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Faculty and students
Spotlight
Through this section you will learn many things
about Maxwell history reading the interviews given by Professors,
current and former students. These interviews will have a journalistic
style, dynamic and direct. We have already interviewed the Executive
Director of the International Relations Program, Matt Bonham, and the
Associate Director of the Executive Education Program, Catherine Gerard
and the Emeritus Professor Neil Katz.

Jennifer Potter Hayes |
Jeniffer Potter Hayes is enthusiastic about Maxwell's expanding
internationalism and considers that the school combines both career and alumni
services under one umbrella, as a model that makes lots of sense.
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Professor
Jeffrey Straussman |
Interview with
professor: Professor
Jeffrey Straussman joined Syracuse University as a faculty in 1979. In 1975 he
earned a PhD in Political Science from the City University of New York and
before that, he completed an MA at Hunter College in the same city. “The typical
public administration student is interested in public affairs and wants to make
a difference in some meaningful way.” |

Dean Mitchel B. Wallerstein |
Interview with dean: Mitchel
B. Wallerstein. “The impetus to set up the Maxwell School 82
years ago was the movement in the United States for government reform. The
government at that time was corrupt with a lot of cronyism, which we are seeing
again today and in other governments as well”. |

John
Mathiason |
Interview with professor: John Mathiason. “For most officials,
regardless of whether they deal with foreign affairs or domestic
policy, interaction with international organizations will be a
normal and inevitable part of their work". |

Matt Bonham
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Interview with professor
Matt Bonham: “International affairs are speeding up, and we find
ourselves now in a very different environment- one that is
complex and based increasingly on networks.”
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Neil Katz
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Interview with professor
Neil Katz: “Our Graduates are establishing a leadership and
shaping the field of Conflict Resolution in USA”
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