SPL faculty teach and research in a wide array of security topics, including counterterrorism, cybersecurity, defense, military law, climate security, international law, IHL, human rights, peace studies, postconflict reconstruction, critical infrastructure, and more.
THE HON. JAMES E. BAKER
Director, Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law
WILLIAM C. BANKS
College of Law Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor and Professor Emeritus
SHIU-KAI CHIN
Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computer Science
RENÉE DE NEVERS
Associate Professor, Maxwell School
COLIN ELMAN
Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School
RYAN GRIFFITHS
Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School
LAURYN GOULDIN
Laura J. & L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, Crandall Melvin Professor of Law, College of Law
MARGARET HERMANN
Professor Emerita, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
LAURIE B. HOBART
Associate Teaching Professor, College of Law
AZRA HROMADZIC
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Maxwell School
Lionel Johnson
Professor of Practice, Department of Public Administration and International Affairs, Maxwell School
ANDREW KIM
Professor of Law, College of Law
LOUIS KRIESBERG
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Maxwell School
DANIEL MCDOWELL
Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of International Affairs, Maxwell School
LEE MCKNIGHT
Associate Professor of Information Studies, iSchool
VADM ROBERT B. MURRETT (RET.)
Deputy Director, SPL
TINA NABATCHI
Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, Maxwell School
SEAN O’KEEFE
University Professor
Kristen Patel
Professor of Practice, Policy Studies
KELI A. PERRIN
Associate Teaching Professor, Managing Director, SPL
STEVEN PIKE
Assistant Professor, Public Relations, Newhouse School
ROBERT A. RUBINSTEIN
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Maxwell School
BRIAN TAYLOR
Director, Moynihan Institute
Professor, Political Science, Maxwell School
C. CORA TRUE-FROST
Bond, Schoeneck and King Distinguished Professor, College of Law
DAVID VAN SLYKE
Dean of the Maxwell School; Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs; and Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy
Michael Williams
Associate Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, Director of the Carnegie-Maxwell Policy Planning Lab