Stephen Sussman

Dr. Stephen Sussman is a Professor of Public Administration at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. He serves as Chair of the Academic Engagement Network (AEN) Interest Group for Faculty in the Southeast and is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), where he co-chairs the Resilience Group. He is also the co-founder and co-president of the Palm Beach Center for Democracy and Policy Research, a nonpartisan think tank focused on democracy, human rights, and foreign affairs. In 2016 and 2024, Dr. Sussman was a Scholar-in-Residence at the ISGAP–Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies. In 2022, he was a visiting scholar at Zefat Academic College in Zefat, Israel, where he taught a course on U.S. public policymaking.

Dr. Sussman’s research focuses on public policy, antisemitism, and democratic resilience. His work examines how antisemitism is addressed through legal, political, and institutional channels in the United States, and how these responses influence contemporary policymaking and social science. His recent scholarship includes an article on the Crown Heights riots and antisemitism published in the FIU Law Review, as well as presentations at SECoPA, MPSA, the Law vs. Antisemitism Conference, and the ISGAP–Woolf Institute International Conference on Global Antisemitism.

He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Georgia State University, where he specialized in Public Law and wrote his dissertation on U.S. Supreme Court voting behavior in religion cases.