Maria Brown - mbrown08@maxwell.syr.edu
My research interests include the experiences of underserved and underrepresented groups of elderly (racial/ethnic and sexual minorities, the poor and the mentally ill). My dissertation focuses on the relationship between cognitive function in later life, and psychiatric history and socioeconomic disadvantage across the life course. I am a Hartford Geriatric Social Work Doctoral Fellow for 2008-2010.
Brendan T. Casey - btcasey@maxwell.syr.edu
My research interests include the social effects of computer-mediated communication, social network analysis in the online community context, the network structure of computer-supported collaborative work, and the role of emergent leadership in ad-hoc virtual teams.
Saheli Datta - sdatta@maxwell.syr.edu
My principal research interests are in the areas of Human Rights and International Law. In particular, my research focuses on refugees and human rights in South Asia. I am looking at the causes of displacement of Rohingya refugees from Burma and exploring possible solutions to the refugee crisis in question.
Holly A. Dobbins - hadobbin@maxwell.syr.edu
In the study of social movements and conflict resolution, I emphasize the role of shared worldviews, life experiences, and the roles of women. My dissertation in progress, Nunavut: A Creation Story. The Inuit Movement and Canada's Newest Territory, addresses how indigenous values and leadership methodologies contributed to movement continuity and the negotiation process in the struggle for the creation of a territorial home for the Inuit people.
Marie-Lou Fernandes - mffernan@maxwell.syr.edu
My current research interest is around the theme of organizational architecture, viewed cross-sectorally across private, public and non-profit domains. Organizational design issues of mission, structure, operations, culture and environment inform this theme.
Matthew Hidek - mahidek@maxwell.syr.edu
My research, which is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), critically examines the conflation of military doctrine with post-9/11 intelligence and surveillance systems in New York City.
Lindsey Kingston - lnkingst@maxwell.syr.edu
My principal research interests are in the areas of conflict resolution and social justice. In particular, I am interested in exploring the ways that identity formation and perception are linked to conflict resolution and community building after civil war. Citizenship, gender and religion are related topics for further study.
Jesse D. Lecy - jdlecy@maxwell.syr.edu
My research focuses on discerning how structural components of civil society, such as resource constraints and accountability measures, create incentive systems that influence transnational NGO behavior and performance. I take both a contracting perspective and an organizational ecology approach in trying to understand the “marketplace for grants.” I also work on empirical issues of poverty measurement and statistical modeling of community development outcomes.
Gearoid Millar - gmmillar@maxwell.syr.edu
My research focuses on international conflict resolution, post-conflict peacebuilding and reconciliation. I focus on how alternate concepts of justice, truth, reconciliation, and peace complicate the application of western derived peacebuilding projects constructed on normative western conceptions of these social goods.
Umut Ozkaleli - uokalel@maxwell.syr.edu
My research interests are in the areas of Conflict Resolution and Feminist Studies. My research focuses on conflict theories, postcolonial feminism, and difference and equality feminisms to explain the ideological polarization in Turkey, including how Islamist and secular patriarchies affect women's lives and the role of women as conflict resolvers in society.
Bandita Sijapati - bsijapat@maxwell.syr.edu
My principal research interests are in the areas of political socialization, citizenship and immigration. In particular, my research focuses on the political socialization of immigrant youths in the United States. In addition, I also have research interests in areas of conflict studies, democratic transition, and identity politics.
Vivek Srinivasan - vsrini01@maxwell.syr.edu
My primary interest is in the right to food, and I am planning a comparative study of campaigns on this issue in India and Brazil. Given my engagement with the Right to Food Campaign and the education campaign in India, I am examining the role of social movements in socio-economic policy. The use of litigation for civil, social and political rights and the role of law and legal institutions in influencing socio-economic policy is another area of interest.
Amy Tweedy - ajtweedy@maxwell.syr.edu
My research interests include the study of geographies of emotion, sexuality and space, the sociology of work, women's studies and queer theory. My dissertation project focuses on concepts of queer space in the workplace with particular attention to ideas of community and emotional labor.
Lili Wang - lwang05@maxwell.syr.edu
My research interests are in information technology application and management, user-centered evaluation of IT initiatives, and the experimental study of IT implementation within organizations.
Brandy Witthoft - bwitthof@maxwell.syr.edu
My primary research interests are in the areas of forced human migration, refugee resettlement in the United States, and United States immigration policy and practice. I also have secondary interests in social and economic development, especially with regards to Africa.
Nicholas John Armstrong - narmstro@maxwell.syr.edu
My research interests are organizational issues related to national security policy, focusing on strategic management, U.S. interagency policy-making, and post-conflict reconstruction.
Erika Carter Grosso - ercarter@syr.edu
My principal research interests are in the areas of Latin American migration, U.S. immigration policy, and transnational communities. My specific focus is on the Cuban community.
Changyong Choi - cchoi01@maxwell.syr.edu
My research interests are in market development, democratization, and governance reform in former communist countries. My current work explores the phenomenon of “marketization from the bottom” in North Korea since the mid 1990s and its impact on information flow, behavior and motivation in both the state apparatus and the populace of the country.
Jacob Michael Frank - jmfrank@maxwell.syr.edu
My research deals with protest and political change in former Soviet Republics, with a particular focus on the Republic of Moldova. I am interested in protest as an emergent "space of contestation/contestation of space", and the ways in which this spatial practice may be altered or affected by new networking and communication technologies. I am also intrigued by language politics, particularly the attempted "revival" of threatened languages and issues of diglossia.
Wei Gao - wgao01@maxwell.syr.edu
My main interest is ethnic group identity and community building, especially among Chinese-Americans. I am also interested in the study of not-for-profit organizations and globalization.
Drew Spafford Harris - dsharr01@syr.edu
My research interests focus on the mechanisms of civic education, particularly in the field of conflict resolution. I am interested in seeing how the concept of citizenship is formed and engaged within the normative framework of identity politics.
Dana Michelle Hill - dmhill@maxwell.syr.edu
My research examines how the most marginalized Ecuadorians – rural women of color – understand and respond to a new constitution that grants them full citizenship rights. Advancing knowledge about the processes through which women’s consciousness is heightened to make them more critically engaged citizens is crucial for the development of democracy and the quest for justice in Ecuador.
Alma Louise Lowry - allowry@maxwell.syr.edu
My research interests include conflict resolution and public participation in the environmental policy process. Specifically, I’m interested in the concept and process of public participation in administrative decision making, whether it is effective; what makes it effective, particularly for traditionally disempowered groups; and whether such participation can further environmental justice or other social justice goals.
Sarah Ann Marusek - samaruse@maxwell.syr.edu
I am interested in the role of charity in Islamic societies, my work mostly focusing on participatory welfare practices in Iran and Lebanon. My dissertation will draw from a critical trans-disciplinary framework and use ethnographic methods to map out the welfare systems in the Shi’i communities of Lebanon, a population that has been historically marginalized by the Lebanese state and society.
Todd Metcalfe - tmetcalf@syr.edu
My work is broadly concerned with environmental policy and economics. My current research focuses on how climate change policy impacts pollution of waterways.
Anthony J. Nocella, II - ajnocell@maxwell.syr.edu
My research interests include peace and conflict studies, terrorism and security studies, criminal and restorative justice, critical pedagogy, and disability studies.
Dave Robertson - derober0@syr.edu
My research interest is philanthropy; especially looking at marginalized members of society and their pathways to charitable giving. My research will examine the unrecognized and undocumented contributions of the economically disadvantaged, disabled and minority community, whose contributions have changed the world but are overshadowed by those with material wealth.
Julius Snell - jjsnellj@maxwell.syr.edu
My principal research interest is American Indian community development with a focus on health and education. I will combine my background in economics and public policy with my coursework in ethnographic methods and spatial statistics/econometrics to understand child care on reservations, and its impacts on community development and society.
Anya Elizabeth Stanger - aestange@maxwell.syr.edu
I am interested in peace education and specifically, in the ways in which alternatives to violence may be taught and learned. My research uses elements from peace studies and nonviolence, feminist, and critical theory as lenses through which to study possibilities for change.