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Alexandru Balas - Director, Clark Center for Global Engagement; Coordinator, International Studies Program (inter-disciplinary major and minor)

Professor of International Studies

Education

PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Political Science (International Relations), 2011

Research Areas

My research interests focus on issues of conflict resolution, peace studies, European politics, regional integration processes, international organizations, book networks, and travelers in the 19th century.

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Sharing the Burden of Peace: Inter-Organizational Cooperation in Peace Operations, New York: Peter Lang, May 2022
The Peace Puzzle (with Paul Diehl and Gary Goertz), New York: Oxford University Press, 2016

  • 2017 winner of the J. David Singer Book Award by the International Studies Association-Midwest
  • One of seven finalists for American Political Science Association’s 2017 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs (out of over 150 books).

Peace Operations. 2nd edition (with Paul Diehl), Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014

PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS

European Union and Conflict Resolution in Central Asia in the 21st Century” (forthcoming)

The Adventures of a Transylvanian Doctor in Constantinople, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Iraq (1815-1838)” (forthcoming)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Book Review of Changing Indian Images of the European Union Perception and Misperception, Palgrave MacMillan Singapore, 2019, 162 pp., & India and the European Union in a Turbulent World, Palgrave McMillan Singapore, 2020, 220 pp., Rajendra K. Jain (Editor), Romanian Journal of Indian Studies, September 2023

“Book Note” for The Peace Continuum: What It Is and How to Study It (authored by Christian Davenport, Erik Melander, and Patrick Regan, Oxford University Press, 2018), Journal of Peace Research, November 2018

“Crossing the Ocean: Identity, Teaching, and Research Challenges for an European Scholar in U.S. Universities”, Modelling the New Europe, issue 17, December 2015: 143-163

“Demanding Peace: The Impact of Prevailing Conflict on the Shift from Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding”, Peace and Change 37(2), April 2012: 195-226 (with Andrew Owsiak and Paul Diehl)

 “It Takes Two (or More): Multiple Simultaneous Peace Operations”, Journal of International Peacekeeping 15(3-4), September 2011: 384-421

ROLE-PLAY SIMULATIONS

European Union Simulations "Climate Change and Security Implications", "EU Digital Policy and Artificial Intelligence", and "EU-US Trade and Technology" (co-authored with Noam Ebner, Giulia Tercovich, and Andreas Kotelis), (Washington, D.C.: European Union Delegation in the United States, 2024), https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/united-states-america/model-eu_en

European Council Simulation “Global Europe? Deciding Canada’s Membership Application to the European Union, Role-Play Negotiation (co-authored with Noam Ebner and Andreas Kotelis), submitted for the 16th Annual Teaching Case and Simulation Competition, E-PARCC, Syracuse University, Maxwell School’s Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC)

European Council Simulation “European Agenda on Migration” Role-Play Negotiation (co-authored with Noam Ebner, and Andreas Kotelis), (Washington, D.C.: European Union Delegation in the United States, 2017). Available on the European Union website at: https://eeas.europa.eu/sites/eeas/files/sim1-european_council_simulation_migration-110917-eu_file.pdf

  • Winner of the 11th Annual Teaching Case and Simulation Competition, E-PARCC 2018, Syracuse University, Maxwell School’s Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC)

Council of the European Union Simulation “Negotiation Mandate for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Tradeland” Role-Play Negotiation (co-authored with Noam Ebner, and Andreas Kotelis), (Washington, D.C.: European Union Delegation in the United States, 2017). Available on the European Union website at: https://eeas.europa.eu/sites/eeas/files/sim2-council_of_the_eu_trade-111317.pdf

Council of the European Union – European Parliament – European Commission Simulation “Anti-Terrorism EU Legislation” Role-Play Negotiation & Mediation (co-authored with Noam Ebner, and Andreas Kotelis), (Washington, D.C.: European Union Delegation in the United States, 2017). Available on the European Union website at: https://eeas.europa.eu/sites/eeas/files/sim3-large_model_eu_simulation_terrorism-110917-eu_file.pdf

Note: These three projects above were made possible through funding from the European Union through Service Tender (reference No. PPD-EEAS-023-2016).

alexandru.balas@cortland.edu

Sharon R. Steadman – Sociology/Anthropology Department 

Professor of Anthropology


Research Areas

My main research area is anthropological and archaeological investigations in the Middle East in general and in Turkey particularly. Research and publication topics include ancient and modern architecture, archaeological approaches to religion, and world systems theory.

Selected Publications

Take Me To Your Leader: The Power of Place in Prehistoric Anatolian Settlements. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 363 (2011): 1-24.

Handbook of Anatolian Studies (8,000-332 BCE), edited volume (with Gregory McMahon) University Press, 2011.

“Agency, Architecture, and Archaeology in Prehistoric Central Anatolia.” In Agency and Identity in the Ancient Near East, pp. 27-45, ed. by Sharon R. Steadman and Jennifer C. Ross, Equinox Publishers, London. 2010.

“Excavations on the North Central Plateau: The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Occupation at Çadir Höyük.” Anatolian Studies 58 (2008): 47-86. (with J. C. Ross, G. McMahon, and R. L. Gorny)

“Reliquaries on the Landscape: Mounds as Matrices of Human Cognition.” In Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives , pp. 286-307, ed. by S. Pollock and R. Bernbeck, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 2005.

sharon.steadman@cortland.edu

Daniela Baban-Hurrle – International Programs Office

Director, Study Abroad 

Daniela.BabanHurrle@cortland.edu

Patricia Martinez de la Vega Mansilla – Modern Languages Department 

Lecturer, Spanish

Wylie Schwartz – Art History Department 

Assistant Professor of Art History

Wylie.Schwartz@cortland.edu 

Scott Moranda - History Department

Professor of History

Scott.Moranda@cortland.edu

Tara Mahoney - Sport Management

Associate Professor of Sport Management

Tara.Mahoney@cortland.edu 

Bekeh Ukelina - History Department 

Associate Professor of History

Bekeh.Ukelina@cortland.edu 

Jeremy Jimenez - Foundations and Social Advocacy

Associate Professor of Foundations and Social Advocacy

Jeremy.Jimenez@cortland.edu 

Brian Jirout - Library 

Archivist and Instructional Services Librarian

Brian.Jirout@cortland.edu 

Juan Prieto - Political Science Department

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Juan.Prieto@cortland.edu 

Maria Timberlake - Foundations and Social Advocacy

Associate Professor of Foundations and Social Advocacy

Maria.Timberlake@cortland.edu 

Mary Schlarb - Academic Affairs 

Assistant Vice Provost for Student Achievement 

Mary.Schlarb@cortland.edu