Maxwell — Catherine Bertini

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University

Emeritus Professor Bertini taught graduate courses to students earning Masters in Public Administration, Master of Arts in International Relations and joint degrees with other programs. She also advised many Maxwell School of Citizenship students and faculty members. She lectured in Syracuse, New York City, Geneva, and Rome, and led the International Relations program through a transitional period as its graduate program merged with the public administration department. Professor Bertini also served as Vice Chair of the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs. She is now a Syracuse University professor emeritus.

Maxwell Humanitarian action class visit to New York with UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman (2006)

Ambassador John Bolton speaking at the Maxwell School pictured here with Professor Maragret Hermann, Dean Mitch Wallerstein, and Professor Arthur Brooks (2007)

Maxwell Humanitarian Action Class in New York at the UN General Assembly (2008)

Catherine Bertini and PAIA Department Chair Stu Bretschneider welcoming Senator George McGovern to Maxwell after he had just written a book about Abraham Lincoln (2009)

Introducing Dr. Mohammad Yunis of Grameen Bank at the Syracuse University Speaker Series (2010)

Maxwell International Organizations class in Berne (2012)

Maxwell MPA Class of 2013

Maxwell Food Security class in Rome (2013)

Maxwell UN Class in New York meeting with UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson (2014)

Maxwell Girl's Education Class of 2014

Judge Phillip R. Rumsey, New York State Supreme Court, hosting young African leaders in his chambers at the Cortland County Courthouse (2014)

Movses Abelian, then Director of UN Security Council, current Under Secretary General, General Assembly and Conference Management, speaking to UN class in NY (2015)

Maxwell Food Security class in Rome with WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin (2015)

Food Security Class in Rome (2015)

UN Class in NYC with Amir Abdulla, WFP Deputy Executive Director (2016)

Maxwell United Nations Class in NYC with Lamin Sise (2017)

Maxwell UN class with Shannon O'Shea, UNICEF, Maxwell MPA Alumn (2017)

United Nations: Managing for Change Class at the UN General Assembly (2017)

Carol Bellamy, UNICEF Executive Director 1995-2005, speaking to Maxwell UN class (2017)

Maxwell Students (2017)

Girls’ Education Class with Werner Schleifer, 2015

Courses Taught 2005 - 2017, 2020, 2022

United Nations Organizations — Managing for Change
Humanitarian Action: Challenges, Responses & Results
Girls’ Education in the Developing World
Food Security
Post Conflict Reconstruction
Executive Leadership
International Organizations

Professor Bertini also taught a graduate course on domestic and international food aid during the fall of 2002 as the Harry A & Margaret D Towsley Foundation Policy-Maker in Residence at the Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago in 2021, co-leading a course on the Politics of Hunger with Ertharin Cousin. During the fall semester 1986, she was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.