Maxwell Summer 2015 Perspective Aging and the Family An important international conference highlights the mission of the Maxwell co-sponsored Aging Studies Institute.

Also in this issue:

Anthropologist and students assist new Tubman Park

Lerner Center takes on Syracuse neighborhood nutrition project

Middle Eastern Studies proves popular — and gets a new director

New Chapple Family Professor will oversee the MAX Courses MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

Many Connections We look forward and back, reaching both on campus and off, always weaving together research, teaching, and engagement.

his spring we concluded a year-long commemoration of Maxwell’s 90th anniversa- Try —an exciting series of events that not only recalled the many accomplishments of Maxwell faculty, students, and staff over the decades, but also highlighted the dynam- ic world of teaching, scholarship, and public service that is Maxwell today. And threw in a rousing party, to boot! We also had the chance (just days ago, as I write this) to pay tribute to one of our re- tiring faculty members, Walter Broadnax ’75 PhD (PA), who has been, for more than 40 years, a model of what Maxwell is all about — as an educator, as a public servant, as a Syracuse University trustee, and most recently as an esteemed member of the faculty. However, it’s in our nature not to dwell on the past, but rather to focus on the future. In the coming months we’ll be launching the first activities in our Tenth Decade Project, sup- ported by the generous contributions of Maxwell alumni and friends. The Project is de- signed to assure that Maxwell remains a path-setting institution of interdisciplinary re- search and teaching, particularly on the timely and urgent issues of citizenship and society. That commitment is reflected in the work of two faculty members we highlight in this issue: the outgoing and incoming Chapple Professors, Kristi Andersen and Mark Rupert. One of the principal responsibilities of the Chapple chair is to lead the MAX Courses — signature interdisciplinary undergraduate courses that introduce a wide range of Syracuse University students to the pressing challenges facing our nation It’s in our nature and the world, while helping them develop the tools to begin to devise innovative solutions to these problems. (How interdis- not to dwell on ciplinary are the MAX Courses? This coming fall, for example, the past, but 13 tenure-track professors, from six different departments, will rather to focus team-teach the three classes.) And, as Kristi’s involvement with the “Ivory Tower” television on the future. program demonstrates, we don’t just work with our students, but reach out to the wider world to help citizens understand contemporary events with the insight that thoughtful scholars bring to the public debate. The importance and quality of this kind of outreach was reflected in the first-place award given to “The Campbell Conversations,” the public affairs radio pro- gram hosted by Professor Grant Reeher; the award was from the New York For more on “The Campbell Con- State Associated Press Broadcasters Association, for best interview pro- versations,” visit: gram. And it can be seen in the work of Doug Armstrong and his students www.maxwell.syr. edu/campbell in the creation of the Tubman National Park — civic engagement on behalf of the legacy of one of the pioneers of civic engagement in our nation. We hope you find these stories a useful way to stay in touch with Maxwell. We’re fortu- nate that this spring Scott Barrett joined us as the new Associate Dean for Strategic Com- munications and External Affairs. Under Scott’s leadership, we’ll look for more, innovative ways to engage with all of you — you who have made such a difference during Maxwell’s past 90 years, and who will help us achieve even more in the coming decade.

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Celebrating Harriet Tubman The archeological efforts of Douglas Armstrong and his students will be on display at a new national park honoring the former slave and abolitionist.

n December, President Barack Obama signed a law that authorized the establishment of a national Ipark at Harriet Tubman’s long-time home in Auburn, New York. The Harriet Tubman National Park will be the first national park to recognize an African American woman and acknowledges Tubman’s contributions as For 17 years, Douglas Armstrong, professor of an abolitionist and conductor on the Underground fire in 1880, as well as a second home rebuilt around it anthropology (far left), has Railroad, as well as her later life in Auburn, where she from bricks possibly made on the property. Other led students through was active in social causes and established the Home structures on the 32-acre property include John archeological projects at the Tubman home historic for the Aged to care for elderly African Americans. Brown Hall, which served as a dormitory or infirmary site in Auburn, New York. “What makes this site so important is that Har- for the Home for the Aged, a brick kiln, and a barn. Now the site has been riet Tubman actually lived here for 50 years and we “Harriet Tubman has a unique history,” says approved for National Park status. Front row left have evidence of her life,” says Douglas Armstrong, Armstrong. “She was a former slave, but she was a are the site’s longtime professor of anthropology. property owner. She was a farmer. She was involved in caretakers, Rev. Paul and Without Armstrong, it’s quite possible the his- the brick-making industry. So here you have a black- Christine Carter. toric park would not be happening. Much of what is constructed house, from bricks that were probably known about Tubman’s made by blacks, on a site owned by blacks in the late 1800s.” life in Auburn is due to “We’re preserving an his archeological work at The site is owned by the African Meth- the site during the last 17 important piece of odist Episcopal Zion Church in Auburn, to years, some of it con- American history.” whom Tubman deeded the property in 1903, ducted as part of a “field Douglas Armstrong and operated through a not-for-profit, the school” summer course, Harriet Tubman Home Inc. (HTH). The where his students church has struggled to maintain the property learned the field techniques of archeology while also as a tourist site since opening it to the public in 1953, learning about Tubman. While Armstrong believes with limited expertise and funding. Here Armstrong Tubman’s legacy alone would have led eventually to has helped, too. Through the years, he has worked national park status, the archeological work provided with the AME Zion pastor, Rev. Paul Carter, and his factual context and strengthened the case. wife, Christine Carter, who together manage the Through the years, Armstrong and his students property, and with Karen Hill, executive director of have amassed a tremendous collection of material HTH, to secure designation as a national park. objects that, combined with other information, paint a He says the legislation was a long time coming. picture of Tubman’s life in Auburn. They have found “This property represents a transition from the period remains of her first house, which was destroyed in a in which Harriet Tubman was actively bringing peo-

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ple to freedom and a period in more than 30 years. “It’s only with on display and have already which people were living in free- the construction of that center mounted three exhibits in a small dom,” he says. “We’re preserving about six years ago that the public museum at the site. One features an important piece of American has full access to all the interpre- tea sets and social interaction history.” tive information about the site. among residents of the Tubman The national park designa- We’re not going to let this sit for home and between Tubman and tion sets up a format for enhanced 30 more years,” he says. other townspeople. “The women site interpretation. However, the The team is working to in town would get together for tea site still needs specific funding for secure funding — hopefully from and discuss issues of the day,” says an interpretive center — a facility both New York State and private Armstrong. “Tubman was often an to educate and inform the public, donors — to begin work on the honored guest.” present the rich material culture of interpretive center, which Arm- Armstrong believes the Har- the site, and house a library, arti- strong would like to see open riet Tubman National Park has the facts, and other records. A well- within three years. potential to increase tourism to designed interpretive center will Structural preservation of the region. “Our idea is to tie in encourage visitation and thus the Tubman house is complete the variety of abolition and under- serve the regional economy. and the team is waiting for for- ground railroad sites throughout He points to the Revolution- malization of national park status Central New York,” he says. “Peo- ary War-era Fort Stanwix in to begin interior work. Armstrong ple will be attracted here because Rome, New York, which was and his graduate students are of Harriet Tubman but then named a national park but did not currently curating excavated encouraged to explore other sites have an interpretive center for objects to determine what will go in the area.” —Renée Gearhart Levy

RESEARCH INSTITUTES CHUCK WAINWRIGHT The Right Recipe The Lerner Center is partnering with other local institutions to bring better health options to Syracuse’s Near Westside.

or residents of Syracuse’s Near Westside — one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods — access to and Faffordability of healthy foods has long been a challenge. The Maxwell School’s Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion is trying to change that, aided by a recent $250,000 grant from the New York State Health Foundation. The grant supports a program that teams a local grocery store and primary care center to increase residents’ knowledge of, access to, and purchase of Representing the Near Westside coalition are (from healthier foods. left) Paul Nojaim, president and owner, Nojaim “The Near Westside is an area plagued by high rates of obesity, diabetes, and Brothers Supermarket (the site of this photo); Maarten Jacobs, director, Near Westside Initiative; other chronic illnesses,” says Rebecca Bostwick ’04 MPA, program director of the Roberto Martinez, project coordinator at the Lerner Lerner Center. “Realizing that behavior change takes a long time, we’re trying to Center, and Rebecca Bostwick, Lerner Center pro- create an environment that would motivate somebody to try something different.” gram director. An additional partner, not represent- ed above, is St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center. That’s precisely the kind of impact Sid Lerner (a 1953 graduate of SU’s Newhouse School) and his wife, Helaine, had in mind when they funded the Top: Cynthia Morrow, inaugural Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion four years ago: to use research Lerner Professor For more about the Lerner Center: and science to guide public health policy and community health initiatives. lernercenter.syr.edu Like all of the Lerner Center’s work, the project is a collaborative

2 Maxwell Perspective • Summer 2015 Maxwell News “We’re trying to create an environment that would motivate somebody to try Tenth Decade Fund Approaches $1 Million. As of mid-June, Model UN Team Is Top- something different.” giving to the Maxwell School’s Tenth Decade Fund had topped Ranked. A 21-member team of Rebecca Bostwick, $875,000. That total includes lead gifts given at last November’s Syracuse undergraduates, all ma- Program Director, Lerner Center 90th anniversary dinner in Washington, D.C., plus designated an- joring in international relations, nual gifts since. Almost half of all gifts to Maxwell since November took top honors at this spring’s were designated by donors to support the Tenth Decade Project, partnership bringing the academic National Model United Nations which will enable new and enhanced citizenship initiatives. expertise of the center together conference. The team, advised by Late in the spring semester, faculty members were invited to Francine J. D’Amico, associate with community stakeholders to submit proposals for those initiatives. A committee is reviewing professor of international rela- promote health. The key partners initial proposals, with the expectation that some projects using the tions, was named an Outstanding in this project are the Near West- Tenth Decade Fund will be implemented as early as this fall. This Delegation. side Initiative, Nojaim Brothers is a first phase, however; fundraising and project development will The conference attracts Supermarket, and St. Joseph’s continue as the School builds toward its 2024 centennial. 5,000-plus delegates from around Hospital Health Center, which the globe. The IR team repre- runs a primary care center across University Scholars of Syracuse University. The chair sented the Republic of Ecuador. the parking lot from Nojaim’s. Named. Four gradu- honors a former chair of the Fed- Team members prepared for two The plan is to use the nutritional ating seniors majoring eral Reserve and one of the most months with lessons on the his- scoring system NuVal to rank in the Maxwell School respected economists in recent tory, culture, politics, and foreign every item in the store and display were named Syracuse history. The current holder of the policy of Ecuador; UN history, those ratings through educational University Scholars in Volcker Chair is Leonard Burman, structure, and operation; and writ- signage, social marketing, and late April. who hosted the lecture. ing and negotiation skills. programming. They were Jonathan Lee, who majored in The Lerner Center is also Fund Honors Merget. A new Thompson Fund Supports policy studies; Eliza- working with the nutritionist at fund honoring Astrid Merget ’68 Students. A new endowed beth McMahon, policy the primary care center to develop MPA/’73 PhD (SSc) will sup- scholarship fund, honoring Jean studies; Bo Stewart, complementary programming port doctoral students in Public and Richard Thompson ’67 MA economics/political Administration and Internation- (PSc), will provide support for using the NuVal scores to help science; and Kristin al Affairs — the department she graduate students at Maxwell. patients cook and eat healthier Weeks, political sci- chaired in 1995- The fund was created by mem- within their budgets. ence/sociology. 2000. Merget bers of the Syracuse University “We want to educate con- University Scholar passed away last Board of Trustees in recognition is SU’s highest under- sumers about healthier alterna- October. of the Thompsons’ dedication to graduate honor, based tives to foods they are purchas- A lead gift was SU and the Maxwell School and on coursework and ing,” says Bostwick. “We’re trying made to the fund to mark Richard’s retirement as academic achievement, to create a loop of constant posi- by Sean ’78 MPA and Laura board chair this spring. creative work, a person- tive activity that meets people O’Keefe; additional gifts are be- Richard is a former senior al statement, and a faculty recom- where they’re at and isn’t over- ing made by colleagues, friends, vice president of policy and gov- mendation. Scholars are recog- whelming.” and former students of Merget, ernment affairs with Bristol-My- nized at Commencement. They have a track record. also the inaugural holder of the ers Squibb Company. He current- The Lerner Center is working Bantle Professorship in Business ly serves as senior counsel with with Nojaim’s to develop a Nobel Laureate and Government Policy at Max- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Gives First Volcker well. (For info on the fund, visit LLP in Washington, D.C. Healthy Rewards shopping pro- Lecture. On March maxwell.syr.edu/ gram, which offers incentives to 19, Nobel Laureate giving.) consumers for making healthy Robert J. Shiller, pro- food purchases; and a fruit and Robert Shiller fessor of economics at SCAVONE PHOTOGRAPHY vegetable “prescription” program The Partisan Divide. Yale University and a On April 16, former administered by Primary Care pioneer in the field of behavioral Congressmen Martin Center-West next door. finance, presented the inaugural Frost (left) and Tom Davis led a Maxwell-sponsored The Lerner Center’s public Paul Volcker Lecture at Maxwell. discussion of political health projects in Central New The lecture is a program of dysfunction in Congress, based on their recent York serve as an incubator for the Paul Volcker Chair in Behav- book The Partisan Divide: programs that might someday be ioral Economics, endowed by Congress in Crisis. The Robert Menschel, senior direc- event took place in replicated nationwide. The Cen- Washington, D.C., at the tor at Goldman Sachs Group and ter also supports three Lerner Center for Strategic and trustee emeritus International Studies. Fellows — graduate students in To view this and other lectures: youtube.com/ MaxwellSchool Summer 2015 • Maxwell Perspective 3 Maxwell News

Faculty in the Media public health — and an endowed community. “We didn’t go into the A sampling of appearances by faculty members in the professorship. Former Onondaga neighborhood and say, ‘We think we national and international media: County Health Commissioner Cyn- know what your issues are and we’re thia Morrow M.D. was recently going to solve them,’” he says. “We Sean O’Keefe, named the inaugural occupant of that took the time to listen to our resi- Phanstiel Chair in Stra- post. dents, to listen to our partners.” tegic Management and Tom Dennison, director of the “Our work is in partnerships,” Leadership, “Let’s Make Lerner Center, believes one reason for says Bostwick. “We’re bringing addi- the Deal with Iran,” Polit- its Near Westside success is their tional money and positive attention to ico, 2/24/2015; “Billion- partner-based approach, which is the neighborhood and we consider aires Battle for the Inter- respectful of people living in the that a success.” — Renée Gearhart Levy net in Space,” CNN Money, 1/21/2015 William Banks, profes- sor of public administra- Spencer Piston, assis- tion and international tant professor of politi- affairs, “How Do Drone cal science, “Hate Takes FACULTY APPOINTMENTS Strikes Go Wrong?,” BBC the Bus,” New York Times, News, 4/24/2015 3/11/2015; “Don’t Expel Members of Sigma Alpha Leonard Burman, Paul Epsilon for Racism,” Slate, Growing Interest Volcker Chair in Behavior- 3/10/2015 Yüksel Sezgin takes over Middle Eastern al Economics, “Is It Fair to Studies at a time when enrollment and Tax Capital Gains at Low- Amy Ellen Schwartz, programs are booming. er Rates than Earned In- Daniel Patrick Moynihan come?,” Wall Street Jour- Professor of Public Af- nal, 3/1/2015 fairs, “Applications Pour in for Low Income Youth rowing up in Turkey in the 1980s and William Coplin, profes- Summer Jobs Program,” ’90s, Yüksel Sezgin was always sor of public affairs, “Foot- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, struck by how little most people ball Major, Basketball Mi- 2/27/2015 G knew about the Middle East — a part of the nor?,” Washington See current fac- world that Turkey ruled for nearly 400 years. Post, 2/1/2015 Yüksel Sezgin, ulty citations at: “My idealist motivation was to travel the assistant professor www.maxwell. region; learn about the history, culture, and lan- Matthew Hu- syr.edu/inside of political science, ber, assistant “Could Erdogan guages; and help to fill in this knowledge gap,” Sezgin professor of geography, Lose Turkey’s Upcoming recalls. That mission guided him through graduate “Too Much Oil,” Jacobin, Election?,” Washington work in Middle Eastern studies, political science, and 3/22/2015 Post, 5/19/2015 public law — and now to his new position as director of SU’s Middle Eastern Studies Program. Yüksel Sezgin is the new director of Middle Mary Lovely, professor James Steinberg, A specialist in comparative religious law and Eastern Studies. of economics, “Doors Are dean, “Count on Wide- assistant professor of political science, Sezgin has an Not Actually Open,” Inter- Open 2016 Debate Over exceptionally broad perspective on the Middle East. national Finance Maga- U.S.’s Role in the World,” His education spanned the University of Ankara, the Hebrew University of zine, 3/13/2015 Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem, the University of London, and the University of Washington; and the 5/18/2015; “How the research for his first book, Daniel McDowell, as- Paris Attacks Change Our Human Rights under State-Enforced Religious Family sistant professor of po- Political Conversation,” Laws in Israel, Egypt, and India (Cambridge), led him from Tel Aviv to Cairo to litical science, “Yuan on CNBC, 1/9/2015 New Delhi. Sezgin’s current project, with the working title Democratizing Shari’a, Move, But Not to Top,” Chi- explores how non-Muslim democracies such as Israel, India, Greece, and Ghana na Daily USA, 2/27/2015 Margaret Thompson, tackle the challenges of implementing shari’a law. associate professor of his- In Middle Eastern Studies, Sezgin is taking the helm of a program that has Devashish Mitra, pro- tory and political science, grown tremendously since its founding in 2003, spearheaded by political scientist fessor of economics, “The “How the Liberal Ameri- Mehrzad Boroujerdi. Today MES is SU’s most popular regional studies program Next Reforms Must En- can Nuns Prevailed Over — encompassing a major and minor, a graduate certificate, sure Higher Growth Rate the Vatican Old Guard,” and study-abroad opportunities, with more than 20 Middle in India,” Economic Times, Global Post, 4/16/2015 For more info, visit: East experts across campus teaching roughly 80 courses 2/20/2015 middle-eastern- (including Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Persian languages). studies.syr.edu

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“I never imagined that we duced a seminar on women and has never been more urgent, with would grow so much in a dozen gender in the Arab world, which issues such as the rise of ISIS, Iran’s years,” says Boroujerdi, now chair travels to Jordan and Lebanon. nuclear program, and the Arab/ of Political Science. He describes Sezgin plans to expand such offer- Israeli conflict Sezgin, who joined the faculty in ings, and to nurture faculty/student dominating “I want students 2013, as “very capable, energetic, research partnerships as well. “I international who major or and research active.” want students who major or minor news. Sezgin’s far-ranging interna- in Middle Eastern studies to put “Nothing minor in Middle tional background helps to shape their hands on real cutting-edge is black and Eastern studies his agenda. “One of the things I research,” he says, “and interact white, especially to put their hands want to do for the program,” he with faculty beyond the classroom.” when it comes says, “reflecting my own experience Recent faculty hires in history, to the politics on real cutting- as a scholar, is to internationalize geography, religion, and women’s of an ancient edge research.” the curriculum — providing more and gender studies have bolstered area like the Yüksel Sezgin opportunities for students to spend the ranks of Middle East specialists Middle East,” time in different countries, be at the University. Sezgin aims to says Sezgin. “To exposed to different cultures, and build on this growth, with the understand the complications of learn languages.” long-range goal of establishing the the region, you’ve got to know the Currently, Boroujerdi and his Middle Eastern Studies Program as history and culture. You’ve got to political science colleague Matt a U.S. Department of Education spend time. This is what we do. Bonham lead a summer course in National Resource Center for Our doors are always open, so we Turkey titled the Road to Democ- language and area studies. can give a better representation of racy in the Islamic World. Other The mission of spreading the region to the American public SU faculty members have intro- knowledge about the Middle East at large.” — Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

POST-DEGREE OUTCOMES

Career Head Start The Presidential Management Fellowship and Excelsior Service Fellowship provide promising top grads (including more than a few from Maxwell) entrée into government careers.

hen Misha Lawrence ’13 MPA, the new director of organizational trans- formation at the New York Department of State, examines how policies Ware being implemented in state government, she refers back to the stat- utes that initially created those policies. She makes sure that, in implementation, the spirit of each law is being met. It’s an approach she learned at Maxwell — one that “not everyone understands or is exposed to,” she says, “but has been very instrumental for me.” Lawrence was hired in February after completing one year of an Excelsior Service Fellowship, a program designed to attract the best and the brightest candi- dates for public service careers to New York State government. During her year as a fellow, she implemented the performance management strategy for the agency and Misha Lawrence, former worked to align the agency’s activities with their overarching goals. Excelsior Fellow and now “It was a good balance of being able to understand policy on a wide scale,” she says, “and seeing director of organizational some of the benefits of our work.” And most important, she was well qualified to accept the permanent transformation in the New York Department of State position she was offered. Tom Kaczmarek ’14 MPA is hoping for similar results. A current Excelsior Fellow, Kaczmarek is

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an appointee to the Department of Public Service, primarily responsible for overseeing its perfor- Associate Dean Named. posals on current conflicts. mance management Scott Barrett has been named The fund was established in 2012 with portfolio. “It’s a great “Government associate dean for strategic a lead gift from Kriesberg, the founding di- way for Maxwell stu- communications and external rector of the Program for the Advancement employers hold dents to get a foot in affairs at the Maxwell School. of Research on Conflict and Collaboration. the door in state ser- [PMF] in high Barrett oversees strategic planning and Gifts from colleagues and others who ap- vice,” he says. implementation in communications, me- preciate Kriesberg’s contributions continue regard and The Excelsior dia relations, fund raising, alumni relations, to be accepted. (For info on the fund, see assign exciting, and other external affairs. Working with www.maxwell.syr.edu/parcc_news.) Fellowships were others, he will build an external profile with launched in 2013 by substantive work an international reach for the School and Governor Andrew 90th Winds Down. Observances of Max- to their fellows.” further develop initiatives for the Tenth De- Cuomo to train leaders well’s 90th anniversary, begun last fall, con- Sean Comber, PMF finalist cade Project. cluded this winter and spring. in state government, to Barrett was previously assistant dean Among events were a faculty panel on eventually fill gaps from for advancement at SU’s School of Informa- citizenship, sponsored by the Camp- anticipated retirements. His office contacted Kelli tion Studies and has been vice president of bell Public Affairs Institute; a confer- Young, director of Maxwell’s Center for Career advancement at Le Moyne College and di- ence on India and Pakistan, spon- Development, for advice on how best to recruit rector of annual giving at Hamilton College. sored by the South Asia Center; two students into the program. The answer: Like her Political Science lectures on inequal- counterparts at other schools statewide, Young is Schaefer Supports Future MPAs. A ity; and an alumni career panel, arranged offered a Maxwell allotment of slots available for major estate gift from George P. Schaefer by Citizenship and Civic Engagement. Excelsior Fellows (thus far, ranging between 5 and Rounding out the celebrations were In- ’74 MPA, included in a recently established 10 per year). Then, using an intensive application bequest plan, will provide scholarship and ternational Women’s Day and a Tanner Lec- process, Young recruits students whose interests financial assistance to Maxwell students ture (see below) and the Aging Studies In- pursuing an MPA. stitute conference (pages 10-15). and capabilities fit the current state needs. Recently retired, Schaefer worked in en- The program is similar to the Presidential ergy and finance, holding senior executive Management Fellowship (PMF) Program, the Conference Marks International positions in the firms Covanta, Soltage LLC, federal government’s flagship leadership-develop- Women’s Day. Maxwell was the lead co- Mascoma Corporation, ASAlliances Biofuels ment program, which recruits top advanced-degree sponsor of a two-day program in February LLC, NRG Energy, Reliant Energy Interna- celebrating International Women’s Day. candidates interested in federal service. tional, and Entergy Power Group. The event focused on women in the The Maxwell School is also well represented military and opened with a session on among PMF finalists each year. This year, six Kriesberg Fund Supports women’s health and the Veterans Adminis- current or former Maxwell students received the Conference. A conference tration. Other sessions included a panel dis- designation after a laborious selection process that on the progress of large-scale cussion about preparing for military service culled 7,800 applicants down to 600 finalists intractable conflicts, to be co- and a keynote address by Major General nationwide. “It’s a prestigious appointment that sponsored early next year with Linda Singh, adjutant general of the Mary- puts graduate students interested in a government the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Re- land Army National Guard, who highlighted career on a fast track,” says Young. the importance of community and military search at Tel Aviv University, will be the first Many government agencies earmark positions major beneficiary of the Louis Kriesberg engagement. for PMFs because they know the selection process Family Fund for Constructive Conflict Stud- Spearheading Maxwell’s involvement yields top-quality candidates committed to public ies. Attendees will be challenged to devel- was Mary Lovely, professor of economics op new perspectives, ideas, and policy pro- and chair of International Relations. service. In addition to receiving extensive mentor- ing and professional development opportunities, PMFs are assured significantly faster increases in Visitors. Among notable speakers on campus their salary grade. “A grad student would typically this spring was Collin O’Mara ’06 MPA, president CHUCK WAINWRIGHT and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, who be hired at a GS9. When PMFs finish, they are at gave a Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship, and a GS12 and their next position will be eligible for Public Responsibility and then continued the conversation during a post-lecture reception (left). GS13, which is a management-level salary,” His talk, in February, addressed the global explains Young. “It could take 20 years to go from significance of America’s conservation ethic. Then, in May, the keynote speaker at Max- a 9 to a 13 if you enter federal government in the well’s pre-commencement convocation was conventional way.” J. Brian Atwood (near left), professor and former dean of the Humphrey Sean Comber is a current MPA/IR student School of Public Affairs at the University and PMF finalist (the term for those who have of Minnesota, and former administrator of USAID. His topic was “Diplomacy in a been selected for the program and who are now Counter-Intuitive World.”

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interviewing for a specific post). “The PMF is an grams are an excellent launch pad to a government excellent way to access a specific pool of federal jobs career, Young stresses that all Maxwell MPA gradu- and accelerate your professional development,” he ates have an excellent employment rate, due in large says. “Government employers hold the program in part to a strong alumni network that likes to recruit its high regard and assign exciting, substantive work to own. A report on students graduating between their fellows, making it an ideal way to launch a fed- December 2013 and August 2014 showed 97 percent eral career.” employed or pursuing further education. “I am interested in administration/management “The fellowship programs carry an element of as it applies to global programs,” says Comber, who is honor. They are great programs with prestige attending Maxwell as a Robertson Fellow (which attached to them, but our population of students have commits him to future federal service). “Ultimately, a strong track record getting jobs regardless,” says I would love to be working in the international rela- Young. “We are highly connected in the fields our tions field, especially focusing on a thematic area like students are most interested in and our alumni are humanitarian affairs or conflict studies.” very faithful to us, which aids in making their job Although the state and federal fellowship pro- search a lot easier.” — Renée Gearhart Levy

FACULTY ROLES STEVE SARTORI / S.U. PHOTO & IMAGING CENTER PHOTO / S.U. STEVE SARTORI Team Approach As the new Chapple Professor, Mark Rupert oversees the MAX Courses and helps champion the School’s team-taught approach to citizenship education.

ack in 1993, political scientist Mark Rupert

was one of the faculty members who created Mark the MAX Courses — the team-taught, cross- Rupert, in B Maxwell disciplinary Maxwell School courses that explore Auditorium current public issues in the U.S. and around the world. — home Spearheaded by political science and public affairs base for professor Robert McClure, the MAX Courses aimed the MAX Courses to enhance undergraduate education by giving first- year students the opportunity to learn about and debate critical issues in small group sessions, and articulate their positions in writing. Rupert, who ously the MAX Courses Critical Issues in the United began teaching at Maxwell in 1987, knew firsthand States and Global Community, as they have become a how important these courses were. seminal Maxwell experience for thousands of stu- “The format was revolutionary, because at the dents. Given that long history, Rupert was a natural time I came, teaching to 200-plus students in an choice to take the helm of the auditorium, three lectures a week, was fairly com- MAX Courses as the newly mon,” says Rupert. “One of the amazing things about appointed Chapple Family “Students spend two- the MAX Courses is that students spend two-thirds Professor of Citizenship and thirds of their class time of their class time in small groups with a professor Democracy. He becomes the discussing issues, thinking out loud about them, and third Chapple Professor, follow- in small groups with a being more actively engaged than you can be in a big ing McClure (now professor professor discussing lecture session.” For both students and faculty, he says, emeritus) and his political sci- issues, thinking out loud “That was enormously appealing.” ence colleague Kristi Andersen. In the two decades since the MAX curriculum At Maxwell, Rupert about them.” was introduced, Rupert has taught almost continu- teaches his own courses on Chapple Professor Mark Rupert

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international relations and politi- Professors Named Emeritus. Two esteemed Maxwell faculty cal economy, and he does research members earned emeritus status with their retirements this spring. on topics such as debates over Marjorie DeVault is a professor of sociology globalization and, currently, pop- who specializes in gender studies, qualitative meth- zenship and Civic En- ulism in American politics. odology, feminist studies, and social interaction. Her gagement, was named Rupert’s own scholarship does tie book-length works include Feeding the Family, a 1991 a fellow of the Ameri- study of gender correlation in home nurturance roles; can Council on Edu- into some of the themes of the and 1999’s Liberating Method: Feminism and Social cation. He will spend MAX Courses, but he is quick to Research, which recommends research approaches 2015-16 being mentored by the say that these team-led, discus- that more fully represent marginalized groups and lib- president or chancellor of a host sion-based courses are specifically eratory movements. She joined Maxwell in 1987. institution and receiving other designed so that the expertise of Walter Broadnax is an alumnus (’75 PhD [PA]) training for academic leadership. no individual professor — includ- with a celebrated career in public policy and educa- ing the Chapple Professor — tion who joined the faculty in 2008 as Distinguished Professor, Pub- Andrew London, professor of dominates the agenda. lic Administration and International Affairs. Among many previous sociology, Shannon Novak, as- “There’s a real sense in which career highlights are Cabinet department appointments — Deputy sociate professor of anthropology, all of us in the course, including Secretary, Health and Human Services, and Principal Deputy Assis- and Dennis Romano, Dr. Walter faculty, are learners together,” he tant Secretary, Health, Education and Welfare — and six years as Montgomery and Marian Gruber says. “None of us has a monopoly president of Clark Atlanta University. Professor of History, won the Ex- on the shape of the course.” cellence in Graduate Education award from Syracuse University’s For students, too, one of the Graduate School. It honors advo- important lessons of the MAX Alan Allport, Albrecht Diem, cacy on behalf of graduate stu- Courses is that no one has a assistant professor associate professor dents and commitment to gradu- monopoly either on the answers of history, wrote of history, was ate teaching and mentoring. to the complex issues they discuss Browned Off and named an Ameri- — from education policy to eco- Bloody-Minded: The can Council of nomic inequality to immigration. British Soldier Goes to War Learned Societies Fellow; and Louis Kriesberg, The MAX Course professors help 1939-1945 (Yale University named a member of the Institute professor emeritus students not only to make their Press), describing the World War for Advanced Study at Princeton of sociology, wrote II experiences of British men who University for 2015-16. He will Realizing Peace: A arguments as clearly and persua- were unprepared for military life reside at Princeton researching Constructive sively as possible, says Rupert, but before fate made them soldiers. early medieval monastic rules. Conflict Approach (Oxford also “to hear others and to appre- University Press), an analysis of ciate that smart people with good every major American foreign intentions will answer questions Sarah Hamers- Shana Kushner conflict since the onset of the differently than they do.” ma, assistant pro- Gadarian, Cold War, with strategies for To Rupert, this kind of open fessor, won this assistant professor future American involvements. year’s Birkhead- of political science, exchange of views and ideas is just Burkhead Award received the 2015 as urgently needed now as it was for teaching excel- Moynihan Award for Teaching and Laurie Mar- when the courses were created. lence in Public Ad- Research. Established by former hoefer, assistant “Our society and our world face ministration and senator and Maxwell faculty professor of history, challenges on a whole range of won a Meredith International Af- member Daniel Patrick Moynihan, fronts that are going to require Teaching Recogni- fairs. She succeeds the award is made to an outstand- collective action,” he says. “One of David Van Slyke, Louis A. Ban- ing untenured faculty member. tion Award from Syracuse the missions of these courses is to tle Chair in Business and Govern- University, which rewards non-ten- help students think through issues ment Policy, the 2014 recipient. ured faculty members for innova- Azra Hromadžic, tion, effective communications, in a way that they can then apply assistant professor and lasting value of courses. to other issues and carry over to Mehrzad Borou- of anthropology, address some of these bigger jerdi, professor and wrote Citizens of an challenges. chair of political Empty Nation Mark Monmoni- “Now I’m not suggesting that science, was (University of Pennsylvania Press), er, Distinguished the MAX Courses can save the named a Syracuse about the effects of postwar Professor of University Provost’s Faculty Fellow, state-making on the young people Geography, wrote world,” he adds. “But I am sug- charged with helping to strength- in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Adventures in gesting that if there were more en internationaliza- Academic Cartography, describing courses like this in schools and See current fac- his work as a scholar, educator, ulty citations at: tion at the University. colleges across the country, it Paul Hagenloh, associate pro- and editor; and charting the www.maxwell. wouldn’t hurt a bit.” syr.edu inside fessor of history and chair of Citi- impact of computer technology. / — Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

8 Maxwell Perspective • Summer 2015 Maxwell News

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Out of the Ivory Tower Maxwell’s Kristi Andersen is part of a small cast of Central New York scholars who convene weekly to reflect on public events and issues — all for the benefit of a local television audience. This they have done now more than 500 times!

t happens just about every time political science professor Kristi Andersen is out in the Syracuse area. Someone recognizes her from the locally I WCNY PUBLIC MEDIA MARK MARTINO / produced public-TV series Ivory Tower, a weekly roundtable on current issues, and approaches her to talk about the show. “Yesterday, to give you a random example,” Andersen says, “I was at Wegmans waiting for my daughter and two different couples came over, asked some questions about the show, and said how much they liked it. Later, I went over to pick up an order of sliced Brussels sprouts and both of the people who worked behind the counter turned out to be Ivory medium and enjoyed Tower fans. And that’s not unusual at all.” exchanging views That response is gratifying to Andersen, who has about topics both always liked to communicate about public issues with within and outside people outside the academy, whether it’s talking with their areas of exper- community groups or writing op-ed pieces. tise. “It is a current Over the last 13 years, Ivory Tower has become a events show and we popular platform for reaching the general public in are not lecturing to a Central New York and beyond on a weekly basis. On class,” says Andersen, average, 10,000 viewers tune in each Friday night to a Maxwell faculty the show, on which Andersen and a panel of scholars member since 1984, from area colleges (including Maxwell graduate John “but we can still bring Kristi Robert “Bob” Greene ’83 PhD [Hist], from Cazeno- academic rigor to the Andersen via College) discuss political and social issues, both issues we talk about.” (left) and, national and local. Recent topics range from presiden- The Ivory Tower above, the panel of tial contenders and panelists don’t always local “By the testimony the culture of polic- agree, but they clearly scholars ing to upstate New listen to, engage with, who make of those who watch up WCNY-TV’s Ivory York’s struggles for and respect each other’s views. Modeling that kind of Tower public affairs the show, we’re power in Albany. civil discourse is an important part of Andersen’s program. encouraging people The show recently teaching at Maxwell — especially in the team-led celebrated its 500th MAX Courses (see “Team Approach,” page 7) — and to think rationally episode on Syra- she sees it as one of the most important aspects of and carefully about cuse’s WCNY and Ivory Tower as well. Watch episodes at: received a New York “We’re reaching a lot of people important public www.wcny.org/ Emmy nomination. every week,” says Andersen. “By the television/ivory-tower issues.” Andersen has testimony of those who watch the Kristi Andersen been a panelist on show, we’re encouraging people to think rationally and Ivory Tower since its carefully about important public issues. I think that is inception back in really important, and never more so than in these 2002. Neither David Rubin, the show’s moderator and polarized times. They like that we’re not yelling at at the time dean of SU’s Newhouse School, nor any of each other and we’re having a civil argument. They the scholar/panelists had comparable experience on feel after all this time that they know us, and people television, but the group quickly adapted to the enjoy that.” — Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

Summer 2015 • Maxwell Perspective 9 Family Ties A major, international conference, hosted by hen Americans talk about aging, they focus on Syracuse University’s Aging the problems of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Studies Institute, explored Security — programs that, for many, merely Wsymbolize the financial burdens of old age. That conversation, how aging citizens fit in says Janet Wilmoth, misses an important dimension of aging and contribute — here and studies today. Wilmoth, a professor of sociology at the Maxwell School, is also director of Syracuse University’s Aging Studies around the globe. Institute (ASI). “Older adults are not drains on our economy, but a critical By Renée K. Gadoua part of society,” Wilmoth says. “We don’t always recognize the Conference photography by Hannah value of our elders. They are making critical contributions to their Jean Stathis and Joe Librandi- Cowan, Syracuse University Photo & families and communities.” Imaging Center (except where noted) The significant financial and caregiving contributions of elders were among the highlights of Aging Families/Changing Families, the June 3-6 conference ASI organized for the Interna- tional Sociology Association Research Committees on Aging and Family. The conference — expan- sive in its topical variety and international in its focus — drew more “Older adults are than 120 people representing 21 countries, and scholars made more than 75 presentations on original research. . . . making critical As successful as the conference was intellectually, it was also a wa- contributions to tershed moment for ASI. It was the biggest event ASI has organized their families and since Syracuse University created the interdisciplinary research center in communities.” 2011, and it helped solidify ASI’s reputation as a Janet Wilmoth national and international leader on aging studies. Director, Aging Studies Institute At the Aging “We were able to attract a broad group of scholars Families/ because we are well-known among others who study Changing Families confer- these issues,” Wilmoth says. The conference also showcased the numerous interdisci- ence (from top): Keynote speak- plinary and international connections ASI scholars are already making. er Andrew ASI is a collaboration of Maxwell and SU’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Cherlin; from India, Gurjeet Human Dynamics. ASI’s predecessor, the SU Geron- Virk Sidhu tology Center, operated for 40 years and was one of the (Panjab Univer- sity) and Jacob country’s oldest university-based gerontology programs. John Kattakay- am (University of Kerala); Syracuse Today, more than 40 SU faculty affiliates from more University Interim Vice Chancellor and than a dozen departments make up the ASI — roughly Provost Elizabeth Liddy, Cantor Professor Merril Silverstein, and keynote speaker one-quarter with Maxwell appointments; one-quarter, Ingrid Arnet Connidis. Falk; the rest, other SU programs. The core group is SHUTTERSTOCK

housed in renovated space in Lyman Hall. Merril Silverstein, Marjorie Cantor Professor of Aging, dually appointed in Sociology and Social Work, played a key role in bringing the conference to Syracuse. “He is an internationally recognized scholar on aging families and has devel- oped relationships with scholars in several countries, including Sweden, Israel, the Netherlands, and China,” Wilmoth says. “There’s a synergy between his work and what the rest of us do that has helped us further elevate ASI’s prominence in the areas of aging, families, and public policy.” Several of Silverstein’s international collaborators attended the conference. Lu Song, who was a visiting scholar at ASI last year, and Shuzhou Li presented re- search from rural China; they study how economically driven migration of adults impacts those adults’ parents — members of an older, tradition-oriented generation. Silver- stein will survey and/or interview more than 1,000 stein’s collaborators in Israel, Ariela Lowenstein and individuals, including clergy and congregants. He and Ruth Katz, presented on care for frail elderly. Veroni- Bengston will collaborate on the analysis. ka Salzburger, ASI visiting scholar from Germany Much of Silverstein’s work is consistent with a who is working with Silverstein, and Karsten Hank trend in aging studies: It is increasingly international presented research on how gays and lesbians in Ger- and leads to important comparisons about aging in many relate with older parents. developed and developing countries. Developed Silverstein’s reach is further represented by his countries have experienced a gradual increase in the collaboration on the Longitudinal Study of Genera- proportion of older adults, Wilmoth explains. In the tions, a project begun in 1970 by University of United States, it took 69 years (from 1944 to 2013) Southern California scholar Vern Bengston. The for the 65-and-over population to double as a per- study has tracked multigenerational families in centage of the overall population (from 7 percent to Southern California for four decades, with a focus on 14). Developing countries are experiencing popula- family dynamics and their relationship to mental tion aging at a much faster rate than developed coun- health. Bengston, author of Families and Faith: How tries. In China, for example, the 7-to-14-percent Religion Is Passed Down Across Generations (Oxford doubling is expected to take 26 years (2000 to 2026). University Press), presented a paper on intergenera- “How do these countries that are still developing tional relationships and the transmission of religious economically deal with the explosion of aging popu- values at the ASI conference. lation?” Wilmoth asks. “What does this mean for Information about Syra- That work goes on. This spring, Silverstein family dynamics? How do demographics in different cuse Univer- sity’s Aging received a $1.5-million grant from the John Temple- parts of the world change family dynamics?” Studies ton Foundation for an extension of his work with From a conference with a broad range of topics Institute may be found at: Bengston. The grant funds a three-year study on -- including grandparenting, caregiving, marriages asi.syr.edu religiosity trends among baby boomers and their and unions, intergenerational relationships, sexual families. Additionally, the National Institutes of health, and migration — what follows is a small RENÉE K. GADOUA is a Health have funded a Silverstein project on religiosity sampling of topics raised and new knowledge brought freelance writer and editor and mortality risk. Between the two projects, Silver- to light at Aging Families/Changing Families. based in Manlius, N.Y.

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How We Live Together The erosion of traditional family structures has had well-documented impacts on children, but how will it eventually affect family elders?

n the United States, 8.2 percent of children live frequently quoted social scientist, Cherlin is former with mothers who experience three or more president of the Population Association of America. partnerships by the time the child turns 15. His keynote was titled “The Missing Middle IChanges in the economy have led to rising divorce Class,” and pinpointed the ways that family instabil- rates and an increase in cohabitation and child-bear- ity has grown in America. In a time of rising eco- ing outside marriage. How will those relationships nomic inequality, he said, people without college and the absence of stable, long-term family structure degrees compete for a shrinking number of well-pay- affect elder care? It was the question raised by An- ing jobs. “High economic inequality includes a milieu drew Cherlin, who gave the opening keynote address of acceptance of alternatives to marriage,” he said. at the Aging Families/Changing Families conference “Kids need stable families. In the U.S., marriage is presented by Syracuse University’s Aging Studies how people do stability. Lots of churning is not in Institute (ASI). It was one of children’s best interest.” “There will be many presentations on ways Now scholars suggest that churning is not in more complexity that changes in family struc- elders’ best interests either. “Many children experience and diversity tures and economic factors step-parents. Many may not live with their biological affect elder care. parents and may have complex family relationships,” in future family Cherlin is a sociologist Cherlin said. “What does this mean for the frail elder- patterns than and professor of public policy ly? How strong are those relationships?” there has been at Johns Hopkins University Cherlin is working with Douglas Wolf, an ASI in the past.” and author of Labor’s Love associate and professor of public administration and Lost: The Rise and Fall of the international affairs at Maxwell, to investigate press- Douglas Wolf ASI associate and Working-Class by Family ing questions of who will care for aging adults who Maxwell faculty member (Russell Sage Foundation). A do not have strong bonds with children or step-chil-

12 Maxwell Perspective • Summer 2015 SHUTTERSTOCK Aging Studies Conference

the likelihood of “potential support deficits when intensive caregiver needs arise” among childless elders. Kohli is professor emeritus at the European University Institute in Italy and an expert on the life-course, a multidisci- plinary approach to studying people’s Stress on the Family lives. “Childless people are adapting by How does the burden of supporting building networks outside the nuclear elders change life for the caregivers? family,” Kohli said. Kohli delivered the June 5 key- ouglas Wolf shifts the focus from elders note at the conference, with the title being cared for to the health of caregivers “Generational Linkages in Aging Dthemselves. He is doing research studying the nu- Families.” (His co-author on the paper ances of caregiver stress. about intergenerational support for “In the medical world, in the world of advo- elders in Europe is Marco Albertini of cates, the overwhelming picture of elder care is the University of Bologna.) stressful, burdensome, unpleasant,” says Wolf, Kohli said European countries professor of public administration and interna- serve as a laboratory to study changes tional affairs at Maxwell and director of ASI’s Cen- dren. They are collaborating on re- in family structures and support for ter for Aging and Policy Studies. “It’s not that this search looking at how declines in the elders. “They are further advanced in picture is incorrect, but I’m trying to disentangle amount of care from children will demographic change and aging,” he the sources of affect families and public policy. Work- said. “Some European countries [have] the stress.” A ing with Christopher Seplaki (Univer- had to face the challenges earlier.” SHUTTERSTOCK key question is sity of Rochester) and Emily Agree Another session, on long-term how much of ( Johns Hopkins), they are attempting marriages and partnership dynamics, the negativity to characterize the diverse structure of featured more research on these com- of the caregiv- families 20 to 25 years into the future, mon themes of the conference: er comes from with attention to factors including the the caregiver • variation in later-life family number of biological children and tasks, and how forms, including long-term step-children, parents’ marital status, much is from the fact the person is failing? married couples; and marital histories. The project has He acknowledged the stress of taking care of • cohabitating couples; received financial support from the a parent with failing health. “But just the knowl- • committed partnerships between MacArthur Foundation Research edge of having an aging parent is stressful,” he heterosexual and homosexual Network on an Aging Society. said. “Some of it must be the psychological bur- couples; and “The basic idea is that there will den of having a family member with great need. • the social network among child- be more complexity and diversity in The stress can be even greater if your sister isn’t less older adults. future family patterns than there has helping. Everyone has a story about this.” been in the past, even the recent past,” Ingrid Arnet Connidis, a profes- But it’s too easy to lump it into a caregiver says Wolf, who also serves as director sor of sociology at the University of problem, he said, adding that many people report of ASI’s Center for Aging and Policy Western Ontario whose work focuses great rewards from the role. The source of stress Studies. “Our ultimate interest is in the on family forms and the nature of may lie in the “inevitability of decline,” he said. way that family patterns influence commitment, delivered the confer- “You’re trying to do the best in a situation that intergenerational relationships — par- ence’s third keynote, “Commitment won’t improve. And our culture is not good at talk- ents helping their children and chil- and Change: Constants of Family Ties ing about death and dying.” dren helping their parents.” over Time.” She also presented her In another presentation at the study of long-term partnerships among ASI conference, Martin Kohli noted straight and gay couples.

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Grandmas and Grandpas Often elders discover that child-rearing Sense of Duty chores come around a second time. The perceived obligation to care for the elderly varies by culture. ifty percent of U.S. adults are grandparents by age 50, and three-quarters of those 50-59 are ho will care for our elders? In the still working. In the Philippines, high fertility United States, long-term care is con- Falso results in many 50-year-old grandmothers. Italian Wsidered a family responsibility. “People have a women, on the other hand, are the likeliest in Europe to built-in idea that it’s a personal problem, not a give birth over age 40 and become grandparents at 80. policy issue,” says Merril Silverstein, Marjorie Can- That comparison allowed researchers attending tor Professor of Aging and associate in ASI. ASI’s Aging Families/Changing Families conference to That perspective varies across the globe. In put their work into a larger context, says Madonna 2013, filial duty became a legal responsibility Harrington Meyer, professor of sociology at Maxwell in China; the Chinese government now requires and ASI associate. Harrington Meyer made a presentation based on her 2014 adult children to visit their aging parents, and em- book, Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs (NYU Press). That panel ployers are required to give time off so workers also included research on grandparents in Italy, China, the Philippines, and Korea. can do so. Germany also has a filial piety law. Harrington Meyer’s book, which won the Richard Kalish Innovative Publica- At the Aging Families/Changing Families con- tion Award from the Gerontological Society of America, addressed the impact of ference, a session on filial responsibility included juggling work and family on women in their 50s and 60s. Of the 48 working, non- presentations on China and Eastern Europe, and custodial grandmothers she interviewed, all but two or three said, “I’ve done more a comparison of seven Asian societies. Kamala for my grandchildren than my grandparents did for me and I’ve done more than I Ramadoss, assistant professor of child and family expected,” she said. “A lot of them say, ‘I wish I could do a lot less parenting and a studies at SU’s Falk College, described how immi- lot more grandparenting.’ They want to take kids to the zoo, but they’re taking grants from South Asia — especially those with kids to dentist appointments and shuttling them to lessons and classes.” children — speak of missing parents left in the Italian social-welfare policy is generous toward mothers, said Cecilia Tomas- homelands. “It’s the grandparents’ role to pass sini of the University of Molise, but Italy also experiences high rates of divorce and on culture,” Ramadoss said. “It’s very hard not to relationship breakdowns. As a result, about 66 percent of children in Italy are cared have your parents to teach your children.” for by grandparents when they are not at school or with a parent, she said. The sense of duty is especially strong for In- Another session on grandparents’ roles demonstrated how compelling the dian sons who migrate, said Falk College doctoral topic has become — and how deep the collaborations at the Aging Studies Insti- student Dimple Vadgama. “They feel strong pres- tute can be. A paper given there, about grandparents adopting children in their sure to move their parents to the U.S. . . . There’s care, was co-authored by Vernon Greene, professor of public administration and bad karma not to do it,” she said. Yet, if the par- international affairs at Maxwell; Carrie Smith, associate professor of social work at ents come to the United States, “children bear the SU’s Falk College; recent Falk graduate Kate Kietzmann; and Deborah Monahan, cost” of supporting them, Vadgama said. professor of social work at Falk. The issues in family care transcend global In the United States, grandparents and other relatives raise 7.8 million chil- boundaries, says Deborah Monahan, professor dren. These “kinship caregivers,” Monahan says, of social work and ASI associate, who mod- “[Grandparents] want are often a crucial child care resource for families erated a conference session on filial norms. to take kids to the zoo, experiencing stress or temporary parenting due to “Researchers recognize that families want to but they’re taking kids illness, incarceration, or death of a parent. provide care to their older parents and rela- “Understanding the factors that are predic- to dentist appointments tives,” she says, “but that there are increasing tive of adopting children in kinship care,” says constraints due to longevity and increasing and shuttling them to Monahan, “will help programs target services frailty and health problems.” lessons and classes.” more effectively. Helping kinship caregivers and Madonna Harrington Meyer the children in their care is also important in ASI associate and Maxwell faculty member promoting their health and social well-being.”

14 Maxwell Perspective • Summer 2015 Planning for Later Life Is there more countries can do to come to terms with the cost of an aging population?

o provide for citizens Italy, the Netherlands, United King- whose working lives dom, and the United States during are done, China 2000-14. The project studied the Tintroduced the New Rural Social effect of the recent economic crisis Pension Scheme in 2009, and 100 on generational relationships. It percent of rural inhabitants now looks at co-residence — mainly,

benefit. The federal allowance is young adults living with their parents ALEJANDRO GARCIA reducing the poverty level for and people 65 and older living with older families and reducing inter- their children and/or grandchildren. generational transfers (financial During economic downturns, unem- assistance from children) — this according to ployment rises and extended families Ling Xu of the University of Texas at Arlington with little other choice find them- and Hui He of Xiangtan University in China. selves in co-residence, with natural Their session at ASI’s Aging Families/ attendant strains. Changing Families conference was among a few Aging Americans, as a group, that suggested that there are unrealized roles for hold untapped political power to governments in the support of retired, elder address policy, said Robert Hudson citizens. of Boston University’s School of In Sweden, for example, part-time work Social Work. In the U.S., long-term (mostly by women) affects care for the elderly. care is a residual problem, and the Ulla Rantakeisu and Lena Ede, from Karlstad frail elderly are “out of sight, out of University, described how the use of part-time mind,” Hudson said. The Obama employees creates blurred lines between work and administration’s decision in 2011 to free time, stressing workers and possibly damag- drop the Community Living Assis- ing employees’ ability to provide care for elders. tance Services and Supports pro- They study policies gram from the Affordable Care Act that encourage more “Dependent is, he said, the government’s latest failure to full-time jobs within elders continue make public long-term care insurance a priority. agency budgets, and to be relegated “Older people also make up a strong how that shift would political voice with powerful support from provide broader to marginal groups like AARP,” he said. But “dependent social benefits. positions.” elders continue to be relegated to marginal At the Aging Families/Changing Families conference (from top): Robert Hudson Similarly, Doug- positions as recipients of public assistance and Peter Oberg, University of las Wolf, professor of Boston University Medicare.” He called long-term care and an Gävle, Sweden; Maxwell faculty member Douglas Wolf; Falk public administration increased public role in elder care a civil right and College professor Deborah Monahan; keynote speaker and international affairs at Maxwell, is studying societal obligation. “We simply have to raise it as Ingrid Arnet Connidis; Maxwell how U.S. states could adopt policies to help with a political cause,” he said. sociologist Madonna Har- rington Meyer; keynote speaker caregiving. They may include family leave for Hudson’s call to action reflects ASI’s mission Martin Kohli; and Shuzhuo Li, step-parents and in-laws, longer unpaid family of producing and disseminating research to in- Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. leave, and extending family leave policies to form the public about population aging. To that smaller companies. “The U.S. lags behind in end, ASI will soon prepare policy briefs for each enlightened social policy on this,” he said. of the conference keynotes, to inform future He and three colleagues presented data from policy discussions. n

Summer 2015 • Maxwell Perspective 15 Alumni News

Classnotes

1950s Millard Mott ’66 MPA is Nancy Rideout Bloeser ’70 the Syracuse University the president of Friends of BA (Anth) is the general Orange Circle award for Dwight C. Smith Jr. ’52 Pakistan USA, a group of manager of SageMyLife, a altruism. Sherman is MPA was awarded the Peace Corps volunteers who mapping company. president of the Friends of 2014 distinguished scholar return to Pakistan to provide Leadership and Public Ser- Submitting award by the International donations for education and Celal Karatekelioglu ’71 vice High School, a center Classnotes Association for the Study of emergency assistance. MPA celebrated the 15th for underprivileged students Organized Crime. anniversary of the Black in New York City. Lawrence Bashe ’66 Sea Trade and Development Frank Vecchione ’57 BA Online: www.maxwell. BA (PSc)/’68 MPA has Bank, an organization he Eric Vaughn ’75 MPA is a (PSc) was honored as a received the Eagle Award helped found. consultant with Book Hill syr.edu/perspective 50-year member of the from the New Jersey Alliance Partners. Essex County Bar Associa- for Action. Bashe won the Michael Karwoski ’71 MPA E-mail: dlcooke@ tion. award for designing innova- retired from the City of Suzanne Geissler Bowles maxwell.syr.edu tive financing plans for Detroit Law Department, and ’71 BA (AmSt)/’76 PhD Anton Jungherr ’58 MPA infrastructure improvements. then served on the Official (Hist) is professor of his- was appointed to the Committee of Retirees, a tory at William Paterson Post Office: independent bond oversight James Robinson ’69 MPA nine-member body appointed University. 200 Eggers Hall, committee of Richmond, is a real estate agent with as part of Detroit’s bank- Calif. Syracuse, N.Y. 13244 Westgate Realty Group in ruptcy negotiations. The Eugene Dawson ’77 PhD Falls Church, Va. committee represented (SSc) was awarded the new some 23,000 retirees in the Eugene E. Dawson Presi- 1960s Chapter 9 case. dential Leadership Award by the Colorado Gerontological Charoen Kanthawongs 1970s Clarence McGill ’72 BA Society. The award will be ’61 MA (IR) is president Charles Bieleck ’70 BA (Hist) and Dana Harrell ’72 given hereafter to indi- emeritus and a member of (PSc) retired as Minnesota BA (Hist)/’73 MPA are viduals who serve the older the Board of Trustees of state budget coordinator among eight former mem- population of Colorado with Bangkok University. He was after 30 years of service. bers of the Syracuse Univer- distinction. for 40 years a member of sity football team featured the House of Parliament of in the new book Leveling the Danial Farooq ’77 MA Thailand. Playing Field, which tells the (PA)/’78 MA (Econ) retired story of athletes who battled after more than 30 years as perceived racial inequality in an economist for USAID. the SU athletics program of their time. Eden Divinagracia ’78 MA Key to Degrees. Alumni are designated by year of graduation, degree level, and (in pa- (PA) is the director of the rentheses) discipline — for example: Joan Smith ’87 MA (Soc). A few of the degree ab- Mitchel Wallerstein ’72 Philippine Council on Popula- breviations indicate both level and discipline, such as MPA and MSSc. MPA, former dean of the tion Health and Welfare Inc., Alumni with more than one degree from Maxwell are listed under the year of the lat- Maxwell School (2003- a national network of NGOs est such degree. 10) and current president advocating for women’s of Baruch College, has reproductive rights. been made a fellow of the American Association for the George Honadle ’73 AmSt American Studies MPA/IR Joint MPA and MAIR Advancement of Science. MPA/’78 PhD (PA) wrote Anth Anthropology MPH Master of Public Health the recently published Kent Chabotar ’69 book Rooster in the Rice: CCE Citizenship and Civic MPhil Master of Philosophy MPA/’73 PhD (PA) has An Ecological View of Life, Engagement MRP Mas­ter of Regional Planning joined Diversified Search, an Study, and Citizenship along EMIR Executive Master of MSSc Master of Social Science executive search firm. Culture’s Edges. International Relations NVCC Nonviolent Conflict and John Ross ’73 PhD (Econ) Janet St. Laurent ’78 MPA EMPA Executive Master of Public Change Admini­ stration­ is the senior advisor and recently retired as manag- PA Public Administration­ director of the Office of Eco- ing director of the defense DFH Documentary Film and History PD Public Diplomacy nomic Development Finance capabilities and manage- Econ Economics­ (IR/Public Relations) for the District of Columbia ment team at the U.S. Geog Geography­­ government. Government Accountability PPhil Political Philosophy Office. She was selected to Hist History PSt Policy Studies Katarina Schuth ’69 MA receive this year’s Maxwell IR International Relations PSc Political Science (Geog)/’73 PhD (Geog) Public Administration Alumni JD Law holds an endowed chair for Award, presented at the RusSt Russian Studies the social scientific study of annual MPA convocation. MAIR Master of Arts, International Soc Sociology­ religion at the St. Paul Semi- Relations SPsy Social Psychology nary School of Divinity. Lutu Nsaman ’78 PhD MES Middle Eastern Studies (PA) is the founder of the SSc Social­ Science MPA Master of Public Ruth Schlesinger Sherman University of Cepromad, Administration UrSt Urban Studies ’73 BA (PSc) was awarded a private university based

16 Maxwell Perspective • Summer 2015 in Kinshasa, Congo. He is also a regularly interviewed Thank You, Maxwell! expert on government In the e-mails and correspondence you send me, certain themes emerge. management and teaches at both Cepromad and the University of Kinshasa. am the joyous recipient of so many great to apply for a Presidential Management Fellow- Imemories and stories from alumni and, invari- ship. It laid the groundwork for his entire career 1980s ably, they include a note of gratitude. Frequently I and would not have happened without her. hear how a thoughtful few minutes of help from Gratitude like this lasts a lifetime. Dwight C. Ronald O’Hanley ’80 BA (PSc) was named president someone resulted in the redirection of an entire Smith Jr. ’52 MPA recently wrote that while he was and CEO of the investment life. Years later, they remain grateful. Someone in the Maryland Budget Division (in a job he had management business State cared enough to encourage them, to point toward a landed through a Maxwell referral) he was instru- Street Global Advisors. different path, to pave the way for an interview, etc. mental in arranging a job for the late Comer Coppie These notes span the entirety of the career ’59 MPA, who went on from there to a distin- Joseph Rallo ’78 MA (PSc)/’80 PhD (PSc) trajectory. They come from those first starting out guished career in the U.S. Postal Service and New is Louisiana’s commissioner and those reflecting on a lifetime. Yet they all con- York State comptroller’s office. Some 20 years of higher education. Rallo vey a sense of appreciation later, Smith ran into Coppie at a meeting in Albany was previously academic Gratitude for a person who helped and Coppie told the group of his indebtedness to vice president and provost at Western Illinois University, like this change their lives. Frequently Smith. “So one way you can ‘pay it forward,’” Smith and dean of the business lasts a the person who helped was a wrote to me, “is to acknowledge a boost later on. college at the University of fellow Maxwellian. It reminds people of the meaning of networking.” Colorado, Colorado Springs. lifetime. Nitika Sethi ’14 MPA/ I think Dwight sums it up perfectly. It’s impor- IR recently wrote to share her tant to be both thankful and vocal, to help future Judith Douglas ’77 BA (AmSt)/’81 MPA has excitement over what she called another “win” for generations understand the strength of this amaz- been named as a fellow of the Maxwell network. Classmate Kate Simma ’14 ing network. So thank you to all who have taken the National Academy of MPA/IR had been instrumental in helping Sethi the time to counsel a student, submit a job oppor- Public Administration for her land a job offer with USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign tunity, or encourage a fellow alum. Though these contributions to government. Douglas is a client industry Disaster Assistance as an information officer. actions may seem small at the time, they could executive at HP Enterprise Kimberlin Butler ’03 MPA wrote recently result in a lifetime of gratitude and service. Services, whose public about using the network as she transitioned from And, P.S., keep those stories coming! service experience spans one region to another. “This is why I love the Max- federal, state, and local well School,” she said, “and [am] so proud to have levels. chosen this program over Harvard. You guys are Norma Shannon ’91 MPA Thomas Gamble ’81 MA an extended family.” Alumni Relations (SPsy)/’82 PhD (SPsy) is I’ve heard Sean O’Keefe ’78 MPA talk about [email protected] retiring as president of Mer- being encouraged by Anne Stewart ’76 MA (PA) 315-443-5881 cyhurst University. Gamble will return to his professor- ship in criminal justice and psychology.

Robert B. Kent II ’83 PhD (Geog) is professor and Maxwell Inspirations Get Connected Thru chair in the Department of SectorConnect Urban Studies and Planning When students try to imagine their life after at California State University, Maxwell, they consider the accomplishments No matter what career sector interests Northridge. of alumni. This is even true of prospective stu- you, there’s a place where Maxwell grads dents, who, before they apply to Maxwell, as- and others excel, and where you are in- Bill Pearce ’84 BA (Econ) is the executive chairman of sess the outcomes of those who graduated vited to get involved. RichRelevance, a software before. SectorConnect is a LinkedIn-based company based in San That’s why we like to share your stories. networking space facilitating connections Francisco. Maxwell Perspective is one way, but we can among alumni, share even more stories via the Alumni Pro- professors, and Robert A. Spiegel ’84 MPA is a lawyer and legal policy files series online at www.maxwell.syr.edu/ students who analyst who retired in 2002 alumni. work (or aspire as a disclosure officer in the We are seek- to work) in the U.S. Bureau of the Fiscal ing alumni will- same professional sector. It is devoted to Service’s Legislative and Public Affairs Office. More ing to share their specific fields in which our alumni lead, recently he served as U.S. career accom- our professors have expertise, and our Treasury adjudicator in a plishments with students seek careers. decade-long class action an online audience. Join to share jobs and other info with suit in which Native Ameri- Please e-mail us at colleagues in our community: can plaintiffs alleged federal mismanagement of trust [email protected]. www.maxwell.syr.edu/ accounts. edu. sectorconnect Alumni News

center at the University of Maureen Aidasani ’97 BA Foundation Head Chicago. (PSt)/’98 MPA is director Her work at the University of Miami complete, of experiential learning, Kent Pamela Davis Caraccioli College of Law at the Illinois Donna Shalala will lead the Clinton Foundation. ’94 MPA is on the board of Institute of Technology. trustees of Fulton Savings onna Shalala ’70 MSSc/’70 PhD (SSc), who for eight years Bank. Chance Briggs ’97 MPA is the national director for served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services in D Sean Cronin ’94 MPA has World Vision Mali in their the Clinton administration, has been tapped as president and chief been made Massachusetts’ Bamako, Mali, office. executive officer of the former president’s Clinton Foundation. top liaison between state Shalala stepped down on June 1 as president of the University and local government within Peter Simmons ’98 MPA is Governor Charlie Baker’s commissioner of corporate of Miami. During her 14 years there, the university solidified its posi- administration. services for Brampton, Donna Shalala tion among top research universities and conducted two billion-dollar Canada. Previously he fund-raising campaigns. She previously served as president of Hunter Shannon Flanagan-Watson directed municipal affairs College and as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ’94 MPA is an assistant and engagement for the Shalala was HHS Secretary for eight years — the longest-ever term in that post. In 2007, county manager for Arlington Canadian Nuclear Waste County, Va. Management Organization. President George W. Bush recognized her extraordinary public service with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “Donna has more than 30 years of experience improving communities and Joseph Goode ’94 JD/MPA Geoffrey Green ’99 MPA changing lives for the better — as a scholar, leader in health care, is the managing partner is the vice president of of Pia Anderson Dorius business development Shalala to Give Tanner and university president,” said Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton when Reynard & Moss’s office in for Oracle’s public sector Lecture. On Friday, Octo- announcing Shalala’s appointment. “We are excited that she intends Milwaukee. Goode’s work division. ber 23, Donna Shalala to join the Clinton Foundation.” has been recognized as will lecture at Maxwell in exceptional by the The Best Amy Westpfahl Lutzky ’99 the Tanner Lecture Series Lawyers in America, 21st ed. MPA is a deputy director at on Ethics, Citizenship, the Centers for Medicare and Public Responsibil- Howard Yablonsky ’84 MPA Kurt Steinberg ’93 BA and Medicaid Services. ity. For details on the 1990s is a corporate trainer and (IR)/’94 MPA is interim lecture, which coincides educator. Natasha Nolletti Burney president of the Massa- Norman Ross ’99 MPA with Syracuse University’s ’91 BA (IR) is a human chusetts College of Art and is the vice president of Orange Central Weekend, Michael W. Robinson ’85 resources officer for the gen- Design in Boston, Mass. regional and federal gov- visit www.maxwell.syr. BA (PSc) is the managing eral consulate of the United ernment affairs for MGM edu/tanner director of Integrated Corpo- States in Jerusalem. Mary Tyszkiewicz ’93 PhD Resorts International’s rate Relations, Inc. (PA) is the founder of Heroic Washington, D.C., office. Robin Lamott Sparks ’91 Improvisation, a disaster Ellen Newhouse ’86 MPA is the executive direc- response and preparedness Wendy Turman ’99 MPA is BA (IR)/’86 BA (Econ) tor of the Coalition for New consultancy. the director of finance for authored a memoir, Nothing Britain’s Youth. the Association of Schools Ever Goes On Here. She is in Katherine Huggins Mattice and Programs of Public private practice, integrating Jeffrey Carman ’92 BA ’94 MPA is the director of Health. acupuncture with other heal- (PSc) is a regional field transit programs and policy ing and coaching practices. manager for the Michigan at the Northern Virginia Republican Party. Transportation Commission 2000s Erika Richards ’86 BA in Arlington, Va. (PSc) is vice president of Vanessa Martin Sarria ’92 Noelle Barton DeFazio ’00 the Foundation for Interna- MPA is the director of policy Teri Pace Killgore ’95 MPA BA (PSc) is a public infor- tional Education. and initiative advancement is the assistant to the city mation specialist for the City for the city of Austin, Texas. manager of San José, Calif. of Rockville, Maryland. Craig Tice ’87 MPA is the superintendent of the John Selman ’92 MPA is Stephen Lisauskas ’94 BA Tim Fadgen ’00 MAIR is on Fayetteville-Manlius (N.Y.) the vice president of the (PSc)/’96 MPA is the vice a J. William Fulbright-Hillary school district. infrastructure analytics divi- president of government Rodham Clinton Fellowship sion of LMI, a government affairs and the regional vice in Samoa. Julie Breen Madlin ’88 BA consultancy. president of municipal part- (Hist) is the city historian nerships for WasteZero. Col. Patrick D. Frank ’00 More alumni profiles for Ogdensburg, New York. Murat Arik ’94 MA (PSc) MPA is a U.S. Army execu- and accomplishments: wrote the book Understand- Jonathan Seamans ’96 MPA tive officer to Commander maxwell.syr.edu/ Margaret Abraham ’89 ing and Analyzing Competi- is the associate athletics Resolute Support, stationed Alumni_Profiles PhD (Soc) is president of tive Dynamics: Methods, Pro- director of finance for the (as of March) in Afghanistan. and the International Socio- cesses, and Applications to a University of Hartford. logical Association, which Regional Setting, published Mark Gillette ’00 MSSc maxwellalumni. wordpress.com represents sociologists by Lexington Books. Jody Zepp ’96 MA (PSc) is a brigadier general, U.S. hailing from 167 countries. was named Maryland’s Army, and senior defense Abraham, a professor of Anne Brownlee ’94 BA Teacher of the Year. Zepp’s official and defense attaché sociology at Hofstra, is the (PSt) was a “2014 Star of school received $10,000 in Beijing. second woman in that post. PR” according to Bulldog from the McDonald’s Family Reporter, a trade publication of Maryland. James Kirkwood ’00 BA Charri Hearn Schairer ’89 for the PR industry. (PSc) provides counsel to MPA is the senior finance Jeffrey Burger ’97 PSc/’98 the New York State Senate. manager of the Housing Cheryl Camillo ’98 MPA is a MPA is a co-manager of Development Center of principal research scientist Dreyfus Municipal Income at Nancy Kolb ’00 MPA is a Portland, Ore. at NORC, a social science the Dreyfus Corporation. contractor with Booz Allen

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Hamilton, and is working for at The New Teacher Project the National Training and (TNTP) and consulting with Battling Ebola Technical Assistance Center a local education agency, These are among the Maxwell of the U.S. Department of Agenda for Children. Justice. alumni addressing a public- Kimchoeun Pak ’03 MPA health crisis Dustin Brown ’01 MPA is is a manager with MLT the deputy assistant director Consulting. oseph Bangura, head of corporate for management at the U.S. Office of Management and Courtney Jones Cameron Jaffairs for Sierra Leone’s largest mobile Budget. ’04 MPA is a strategic advi- phone company, found a dynamic way to sor for education with the help his country battle the recent Ebola out- Joseph Bangura Joseph T. Burns ’01 BA Seattle Housing Authority. break. Already a well-known speaker, media (PSc/Hist) was appointed secretary to the Erie County Garey Fuqua ’04 MPA is personality, and host of the “Life-by-Design” motivational TV show, he mounted a daily radio pro- Water Authority. a distressed municipal gram on one of the most popular stations in Sierra Leone, dedicated to informing the public bonds specialist with Palmer about the disease. Bangura, who attended Maxwell as a Humphrey Fellow in 2009-10, also Jennifer Cairo ’01 MPA Square, a capital manage- arranged for his company to donate phone service to health organizations. is the city forester and ment firm. Naturally, when a public affairs issue as significant as Ebola arises, you can expect Max- manager of the Community Gardens and Horticultural Indu Gupta ’04 MA (PA) is well alumni in the fray. These examples came to our attention: Services programs for the serving as commissioner of Garrett Ingoglia ’99 MPA is a vice pesident at the humanitarian-aid nonprofit AmeriCares, City of Portland, Oregon. the health department for leading the organization’s response to more than 20 disasters a year. He traveled to Liberia as This year she joined the Onondaga County. early as September to plan AmeriCares’ response to Ebola, and to find partners in the region. teaching cadre of the Soci- ety of Municipal Arborists’ Marco Konings ’04 MAIR AmeriCares has since provided dozens of shipments of medicines and personal protective Municipal Forestry Institute. is the director of social equipment to the region while positioning teams of aid workers and health specialists alongside and environmental impact United Nations teams in Liberia and Sierra Leone. It also provided funds, supplies, and techni- Chris Constantin ’01 MPA management at Cardno, cal assistance to bolster the is the assistant city man- an Australian construction region’s depleted health care ager of Chico, Calif. company. system.

Jessica Clark ’02 MSSc is Philip Mancini ’04 MPA COURTESY AMERICARES And Gabrielle Bushman the co-author of a new book is a program manager for Fitzgerald ’97 MPA became from Carolina Academic the District of Columbia director of the Paul G. Allen Press, The Legal Writing government’s performance Companion: Problems, Solu- management system. Family Foundation’s new tions, and Samples. Ebola program, following Michael Rifer ’04 MAIR is Allen’s commitment of $100 Michael Frame ’02 MPA is a management associate million to the problem. Fitzger- director of federal relations for Creative Associates for Florida State University. International. ald is a former executive at the Bill & Melinda Gates Steven Hopkins ’02 MA Dana Michael Harsell ’00 Foundation, where she helped (PA) is a supervisory trans- MA (PSc)/’05 PhD (PSc) raise $1.3 billion in funding portation security inspector was awarded a Research: from new philanthropists to for the U.S. Department of Art Works grant by the Garrett Ingoglia (center), overseeing the delivery of Homeland Security. National Endowment for medicines and supplies to Liberia solve global-health problems. the Arts. Harsell will study Sara Nadelman ’02 BA diffusion effects of historical (Soc/Anth) is a field direc- legislative appropriations. vate partnerships, violence, Andrew Maxwell ’06 MPA is tor for the nonprofit Hope for and crime prevention. the director of the Syracuse- Justice. Sonya Reines-Djivanides Onondaga County Planning ’05 MAIR is a member of Tara Holmes ’06 MPA is the Agency. Kate Powers ’02 JD/MPA is the steering committee of director of communications a senior policy advisor and the European Peacebuilding and marketing for Future Ana Maria Menezes ’06 MA director of legislative affairs Liaison Office. 500, an environmental (PA) is an international fish- for New York State Attorney nonprofit based in San ery and aquaculture officer General Eric Schneiderman. Siim Alatalu ’06 MAIR is an Francisco. with the United Nations Food international relations advi- and Agriculture Organization. Jaime Cardona ’03 MPA is sor for NATO’s cooperative Hatice Karahan ’06 PhD Menezes is based in Ethio- the director of Columbia’s cyber defense centre, based (Econ) is a columnist for pia and oversees the FAO’s economic regulation of in Estonia. Dunya Gazetesi, a Turk- Eastern Africa programs. social security. ish newspaper based in Lorraine Collins ’06 MPA Istanbul. Jessica Brill Ortiz ’06 MPA/ James De Wan II ’03 MPA is assistant commissioner MA (PSc) joined the U.S. is the assistant director of of the State of New York’s Kristina Malone ’06 BA Department of Health and policy analysis and strategic Homes and Community (IR) is an assistant vice Human Services’s Centers planning in the employee Renewal program, and a president of communica- for Medicare & Medicaid benefits division in the State regional representative for tions for LPL Financial. She Services, working in the of New York’s Department of Albany-Syracuse. oversees all communication Eligibility Policy and Opera- Civil Service. and marketing initiatives for tions Branch. Previously, she Elizabeth Gozzer ’06 MAIR governance, risk and compli- was an advocacy director Catherine Kimbrell ’02 MA advises Creative Associates ance; and manages web at Direct Care Alliance, (Geog)/’03 MPA is working International on public-pri- development. where she led a success-

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Wayne Westervelt ’07 MA professional development, Empire State Past (PA) is the director of com- exchange, and training pro- Book by former archivist focuses munications for Syracuse gram. He is a policy analyst University’s Institute for Vet- in the Executive Office. on New York’s defining events. erans and Military Families, and the Office of Veteran Matthew Duncan ’09 aunched by a dissertation at Maxwell, Bruce Dearstyne ’74 and Military Affairs. MAIR is a program analyst for DELTA Resources, a PhD (Hist) has spent his life studying New York state history. L Trevor Hublin ’08 MAIR is contractor supporting the He recently wrote The Spirit of New York: Defining Events in the the director of the office of U.S. Department of Energy’s Empire State’s History, published by SUNY Press. It describes state Bruce Dearstyne democracy and governance infrastructure security and (and national) history via key moments and people, such as the for the U.S. Agency for Inter- energy restoration missions. national Development. Love Canal environmental crisis, the women’s-rights crusade of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, aviation Alexandra Heller ’09 BA pioneer Glenn Curtiss, baseball integration and Jackie Robinson, and the 1964 World’s Fair and Ritu Kumar ’08 MPA is a (IR/PSc) is the district controversial public developer Robert Moses. senior program officer with aide for Congresswoman Dearstyne’s dissertation (eventually a book) analyzed state railroad regulation and drew on PATH, an NGO that special- Elizabeth Esty, representa- strong SU-based archives. He taught state history at SUNY Potsdam, then joined the New York izes in international health. tive from Connecticut. Office of State History before spending 20-plus years at the New York State Archives, as program Christopher Mulkins ’08 Joshua Kaufmann ’09 MPA director — while sometimes teaching state history at SUNY Albany and Russell Sage College. In MPA/IR is a senior analyst is an executive director 1997 he joined the information studies faculty at the University of Maryland (where he remains within the international with Teach Plus, a lobbying an adjunct); in fact, his other recent book describes strategies for presenting public-history affairs and trade team in the nonprofit for teachers. U.S. Government Account- resources in the digital age — a marriage of his expertise in information and history. ability Office. Michael Murphy ’09 MPA works for the Committee Sandeep Silas ’08 EMPA for a Responsible Federal Economic News for the Continent was recognized for his work Budget. in intercultural leadership by Journalist is a rising star for the media agency Euronews. the British Council, India-UK. Evan Newell ’09 MPA is the grants and procurement uronews covers the world from a pan-European perspec- Anna Abruzzese ’09 MPA coordinator for the Mas- is a facilitator, trainer, and sachusetts Department of tive, via television and all modern media, 24/7 and in 14 E organizational-development Agriculture. languages. When the topic is money, the go-to show is Real specialist for the real estate Economy, whose anchor and executive editor is Maithreyi and resident services Héctor Ortiz ’09 PhD (PSc) Seetharaman ’06 MAIR. There is no dearth of topics, ranging department of Hennepin is working at the Consumer County, Minnesota. Financial Protection Bureau from Greek austerity to Scandinavian “happiness” indices and in the Office for Older Ameri- everything in between. The show emphasizes macroeconomic Scott Baird ’09 JD/MPA cans. He was also recently issues that impact everyday lives; a recent segment: Can the is the director of legislative inducted as a member of EU help young people find employment? and government affairs in the National Academy of A third-generation journalist with 15 years of experience, Utah’s Department of Envi- Social Insurance. ronmental Quality. Seetharaman previously worked for CNBC, Bloomberg, and Michael Orwa ’09 MAIR India’s Financial Express; she was a regular contributor on Elsa Buss ’09 BA (PSt/ manages the Kenya MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Creating shows through her indepen- PSc) is an assistant general Dialogues Project for the dent production company, she has traveled four continents and counsel for the Chicago Society for International Housing Authority. Development. interviewed dozens of political, business, and thought leaders. Christopher Brian Dorsey Blake Paradis ’09 BA (IR) is ’09 MSSc wrote the book a student at the Washington ful regulatory campaign to analyst for the Center for Southern West Virginia and College of Law. extend minimum wage and Clean Air Policy. the Struggle for Modernity, overtime protections to Maithreyi Seetharaman, published by McFarland Jeffrey Reczek ’09 MPA was home care workers. Dominic Randazzo ’07 above and filming in Publishing. Also, his first sci- included in the Federal 100, MPA/IR is the consular Ireland ence fiction novel, Gateway, a prestigious recognition of Veronica Reeves ’06 MAIR section chief at the U.S. was published by F.W. Fife federal employees working is the speechwriter for the embassy in Kigali, Rwanda. last year. in information technology. president of the United A member of the foreign Nations General Assembly. service for the Department Sreeram Chaulia ’03 Constant Tchona ’09 of State since 2007, he MAIR/’09 PhD (PSc) is the EMPA/MAIR heads Oxfam Dianna Power Stanton ’06 previously served in Haiti, dean of the Jindal School of Great Britain’s Nigeria office. MPA is a district conser- Zambia, and Washington. International Affairs at O.P. vationist with the USDA’s Jindal Global University. Carlisha Williams ’09 MPA natural resources conserva- Drew Robinson ’07 BA is the founder and executive tion service. (PSt/PSc) is Syracuse Matthew Blinkilde ’09 MPA director of Women Empower- University director of football is an independent policy ing Nations, a nonprofit dedi- Jason Blake ’07 MAIR is operations. consultant based in Lansing, cated to the advancement of a consultant for MLC & Mich. girls and women. She was Associates, based in Los Lauren Stromer ’07 MPA is selected one of 100 women Angeles. a financial analyst for New Charles Cutshall ’07 BA who have changed lives by Hampshire’s department of (IR)/’09 MPA is par- TulsaPeople, the magazine of Michael LaGiglia ’07 MAIR transportation. ticipating in the Office of the city of Tulsa, Okla. is an international policy Management and Budget’s

20 Maxwell Perspective • Summer 2015 Amanda Young ’09 BA (IR/ Geog) is a program support assistant in Overseas Pro- gramming and Training Sup- port within the Peace Corps. She completed two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, West Africa.

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Katherine Avgerinos ’10 PD manages utilities and energy technologies for energy industries in Geneva, Switzerland. ALUMNI EVENT SCRAPBOOK Elizabeth Cardona ’10 EMPA was a fellow with Partisan Divide. At a Maxwell event in Washington, D.C., on April 16, the Women’s Pipeline for former U.S. Congressmen Martin Frost (above, left) and Tom Davis dis- Change, which helps women cussed political dysfunction in the federal government — a topic they also cover in a recent book, The Partisan Divide: of color enter public life. Congress in Crisis. Many friends and alumni attended the talk and following reception at the Center for Strategic and In- She is now executive direc- tor of multicultural affairs at ternational Studies, including (top, l-r) former public administration student Michael Strutzel ’69, Samanthe Eulette ’07 BA Bay Path University. (IR/PSc), SU journalism alumnus Mark Weiner ’84, Mariah Zarychta ’14 BA (IR/MES), Sahil Jain ’13 BA (IR), Deborah Alex- ander ’82 MSSc/’95 PhD (SSc), journalist Yasmeen Alamiri, and Ryan Suto ’13 PD. Chiara Cruciano ’10 MAIR At the event, Maxwell also provided a photo station for people wishing to contribute to the #ToMeCitizenship social and Raymond Hutchison media campaign (bottom, right). Crowding together for a group response were (front, l-r) current Maxwell undergraduates ’10 MPA were married in August 2014. Madeleine Durbin (IR/Geog) and Sara Klein (Hist/IR/PSc) and (back, l-r) National Defense Uni- versity student Mathilde Lerebours, undergraduates David Kimelman (PSc/PSt/MES) and Ryan Kevin Gilligan ’10 MPA is a Brinkerhoff (PSc), and Kwame Phipps ’14 BA (PSc/CCE). management and program analyst for NASA. Across the Country. Alumni gatherings in re- Abigail Madoff Liebowitz cent months included (left, top) a late-March happy ’10 MPA is program finance manager for the hour at Maxwell’s Pub in Minneapolis, which drew neglected tropical dis- (l-r) Desmond Nation ’04 MPA, Emily eases division of Helen Seddon ’12 MPA, Ellen Gibson ’13 MPA, Keller International. Denise Novak ‘03 MPA, Anna Abruzzese Andrew Liebowitz ’10 ’09 MPA, and Liz Puhl ’04 MA (Geog). MPA is producing a pod- In December, alumni gathered in Albany cast for the Port Author- (left, bottom) to welcome new alumni to ity of New York and the Capitol region; on hand New Jersey called were (l-r) Thomas Kaczmarek “Econ Insight.” ’14 MPA, Joshua Beams ’14 Richard Lim ’10 MPA, Paul Corgel ’09 BA (PSc)/’13 MPA, MPA is a national Lorraine Collins ’06 MPA, Neil Wakeman ’14 MPA, and Carlos Mil- security analyst lan ’11 MAIR. for the Institute of Land Welfare at the And in Boston, in conjunction with an American Economic Association of the Association conference in January, alumni attended a reception U.S. Army. hosted by economics professors, including William Horrace (right, top), shown with (l-r) Julian Keenan ’10 BA (Econ/PSc). Also on Gloria Nantulya ’10 hand was Mia Bott ’04 MPA (bottom, far right) with colleagues MAIR is a program communications Maura Monohan and Lindsay Cutler. specialist for the Farm Journal Foundation. Far East. In December, alumni and McBride Nkhalamba ’10 other friends organized a dinner in EMPA/MAIR is the head of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Alumni program for the Southern Africa Trust, an NGO that and students in the photo are (from promotes development. left) Sean Callahan ’98 JD/MPA, MPA student Linda Sok (4th from Laura Tomasko ’10 MPA is left), Sokkhoeurn An ’10 MAIR (7th), a policy advisor within the Kalyan Keo ’08 MPA (8th), and Kim- White House Council on Environmental Quality. choeun Pak ’03 MPA (far right). Alumni News

Neysha M. Alvarez ’11 BA Island Rail Road East Side Mika Van Opdorp ’11 BA Rosemary Taveras Collazo (IR) is a senior associate Access Project in New York (Econ/PSt) is a recruiting ’13 MPA is a program qual- analyst of threat and risk City. coordinator for J.P. Morgan ity analyst for the charity The analysis for the Homeland Chase in New York City. New York Foundling. Security Studies and Analy- Burnell Holland III ’11 sis Institute. MPA is the chief of staff Kongkona Sarma ’11 MPA Fiona Cotton ’13 PD is an for the Office of Innovation is a senior consultant at DAI, office administrator for the Nancy Andrade ’11 MPA And Research in District of an international develop- New Era Cap Company. is a health scientist in the Columbia public schools. ment firm. Centers for Disease Control Christiona Hawkins ’13 BA and Prevention. Michael Mitchell ’11 MPA Grace Davis ’12 BA (IR/ (PSt) is an English teacher is a policy analyst at the PSt) is a staffing coordinator with Teach For America at an Kyle Bell ’11 MPA is an Center on Budget and Policy at Chrysalis Enterprises. alternative high school near asset management special- Priorities, and has been Detroit. She is also enrolled ist for the Long working on financing for Patrick Gaetjens ’12 MPA/ in Oakland University’s mas- higher education. IR is a project manager ter’s in teaching program. with the Eau Claire (Wisc.) Sahil Jain ’13 BA (IR) is a Area Economic program specialist for the Old Made New Development U.S. Department of State. Corporation, and Anthropologist digs up serves as vice Jared Lyon ’13 EMPA is the indigenous solutions to president of the vice president of partner- water-regulation needs. West Central ships and strategic growth at Wisconsin Rail Student Veterans of America. Coalition. ayan farmers in the Yucatan Darejani Markozashvili Mpeninsula report that climate Rajeev Mital ’13 MAIR is an executive change now costs them two out of three Betty ’12 EMPA is assistant to the ambassador the chairman at Georgia’s embassy in crops, due to drought or flood. Anthropol- Faust on site in and manag- Washington, D.C. ogist Betty Sumner Faust ’80 MA (Anth)/ the ing director of ’82 MPA/’88 PhD (Anth) is working with a Yucatan Mahatransco Kirill Meleshevich ’09 MPA U.S.-Mexican team of interdisciplinary (right) State Electricity is a senior associate at EY, Transmission an accounting firm. scientists to excavate and revive aban- Company in doned Mayan irrigation systems to address that situation. Through a project supported by the Mumbai, India. Meghan Mullen ’13 MPA National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration, she is researching a canal is a consultant with Federal system that was once used to drain flooded swamps, reserving the water for drier weather. If all Lindsey O’Keefe ’12 PD is a Management Partners, Inc. goes as hoped, the canal will be fully operational and again serve Mayan farmers. health communications spe- in Alexandria, Va. cialist at the National Insti- The project builds on roughly 30 years Faust has spent in Mexico as a human ecologist, tute of Nursing Research. Gavin Mylrea ’13 MPA is an collecting indigenous knowledge — which she now combines with archeology and agricultural Excelsior Public Service Fel- strategies, all to serve conservation and development efforts. Having taught at Southern Oregon Alex Payne ’12 MPA is a low working for Empire State University and Ithaca College, she has, since 1994, worked for various Mexican research insti- policy associate for the First Development. Five Years Fund, an advo- tutes and is a proud member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. cacy organization dedicated Lindsay Nash ’13 MPA is a to early childhood education lead specialist for volunteer for disadvantaged children. services at the American Red Cross. Graphs and Laughs Ishrat Saleem ’12 MAIR is Economist and public speaker finds the humor in the numbers. a contributing editor of the Syed Jawad Ali Shah ’13 Pakistan-based Daily Times. EMPA is a deputy collector Saleem is also interviewing in the federal board of lliot Eisenberg ’91 MPA/’96 PhD (PA) is a serious economist — former senior economist religious and ethnic minori- revenue within Pakistan’s Ewith the National Association of Home Builders, creator of a respected stock index tied ties for an independent customs agency. to apartment ownership and management, consultant, quotable expert, and author. diversity project in Lahore. Giselle Sorial ’13 MPA is He’s also a hoot. So, via his company GraphsandLaughs LLC, he’s built a career as a guest Joseph Simon ’13 MPA/ a business analyst for the speaker, lecturing professional audiences on topics such as economic forecasting, government IR is a senior associate Health Benefit Exchange regulation, strategic business develop- in Grant Thornton’s global Authority in District of ment, housing, and tourism, leavening public sector. He provides Columbia city government. grants management for work his expertise with humor and stage in emergency management. Lindsey Spector ’13 MAIR antics. He is a popular keynoter at other- is a consultant for OBXtek, a wise dry conferences and such events. Andrew Swab ’12 BA (IR) is firm specializing in the use The shticks complement his seri- a staff assistant at the U.S. of social media. ous — but highly accessible — Econ70 Department of State. Doreen Allerkamp ’01 MA blog, which offers daily 70-words-or-less Julio Amador ’13 MAIR is (PSc)/’14 PhD (PSc) is a riffs on economic concepts or issues. It assistant director of the For- post-doctoral researcher at includes the “Friday File,” a pre-weekend eign Service Institute, based the University of Mannheim. edition that, he promises, is always “fun in the Philippines. Joshua Beams ’14 MPA is and lighthearted.” an Empire State Fellow with

Elliot Eisenberg (left) in action at a conference in Tacoma, Washington New York State’s Division in Lima, Peru. Figueroa is ALUMNI EVENT SCRAPBOOK of Homes and Community also an adviser to Peru’s Renewal. minister of culture. Student Networking. Student-organized Jack Becker ’14 MPA is William Fletcher ’14 BA networking trips to New York City and working in the Office of (PSt) is a litigation assis- Washington, D.C., in March also occasioned Family and Community tant for CACI International, student/alumni receptions. Shown in New Engagement for Denver’s an information services York (right, from top, l-r) are MPA student Maria public schools. company contracted with the U.S. Department of Carlson, guest Lauren Burke ’14 BA Justice. Reed Morgan, (Geog) is a junior gas ana- Ellis Cortez ’15 lyst at National Grid. Elyse Green- JD/IR, Evan Ba- wald ’14 MPA ran ’10 BA (Hist/ Thomas Caruso ’14 JD/ is a manage- MPA and Joshua Keefe ’14 ment and IR)/’14 JD/IR, JD/MPA are judge advo- budget specialist Bonnie Kong ’12 cates in, respectively, the at the Office of BS (Econ)/BA (PSt), Gerald Edwards ’93 JD/IR, and U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Management Peter Elliott ’12 BA (Econ). Corps. They co-founded and Budget. the Veterans Law Clinic at Among the many attending in Wash- Syracuse University, which Lauren Hill ’14 ington were (left, from top, l-r) MPA stu- opened in January. MPA is a manage- dent Mariko Mori, Sari Dallal ’13 MAIR, ment analyst for Ester Dela ’14 MPA, Bo Liu ’14 MPA, MPA Givi Chanukvadze ’14 Mesquite, Texas. student Hannah Dalager, Samuel Watters EMPA is the head of Liberty Bank in Tbilisi, Georgia. Shaki Kar ’14 BA (IR/ ’13 BA (PSc/PSt), Arielle Stephenson ’13 PSt) is a planning analyst BA (PSc/IR), undergraduate Natalie Mat- Camille Crites ’14 MSSc for the U.S. Department son (PSc), and Robert Kopp ’13 BA (PSt). is an associate director of of State. admissions for Syracuse University in SU’s Los Ange- Shimeng Liu ’11 MA les office. (Econ)/’14 PhD (Econ) is a post-doctoral research David Culley ’14 JD/IR is a fellow at the University of Faculty Draws. Maxwell faculty mem- law clerk within the judiciary Southern California. of the State of New York. bers hosted scholarly events and/or re- Andrew Lunetta ’14 MPA ceptions in three locations recently. Sean Duling ’14 MPA is is the founder of A Tiny In March, Professors Sean O’Keefe an analyst and teacher Home for Good, a nonprofit and William Banks hosted a Washing- with the Washington, D.C., dedicated to housing the public schools’ Competitive homeless in Syracuse. ton, D.C., discussion of national security; Employment Opportunities on hand were (right, l-r) Aaron Marcus Program. Bo Liu ’14 MPA is a and Katie Jo Younkins, students at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel; Erica research associate for the Laster ’12 JD/IR; and SU law graduate Valerie Foy Alberto. Bethany (Rissler) Eberle Pacific Northwest National In January, Professor Catherine Bertini hosted a reception in New York City, in con- ’09 BA (Geog)/’14 MPA Laboratory based in College joined the women’s bureau Park, Md. junction with her course on the United Nations. Attending were (right, from top, l-r) cur- within the U.S. Department rent students Vivian Mercado Carandang-Smith, Lara Saade (a Humphrey Fellow), Su- of Labor. She was previously Kristen Masi ’14 MPA/IR zanne Hatcher, Kyra Hamann, and Javier Fernandez Gonzalez; Almirca Santiago ’06 BA an analytical and geospatial is an associate with the One (IR), Dayanna Torres ’09 (PD) and the World Food researcher and 2014 Presi- Acre Fund, a nonprofit in the dential Management Fellow African Great Lakes region. Programme’s Jordan Sisson; and Sara Bobak ’10 BA at the Department of State. (IR/MES/PSt), Emily Gagliardi ’10 BA (IR/PSc), and Kelly McCray ’14 PD is a MPA student Aqlima Moradi. Nathan Ellsworth ’14 JD/ foreign service officer with And in April PAIA professors David Van Slyke and MPA is an associate attor- the U.S. Department of Tina Nabatchi hosted a reunion with MPA alumni in ney for Lawinger, Delong & State, and will be serving in Associates, LLC. Guangzhou, China. Washingon (below). Shown are (front l-r) Elyse Gre- enwald ’14, Nabatchi, Peter Beck ’09, Jessica Ernst Dazzle Ekblad ’14 MPA is Samantha McQueen ’11 ’10, Mary Rasmussen ’09; (back, l-r) Van Slyke, Jef- a climate policy analyst at BA (Anth)/’14 MPA is the frey Reczek ’09, Rachel Goldstein Schultz ’09, Jes- New York State’s Depart- chief of schools operations ment of Environmental coordinator for the District sica Ling Sun ’09, Dana Nicole Abro ’09, Maureen Conservation. of Columbia’s public Dooley Gardner ’09, and Timothy Soper ’09. schools. Emily Essi ’14 MPA is a brand strategist for Terakeet, Kelly Montague ’14 BA an internet marketing (Geog) is a cartographer service. for the District of Colum- bia’s chief technology Enver Figueroa ’14 MPA officer. is a senior consultant for Apoyo Consultoria, a Emily Pompelia ’14 BA finance consultancy based (PSt) is an English teach- Alumni News

ing assistant at the Fulbright Christopher Thompson ’14 lotte, N.C. He was appointed service at a lunch counter Commission in Germany. MAIR works for the National to the North Carolina Court in New Orleans, which they Association of Regulatory of Appeals, 1994-95, and were refused due to race. Ethan Poskanzer ’14 BA Utility Commissioners, which then began a career as a The resulting court case (Econ/IR) had his capstone facilitates international certified mediator and arbi- went to the U.S. Supreme project published in the cooperation between U.S. trator. He is an inductee of Court and earned a ruling in journal The Visible Hand. His utility regulators and their the North Carolina Bar Asso- favor of the protestors. Later paper examines the effect overseas counterparts. ciation’s General Practice a Freedom Rider, Lombard of technology and innovation Hall of Fame and recipient of spent much of his life as an diffusion from the former Emily Wollaeger ’14 MPA the North Carolina Council icon of civil rights activity in USSR into Israel. He is an is a business development of Churches’ Distinguished New Orleans. He taught at analyst at Goldman Sachs. associate for UPD Consult- Service Award. Active in the Howard University and New ing. arts, Thompson had served York University and worked More alumni profiles and accomplishments: Vicki Romo ’14 MAIR is a as president of the Charlotte in city planning in Louisiana. bioenergy consultant for the Haley Wood ’14 (Geog/ Symphony Orchestra, He spent the last 20 years maxwell.syr.edu/ Alumni_Profiles Food and Agriculture Organi- Hist) is working for National president of Opera Carolina, of his life in the Chicago zation of the United Nations, Grid in Syracuse. and vice chair of the N.C. area, working as a health and working in Rome, Italy. Arts Council. He belonged researcher and director maxwellalumni. Rajasekhar Yellapu ’14 to many other organizations of community outreach wordpress.com Nitika Sethi ’14 MPA/IR EMPA is an undersecretary representing his interests for NorthShore University is an information officer for in the power department of in religion and politics. He Health System. He also co- the office of foreign disaster Delhi, India. was also an early president wrote Creole Feast, a book assistance for USAID. of Planned Parenthood of that traced the contribution Greater Charlotte. In recogni- of African-American chefs to Hannah Stewart ’14 JD/ Obituaries tion of his distinguished New Orleans creole cuisine. MAIR is now with D.J. & J.A. service to the state of North Cirando, Esqs. Charles William Sydnor Carolina, Thompson was James Rinehart ’91 MSSc/ “Syd” Thompson ’47 BA named to the Order of the ’93 PhD (SSc) died on Shota Suzuki ’14 MAIR is a (PSc) died on January 27. Long Leaf Pine in 2012. May 10. He was dean of program officer for the Japan Born in 1924, he served in the College of Arts and International Cooperation the U.S. Army during World Chiao-min Hsieh ’50 MA Sciences and a professor Agency. War II, earning a Bronze Star. (Geog)/’53 PhD (Geog) of international relations After Maxwell, he earned passed away on February at Troy University, where he Scott Sveiven ’14 MPA is a law degree at Harvard 26. He was a native of had served on the faculty a biodiversity research pre- University. He joined the law China and graduate of Zhe- for 20 years. A former U.S. senter for Operation Walla- firm Davis Polk and was later jiang University. He taught Army captain, Rinehart held cea, which produces wildlife a partner at Grier, Parker, geography at numerous a bachelor’s degree in eco- conservation expeditions. Poe and Thompson in Char- universities, including Dart- nomics from the University mouth College, University of of Florida and worked in Leeds, Catholic University, the international over-the- Hong Kong University, counter pharmaceutical and National Taiwan Normal Uni- health care sector before Other Deaths versity, the Chinese Culture transitioning to academe. University, and Zhejiang He taught at the University Since our last edition, word has also been received of these alumni deaths: University. He finished his of Tennessee at Chatta- career in 1992 as a profes- nooga and in the graduate Helen Hagan ’36 MA (Soc) Agatino Giunta ’56 PhD Edward Fisk ’72 MPA sor emeritus of geography at program in international rela- (Econ) John Stanford ’42 MPA John Runnion ’72 BA (PSc) the University of Pittsburgh. tions at the U.S. Army John Richard Henneberger ’58 He was awarded a Fulbright F. Kennedy Special Warfare Harold Kaplan ’43 BA (PSc) MPA Frederick Heffernan ’73 BA (PSc) Research Professorship Center and School. He was Lillian Kramer ’43 BA (Soc) Alan Katz ’58 BA (Hist) three times and was a also a consultant to the U.S. John Spencer ’73 MSSc Major Friedman ’46 BA Christine Little ’58 BA senior fellow at the National Department of Homeland (Soc) (AmSt) Joseph Whitbread ’73 PhD Endowment for the Humani- Security. (Econ) William Kelley ’46 BA (PSc) Myron Fishbach ’60 BA ties. Chiao-min authored Kathleen Doherty ’74 MSSc Bruce Clarke ’48 BA (PSc) (PSc) numerous scholarly books Shawn D. Miller ’96 MAIR Jimmie Powers ’74 MA (PA) Stewart Miner ’48 MA David Martin ’64 PhD (SSc) and atlases concerning passed away on November China and Taiwan, plus 18, 2014, in New York City. (Geog) Gordon Bonner ’65 PhD Robert Marino ’75 BA (PSc) D. Luciano ’49 BA (Soc) (Econ) Eileen Lupert ’77 BA (PSt) Race the Rising Sun, a A graduate of Utah State memoir co-authored with University, Miller worked for Constance Seckler ’49 BA Geraldine Kay ’65 BA (Soc) Gail Campbell ’79 BA (IR) (SSc) his wife, which describes World Bank’s International Daniel Mitchell ’65 MA Robert McGowan ’80 PhD the Japanese occupation of Finance Corporation in Elijah Pearson ’50 BA (PSc) (PSc) (PA) Hangzhou during the Second Washington, D.C., and then Mary Crossot ’51 BA (IR) Carl Azzoto ’66 BA (Geog) James Burke ’81 BA (Hist) Sino-Japanese War. CitiFinancial in New York City, Bruce Glassman ’51 BA Arthur Taylor ’66 BA (Econ) Elizabeth Daly ’83 BA (PSt) where he was the managing (Soc) Nancy Banning ’67 BA David Pearce ’91 BA Rudolph Lombard ’70 PhD director and global head of Edward Shephard ’53 BA (Geog) (RusSt) (SSc) passed away on environmental and social risk (Soc) Martin Elliott ’67 MA (PA) Alphonse Sallett ’93 PhD Saturday, December 13, management at CitiBank. He Hugh Young ’53 MPA Marc Kennedy ’67 BA (PSc) (Soc) 2014. While an under- was past chair of the Equa- graduate at Xavier University, tor Principles Association Douglas Ayres ’54 MPA Anne Kinter ’68 MA (Hist) Michael Monkman ’97 MPA Lombard got involved with Steering Commitee. Hugh O’Connor ’54 BA Thomas Mazza ’04 MPA Ralph Hoffman ’69 PhD CORE, the Congress of (Econ) (PSc) William Carrigan ’07 BA Racial Equality. In 1960, he Laurence Carni ’55 BA (Econ) Rudolph Lombard ’70 PhD and three other students (PSc) (SSc) protested segregation poli- Clara Behrendt ’56 BA (Soc) cies by attempting to receive

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Alumni Team in Nepal An NGO founded by one alumnus brought other Maxwell and Syracuse graduates together for earthquake relief. Connect With y the time Ban earth- Maxwell quake devastated Explore the many ways to expand your Nepal this past Maxwell School alumni network . . . April, Beau Mill- er ’10 MAIR had Facebook already spent six facebook.com/Maxwell.School years in the region. In 2008, he had LinkedIn founded Aythos, an linkd.in/MaxwellGroup NGO that cultivates economic opportu- SectorConnect (LinkedIn group) nities, social equal- maxwell.syr.edu/sectorconnect Beau Miller ’10 MAIR (right) founded Aythos and was al- ity, and environmen- ready working in Nepal when the recent earthquake hit. tal sustainability Twitter in partnership with @MaxwellSU (school news) local initiatives in Himalayan communities. Aythos has provided support for various @MaxwellAlumni (alumni updates) Nepalese agricultural projects while addressing issues for the empowerment of wom- en and the promotion of safe environmental practices. Then, in April, the quake hit, Instagram and Aythos immediately turned its attention to disaster relief. instagram.com/maxwellalumni From the beginning, Aythos’s values and goals have spoken to alumni of Max- well and SU. For example, Miller’s MAIR classmates, Adam Shinn and Gina Barbone, Blog are Aythos board members, along with Syracuse graduate Linda Koritkoski ’99 (who MaxwellAlumni.wordpress.com knew Aythos finance director David Mabry). The earthquake attracted more alumni — and students. SU alumna Brianne Miers joined the team to foster communication YouTube strategies and social media outreach. Current undergraduate (and former U.S. Ma- youtube.com/maxwellschool rine) Hung Cheon Kam, a senior majoring in international relations and Middle East- Maxwell Career Development ern Studies, traveled with Miller to Nepal to assist local staff in on-the-ground relief operations. In May, Rachel Penner, a current MAIR student, began a two-month intern- www.maxwell.syr.edu/career ship with Aythos in Nepal. Both Kam and Penner connected with Aythos through Ryan Maxwell School Alumni Relations Williams, the Maxwell School’s assistant dean for Washington programs. www.maxwell.syr.edu/alumni The SU- and Maxwell-bred skill sets these people bring, Miller says, “have been News/Classnotes instrumental in creating a management team that is empathetic, responsive, and Use “Update” button at the bot- committed to the communities Aythos serves.” As of late May, Miller estimated tom of the page that Aythos had reached 1,300 affected individuals in 16 remote villages, deliver- ing 9,500 pounds of rice, lentils, and other food; and treating more than 210 ill and [email protected] injured individuals. “The outpouring of generosity and support by alumni has been overwhelming,” Miller says, “ensuring that these efforts are successful.” maxwell.syr.edu