduate Program

Donald P. and Margaret Curry Gregg Professor Emeritus

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

409 Crouse-Hinds | 315.443.9802 | thorson@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Information technology policy, international relations, political theory and methodology

Áron Tóbiás

Associate Professor, Economics Department

On leave Fall 2024 | adtobias@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

microeconomic theory, public finance, political economy

Caroline Hai-Yan Tong

Program Manager, Executive Education Department

219 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.3759 | catong@syr.edu

Jessie Trudeau

Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research

530 Eggers | jtrudeau@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Politics of crime and violence, politics of geography, Brazilian politics, research methods.

Rick Trunfio

Adjunct Professor, Political Science Department

100 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2416 | dftrunfi@syr.edu

Yulya Truskinovsky

Associate Professor, Economics Department

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research

Research Affiliate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

307C Lyman Hall | ytruskin@syr.edu

George Tsaoussis Carter

Events Coordinator, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

346 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9248 | gtsaouss@syr.edu

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Roxanne Tupper

Administrative Specialist, Geography and the Environment Department

144 Eggers Hall | 315.443.2606 | rmtupper@syr.edu

Michiko Ueda-Ballmer

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Design and Governance

Faculty Affiliate, Aging Studies Institute

426 Eggers Hall | 315.443.9046 | miueda@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Social determinants of health, suicide prevention, mental health policy, public health, computational social science

David M. Van Slyke

Dean, Maxwell School

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business-Government Policy

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

200 Eggers Hall | maxwelldeansoffice@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Public and nonprofit management, government contracting, public-private partnerships, policy implementation, strategic management

Sara Vasilenko

Research Affiliate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science, Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics

315.443.9866 | savasile@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Adolescent health, sexual behavior, substance use, longitudinal methodology

Brian von Knoblauch

Operations Manager, Information & Computing Technology Office

034 Eggers Hall | 315.263.0568 | bevonkno@syr.edu

David Wade

Adjunct Professor, Maxwell in Washington, D.C.

maxwellindc@syr.edu

Susan Snow Wadley

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Department

Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

sswadley@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Social change, religion, folklore, gender issues, folk art traditions, India, Upstate New York

Alex Wagner

Adjunct Professor, Maxwell in Washington, D.C.

awagne14@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

National security, defense, geopolitics, civilian-military relations, law of armed conflict, ground/air/space forces, human rights, U.S. civil rights law.