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If you’re covering the latest developments with Iran and their impact on Israel, the U.S., China, Russia, global supply chains, and more, �鶹Ƶ��University faculty experts are available for interviews this week. Below, you’ll find a list of experts along with their titles and areas of expertise. To schedule an interview, please contact our media team at media@syr.edu.

• Retired Vice Admiral is a professor of practice at �鶹Ƶ��University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and serves as the deputy director of �鶹Ƶ��University’s Institute for Security Policy and Law. His areas of expertise include national security, international relations, military and defense strategy, and leadership.
• is an adjunct professor at �鶹Ƶ��University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Army veteran. McFate is an expert on 21st century war and changing international relations.
• is a history professor at �鶹Ƶ��University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. His areas of expertise include U.S. foreign relations, modern Middle East, Cold War, and Arab-Israeli conflict.
• Tetiana Hranchak is a Ukraine native and visiting research scholar in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at �鶹Ƶ��University. Her expertise is in Russia politics and relations, media literacy, countering misinformation and propaganda and the role of libraries in the politics of memory.
• is professor of supply chain management in the Whitman School of Management and is keeping an eye on possible shipping slowdown/stoppages in the Strait of Hormuz. Penfield says “20% of global oil and gas pass through this area and China, India and Japan import over 80% of their oil and gas supplies from this region. If we saw any stoppage with oil and gas supplies we would see a similar supply chain shock that we saw with COVID, and tariffs.”