AFFILIATED FACULTY

Ataei HOSSEIN ATAEI
Professor of Practice
SU Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering

Structural engineering, civil infrastructure
Banks WILLIAM C. BANKS
Director
Institute for National Security
and Counterterrorism

National and homeland security law and policy,
emergency powers, disaster management
Chandler DAVID CHANDLER
Associate Professor
SU Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering

Hydrology, climate change, green infrastructure,
sustainable development
Cummings DANIELLE CUMMINGS
Assistant Chancellor/Director
of Communications

Catholic Diocese of Syracuse
Crisis communications, social media
Davidson CLIFF DAVIDSON
Wilmot Professor of Engineering

Environmental Engineering Program
Director

SU Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering

Civil and environmental engineering, green
infrastructure
Dayton BRUCE DAYTON
Research Assistant Professor

SU Department of Political Science
Associate Director
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Conflict resolution, crisis management
Dennison THOMAS DENNISON
Professor of Practice
SU Department of Public Administration
and International Affairs

Director, Program in Health Services
Management and Policy

Director, Lerner Center for Public Health
Health care management, community-
based care
Gerard CATHERINE GERARD
Director, SU Program for the Advancement of
Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC)

Leadership, organizational development
Griffin RANDALL GRIFFIN
Adjunct Professor
SU Department of Public Administration
Professor
Emergency and Disaster Management
Executive Master’s Degree Program,
Georgetown University

Public safety, emergency management,
homeland security, disaster preparedness
and response
Hermann MARGARET HERMANN
Professor
SU Department of Political Science
Director
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Political leadership, crisis management
Johnson CHRIS JOHNSON
Professor
SU Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering

Environmental engineering, water management,
statistical analysis
Longstaff PATRICIA LONGSTAFF
David Levidow Professor of Television,
Radio, and Film

SU Newhouse School of Public
Communications

Communications management, crisis
communications
Lux STEVEN LUX
Director, Maxwell School Executive Education
Program
Mid-career training, NGO management
and leadership
Meath MICHAEL MEATH
Adjunct Professor

SI Newhouse School of Public
Communications

Crisis communications
Mergel INES MERGEL
Associate Professor

SU Department of Public Administration
and International Affairs

Senior Research Associate
Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Social media in the public sector
Mohan CHILUKURI K. MOHAN
Chair
SU Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science

Social networks, data analysis
Morrow CYNTHIA MORROW
Professor of Practice

SU Department of Public Administration
and International Affairs
Senior Research Associate

Center for Policy Research
Public health
Mosher ANNE MOSHER
Associate Professor
SU Department of Geography
Human and urban geography, qualitative
research methods
Perrin KELI PERRIN
Assistant Director

Institute for National Security
and Counterterrorism

Homeland security, crisis and disaster
management
Robinson JONNELL ROBINSON
Assistant Professor

SU Department of Geography
Community geography, participatory GIS,
qualitative research methods
Sam Salem SAM SALEM
Chair
SU Department of Construction Engineering
and Management
Infrastructure systems and asset
management, risk management
Baris Salman BARIS SALMAN
Professor of Practice
SU Department of Construction Engineering
and Management
Infrastructure asset management,
risk management, deterioration modeling
Semaan BRYAN C. SEMAAN
Assistant Professor
SU School of Information Studies (iSchool)

Civic uses of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs), ICTs in resilience and
recovery efforts, social media and political
decision-making
Steinberg LAURA STEINBERG
Dean
SU College of Engineering and Computer
Science

Disaster management/resilience analysis,
environmental modeling, critical infrastructure
protection