Promotions

The Syracuse University Board of Trustees approved promotions for six faculty members at the Maxwell School. Two of them, Dimitar Gueorguiev and Guido Pezzarossi, were granted tenure in their promotion from assistant to associate professor.

Gueorguiev, associate professor of political science, specializes in comparative political economy, authoritarian institutions, governance and survey methods. He was honored in 2020 with the Maxwell School’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in 2014.

Pezzarossi, associate professor of anthropology, specializes in the archaeology of colonialism, historical anthropology, postcolonial theory, new materialism and the archaeology of food. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2014.

The four additional faculty members who were promoted received tenure previously. They are: Alan Allport, who was promoted to professor of history; Shana Kushner Gadarian, who was promoted to professor of political science; Matt Huber, who was promoted to professor of geography and the environment; and Junko Takeda, who was promoted to professor of history.

BAOBAO ZHANG, assistant professor of political science and core faculty member in the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute, researches the governance of artificial intelligence (AI). She served as a research affiliate with Centre for the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford and as a fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 2020.

Other Faculty News

CATHERINE GERARD has been named a professor of practice of public administration and international affairs, after having served as an adjunct professor of public administration and associate director of Executive Education at Maxwell for many years. In July 2020, Gerard stepped down from her longtime role as director (and previously, co-director) of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration but stayed on to co-direct its Collaborative Governance Initiative.

And, GLADYS MCCORMICK has been promoted to associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion. She is an associate professor of history and the Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations at the Maxwell School, and she is a senior associate in the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.