McNair Staff

Project Director	Dr. David Cingranelli
	Professor Cingranelli's research is focused on the human rights practices of governments from a cross-national comparative perspective. Cingranelli teaches graduate seminars titled Human Rights and World Politics, Public Policy Theory, Strategies for Policy Analysis, and American Foreign Policy. His undergraduate offerings include Ethics and American Foreign Policy, Conflicts of Rights, and Labor Politics, Policy and Law.

Professor of Political Science
Degree	Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
E-mail	davidc[at]binghamton.edu
Office Hours	To schedule an appointment please call the Administrative Assistant, Junior Beckford, at 607.777.6594
Phone	607.777.6594

Associate Director	Shanise Kent
	Shanise N. Kent received her Juris Doctor with a concentration in finance transactions from the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law and her Master of Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Management. She is also the campus Director for the State University of New York (SUNY) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) program at BU and the Associate Director of the BU LSAMP program. LSAMP is a National Science Foundation funded program that supports underrepresented minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) degrees. She has also taught courses on Law and the Political Process, Race and Law, Law’s Order and Introduction to American Politics for the Political Science Department.

Degree	J.D., M.B.A., B.A. Political Science, University at Buffalo
Email	skent[at]binghamton.edu lsamp[at]binghamton.edu
Office Hours	M \| T \| W \| TR \| F: 8:30am - 5:00pm
Phone	607.777.6594