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

MIRIAM FENDIUS ELMAN
Associate 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, College of Law

MARGARET HERMANN
Director, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

LAURIE B. HOBART
Assistant Teaching Professor, College of Law

AZRA HROMADZIC
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Maxwell School

ANDREW KIM
Professor, College of Law

LOUIS KRIESBERG
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Maxwell School

DANIEL MCDOWELL
Associate Professor of Political Science, 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

MARK P. NEVITT
Associate Professor, College of Law

SEAN O’KEEFE
University Professor

KELI A. PERRIN
Managing Director, SPL

STEVEN PIKE
Assistant Professor, Public Relations, Newhouse School

ROBERT A. RUBINSTEIN
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Maxwell School

JAMES B. STEINBERG
University Professor

BRIAN TAYLOR
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