New Department Chairs

CATHERINE HERROLD, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, explores how citizens, nongovernmental organizations and public organizations work to promote social justice and democracy. She was previously an associate professor at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and a faculty affiliate of the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. She also served as a visiting scholar at Birzeit University in Palestine and at American University in Cairo, Egypt. She received a Ph.D. in public policy from Duke University in 2013.

JULIA

L. CARBONI CITIZENSHIP AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Carboni, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, co-directs the Collaborative Governance research initiative within Maxwell’s Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC). Her research focuses on collaborative arrangements to address large-scale social issues and social media use and management by nonprofit organizations and has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the IBM Center for the Business of Government, the Army Research Office and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2012.

CHRISTOPHER R. DeCORSE ANTHROPOLOGY

DeCorse, professor of anthropology, researches the archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of sub-Saharan Africa. He is particularly interested in how archaeology reveals the transformations that occurred in African societies during the Atlantic slave trade period in Africa. Recent publications include “Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, British Forts” (SUNY Press, 2019) and “Their Communities: Archaeological and Historical Perspective” (University Press of Florida, 2018), co-edited with Zachary J. M. Beier. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1989. This is his third time serving as chair of the department.

OSAMAH F. KHALIL UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Khalil, associate professor of history, is a historian of U.S. foreign relations and the modern Middle East. He is the author of America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State (Harvard University Press, 2016) and the editor of United States Relations with China and Iran: Towards the Asian Century (Bloomsbury, 2019). He has been a frequent media commentator and contributor to the Huffington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Hill, Al Akhbar and Al Jazeera. In 2018, he received the Chancellor’s Citation for Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction. He received a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2011.

Amy Ellen Schwartz Economics

Schwartz, professor of economics and public administration and international affairs, also serves as the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs and is a senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research. She is also an emeritus professor of public policy, education and economics at New York University and a co-principal investigator and director of transportation research for the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice. Her research on education policy and urban economics focuses on the nexus of schools, neighborhoods and public services and the causes and consequences of children’s academic, social and health outcomes. She received a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1989.

RYAN MONARCH, assistant professor of economics, researches buyer-supplier relationships in international trade and how the recent tariff war affected U.S. exports and supply chains. He previously served as a principal economist for the international finance division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. This past winter, he served as a visiting scholar at George Washington University. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 2014.

HEATHER LAW PEZZAROSSI, assistant professor of anthropology, is an anthropologically trained archaeologist who collaborates with Indigenous communities in North America to build community-led heritage projects. She received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2014.