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Maxwell launches the

Tenth Decade Project

The #ToMeCitizenship

campaign invites you

to reflect and share

Sean O’Keefe named

Phanstiel Chair and

University Professor

Yingyi Ma researches

international students

in America

MaxwellPerspective

Winter 2015

90 Years YoungThe Maxwell School celebrates

its anniversary with events both substantive and

celebratory

MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

Connecting to the FutureEven as our own history prompts us to look forward, we have joined with larger Syracuse University planning initiatives.

A s you can easily see from the stories and pictures in this issue of Maxwell

Perspective, it’s been a remarkable semester at the Maxwell School, as we

pay tribute to the past, share the excitement of the present, and look forward to a

bright future. These events have helped focus attention on what has made Maxwell

both unique and consequential and has renewed our collective

commitment to sustained leadership in teaching, research, and

public service in our 10th decade. It’s been a great opportunity to

connect with so many of our alumni, friends, and supporters.

Our faculty, staff, and students have also been deeply involved

in working with their colleagues throughout Syracuse University in

charting the path forward for the University as a whole. Under the

leadership of Chancellor Kent Syverud and Interim Vice Chancel-

lor Elizabeth “Liz” Liddy, seven working groups are debating best

practices and opportunities in everything from undergraduate ex-

cellence to strategically focused research. This spring the Univer-

sity’s Academic Strategic Plan Steering Committee is preparing to

present the trustees a draft blueprint for our future.

At Maxwell, we are particularly proud of the strong connections

we have with all of the components of the University, ranging from

our many joint degree programs, to joint research centers such as

the Aging Studies Institute (with the Falk College of Sport and Hu-

man Dynamics) and the Institute

for National Security and Coun-

terterrorism (with SU’s College of

Law), to our special ties with col-

leagues in the College of Arts and Sciences (through

its SU Humanities Center, for example, and interdis-

ciplinary undergraduate programs such as Middle

Eastern Studies, to name a few).

I’ve had the pleasure of serving on the Strategic

Plan working group about “enhancing internation-

alization” (ably led by our own Mehrzad Boroujerdi,

chair of political science and recently appointed Provost’s Faculty Fellow, and by As-

sociate Provost Margaret Himley). It’s an issue that is both close to my own passions

and vital to our long-term success.

This process has helped both to bring the University closer together and to offer

us at Maxwell an opportunity to enhance our contribution to the University and ben-

efit from new partnerships. Like all efforts of this kind, it has required real work and

commitment from all involved, but it offers the prospect of great future returns.

James B. SteinbergDean, Maxwell School

At Maxwell, we are particularly proud of the strong connections we have with all of the components of the University.

On the Cover: Scenes from various Maxwell School 90th

anniversary events.

Kruzel Award Given To Dean SteinbergDean James Steinberg has won the

prestigious Joseph J. Kruzel Memo-

rial Award for Public Service from

the American Political Science As-

sociation. It is given to a scholar

with a distinguished career in na-

tional security affairs, both as an ac-

ademic and a public servant. Stein-

berg’s long public career includes a

term as deputy secretary of state.

The award memorializes Joseph

Kruzel, a security studies scholar

and policy official killed in Bosnia in

1995 while serving as chief negotia-

tor for the Department of Defense.

A s the Maxwell School’s 90th anniversary celebration in Washington last November drew toward its close, Dean James Steinberg

shifted the focus of this event from the past nine decades to the decades ahead.

He described the Tenth Decade Project — a set of initiatives intended to strengthen Maxwell’s teach-ing and research (particularly in citizenship and public service) as the School approaches its 2024 centennial.

“Drawing on our

multidisciplinary strengths in anthropology, econom-ics, geography, history, international relations, political science, public affairs, and sociology,” Steinberg said, “we hope to explore such fundamental issues as the rights and responsibilities of citizens to each and to their communities; the implications of different con-cepts of citizenship in different cul-tures, societies and eras; how to improve the responsiveness and effec-tiveness of public and private institutions to

citizens; and how concepts of citizenship can be harnessed to expand opportunity, promote inclu-sion, and respect diversity.” Innovative and for-ward-looking attention to citizenship, he said, has broad applicability, on topics such as aging, economic opportunity, public health, and envi-ronmental sustainability.

“This work will build on the already vigor-ous focus we have today on citizenship. . . .,” he said. “It will draw on our research centers and institutes which are already doing innovative work on many of these issues. “

Some guests at the Washington event had already lent support to the Tenth Decade Project by sponsoring tables. This was on top of a kick-off gift by Gerry Cramer, an alumnus of Syracuse’s manage-ment school and a long-time Maxwell supporter, and his wife Daphna. Cramer previously has funded professorships in international affairs and aging studies, an SU-Israeli student exchange, and programs in SU’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (support, in that last case, exceeding $2 million.) Now he has made a $500,000 gift to help launch the Tenth Decade Project. That gift, combined with funds raised at the Washington event, totals nearly

Join Us! If you are interested in sup-

porting Maxwell’s Tenth Decade Project,

visit maxwell.syr.edu/tenthdecade;

or contact Linda Birnbaum at 315-443-

1053 or [email protected].

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Ideas for Tomorrow The Tenth Decade Project will support programs to prepare Maxwell for the challenges of its second century, with citizenship (broadly understood) at its core.

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$900,000 already committed.“The support that you’ve provided tonight,”

Steinberg said, “will go to the Tenth Decade fund to help our faculty, staff, and students undertake projects ranging from path-breaking research to new approaches to teaching to public engagement. I thank you again for your sup-port and hope that we can all come back together in 10 years to appreciate the fruits of the work we launch tonight.”

A committee of faculty members from across Maxwell’s disciplines — chaired by Tina Nabatchi, of Public Adminis-tration and International Affairs, and History’s Andrew Cohen — is working to formulate specific Tenth Decade plans. Through the fall, they devel-oped principles for the project that reflect the School’s perspective. Throughout this year, they will work with other faculty members and the Dean’s Office to propose specific initiatives.

According to Linda Birnbaum, assistant dean for advancement, the upcoming details of the Tenth Decade Project will increase already strong donor support for its emphases.

“Those familiar with the School understand that its approach to citizenship and public service is especially applicable to the complexity of world challenges today,” she says. “People have always been eager to support citizenship education here.

“The project,” she concludes, “will present diverse opportunities for support for citizenship-centered programs at Maxwell.” — Dana Cooke

Joseph Strasser

Maxwell Co-Sponsors Berlin Wall Observance. The Department

of International Relations and Moynihan

Institute’s European Research Centers

were among co-sponsors of Syracuse

University’s three-month commemora-

tion of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Events included lectures, screenings,

and the building and tearing down of a

replica of the wall. Students also partici-

pated in a digital story contest, submit-

ting video and photo essays detailing

their perspectives on the Berlin Wall.

The commemoration was funded by

a grant from the Embassy of the Federal

Republic of Germany. More information

can be found at berlinwall25.syr.edu.

Maxwell Receives Carnegie Grant. Maxwell has received a $1-mil-

lion, two-year grant from the Carne-

gie Corporation to assemble a consor-

tium of top international policy-oriented

scholars from Syracuse, MIT, Duke, and

the Universities of Indiana and Virginia.

The project will introduce PhD students

to the complexities and challenges of

real-world policy making.

The consortium will develop work-

shops, simulations, and courses focused

around policy problems, analysis, and

research, to supplement existing PhD

programs. It will create mentorship pro-

grams to give students experience in the

world of practice, and help them write

for both academic and policy journals.

The co-principal investigators of the

project are Dean James Steinberg and

Margaret Hermann from Maxwell, and

Frank Gavin from MIT.

Iran Nuclear Program, Deci-sion-Making Discussed. U.S. Un-

der Secretary of State Wendy R. Sher-man was the keynote speaker during a

two-day symposium on Iranian nuclear-

program negotiation strategy. Sherman is

the State Department’s chief negotiator

in European Union-coordinated pursuit of

a nuclear-program agreement with Iran.

The symposium was held in October

at the Center for Strategic and Interna-

tional Studies in Washington, D.C.. It was

sponsored by Maxwell’s Moynihan Insti-

tute of Global Affairs and the Norwegian

Institute of International Affairs.

Data Gets NSF Funding. The Max-

well-based Qualitative Data Repository

(QDR) was awarded $446,133 from the

National Science Foundation.

QDR, co-directed by Colin Elman,

associate professor of political science,

is the first U.S. repository for qualita-

tive social science data. The funding will

enhance QDR’s capacity to share data.

QDR will develop standards and practic-

es for managing, archiving, sharing, re-

using, and citing qualitative data.

The center also earned $177,060 in

NSF funding for its summer “boot camp”

on research methods.

History Professors Mourned. John Scott Strickland, History fac-

ulty member since 1984,

passed away last May.

Strickland was a long-time under-

graduate director and was co-founder/

co-director of the MA program in Docu-

mentary Film and History. His research

focused on U.S. history, with emphasis

on the South, religion, and African Amer-

ican history. He wrote Millennial Visions

and Visible Congregations: Conversion,

Community, and the Culture of Resis-

tance among South Carolina Slaves.

In June, William Stinchcombe, pro-

fessor emeritus of history, died. A faculty

member since 1967, he researched 18th

century diplomatic history, es-

pecially relationships between

the U.S., France, and Great

Britain. Publications includ-

ed The American Revolution

and the French Alliance, win-

ner of the Gilbert Chinard Prize, as well

as The XYZ Affair. He edited The Papers

of John Marshall, Vol III; and the diaries

of 18th-century merchant Nathaniel Cut-

ting, with a focus on the slave trade.

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Democracy and Corruption. Recent New York gubernato-rial candidate Zephyr Teachout presented a State of Democracy lecture on November 14 in Maxwell Auditorium. Her topic was “Can American Democracy Survive Corruption?” Teachout is a professor of law at Fordham University and the author of Corruption in Ameri-ca: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United. (View the full lecture at www.youtube.com/maxwellschool.)

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Tenth Decade Project: Kick-Off Donors

Airbus Group

Alan and Betsy Cohn

Gerry and Daphna Cramer

Cathy Daicoff ’79

William Eggers and Deborah McLean

Stephen Hagerty ’91 and Lisa Altenbernd ’93

Sheldon and Sheila Horowitch

Adam Levine

Lawrence Mazzotta

Walter Montgomery ’67 and Marian Gruber

Ron ’80 and Karen O’Hanley

Sean ’78 and Laura O’Keefe

John and Stephanie Palmer

Terry ’79 and Prudence Pigott

Arnold and Jan Punaro

H. Lewis Rapaport ’59

Caroline Rapking ’82 and David Hemingson

RLM Finsbury LLC

Donna Shalala ’70

James Steinberg and Shere Abbott

W. Lynn Tanner ’75 and Margaret Graw

Richard Wilhelm ’68

“People have always been eager to support citizenship education here.”Linda Birnbaum, assistant

dean for advancement

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A t the Maxwell School’s 90th birthday party last October, there was a little sideshow. While revelers celebrated in the Joseph A. Strasser Commons — as described on pages 12-13 — something

was going on nearby, in the hallway outside Career Development. There were bright lights. People were writing on large placards. Their pictures were being taken.

It was the grand public launch of the #ToMeCitizenship campaign. Everyone happening through, from students, staff, and faculty to Advisory Board members, alumni on campus for Orange Central, and even the Chancellor — all were invited to complete the following sentence: “To me, citizenship . . .” They wrote their response in the provided “thought bubble” and were

photographed displaying it. Those photos then were posted on the RebelMouse page where the School is collecting dozens, soon hundreds, perhaps thousands of different notions of the definition and significance of citizenship.

Thus far, submissions to #ToMeCitizenship have been made primarily at events such as the 90th birthday party. Similar photo booths will be set up at future citizenship-focused events.

But it’s time for #ToMeCitizenship to get out of the photo booth. The idea, as with

any hashtag campaign, is to go viral, opening it to the broad-est possible community, both within Maxwell and beyond. “As we began to prepare for our 90th anniversary and the reassertion of Maxwell’s unique emphasis on citizenship,” says Dean James Steinberg, “we realized social media gives us an opportunity to involve a larger community. A diverse collec-tion of ideas on citizenship helps us all remember how broadly we define the concept and

how profound and pervasive is its reach.” Everyone, he said, has a stake in the School’s “underlying ethos” and so everyone should weigh in on #ToMeCitizenship.

Everyone means you. It’s your turn to make a contribution to the #ToMeCitizenship campaign. And you don’t need a photo booth to get it done. Visit the introductory page at www.maxwell.syr.edu/ToMeCitizenship, which will lead you through the chief options for sending your response:

• Download the “thought bubble” placard, fill it out, snap your picture, and post it on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram using #ToMeCitizenship. It will aggregate to the RebelMouse page.

• Forego the photo. Just tweet or post the text of your citizen-ship idea to the listed social media, using #ToMeCitizenship.

If you are not accustomed to posting with hashtags, there is a third option: Simply e-mail your thought bubble photo or text

to [email protected]. The Alumni Relations staff will post it.And then tell other people about #ToMeCitizenship. Everyone has ideas about

citizenship — or should.“One of the strengths of the Maxwell School,” Steinberg concludes, “is

that here citizenship is something that is understood and appreciated by every-one. We look forward to hearing many voices on the topic.” — Dana Cooke

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

What Do You Think?A new social media campaign invites everyone to opine (briefly) on the essence of citizenship.

“Social media affords us an opportunity to involve everyone.”

Dean James Steinberg

Join In!To make your contribution to the “citizenship thought bubble” campaign visit

m a x w e l l . s y r . e d u /ToMeCit izenshipOr just post to social media using the hashtag:

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Sean O’Keefe ’78 MPA, whose long and distin-guished career as a public servant includes a term as Administrator of the National Aero-

nautics and Space Administration (NASA), has joined the Maxwell faculty as the Howard G. and S. Louise Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management and Lead-

ership. He has also been appointed by Syracuse University as a Univer-sity Professor.

For O’Keefe, this is a return to the Maxwell faculty, where, between 1996 and 2001, he was the Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy and direc-tor of National Security Studies.

The chair he now occupies was established in 2006 by How-ard G. and S. Louise Phanstiel, who were motivated by a desire to provide enhanced training for future government leaders who are ethical, strategic, and innova-tive thinkers.

“I am honored to be invited to rejoin the Syracuse University community,” O’Keefe said at the

time of the appointment, “and, once again, to have the opportunity to pursue my passion for teaching, work-ing with students, and collaborating with so many great colleagues on a range of projects.”

O’Keefe is the former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Airbus Group Inc. and a former vice president of the General Electric Co. Previously, he held several top leadership positions in the U.S. government and in higher education, most

recently as chancellor of Louisiana State University.

On four separate occasions, O’Keefe served as a presidential appointee, including the stint at NASA. Earlier, he was deputy assis-tant to the president and deputy direc-tor of the Office of Management and Budget at the White House. He also served as secretary of the Navy, fol-lowing service as comptroller and

CFO of the Defense Department.All that time, he has maintained a close associa-

tion with Maxwell — serving recently as chair of the School’s Advisory Board.

While serving as the Phanstiel Chair, O’Keefe will also play a leadership role in building Maxwell’s partnership with the Center for Strategic and Interna-tional Studies (CSIS), including expanding program-ming and executive education. The bipartisan, non-profit CSIS, based in Washington, D.C., is an international policy institution that conducts research and analysis on a range of issues — related to defense and security, regional stability and transnational chal-lenges — and develops policy initiatives that look to the future.

“I am honored to be invited to rejoin the Syracuse University community.”

Sean O’Keefe, Phanstiel Chair and University Professor

Sean O’Keefe, recently appointed Phanstiel Chair, visited Maxwell in

September 2011 for a career-mentoring session with students, while he was chairman of EADS.

In many respects, the story of Joseph Stras-ser ’53 BA (Hist)/’58

MPA and his parents befits the Maxwell School. It represents triumph over political, religious, and cultural aggression. It rewards courage, compassion, and social vision. It celebrates people and systems that provide a full life to those who deserve one.

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Full Circle Sean O’Keefe, an accomplished alumnus and one-time faculty member, returns to Maxwell as the Phanstiel Chair.


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Joseph Strasser speaks at the dedication of the Dr. Paul and Natalie Strasser Legacy Room. Far right: Members of the Strasser family, including brother Alex (center).

FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS

Amazing LivesA fully renovated and upgraded Eggers Hall public events room now honors the parents of alumnus Joseph Strasser.

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Douglas Arm-strong, professor of

anthropology, won a

$142,000 grant from the

National Science

Foundation and a $5,000 award from

the Wenner-Gren Foundation for

research on early plantations in

Barbados. He also recently received

$20,000 from the National Geograph-

ic Society and $5,800 from the

Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

Stuart Bretschnei-der, professor of

public administration

and international

affairs, won the

National Association of Schools of

Public Affairs and Administration’s

William Duncombe Excellence in

Doctoral Education Award, named

for the recently deceased long-time

Maxwell professor.

Shana Gadarian,

assistant professor of

political science,

received funding from

the Norway Research

Council for a long-term study of the

effect of terrorism on social capital,

with a focus on the July 2011

terrorist attack in Norway.

Yilin Hou, professor

of public administration

and international affairs,

wrote Local Property Tax

In China: History, Pilots

and Prospects (Springer), studying

how local property taxes can be

introduced in transitional economies.

Azra Hromadzic and Gladys McCor-mick, assistant profes-

sors of anthropology and

history, respectively, re-

ceived Syracuse Univer-

sity’s Meredith Teach-

ing Recognition Award

for non-tenured faculty

members, recognizing

teaching innovation, student commu-

nication, and course value.

Matthew Huber,


geography, won the

2014 Daniel Patrick

Moynihan Award for

Teaching and Research, given to an

outstanding untenured faculty

member.

Thomas Keck,

Sawyer Chair of

Constitutional Law and

Politics, wrote Judicial

Politics in Polarized

Times (University of Chicago), which

considers whether judges are neutral

legal umpires, unaccountable

partisan activists, or political actors

conforming to the democratic will.

Harry Lambright,

professor of public

administration and

international affairs and

political science, wrote

Why Mars (Johns Hopkins), which

examines the politics and policies

behind NASA’s Mars program.

Gretchen Purser,


sociology, wrote Labor

On Demand: Dispatching

the Urban Poor, which,

as winner of the International Book

Award from the California Series in

Public Anthropology, will be published

by the University of California Press.

Yüksel Sezgin,


political science and

new director of Middle

Eastern Studies, won

the American Sociological Associa-

tion Hirabayashi Book Award for

Human Rights Under State-Enforced

Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt,

and India,” which looks at how state

enforcement of religious family laws

impacts rights and freedoms.


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And so, in making his latest large gift in sup-port of the School, Strasser asked to memorialize his family’s journey. The public events room in Eggers Hall — fully renovated and upgraded — was rededicated on October 24 as the Dr. Paul and Natalie Strasser Legacy Room.

The Strassers lived in Austria in the run-up to World War II. When Hitler invaded, the family fled to France (where, tragically, mother Nata-lie became ill and died). In 1940, Paul was able to arrange for young Joseph and his brother, Alex, to board a kindertransport rescue ship. They ulti-mately arrived in Amer-ica, where they were joined by their father in 1941, following a cross-Pyrenees escape from France.

At the rededication ceremony, Syracuse Chan-cellor Kent Syverud spoke of connections between the Paul and Natalie Strasser story and the Max-well School’s mission. “It’s so fitting that those two, who sacrificed so much in one of the darkest points during human history, will hold a permanent place of honor at a school dedicated to preparing stu-dents for engaged citizenship and wise leadership to produce the brightest points,” Syverud said.

Joseph Strasser then described his family’s difficult immigration to America and its lessons. “It’s an amazing thing that we’re here,” he said. “What this drove into me, all along, was to give

back, because we wouldn’t have been here if people hadn’t have done for us.”

Strasser is now among the top five donors to Maxwell. Listing projects Strasser has funded, Dean James Steinberg said this might be most signif-icant. “This wonderful new room,” he said, “will offer us an opportunity to showcase the exciting work that takes place throughout Maxwell and Syracuse University.”

— Dana Cooke

“What this drove into me, all along, was to give back.”

Joseph Strasser

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When Yingyi Ma, associate professor of sociology, arrived at Maxwell in 2006

to teach, she noticed few international students from China among the undergraduates. Since then, at Syra-cuse — as at many other universities — a change has been occurring.

“Many universities, especially public universities, are recruiting more international students from Asia,” Ma says.

That trend drives Ma’s latest research. She has two books in the works, one on Chinese undergraduate international students and the other an edited book on international stu-dents from Asia (the latter contracted for publication later this year).

“We’re looking at both country-specific and more general issues of Asian international students, who consti-tute 70 percent of all international students in American universities,” Ma says.

She’s trying to take the topic beyond the usual framework of “adjustment, adaptation, and accultur-ation” for those students alone.

“We’re trying to promote a two-way street of adaptation, trying to

encourage and emphasize how American universi-ties can do more to look at the new reality of globalizing campus,” says Ma, recently named an O’Hanley Scholar at Maxwell.

The number of international students at U.S. universities in 2012-13, according to the Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange, was 819,644 students (a record high). Over 10 years, the num-ber of international students increased 40 percent.

Ma says more research is needed on how colleges and universities can adapt along with the international

students, whether it’s in understand-ing learning habits, in-class work, or cultural barriers.

“Some disciplines are seeing a huge spike in enrollment. Their class-rooms are literally changed and they need information and connections to

FACULTY RESEARCH

Students Abroad Yingyi Ma studies the historic influx of international students — especially Asian — to American colleges.

“At American institutions, international students are vastly underutilizing services they are entitled to.”

Yingyi Ma

Shana Gadarian, as-

sistant professor of po-

litical science, “Ebola

Will Make Americans

More Likely to Give Up

Civil Liberties,” Wash-

ington Post, 10/24/2014;

“How Sensationalist

TV Stories on Terrorism

Make Americans More

Hawkish,” Washington

Post, 10/9/2014

Madonna Har-rington Meyer, pro-

fessor of sociology,

“The Challenges of Be-

ing a Working Grand-

mother,” Boston Globe,

9/30/2014

Osamah Khalil, as-


litical science, “Between

the Devil and the Deep

Blue Sea,”

The Hill,

6/2/2014

Daniel McDowell, assis-

tant professor of politi-

cal science, “Currency

Swap Potential Boon to

Argentina,” China Daily

News, 9/29/2014

Donald Mitchell, professor of geography,

“How One McDonald’s

Became the Epicenter

of the Ferguson Con-

flict,” Huffington Post,

8/31/2014

Devashish Mitra,

professor of econom-

ics, “Protecting to

Hurt,” Indian Express,

11/3/2014

Shannon Novak,

associate professor of

anthropology, “Burial

Vaults Inspire a Celebra-

tion of a Church Op-

posed to Slavery,” New

York Times, 10/8/2014

Spencer Piston, as-


litical science, “Lighter-

Skinned Minorities Are

More Likely to Support

Republicans,” Washing-

ton Post, 9/17/2014

Yüksel Sezgin, as-


litical science, “What

Will It Take to Bring Tur-

key Fully on Board?” Al

Jazeera, 10/02/2014

James Steinberg,

dean, “Obama, With

Reluctance, Returns

to Action in Iraq,” New

York Times, 12/7/2014;

“Keep Hope Alive: How

to Prevent U.S.-Chinese

Relations from Blow-

ing Up,” Foreign Affairs,

July/August 2014

David Van Slyke,

Bantle Chair in Busi-

ness and Government

Policy, “Contracting Of-

ficers Given Overly High

Marks by Army,” Wash-

ington Times, 6/19/2014

Robert Wilson, as-

sociate professor of

geography, “As Peo-

ple March, a Moment

of Truth in the Climate

Fight,” Inside Climate

News, 9/8/2014

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See current fac-ulty citations at:

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understand how they might need to change certain aspects of their teaching,” she says.

Ma has seen some universities begin to recruit academic advisors who speak other languages, such as Mandarin. “Programs especially tailored to their

own needs and staff who understand their cultures are very important,” she says.

There is also a need to convey all the other university supports available to international stu-dents. “International students are vastly underutilizing ser-vices they are entitled to,” says Ma, who has conducted inter-views with Chinese international stu-dents from 20 insti-tutions and collected data online for her research.

Ma’s study of international students grows out of her extensive background in other higher-edu-cation research — in particular, the intersection of higher education and inequality. “You see very little talk about the inequality among recent college graduates,” she says.

Earlier this year, she and Gokhan Savas, a sociologist at Luther College, looked at the impact choice of major has on a woman’s eventual pay, compared with the impact that college selection has. They drew on data from the National Educa-tion Longitudinal Study and found the pay gap between men and women is attributable more to college major choices than to college selection. Their findings appear in the Review of Higher Edu-cation. They discovered that, for women, studying in a lucrative major such as science or business had a larger pay benefit than attending an elite institu-tion — and that the correlation is strongest for women from a working class background.

Ma also suspects that networking may also play a bigger role in the gen-der gap. Men may be better able to segue a less lucrative major into a higher-paying field through networking and career mentoring. Institutions can do a better job of helping women network, Ma says.

— Kathleen Haley

Yingyi Ma

McClure and Brechin Retire. Two senior Max-

well faculty members re-

tired at the end of 2013-14

with emeritus status.

Robert McClure (top)

is a political scientist who

joined the faculty in 1969.

His early scholarship con-

cerned elections, politics,

and the media. He also

played key administrative roles: as Uni-

versity Honors Program director, senior

associate dean of Maxwell, and director

of the MAX Courses. He retires as Chap-

ple Family Professor of Citizenship and

Democracy Emeritus.

Steven Brechin (bottom) is a mem-

ber of the sociology faculty who arrived

in 2004. He specializes in organizational,

political, and environmental sociology,

and recently led a large study of NGO/

government partnerships on environ-

mental issues in Belize.

South Asia Center Funded. The

Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center

has been awarded a $1.3-million grant

from the U.S. Department of Education,

renewing its designation as a Nation-

al Resource Center. The grant provides

funding for graduate and undergradu-

ate students, course development, Hindi

language training, conference planning

and travel, and outreach to high schools

and community colleges.

The grant will particularly impact For-

eign Language and Area Studies Fellow-

ships, a federal program supporting fel-

lowships for language training.

Event Addresses Media and Foreign Policy. Students in the Pub-

lic Diplomacy degree program organized

a major symposium on the complex rela-

tionship between journalists, diplomats,

and the public. The day-long event was

held in late October at the Center for

Strategic and International Studies in

Washington, D.C.

The keynote speaker was Richard

Stengel, U.S. Under Secretary of State

for public diplomacy and public affairs.

His remarks focused on whether distrust

is growing between media, public, and

policy agencies.

Bequest To Benefit Maxwell. A recently

announced bequest by

Elliot Stamler ’60 BA (PSc) will endow a support

fund, lecture series, and graduate

assistantship in political science. A new

Stamler Prize will support undergradu-

ates interested in constitutional law.

Stamler recently quadrupled the

size of his bequest. Well over half of the

$1.8-million gift will benefit Maxwell; the

remainder, other SU programs.

Stamler, a retired financial manage-

ment executive, described the gift as

“providing for future students to enjoy

the lifelong benefits of a Maxwell educa-

tion that I have, both for their sake and

the country’s.”

African Leaders. A group of 25 young leaders from countries across sub-Saharan Africa were at Maxwell last summer for a six-week program on leadership and public administration. The group was part of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, a program administered by the U.S. Department of State to enhance leadership skills, spur entrepreneurship, and connect young African leaders with one another and with American coun-terparts.


SoldierSocks Scholar. JD/MPA student Jesse Campion (right) is the first beneficiary of the SoldierSocks Scholars program at Maxwell. It supports veterans wishing to transition their military experience into other modes of public service. Campion is a U.S. Army combat veteran (Iraq) who now aspires to become a federal prosecu-tor. With him is Christopher Meek ’92 BA (PSc/Econ), who established the scholarship. Meek is chairman and co-founder of SoldierSocks.com, which funds and delivers supplemental supplies and programs to American soldiers.

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When an institution as venerable as the Max-well School reaches a

signpost as significant as 90 years, it’s obviously worth noting . . . and worth celebrating. It is a time to take stock of the accomplishments and respect built over nine decades. And it is a time to prepare for the sort of future that the past profoundly suggests.

At Maxwell, the 90th anniversary serves a variety of goals, mixing the past with the future. It is a time to:

Marvel at the achievements of so many years. Though history lessons have been only one part of the anni-versary year, history is at the core. The Passport to Our Past activity (de-scribed on pp. 12-13), special historical displays mounted through the Max-

well/Eggers com-plex, and similar displays on hand for the November 20 Washington dinner all allowed the Maxwell com-munity to marvel at the depth and breadth of Max-well’s history, and

how different was the world into which the Maxwell School was born.

Find what is unchanged. And, though the world was different in 1924, certain values championed then remain today — in fact, they help define Maxwell still. They include the School’s emphasis on citizenship edu-cation and its interdisciplinary ap-proach to research and education. Recognizing those values in the School’s founding helps reassert those values in the School’s culture today (even though other values now round out the picture).

Celebrate the diversity of today’s Maxwell. Events held throughout the year and sponsored by the academic departments, centers, and institutes — lectures, panels, poster sessions, etc.

Last fall, the Maxwell School’s year of 90th-anniversary celebrations started big, with an array of special scholarly events, a School-wide 1920s-themed party, and a star-studded celebration in the nation’s capital.

By Dana Cooke

Event photography by Chuck Wainwright except where indicated

Even more 90th anniver-sary events are planned for the remainder of the academic year. For info:

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— served to honor the contri-butions of those units while also suggesting the great breadth and diversity of Max-well as a whole. (Unit events are described on pp. 10-11.)

Build toward the future. As the School entered its 90th anniversary year, Dean James Stein-berg announced that this would be an occasion also to prepare for Max-well’s centennial, and to assure that Maxwell approaches 2024 with programs “every bit as mean-ingful as those that have defined its excellence to this point.” This exploration of future needs is titled the Tenth Decade Project (see page 1). It was officially introduced at the anniversary celebration in Washington, D.C., which doubled as a fund-raising event for the campaign that will support Tenth Decade initiatives.

This and many other anniversary events are described in the following pages. To learn about additional events upcoming this spring, visit maxwell90th.syr.edu. n

On campus, the centerpiece of anniversary celebrations was the 1920s-themed party held October 9 in the Stras-ser Commons (top). It drew a wide range of guests, including (above left, l-r) disabilities advocate Brian McLane, a namesake of a Maxwell-based scholarship; Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud; and SU development officer Deborah Armstrong. Other anniver-sary events on campus were substantive, such as (above) a Tanner Lecture with former New York Lieuten-ant Governor Richard Ravitch and (near left) the Carv-ing Through Borders print exhibition (see page 11).

Then, on November 20, a second party took place in Washington, D.C. Among guests were (far left, l-r) veteran CBS broadcast journalist Bob Schieffer and Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott.

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Scruggs Lecture The Department of History’s con-tribution to the 90th anniversary was the inaugural Otey Scruggs Lecture, established in memory of a long-time history professor who died in early 2014. On hand for the October 6 lecture were (above, left) Scruggs’s widow, Robbin Mitchell (left) and son Jef-frey (far right), shown with emeritus faculty members David Bennett and Roger Sharp. The speaker for the Scruggs Lecture was Jesse Hoffnung-Garsk (above right) of the University of Michigan, who described how Cuban migration to New York City influenced late-19th century politics on the island.

Teach for America The Departments of Public Administration and Inter-national Affairs and undergraduate Public Affairs co-sponsored an October 10 panel on Teach for America, with alumni who later joined TFA and TFA veterans who then pursued MPAs at Maxwell. TFA alumni on the panel were (from left) Cora True-Frost ’01 JD/MPA, an SU law professor; Dana Twyman ‘01 BA (PSt), school transformation facilitator at Johns Hop-kins University; Robert Magliaro ’08 BA (Econ/PSt/IR), co-founder of a high school in downtown Manhat-tan; Alex Payne ’12 MPA, then a legislative assistant for a U.S. Congressman; and Patricia Leon-Guerre-ro ’04 BA (PSt/Soc), managing director of Latino en-gagement and partnerships for Teach For America.

Managing Nonprofits Operating under the auspices of both the 90th anniver-sary and Syracuse University’s Coming Back Togeth-er minority reunion, a September 19 panel addressed the challenges of managing nonprofit organizations and charter schools. Panelists included Maxwell alum-ni Margo Bailey ’89 MPA, ’91 MA (Geog), ’96 PhD (PA) (left), founding board member of the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Public Charter School, Washington, D.C.; and Tamara Lumpkin ’90 MPA (center), CEO and president of TLC Consulting and former deputy executive direc-tor for the D.C. Public Charter School Board. Also tak-ing part was Fanny Villarreal, executive director of the YWCA of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

Anniversary Celebrations

Lourie Lecture This year’s annu-al Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy served also as the Center for Policy Research’s 90th anniversary obser-vance. Dr. Sanjay Basu (right, top) of the Stanford Prevention Research Center gave the October 9 lecture, address-ing the economics of public health “safety nets” in the wake of an economic recession.

Tanner Lecture In a 90th-anniversary edition of the Tanner Lecture Series on Ethics, Citi-zenship, and Public Responsibility on

October 10, Richard Ravitch (left) dis-cussed the “federal-state disconnect.” Ravitch is a busi-nessman and former lieutenant governor of New York with a long record of ser-vice on public com-missions, corpora-tions, and the like.

Anthro/Geography Careers On November 14, the Departments of Anthropology and Geography held a series of panels, featuring their alum-ni and exploring careers dedicated to the public good. Panelists discussed careers in urban nonprofits, interna-tional careers, and careers in environ-mental policy and outreach.


Iran Conference The Moynihan Institute’s contribution to the anni-versary observances was a major two-day symposium, Assessing Iranian Nuclear Negotiation Strategy, held October 23-24 at the Cen-ter for Strategic and Inter-national Studies in D.C. The symposium, co-organized by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, drew leading ex-perts on Iran to discuss the European Union-coordinated P5+1 nuclear negotia-tions with that nation. The symposium’s keynote speaker was Wendy R. Sherman (right), U.S. under secretary of state for political affairs.

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Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke on “Public Service in an Age of Complex Global Security Challenges,” in an October 31 lecture sponsored by the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism as its 90th-anniversary event (and co-sponsored by SU’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families).

A s part of the Maxwell School’s 90th anniversary year, the academic depart-

ments and centers and institutes of the Maxwell School mounted events or other observances. Though some of these events had historical themes, most were intended to highlight the intellectual and programmatic contri-butions made by the individual units, adding up to the diverse whole that is the Maxwell School.

Many departments used the anni-versary as an opportu-nity to host special lectures. Beyond those described at left were two of particular note. Maxwell’s Center for Technology and Infor-mation Policy hosted Michael Crow ’85 PhD (right) for a day-long series of presentations, including a public lecture on science and higher educa-tion policy. Crow is the president of Arizona State University and a scholar of science and technology policy.

And Syracuse University’s Institute for National Security

and Counter-terrorism, on October 31, welcomed Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Dempsey commented on some of the political and security challenges of the day, such as North Korea and the development

of nuclear capabilities in Iran. But he also spoke to the event’s emphasis on public service, saying ours is an era when service matters greatly.

“Public service still matters,” Dempsey said. “When else would you want to serve? Would you want to serve when everything is kind of

simple and deliberate and not much hangs in the balance? Or would you want to really serve when it makes a difference?”

Anniversary events based in the departments, centers, and institutes continue through the spring.

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“Carving Through Borders: Discrimination, Immigration, and Citizenship” was orga-nized by Maxwell’s Program for the Advancement of Re-search on Conflict and Col-laboration and SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. Seven-foot-long prints by various artists hung in the Strasser Commons for nearly a month, during which a September 18 reception and faculty panel focused on tensions in American society and policy in relation to Latin American immigration and citizenship. The reception also included a perfor-mance by Samba Laranja, the SU-based Brazilian music ensemble (above).

Lectures, Panels, Symposia

CCE and PAF Posters During the University’s Orange Central weekend, October 9-11, various Maxwell departments mounted post-er displays de-scribing their

programs. At right, visitors in-spect posters prepared by the Citizenship and Civic Engage-ment program. Others who displayed posters were Public Affairs and Public Administra-tion and International Affairs.

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One of the highlights of Maxwell’s 90th anniversary celebrations this year was a School-wide party on

October 9, scheduled to coincide with Syra-cuse University’s Orange Central reunion weekend. That scheduling allowed not only faculty, staff, and stu-

dents to participate, but also many visiting alumni and dignitaries.

While most of the observances throughout the year have tended toward the serious and substantive, the main event on October 9 was a large birthday party, held in the Strasser Commons (left, top). It featured 1920s-themed decorations and food, to reflect the School’s founding year, 1924. Faux champagne and other non-al-coholic bubbly lent the event a Jazz Age ambience, as did period music and a striking Art Deco cake (left). Chiefly, this was a moment to mark a chronological milestone — a fact punctuated by Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud, who led all assembled in singing the “Happy Birthday” song.

But it was also a day to take stock. The Passport to Our Past activity invited people to carry a small, informative mock passport to stations at departments, centers, and institutes around

the School, thus reminding those “travelers” of all the individual enter-prises that make up Maxwell.

And at a makeshift photo booth just off the Strasser Com-mons, party-goers were encouraged to contribute their notions to the #ToMeCitizenship social media “thought bubble” campaign. For more on that, see page 3. n

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The events of October 9 (clockwise from top left): A temporary photo station allowed party guests to add to the #ToMeCitizenship

“thought bubble” campaign; shown filling out his bubble is Sean O’Keefe ’78 MPA and being photographed is W. Lynn Tanner ’75 PhD (PA). Point-ing the camera is MPA student Amanda Vitullo, a part-time professional photographer.

Syracuse Chancellor Kent Syverud visited the 1920s-themed party in the Strasser Commons, leading the assembly in “Happy Birthday” and cutting the Art Deco-styled cake.

The Orange Central scheduling allowed for a broad mix of visitors, including Maxwell faculty veterans John Yinger, Stuart Bretschneider, and Larry Schroeder (l-r); Executive Education administrator Denise Breen, taking a selfie with EMPA students Rose Ndong and Erika Osae (l-r); and alumni such as Richard Wilhelm ’68 BA (RusSt), chatting with current students.

Throughout the afternoon, visitors took part in Passport to Our Past. They carried mock passports — filled with history of the departments, centers, and institutes — to informative stations at each of those units. (They also had their passports stamped to quali-fy for prizes.) Shown are the Political Science station, two happy “travelers” with their stamped passports, and the Moynihan Institute’s display.

A Newsman’s View of the OathSean Kirst, columnist for the Syracuse Post-Standard, spent October 9 on campus. He interviewed people vis-iting the Athenian Oath inscription in Maxwell Hall, ask-ing them to comment on the meaning of those words:

To [alumnus George Schaefer], they represent the es-sence of Maxwell, an ideal powerful enough to bring him here from Texas for the school’s 90th anniversary party. “What higher calling is there?” Schaefer asked. . . . For years, Schaefer said, he kept a framed copy in his study. . . .

James Willie (below), another graduate, also stopped to see the wall. . . . “It played a role in why I chose [Max-well], to have citizenship etched into the wall, the idea of transforming things and leaving a mark,” Willie said. To him, it strikes a central point in the American ex-periment: There is a high-er calling to citizenship than simply being hungry to make a lot of money. . . .

W. Lynn Tanner . . . sees the words as transcend-ing generations, as a daily appeal to the con-science of every Maxwell student . . . a constant chal-lenge for young people to “take on the fight,” to spend a lifetime attempting to lift up the world around them.

Maria Laura Veramendi, a graduate student from Peru, said the words on the wall are an intimate reminder of why she journeyed so far to study in Syracuse — and what she hopes to accomplish once she’s home.

“If you’re a student, or in the private sector, or an artist, or a mother, this holds true,” she said. “Whatever you do, you do it for the person who comes after you.”

The Maxwell School’s second big birthday party last fall — held at the Center for

Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. — was many events combined.

It was a moment to mark history. Five large banners stationed around the pre-dinner reception area — and a testimonial video shown during dinner

— reminded at-tendees how far the School has come in 90 years, in citizenship studies, interdisci-plinary education, global reach, and facilities. And the

communal joy about nine completed decades energized the entire evening.

But the November 20 event was also about legacies. Maxwell presented the inaugural Daniel Patrick Moyni-han Spirit of Public Service Award, to recognize creative and passionate commitment to public service — val-ues shared by the School and the late, longtime U.S. senator. The award builds upon Maxwell’s former public service award by focusing on the inno-vative conversion of ideas into action. And, with its first recipient, the Moynihan Award highlights an up-and-coming generation of public servants. The inaugural recipient was Lauren Bush Lauren who founded FEED Projects to direct funds to anti-hunger programs. (See page 17 for more on Lauren.)

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In November, Maxwell held a second anniversary party — at the School’s home in D.C., the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Among highlights was the awarding of the new Moynihan Spirit of Public Service Award.

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Event photography by David Scavone



School to build on its great accomplishments

in citizenship education, research, and engagement. Maxwell officially launched its Tenth Decade Project, by which the entire School is exploring new and enhanced ways to ready its programs for the challenges of its second century (now just 10 years away). The Washington event was a fund-raiser for the Tenth Decade Fund, which will support many of the initiatives being developed through the project. Nearly $900,000 has been raised for the fund through contributions from attendees and kick-off donor Gerry Cramer. (For more on the Tenth Decade Project, see page 1.)

And the event was a reunion of sorts for Maxwellians based in Washington, who mixed and shared their Maxwell stories both before and after the dinner, well into the evening.

They were joined by special guests from outside the immediate Maxwell community, who had come to celebrate the School’s impor-tant role in public affairs. Among those guests were former FBI and CIA director William Webster; former National Security Advisor


The 90th anniversary celebration in Washington took place at the new facilities of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (above), where Maxwell now has its D.C. headquarters. On display were five large banners telling Maxwell’s story, including this banner devot-ed to citizenship studies (right).

Among the revelers were alumni, students, facul-ty, and special guests (from top, l-r): Donna Shala-la ’70 MSSc/’70 PhD (SSc) chats with Justin Cole ’11 BA (Econ/PSc/PSt), Dustin Brown ’01 MPA, and guest Mike Hagan; Syracuse-area businesswoman Anne Messenger, Moynihan awardee Lauren Bush Lauren (Messenger nominated her for the award), SU faculty member Ruth Chen (wife of Chancellor Syverud), and Lauren’s mother, Sharon Bush; former Maxwell staff member Anne Stewart ’78 MPA; Maxwell-in-Washington undergrads Emily Sweda, Ejona Murataj, Colleen Downey, and Alyssa Palewicz; former U.S. National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and current Chinese ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai; faculty member Tina Nabatchi with student Ivan Zhivkov and guest John Quinlan; and students Sarah Davis (University of Denver partner program), Matt Briand, Anna Nicol, and Christopher Thompson. Opposite: Chancel-lor Kent Syverud, James Willie ’98 MPA, and his father, distinguished sociologist Charles Willie ’57 PhD (Soc).

Brent Scowcroft; the Chinese ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai; and Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott. Paul Volcker, former chair of the Federal Re-serve, was to attend, but owing to personal circumstances sent his well wishes by video instead.

Another special guest on hand was veteran CBS broad-cast journalist Bob Schieffer, who served as an honorary emcee. He commented that these are times when programs such as those offered by the Maxwell School are desperately important, citing in particular the cynicism seeded by big-money influence in politics. “Serious, smart young people,” he said, are needed in public service at a time when “confi-

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“Thank you for what you are doing. You are never more needed than you are now.”

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Carrying Forward the Spirit of the Senator Social entrepreneur Lauren Bush Lauren is the first recipient of the Maxwell School’s new Moynihan Spirit of Public Service Award.

To celebrate its anniversary and extend its legacy of pub-lic service, the Maxwell School last fall created the Moyni-

han Spirit of Public Service Award. Inaugural honoree Lauren Bush Lauren, founder and CEO of FEED Projects, received the award at Maxwell’s 90th anniversary event on November 20.

The award honors those whose life and work reflect a cre-ative and passionate commitment to public service, to under-standing complex issues, and to translating ideas into action — qualities that characterize the career of longtime U.S. Sen-ator (and former Maxwell faculty member) Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Lauren has dedicated herself to developing innovative ways to engage the pub-lic in the fight to end world hunger. In 2004, after traveling in Asia, Latin America, and Africa as an honorary student spokesperson for the United Nations’ World

Food Programme (WFP), Lauren conceptualized the idea for FEED Projects, which develops products such as burlap tote bags, handbags, apparel, jewelry and dish-ware, the sale of which benefits anti-poverty initiatives.

Thanks to partnerships with companies like Target, Dis-ney, Pottery Barn, Whole Foods, and Gap — as well as sales through the FEED website — the social busi-ness has donated more than $10.4 million and provided nearly 84 million school meals globally through the WFP and Feeding America. FEED has also supported nutrition programs around the world, providing vitamin supple-ments to more than 3.5 million children through UNICEF.

Forbes magazine calls FEED “a for-profit venture with a social conscience.”

Dean James Steinberg applauded Lauren’s emphasis on widening public aware-ness and innovative mechanisms of financial support. “It’s the kind of pragmat-ic yet effective strategy,” Steinberg said, “that was so characteristic of Senator Moynihan’s approach to public policy and public service.”

“. . . the kind of pragmatic yet effective strategy that was so characteristic of Senator Moynihan’s approach . . .”

government institutions, which we once took for granted, has never been lower.”

“Time and again, serious people are either leaving public service,” he said, “or passing up the opportunity to serve because they believe it is no longer worth the effort.” This tide must be re-versed, he said.

“Thank you for what you are doing,” Schief-fer concluded, addressing the assembled Maxwell

representatives. “You are never more needed than you are now.” n

Among those speaking at the

Maxwell School’s anniver-sary event in Washington, D.C., were (from top left): Syracuse University Chan-cellor Kent Syverud; veter-an CBS broadcast journal-ist Bob Schieffer; Lauren Bush Lauren, the CEO of FEED Projects and inaugu-ral recipient of the Moyni-han Spirit of Public Service Award (see right); and longtime members of the Maxwell Advisory Board, Sean O’Keefe and Donna Shalala. (O’Keefe has since joined the Maxwell faculty, while Shalala completes her service as the president of the University of Miami later this year.)

Lauren Bush Lauren (left) in Kenya

To view a c o m p l e t e video of the Night for Max-well events,

or just the seven-min-ute testimonial video:

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1950sArnold P. Etelson ’59 BA (PSc) was elected Monte-bello (N.Y.) village justice. He has previously served as a justice in Spring Valley, N.Y., and Ramapo, N.Y.

1960sVernon Penner ’63 MPA is diplomat in residence at Bridgewater State Uni-versity.

Jane Keyser Wilhelm ’68 BA (IR) is the executive administrator of Radio Free Asia, a nonprofit broad-caster of free, reliable news.

Ira E. Harrison ’67 PhD (SSc) was elected president of the Georgia Poetry Society.

1970sLinda Hesselrode Smith ’70 MPA was elected

director of the Angel Capital Association, a trade association of accredited investors.

Judith Allen Wilson ’70 MPA is the director of devel-opment for the Pasadena Community Foundation.

Thomas Bozzuto ’71 MPA was named a top-10 multi-family housing developer by National Real Estate Investor.

Samir el-Annabi ’71 MPA is the chairman of Tunisia’s anti-corruption authority.

John Mallen ’73 MPA is the president of JMC Marketing Communication & PR.

Mohammad M. Khan ’74 MPA retired after 44 years as a professor at the University of Dhaka. He continues to serve on Ban-gladesh’s university grants commission.

Kevin Longenbach ’74 BA (PSc) is the senior tolls con-sultant for Atkins, a design and engineering company.

George Schaefer ’74 MPA is retired and mentoring entrepreneurs in central Texas. Schaefer and his wife, Lois, celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2014.

Gray Goodman ’75 MPA has retired from state gov-ernment and is a general-ist surveyor for the Texas Department of Aging and Disability.

Eric Vaughn ’75 MPA is the executive director of the National Structured Settle-ments Trade Association.

Philip Cortese ’76 MPA is a judge in the Montgomery County (N.Y.) Family Court.

Charles Guy ’76 MPA is a district director for the Internal Revenue Service.

Judith LaManna Rivette ’76 MPA wrote the novel Saint Carmella’s Grotto, a tale of witches, curses, and immigrants set in a small upstate New York village in the early 20th century.

Jeffrey Noss ’76 MPA is managing director and head of investments for the New York City Family Office of BNY Mellon Wealth Man-agement.

M. Angela Bodkin ’77 MA (PA) is chairman of the board of Westport Innova-tions Inc., a natural gas engineering firm.

Cyril Hromnik ’70 MA (Hist)/’77 PhD (Hist) is an independent researcher of Indo-African history based in South Africa.

Milton Matthews ’77 MPA is the president and CEO of the Columbia Association, a nonprofit that manages public facilities and pro-grams in Columbia, Md.

Brian Krumm ’78 MPA is a professor at the University of Tennessee and a fellow at the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship.

Sean O’Keefe ’78 MPA, former chairman and CEO of Airbus Group, received the Corporate Leader Award from the Meridian International Center.

Sharon McAuliffe ’79 MPA has been elected to the board of managers of Bous-quet Holstein PLLC.

Robert E. Shumeyko ’79 BA (PSt) is the director of community planning and development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Boston Regional Office.

1980sSally Farrell Partner ’80 MPA is the vice president of community services for Catholic Family Center of Rochester, N.Y.

Valerie Williams ’80 MPA is the vice provost for the University of Oklahoma’s science center, and is on the board of directors for the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Jonathan Mathis ’81 MPA is a deputy director of the Office of Strategic Planning for Administration in the National Institutes of Health.

Pietor Polhuis ’81 MA (PSc) co-authored a book with his brother, Faith in Dialogue!: A Conversation on Knowing God.

Deborah Goldman Rosen-bloom ’82 JD/MPA is the vice president of Jewish Women International.

Mona Komiya Chan ’83 MPA is a private tutor based in Fremont, Calif.

Benjamin Israel ’84 BA (PSc) is a partner with Kaplan Kirsch Rockwell.

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Classnotes

Key to Degrees. Alumni are designated by year of graduation, degree level, and

(in parentheses) discipline — for example: Joan Smith ’87 MA (Soc). A few of the

degree abbreviations indicate both level and discipline, such as MPA and MSSc.

Alumni with more than one degree from Maxwell are listed under the year of the

latest such degree.

AmSt American Studies

Anth Anthropology

EMIR Executive Master of International Relations

EMPA Executive Master of Public Ad mini stration

DFH Documentary Film and History

Econ Eco nomics

Geog Geog raphy

Hist History

IR International Relations

JD Law

MAIR Master of Arts, International Relations

MPA Master of Public Administration

MPA/IR Joint MPA and MAIR

MPH Master of Public Health

MPhil Master of Philosophy

MRP Mas ter of Regional Planning

MSSc Master of Social Science

NG Not graduated

NVCC Nonviolent Conflict and Change

PA Public Ad ministration

PD Public Diplomacy (IR/Public Relations)

PPhil Political Philosophy

PSt Policy Studies

PSc Political Science

RusSt Russian Studies

Soc Soci ology

SPsy Social Psychology

SSc Soci al Science

UrSt Urban Studies

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Irawan Kadiman ’84 MA (Econ) is retired but active with Bappenas, Indonesia’s ministry of national devel-opment planning.

Sallie Hinz Atsalis ’85 MPA is a product line manager for ANXeBusiness.

Dominic Mazza ’85 MPA is a principal for the Bonadio Group, an accounting firm.

John Norway ’85 MPA/IR is a section chief and supervisory contracting officer for FEMA. He trains and communicates with disaster response teams in Texas, Missouri, Colorado, California, and Washington.

Marianne Bailey ’86 MPA is a senior advisor at the Office of International and Tribal Affairs in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she has worked for 23 years. One of her first successful projects at the EPA was a project encouraging China to remove lead from gasoline.

Craig Burns ’87 MPA is a tax commissioner for the Virginia Department of Taxation.

Rosemary O’Leary ’88 PhD (PA), a former Maxwell School faculty member, received the Dwight Waldo award from the American Society for Public Admin-istration.

Yeong-Joo Hahn ‘84 MRP/’89 PhD (SSc) is the president of the Korean Environmental Planning Studies Institute.

1990sTim Bastian ’90 MA (Econ) is an associate vice presi-dent and financial advisor at Morgan Stanley’s wealth management segment.

Philip Joyce ’90 PhD (PA) was elected interim dean of the University of Maryland’s school of public policy.

Brian Lock ’90 MPA works for the State of Washington Department of Commerce.

Gary Rhyne ’90 EMPA is retired from the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-

Citizenship is usually defined as the

rights and responsibilities that are

bestowed upon a person by the customs or

laws of a state. But this year, as Maxwell cele-

brates its 90th anniversary, we learn that the

definition of citizenship is not so tidy at all.

In fact, at Maxwell, the definition broadens

and becomes more active, almost a verb.

Responsibility to the larger whole is just a

starting point. When they define citizenship,

Maxwellians focus on the actions implied by

those responsibilities.

Nowhere has this concept been more

evident than in our #ToMeCitizenship social

media campaign

(described on page

3). It asks everyone

— whether you’re an

alum or just a Max-

well visitor — to think

about, talk about, and make a small contribu-

tion to the diversity of ideas about citizenship.

Most of my favorite responses thus far

represent a call to action. To me, citizenship . . .

• is showing up, being engaged and

involved.

• is using your skills, without profit, to help

all members of society.

• is struggling to think and live commu-

nally in a

world

plagued by

individualism.

• is working

to make the nation

and world better.

• is choosing to serve

every day, leading in the face

of challenges, and working

together for a better

future.

• is thinking

globally for peace,

justice, and equality.

This all has

the makings of a

good slogan: “Max-

well . . . where citizen-

ship is a verb.” The word

connotes action for communal betterment.

Whichever part of speech it is, we can all

agree it’s the most important reason we’re all

here. When you enter Maxwell, you see citizen-

ship chiseled

above the doors.

When you leave,

it’s chiseled on

your heart.

Citizenship Is a VerbOur social media campaign on citizenship is testing notions of what the word means.

Norma ShannonAlumni Relations

[email protected]

Maxwell Inspirations

When students try to imagine their life af-

ter Maxwell, they consider the accomplish-

ments of alumni. This is even true of pro-

spective students, who, before they apply

to Maxwell, assess the outcomes of those

who graduated before.

That’s why we like to share your stories.

Maxwell Perspective is one way, but we can

share even more stories via the Alumni Pro-

files series online at www.maxwell.

syr.edu/alumni.

We are seek-

ing alumni will-

ing to share their

career accom-

plishments with an

online audience.

Please e-mail us

at alum@maxwell.

syr.edu.

Get Connected Thru SectorConnect

No matter what career sector interests

you, there’s a place where Maxwell

grads and others excel, and where

you are invited to get involved.

SectorConnect is a LinkedIn-

based networking space facilitat-

ing connec-

tions among

alumni, pro-

fessors, and

students who work (or aspire to work)

in the same professional sector. It is

devoted to specific fields in which our

alumni lead and our professors have

expertise, and which our students eye

for career possibilities.

Join to share jobs and other info

with colleagues in our community:

www.maxwell.syr.edu/sectorconnect

To view or add to the campaign visit www.maxwell.syr.edu/ToMeCitizenship

“THOUGHT BUBBLE” PHOTOS BY AMANDA VITULLO


http://www.maxwell/

mailto:alum@maxwell

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/


vention, where he worked for 31 years.

David Trotman-Wilkins ‘90 BA (Soc) is the senior photo editor for features at Newsday newspaper.

Emaad Burki ’91 BA (PSc)/’92 MPA is a direc-tor in the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Regulatory Affairs.

Thaddeus Cummins ’91 MPA wrote the article “GDP Falls as MBA Rises?,” which was published in Applied Mathematics.

Nora Heaphy ‘91 BA (IR) is the major gift officer

for the SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry Foundation.

Daniel Singer ’91 MA (PSc) is the city manager of Poway, Calif.

Robin Lamott Sparks ’91 MPA was appointed to Connecticut’s Healthcare Innovation Steering Com-mittee.

Candice Richardson ’90 BA (IR)/’91 MPA is an associate broker with Tri-Star Realty Inc.

Jonathan Rosenthal ’92 MPA has retired as director of economic and commu-

nity development for Bristol, Conn.

Sharon Keane ’93 MA (PA) is the direc-tor of professional and academic pro-grams at the Univer-sity of Notre Dame’s alumni association.

Michael Boots ’94 MPA is the chair of the White House Council on Environ-mental Quality, which helps develop the Obama administra-tion’s environmental and energy policies and initiatives.

Veronica Conforme ’95 BA (IR) is the interim chancellor of Michigan’s Educa-tion Achievement Authority.

Robert Donahue ’95 MPA is an advisor with Municipal Market Advisor, an indepen-dent research and strategy firm in the municipal bond market.

Chris Jones ’95 PhD (PSc) is dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill.

Shinichi Okamoto ’95 MPA is the director of Japan’s cabinet office, manag-ing government/business relations.

Grace Barvin ’96 MPA is the senior vice president/senior municipal credit officer for Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s municipal banking and markets divi-sion.

Aaron Blaakman ’96 MPA is a health economist consultant working on grants from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, the United Kingdom’s DFID, and the European Union in Laos, Mongolia, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia.

Terrence Guay ’92 MAIR/’96 PhD (PSc), clinical professor of international business at Pennsylvania State Univer-sity, wrote The Business Environment of Europe: Firms, Governments, and Institutions (Cambridge University Press).

Robert Jones ’96 MSSc is deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division.

Jennifer Regen ’96 MPA is a finance manager for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.

Jody Zepp ’96 MA (PSc) was named the Maryland Teacher of the Year. She teaches government and psychology at Hammond High School.

Joanna Geraghty ’97 JD/MAIR is executive vice president of the customer experience division at JetBlue.

Eliza Gregory Mohler ’97 BA (PSt) is the director of communications and outreach at the Hickman

Friends Senior Community in West Chester, Pa.

Andrew Salkin ’97 MPA is chief operating officer for 100 Resilient Cities, an organization dedicated to helping cities rebound from shocks and stresses.

Jacqueline Harf Ulman ’97 MPA has worked for IBM’s public sector consulting division for 16 years.

Carole Cimitile ’89 MPA/ ’98 PhD (PA) works on the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act for the U.S. Govern-ment Accountability Office.

Prashanth Jayachandran ’98 JD/MPA is chief human resources counsel for Colgate-Palmolive.

Dawn Montanye ’98 MPA is a coordinator with Defenders of Wildlife. She has worked for environmen-tal NGOs for 14 years.

Douglas Newcomb ’98 MPA is a licensed clinical social worker and cre-dentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counselor in Rochester, N.Y.

Nathaniel Shanok ’98 BA (Econ) is a regional director for Tishman Speyer Proper-ties, based in Istanbul.

Peter Simmons ’98 MPA is commissioner of corporate services for Brampton, Canada.

Will Swope ’98 BA (Econ) received the 2013 Edward R. Murrow award for best newscast regarding the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting. He is a news pro-ducer at KUSA in Denver.

Jeffrey Tricoli ’98 MPA is an assistant special agent in charge with the FBI.

Chad Underwood ’98 MPA is CEO of Access to Independence, an advo-cacy organization for the disabled.

Jami Steinroeder Clifford ’95 MPA/’99 MAIR is the SAP alliance director at Accenture.

Chad Duhon ’99 BA (PSt) is senior researcher with

Agriculture Policy. At the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ annual symposium on agricultural development, Catherine Bertini (center), professor of public administration and interna-tional affairs at Maxwell and former director of the United Na-tions World Food Programme, ran into many Maxwell alumni also involved in agriculture and hunger issues. Among those attending the conference (held in May in Washington, D.C.) were (l-r) Alesha Black ’07 MAIR, senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Joseph Kaifala ’10 MAIR, founder and executive director of the Jeneba Project; Andrew Sweet ’07 MAIR, senior advisor at USAID; and Sung Ryul Lee ’07 MAIR/’09 MPA, then an assistant director at the Chicago Council.

Second-in-CommandNew lieutenant governor of New York is the second straight who is a Maxwell graduate.

Kathy Courtney Hochul ’80 BA (PSc), a former U.S.

congresswoman for New York’s 26th congressional

district (Buffalo/Niagara Falls), is the new lieutenant governor

of New York State, elected in November.

Hochul served as the county clerk of Erie County, N.Y.,

from 2007 to 2011, when she was elected to Congress; she

was defeated for reelection in 2013 following redistricting.

Previously, she was a deputy county clerk, a member of the Hamburg town board, a

practicing attorney, and a legislative aide. She was head of government and strategic

relations for M&T Bank at the time of her lieutenant governor nomination.

Hochul is the second straight Maxwell graduate to serve as lieutenant governor.

She succeeds Robert Duffy ’98 MPA, who served as chief of police and mayor of

Rochester, N.Y., before becoming Andrew Cuomo’s running mate in 2010.

Kathy Hochul


Alumni News

American Institutes for Research.

2000s Dave Brannegan ’00 BA (IR) is the director of the infrastructure assurance center in the Argonne National Laboratory.

James Fleming ’99 BA (Econ)/’00 MPA is the director of finance in Community and Human Services, Alexandria, Va.

Yusuf Khan ’00 MAIR is the head of trade for Sub-Saharan Africa at Citibank.

Michael Masse ’00 EMPA received the New York State School Boards Associa-tion’s highest award, the President’s Award. He also was elected to the board of trustees, Public Policy Insti-tute of New York State.

Ellen Daniels Holm ’99 MPA/’01 MA (Geog) is the director of infrastructure ser-vices for Colgate University.

Elona Konomi-Garo ’01 MPA is a career service consultant at the Univer-sity of New York Tirana, in Albania.

Don Moynihan ’98 MPA/ ’02 PhD (PA) is a profes-sor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Deirdre Pace ’02 MPA is a manager at Milestone, a financial advisory services company in New York City.

Amy Ciccarelli Santos ’02 MPA is a director of man-agement consulting with Arcadis U.S.

Catherine Denise Jayme Cawley ’03 MPA/IR is the assistant director of strategic initiatives for the University of California-San Francisco.

Veronica George ’03 MPA is a senior manager of Cairn India’s corporate social responsibility division.

Teck Leong Lim ’03 MPA is a director of physical planning in Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority.

Michael Pierson ’03 JD/MPA is the founder and CEO of Vaultsy, a personal data marketplace.

Sergio Prada ’03 MPA is a professor at the Universi-dad Icesi in Columbia.

Maria de los Angelos Ryan ’03 MPA is a financial ana-lyst for Vancouver’s parks and recreation department.

Patricia Stasco ’03 MPA is a senior trial attorney in the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Jennifer Holsman Tet-reault ’03 MA (PSc) was named division general counsel for Rural/Metro Corporation. She is a faculty associate of law at Arizona State University.

Rebecca Bostwick ’04 MPA, program direc-tor of Maxwell’s Lerner Center, won an 18-month fellowship from the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York.

Croshelle Harris-Hussein ’04 MPA is division chief for strategic planning and operations at USAID.

Philip Mancini ’04 MPA is a performance management specialist for the District of Columbia.

Teresa Neven Yost ’04 MPA is the assistant direc-tor of the Government Accounting Office’s infor-mation technology division.

George Hannum ’05 MPA is senior director at Better World Campaign, a non-profit that fosters the rela-tionship between the U.S. and the United Nations.

Andrew Hollander ’05 MPA is the executive direc-tor of Medicaid operations for the New York City Department of Education.

Maja Husar Holmes ’00 MPA/’05 PhD (PA) is an associate professor at West Virginia University. She is married to Chad Holmes ’00 MPA/IR, with two daughters.

Egle Janeliunaite ’05 MPA is a budget analyst for NATO in Brussels, Belgium.

Brandy Fluker Oakley ’05 BS (PSt) is a project direc-tor with TNTP.

Rameshwar Padmanab-han ’05 MPA resolves compliance issues in the accounts management divi-sion of the Internal Revenue Service.

Carly Pass ’05 BA (PSt) is the managing director for strategy, talent, and opera-tions at Teach for America’s Memphis, Tenn., office.

Ambreleah Dusseau ’06 BA (PSc/PSt) is the KYC (Know Your Customer) due diligence officer at JPMor-gan Chase.

Dianna Power Stan-ton ’06 MPA is a district conservationist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s natural resources conserva-tion service.

Richard Sullivan ’06 MPA is a financial specialist for management consulting with Arcadis U.S.

Francis Amtmann ’07 MPA is a budget analyst with the Social Security Administra-tion in Baltimore.

Michael Burger ’07 MPA/IR is the director of public finance healthcare, educa-tion, and nonprofit institu-tions for Fitch Ratings, based in San Francisco.

Real GovernmentBook contains behind-the-scenes stories from a life in public service.

William Morrill ’53 MPA has spent 60

years in public service, including a

24-year career in federal and local government.

He served in the administrations of six presi-

dents, from Eisenhower to Carter, working on

healthcare reform, telecommunications regula-

tion, emissions standards under the Clean Air

Act, and analysis of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

He has now collected his considerable cache of war stories in A Journey Through

Governance (Cosimo), a memoir meant to reveal how the U.S. government works

behind closed doors. It describes little-known drama behind public efforts Morrill

helped spearhead, and recaptures their historical significance. In doing so, Morrill

hopes, he says, “to convey the necessity, even the nobility, of the work of those who

serve in government.”

William Morrill

More alumni profiles and accomplishments:

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Representing in TurkeyAlumnus is the U.S.’s ambassador to this nation bridging Europe and the Middle East

John R. Bass ’86 BA (IR) is the new U.S. Ambassador to

Turkey, confirmed in September. This is his second

ambassadorship; he served in Georgia from 2009 to 2012.

Bass worked as a newspaper editor and political cam-

paign consultant before beginning his diplomatic career in

1988. He has served in U.S. missions in Iraq (where he led the

Provincial Reconstruction Team in Baghdad), Italy, Belgium,

and Chad and, most recently, was executive secretary in the

State Department. He has served on the staff of Vice Presi-

dent Dick Cheney and as chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. He

was director of State’s Operations Center and pursued several assignments focused

on European security issues.

John R. Bass

Alumni News


Hua Jiang ’07 MPA is the director of public relations for Entrepreneurship for Graduates, a nonprofit based in Shanghai.

Elizabeth Mercer ’07 MPA is deputy COO and chief of staff for 100 Resilient Cities, a nonprofit.

Michael Naughton ’07 EMPA is an assistant chief of staff (G8) with the U.S. Army.

Michael Scherger ’07 MPA is a director of diplomatic security within the U.S. Department of State.

Helen Dewey ’97 MPA/’08 MA (Econ) is the president of Dewey Intelligence & Strategy, a consulting firm that specializes in branding, market intelligence, and organizational change.

Catherine Whitlock Nolan ’08 MPA is a consultant at Innovate! Inc. She supports the EPA’s office of environ-mental information remotely from New York City.

Abraham Awolich ’09 MPA is a director of policy analysis and co-founder of the Sudd Institute, an inde-pendent policy research institution located in Juba, South Sudan.

Jacob Beier ’09 MA (PSc) is a Government Account-ing Office analyst who served a six-month rotation in the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Brian Holuj ’09 MPA/IR is the father of a son born on May 25, 2014.

Danielle Louis ’09 MPA is the deputy director for budget and grants analysis for the Kings County (N.Y.) district attorney’s office.

Michael Orwa ’09 MAIR is a program manager with the Society for International Development.

Jeffrey Reczek ’09 MPA is a program analyst for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

Constant Tchona ’09 EMPA/’09 MAIR is the head of Oxfam Great Brit-ain’s Nigeria office.

2010sAaron Anderson ’10 MPA is unit head of the Depart-ment of Health and Mental Hygiene, City of New York.

Chiara Cruciano ’10 MAIR is an admissions counselor for SAI Programs.

Kevin Gilligan ’10 MPA is a program analyst within NASA’s strategic invest-ments division.

Jon Kammerzelt ’10 JD/MPA is an associate with Quarles & Brady’s LLP of Madison, Wisc.

Artyom Perevegyencev ’10 MA (Econ) is an analyst for the UniCredit Group, an Italian global banking and financial services company.

David Medeiros ’09 BA (PSc/Geog)/’10 MPA is serving as the supply officer on the USS Hampton, a nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarine.

Allison Lewan Wallach ’10 MPA is a public sector consultant with Kaiser Associates.

Daniel DePetris ’11 MA (PSc) is working with Wiki-strat, a foreign policy and defense consultancy.

Christopher Khosrovani ’11 BA (PSc) is a sales associate with Reddit, an entertainment, news, and social networking website.

Kari Kietzer ’11 EMIR is an independent anti-corruption consultant for NATO and Transparency International.

Michael Mitchell ’11 MPA is a policy analyst with the Center on Budget and Pol-icy Priorities, an advocacy organization for low-income families.

Steven Schreiber ’11 MPA is a quality improvement supervisor for the Wood-burne Center, Baltimore, Md.

Bree Spencer ’11 MPA is a community programs director for Safe & Sound, a Milwaukee-based nonprofit.

Tiffany Stanley ’11 MPA is a policy analyst with the Utah State Legislature.

Crisis CommunicationCDC official helps Liberia increase public understanding of the Ebola response.

In December, Jana Telfer ’00 MAIR was in Liberia, working

with the nation’s health and information ministries, helping

explain to the Liberian public steps its government and inter-

national partners were taking to break the chains of Ebola transmission.

Telfer is an associate director of communication science with the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, specializing in crisis and emergency risk communica-

tion. Since 2000, she has worked on, among many crises, the 2001 anthrax attacks,

SARS, Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf oil spill, Fukushima, and now Ebola. Sometimes she

helps local officials understand the crisis they face. “I explain complex science in ways

that support officials working under intense time pressure and with inadequate informa-

tion,” she says. Sometimes she helps them communicate with publics. With Fukushima,

for example, she explained risk communication strategy to the Japanese cabinet.

In Liberia, she worked with a new joint committee on a plan to raise awareness of

measures under way, and on a health-practice campaign to prevent new cases. Struc-

tures and tools being created, she says, will serve Liberia long after the epidemic ends.

New Take on a Familiar SubjectBook offers different ways to look at the American West.

William Wyckoff ’79 MA (Geog)/’82 PhD (Geog) is a professor of geography at

Montana State University and photographer who has combined those skills

to forge a new perspective on one of the world’s most mythologized regions. The result

is How to Read the American West, published by the University of Washington Press.

The book addresses both the natural and human history of

the American West, and how history has shaped many of its

places. Instead of using a guidebook’s traditional geographic

organization, Wyckoff draws attention to the connections between

and differences among places. Emphasizing features that recur

from one place to another, the book provides journeys into their

natural and cultural character while informing decisions about

future stewardship of the landscapes of the West.

Previous books by Wyckoff focus on the landscapes of

Montana, Colorado, and Yellowstone Park.

Jana Telfer

William Wyckoff

Helping HandsNew program in the District of Columbia School District pairs students who have disabilities with career mentors.

As a transition specialist in the District of Columbia School District, Raymond

Hutchison ’10 MPA founded and manages the Competitive Employment

Opportunities (CEO) program, which matches disabled high school students with

mentors in their career fields of interest. Mentors expose students to the world of

competitive employment and help guide them through

career exploration. The program includes paid profes-

sional development classes, career-focused capstone

projects, and paid summer internships at the mentor’s

place of employment.

Hutchison, a former classroom teacher, is assisted

at CEO by Sean Duling ’14 MPA, who previously

worked for Teach for Amer-

ica in Jackson, Mississippi. Raymond Hutchison

Faith Abiodun ’12 MPA is a communications associate with the African Leadership Academy.

Martina Durant ’12 MPA is a transition specialist manager for Boston Public Schools.

Akshay Gupta ’12 MPA is a product associate for Zearn.

Yuseke Inoue ’12 MPA/’12 MA (Econ) works in Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare.

Melanie Leis ’12 MPA/IR is an analyst in the healthcare value analytics division of McKinsey & Company.

Brendan Neill ’12 JD/MPA is general counsel of business development and policy for Green Buffalo Fuel LLC, a well-to-wheels LNG vehicle tank engineer-ing firm.

Gregory Reger ’12 MPA is a management analyst in Denver’s budget and management office.

Ege Sacikara ’12 MAIR is a research assistant for the Turkish program in the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Kathleen Walpole ’12 BA (Hist/PSc/PSt) is a man-agement analyst intern for Clark County, Nevada.

Karen Auble ’13 MPA is a human services program consultant for Ohio’s Help Me Grow program.

Dana Banks Clowes ’13 MPA is a fiscal policy analyst for Massachusetts’ Executive Office for Admin-istration and Finance.

Paul Corgel ’09 BA (PSc)/’13 MPA works for the New York State Depart-ment of Homeland Security and Emergency Services.

Bruce Cudworth ’11 EMPA/’13 EMIR is a proj-ect leader with Partners in Learning.

Anthony Cummings ’13 PhD (Geog) received an award for outstanding teaching at the University of Texas-Dallas.

In Washington. At a reception in December,

D.C. alumni met with current undergrads in the

Maxwell-in-Washington program; shown are (left,

l-r) Alex Johnson ’13 BA (PSc/PSt), Carolyn Dee

’14 BA (PSc), and Zachary Kahan ’13 BA (PSt).

In November, Syracuse par-

ticipants in the Humphrey Fel-

lows program were in D.C. for

their Global Leadership Forum

and met with Maxwell alumni

from the World Bank. Pictured

(below, top, l-r) are Gaurav

Tiwari ’14 PD and Humphrey

Fellow Michelle Ntukanyagwe

from Rwanda.

And, in late October, following the Public Di-

plomacy symposium in D.C., past and future

chairs of the event met at a reception (bottom,

l-r): Caitlin Cetola ’10 PD, Lindsey O’Keefe ’11

PD, Cameo Cheung

’13 PD, Maggie

Moore ’14 PD, and

current PD students

Jennifer Osias ’13

BA (IR/PSc) (this

year’s chair) and

Candace Johnson

(next year’s chair).

Other Regions. Among those

at a Central New York meet-up in April were

(right, from top, l-r) Emily Wollaeger ’14 MPA,

Patrick Hodgens ’13 MPA, Kevin Wenzel ’13 MPA,

Virginia Early ’14 MPA, Rebecca Dial ’14 MPA,

Sean Duling ’14 MPA, Paro-

ma Nandi ’09 BA (PSt)/’14

MPA, Whitney Shepard ’14

MPA, Amy Goodall-Ayres

’14 MPA, and Elyse Gre-

enwald ’14 MPA.

In New York City

last April, alumni

and members of the

nonprofit NGO Sus-

tainability attend a

joint lecture; shown

with NGO represen-

tatives are (far right,

l-r) Bradley Egbert

’13 MA (Econ) and

Joseph Simon ’12

MPA/’13 MAIR.

And in Decem-

ber, at a Phoenix re-

ception welcoming

recent grads, alum-

ni on hand includ-

ed (bottom, l-r)

Katherine Potter

Krietor ’83 MPA,

David Krietor ’78 MPA,

Fletcher Montzingo

’14 MPA, and Mat-

thew Gress ’13 MPA.

ALUMNI EVENT SCRAPBOOK

International Connections. Clockwise from top left: In India in Decem-

ber, recent graduates of Maxwell’s professional training program in public pol-

icy and management met with the Maxwell School’s Dan Nelson ’04 MPA (left,

blue shirt) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

In August, alumni in Berlin welcomed current Atlantis Program students

to Germany. Shown are (l-r) Vanessa Remoquillo ’07 MPA; students Sascha

Schuster, Niklas Anzinger, Kelsey Shantz, Lukas Bretzinger, Alexander

Paul, Krista Tuthill ’10 BA (IR), Elisabeth Ijmker, and Carmel Rabin; Man-

uel Pauser ’08 MA (IR/Econ); Olivia Knodt ’14 MPA; and Diana Hollmann

’09 MAIR.

Last summer, alumni in Budapest met with Norma Shannon ’91 MPA,

director of alumni relations. Shown are (l-r) Tamara S. Steger ’04 PhD

(SSc), Shannon, Emese Böröcz ’13 MAIR, and Krisztina Tury ’13 MPA.

And in June a meeting of the Maxwell Japanese Community includ-

ed 14 alumni and six new students — most of them pictured here.


Misha Lawrence ’13 MPA is a process improvement specialist in the New York Department of State.

Stephanie Hsiao-Jing Lee ’13 MPA is a corporate trainer for Epic Systems.

Ryan Martin ’13 MPA/IR is a program associate with the One Acre Fund, a nonprofit serving the African Great Lakes region.

Andrew McQuaide ’13 MPA works in the State of Rhode Island’s Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals. He coordi-nates implementation of a historic recent U.S. Depart-ment of Justice agreement.

Jessica Neyhart Rubin ’13 MPA is a performance analyst for San Francisco’s Office of the Controller.

Joseph Simon ’12 MPA/’13 MAIR is an independent manage-ment consultant based in Jersey City, N.J.

Jessica Todtman ’13 MPA is executive director of government relations and policy for SUNY, and was recognized as a rising star by City & State magazine’s “40 under 40 Albany” list.

Krisztina Tury ’13 MPA is a communica-tions officer in Érd, Hungary.

Christine Ward ’12 BA (PSt)/’13 MPA is a data coordinator/executive assistant for

Powered by Professionals.

Ralanda Kaia Winborn ’11 MA (PSc)/’13 MAIR works for New York State’s NYPerforms program.

Lukas Alfen ’14 BA (PSt) is a teacher in Memphis, Tenn., with Teach for America.

Erin Bauwens ’14 BA (PSc) is a legal intern with Rolinski & Suarez LLC.

Joseph Boskovski ’14 MPA works for New York State’s Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

Joel Cohen ’14 BA (PSt) is a staff assistant and driver for U.S. Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland.

Carolyn Dee ’14 BA (PSc/Econ) is a business analyst for Computer Sciences Cor-poration.

Alissa Dubnicki ’10 MA (Econ)/’14 PhD (Econ) is a senior associate with Analy-sis Group Inc., in Chicago.

Pallab Ghosh ’14 PhD (Econ) is an assistant professor of economics at Oklahoma University.

Zach Green ’14 MPA is now with Arcadis U.S.’s Red Oak Consulting Divi-sion.

James (Chun-Chieh) Hu ’14 PhD (Econ) is a post-doctoral fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Shimeng Liu ’11 MA (Econ)/’14 PhD (Econ) is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California.

Kristen Masi ’14 MPA/IR is an associate with Development Alternatives Incorporated.

Samantha McQueen ’11 BA (Anth)/’14 MPA is an operations coordinator for Washington, D.C., public schools.

Alicia Verdile ’14 BA (PSt) is an alumni programs coordinator with Syracuse University’s Greenberg House in Washington, D.C.

Kathryn Shifley ’14 MPA works for Empire State Development in New York City.

Neil Wakeman ’14 MPA works for the Department of Aging in Albany, N.Y.

William Ronan ’34 BA (PSc)

Grace Beaudoin ’38 MA

Irving Ballen ’39 BA (PSc)

Harold Fischer ’40 BA (PSc)

David Arnold ’43 MPA

Beatrice Sillman Frish ’45 MPA

Marjorie Gottheimer ’45 MPA

Virginia Berke ’47 BA (Soc)

Kenneth Adler ’48 BA (PSc)

Marcia Caldwell ’48 MA (PSc)

Paul Fulmer ’48 BA (Econ)

Joel Banker ’49 BA (PSc)

Allison Deming ’49 BA (Soc)

George Mahshie ’49 BA (Hist)

Rona Schwartz ’49 BA (Hist)

Fitz Walling ’49 MA (Geog)

Patricia Biloz ’50 BA (SSc)

Shirley Elston ’50 BA (Hist)

Arnold Kreisman ’50 MA (Geog)

Neal McCurn ’50 BA (SSc)

Wilbur Lamb ’51 BA (Geog)

Catherine Manos ’51 BA (Soc)

Carol Munson ’51 MA (Hist)

Frank Schie ’51 BA (PSc)

Peter Doherty ’52 BA (Geog)

Gerard Fuda ’52 BA (IR)

Robert McLaughlin ’52 BA (AmSt)

Stanley North ’52 BA (Soc)

Donald Cooney ’53 BA (Econ)

Donald Herzog ’53 BA (Soc)

Roslyn Bersani ’54 BA (Soc)

Herbert Galen ’54 BA (PSc)

Beverly Vaughan ’54 BA (PSc)

Ward Ingalsbe Jr. ’55 BA (PSc)

Gene Martin ’55 PhD (Geog)

Oliver Taylor ’55 MPA

George Brannen ’56 MPA

Harold Kaplan ’56 BA (Soc)

Barry Lyons ’56 BA (PSc)

Philip Phelps ’56 BA (Geog)

Harris Weinstein ’56 BA (Econ)

Thomas Williams ’56 PhD (SSc)

Robert Hunt ’57 MPA

Cynthia Stillman ’57 BA (Soc)

Edward Awad ’58 BA (Soc)

William Johnson ’58 BA (Econ)

Dhanesh Sheth ’58 MA (PA)

Gerald Hershey ’59 BA (Hist)

Norma Ayers ’60 MPA

Hans Falck ’60 PhD (SSc)

Clarence Minkel ’60 PhD (Geog)

Jonathan Pollard ’60 MA (Geog)

James Panton ’61 MPA

Vincent Moran ’62 BA (Geog)

Gyorgy Tarkovics ’62 MA (Hist)

James Miller ’63 BA (Econ)

John Kubach ’64 MA (Econ)

Irving Lauber ’64 BA (PSc)

Clara Tucker ’65 PhD (Hist)

Vincent Andriello ’67 BA (PSc)

Michael Cruit ’69 MPA

Renato Gimeno ’70 MPA

Robert Wolfe ’70 BA (PSc)

David Belkowitz ’71 MPA

Richard Dineen ’72 BA (Hist)

Steven Funk ’72 BA (Econ)

Stephanie Greene ’72 BA (Hist)

Eileen Baron ’73 BA (Hist)

Jean Erickson ’73 BA (PSc)

Dorothy Atkins ’74 BA (Soc)

Sunithi Bajekal ’68 MPA / ’74 PhD (SSc)

Blaine Jensen ’74 MPA

Joanne Capone ’76 MPA

Elisabeth Melczer ’77 BA (Hist)

Joseph Sopko ’77 BA (Anth)

Steven Taylor ’77 PhD (Soc)

Robert Barry ’80 BA (PSc)

Rey Torres ’80 BA (Hist)

Daniel McDonald ’84 BA (PSt)

Tina McCallum ’94 BA (PSc)

Karen Fahey ’96 BA (Econ)

Eric Rossman ’97 MA (Soc)

Matundu Makalani ’98 MA (PA)

Sinan Eler ’03 BA (Econ)

Clifford English ’07 BA (PSc)

Steven Hill ’13 BA (PSc)

Other DeathsSince our last edition, word has also been received of these alumni deaths:

Diplomat Terence Todman Passes Away

Terence A. Tod-man ’52 MPA, the first African American to achieve the rank of career

ambassador in the U.S. State Department, died on August 13.

Todman was a native of the Virgin Islands who served in World War II before attending Maxwell. He was a career foreign service officer, beginning at a time when fewer than two percent of foreign service staff were minority. Early in his career, he worked with the United Nations to set independence timetables

for colonial nations. He was named ambassador to Chad in 1969, and also in Argentina, Denmark, Spain, Costa Rica, and Guinea. Among many accomplishments, he helped guide Spain’s entrance into NATO. He was also assistant secretary for inter-American affairs. He retired from active service in 1993.

Secretary of State John Kerry lauded Todman’s out-spoken advocacy for equal-ity, describing his career as “distinguished, trailblazing, and celebrated.” Todman’s legacy, he said, is that, in its diversity, today’s State Department “looks so much more like America.”

Former PA Chair Merget Mourned

Astrid Merget ’68 MPA/’73 PhD (SSc), who returned to Maxwell as chair of public adminis-tration, 1995-2000,

passed away October 13. She was also the Bantle Professor in Business and Government Policy.

Merget left Maxwell to become dean of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University, and then provost at Louisiana State University. Her pre-Maxwell career included academic and administrative posts at Ohio State University, George Washington Univer-sity, and Barnard College.

In Memoriam


Chair

Sean O’Keefe ’78 MPAChairman and CEO (ret.), Airbus Group

Members

Alwaleed bin Talal bin AbdulAziz Alsaud ’85 MSSc / ’99 LLD

Founder and President, Kingdom Holding Co.

Andrew T. Berlin ’83 BA Chairman and CEO, Berlin Packaging

Jill Bodkin ’77 MPA Chair and CEO, Golden Heron Enterprises

Molly Corbett Broad ’62 BA / ’09 Hon.

President, American Coun-cil on Education

John H. Chapple* ’75 BA / ’11 Hon.

President, Hawkeye Invest-ments LLC

Gerald B. Cramer* ’52 BS / ’10 Hon

Managing Director, GOM Capital LLC

Cathy Daicoff ’79 MPAManaging Director, Policy and Regulation Coordina-tion, Standard & Poor’s

Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr. USN (Ret.)

Vice Chair, Joint Chiefs of Staff (ret.)

Stephen Hagerty ’91 BS / ’93 MPA

President, Hagerty Consult-ing Inc.

Patrick Hennigan ’75 MPA / ’78 PhD

Managing Director (ret.), Public Finance Department, Morgan Stanley

Christopher Meek ’92 BA Vice President, State Street Global Advisors; Director/Chair, SoldierSocks Inc.

Walter G. Montgomery ’67 BA

Co-founder and retired CEO, RLM Finsbury

Ronald P. O’Hanley III ’80 BA

President (ret.), Asset Man-agement and Corporate Services, Fidelity Invest-ments

Susan C.V. Penny* ’70 BA

Private Investment Con-sultant

Howard G. Phanstiel* ’70 BA / ’71 MPA

Chairman and CEO, Phanstiel Enterprises LLC

W. Terry Pigott ’79 BS Principal, Glacier Peak Capital Management LLC

Maj. Gen. Arnold Punaro USMC (Ret.)

CEO, The Punaro Group LLC

H. Lewis Rapaport ’59 BA

CEO, Component Assem-bly Systems Inc.

Caroline Rapking ’82 MPA

President, Rapking and Associates LLC

George Schaefer ’74 MPA

Retired Energy Executive

Donna E. Shalala ’70 MSSc / ’70 PhD / ’87 Hon

President, University of Miami

Michael A. Smith ’74 MSSc / ’75 MA / ’75 PhD

Sports Business Consultant

Eugene Sunshine ’72 MPA

Senior VP (ret.), Business & Finance, Northwestern University

W. Lynn Tanner ’75 PhD President, TEC Canada

Paul A. Volcker ’08 Hon Chair/CEO (ret.), Wolfen-sohn & Co.

Richard J. Wilhelm ’68 BA

Executive Vice President (ret.), Booz Allen Hamilton

James T. Willie ’98 MPAGrant Review and Policy Specialist, Corporation for National and Community Service

Stephen S. York ’71 BAPartner, McAloon & Fried-man

Honorary Member

Joseph A. Strasser ’53 BA / ’58 MPA

CFO (ret.), City of Jackson-ville (Fla.)

Maxwell School Advisory Board

Maxwell PerspectiveWinter 2015

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For Andrew Swab ’12 BA (IR), everything changed during a senior-year,

seminar-style Honors class, America and the World, taught by Dean

James Steinberg, the former deputy secretary of state. It served as a crash

course in national security and diplomacy, and culminated with a visit by then-

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “That class left a deep impression on me,”

says Swab. He began then to

think seriously about a career in

public service.

Having worked briefly at PBS,

Swab is today a program assis-

tant in the State Department’s Bu-

reau of Diplomatic Security, which

works to counter threats to dip-

lomatic posts abroad. He owes

that job not just to the education

he gained at Maxwell, but also to

many people who have helped.

“Dean Steinberg, Professor

Francine D’Amico, other pro-

fessors, and alumni helped me

every step of the way and have

really paid it forward to me,”

Swab says. “Without their help

and recommendations, I would

not be where I am today.” Although

it took many interviews and applications, it was worth it in the end.

His boss, Division Chief Michael Scherger ’07 MPA, “wears his Maxwell lan-

yard with pride,” Swab says. To fill the job Swab now holds, Scherger tapped

into the Maxwell network. He learned of Swab’s special exposure to the State

Department and made the hire. “He has been a great mentor,” says Swab. “He is

very committed to public service.”

Swab has learned it takes a network to get where you want to go — and you

need to give as well as you get. So when he left his job at the PBS NewsHour, he

recommended a recent Newhouse/Maxwell alumnus, Andrew Troast, who had

e-mailed him looking for advice on the policy or broadcast business. Swab told

the hiring manager at PBS Troast’s political background would make a good fit.

“I’m glad to say he was hired,” Swab says. “It’s all about opening a door for oth-

ers. So many people have done it for me, and all I hope is to do it for others.”

Andy Swab (top right) during his Hillary Clinton encounter at Maxwell; and in his job at State

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Paying It ForwardAfter a life-altering class at Maxwell, Andrew Swab found a network of colleagues to help realize his new aspiration.

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