Selina Gallo-Cruz
Selina Gallo-Cruz, associate professor of sociology, is the latest Maxwell School faculty member to be named an O鈥橦anley Faculty Scholar. She was selected in recognition of her outstanding teaching and scholarship.
Gallo-Cruz will hold the title for three years and will receive financial support for her research and teaching.
The designation is made possible through the O鈥橦anley Endowed Fund, which was established by Maxwell Advisory Board Chairman and University Trustee Ronald O鈥橦anley III, chairman and chief executive officer of State Street Global Advisors and a 1980 graduate of the Maxwell School with a B.A. in political science.
Gallo-Cruz is a senior research associate in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration, where she co-directs the advocacy and activism research team. She is also a research affiliate for the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Gallo-Cruz鈥檚 scholarly work has focused on gender, violence, non-violence and social movements in a comparative context. She recently edited 鈥淔eminism, Violence and Nonviolence鈥� (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) and authored 鈥淧olitical Invisibility and Mobilization: Women Against State Violence in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and Liberia鈥� (Routledge, 2021), which won the American Sociological Association鈥檚 Peace, War and Social Conflict section鈥檚 Outstanding Book Award. In 2021, she was honored as a Democracy Visiting Fellow with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School and was awarded the Fulbright-Tampere University Scholar Award. Her current research focuses on comparative policy and legislative conflicts over climate change and human trafficking.
Carol Faulkner, senior associate dean for academic affairs, says Gallo-Cruz enhances the Maxwell School鈥檚 emphasis on research with a public impact. Faulkner praises Gallo-Cruz as an 鈥渙utstanding and internationally recognized scholar of social movements and policy change, who engages students around challenging issues facing the U.S. and the world.鈥�
Prior to joining Maxwell, Gallo-Cruz taught at the College of the Holy Cross and Emory University.
Story by Mikayla Melo
