Centers & Institutes
Maxwell sponsors or co-sponsors 9 research centers and institutes. Each is organized around a theme or specialization within public affairs, and each serves two complementary missions. First, it augments teaching activities by sponsoring events and activities that capitalize on Maxwell’s interdisciplinary traditions. And it facilitates research projects that fall within its topical area, often linking students with faculty members in study, research, conferences, and publication.
In the centers and institutes, you are apt to find faculty members — and students — from different disciplines working together on challenges of public policy, governance, economic development, and other spheres of public life. The centers and institutes are laboratories for the sort of silo-busting work that is considered one of Maxwell strengths.
The 9 centers and research institutes are:
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 Aging Studies Institute
Promoting aging-related research, training, and outreach. Co-sponsored with the School of Social Work in SU’s Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics |
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Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media
Assessing the ways in which judicial independence is established and maintained. Co-sponsored with SU’s College of Law and with the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications |
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Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Serving a better understanding of contemporary challenges in democratic governance — particularly, the idea of citizenship, its evolution, and the conditions under which it thrives. |
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Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion
Dedicated to creating public health programs that are motivating, sustainable, and effective replicated in community and national prevention programs. |
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Center for Environmental Policy and Administration
Exploring environmental issues from an integrated perspective that considers technical, social, and humanistic aspects. |
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Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Facilitating research on issues raised by an increasingly interdependent world and studies challenges to the quality of governance worldwide. |
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Center for Policy Research
A home for domestic policy concerns — among them health studies, econometrics, public education, public finance, social welfare, poverty and income security, and urban and regional studies.
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Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
Dedicated to the enhancement of knowledge about social conflicts and to collaborative governance and collaborative problem solving. |
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Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism
Examining pervasive questions of national security and counterterrorism law and policy. Co-sponsored with the SU College of Law |
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