Director, Globalization and International Relations Academic Program

Gallya Lahav is a Professor of Political Science and a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She holds graduate degrees in political science from the London School of Economics and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Lahav was a visiting research affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, New York University, and the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). She was named visiting chair Professor of Mobility at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM) at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland (2010) and has participated as visiting faculty in the International MA Program on Migration at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, since its founding (2013).  During her last sabbatical in 2022, she was a visiting researcher at  the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego.  In addition to her recent book, Immigration, Security and the Liberal State (with Anthony M. Messina), published by Cambridge University Press. she has been working on climate migration, child migration, and the impact of public health threats on migration.   Additionally, she received a Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (FAHSS) grant for "Gendered Pathways to Leadership in Far Left and Far Right Parties" (2023), a study she worked on alongside Professor Stanley Feldman and the University of Pennsylvania PhD student Lauren Palladino.