Faculty Expertise

comparative politics, Immigrant and Diaspora studies, immigrant/diaspora-home country political and economic engagement, immigration and democracy, immigration and economic development, Latin American Politics, Mexico, Political violence

Chicana/o History, immigration, Labor History, Latin American, Latinx Studies, US-Mexico Borderlands

Black Caribbean immigrants in the US, Black sociology, Ethnography, immigrant racialization, Qualitative Methods, sociology of immigration, urban immigration, urban sociology

anthropology of education, cultural change, cultural production theory, education in humanitarian aid policy, ethnographic approaches to education, forced migration and education, foundational studies in education, gender identity formation, narrating lives in school, post colonial studies in education

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Integration of humanistic and natural science pedagogical approaches, Latin American culture, Latin American intellectual inquiry on coloniality, Latin American literature, Latin American literatures and cultures of the 19th- 21st centuries, Latin American Photography and Social Art, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women's literatures and feminist inquiry, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, Latinx poetry and translation, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

American political development, American political parties, American political theory, elections, political institutions, U.S. Congress

Cliometrics, critical race theory, Data, death, Digital and Computational Studies, Digital Humanities, Disasters, Famine, Gender and Technology, gender studies, history, immigration, Ireland, Philanthropy

Bollywood, film and television studies, film festivals, issues of diversity equity and inclusion in pedagogy, issues of race and ethnicity in film and television, Italian Americans and media, media aesthetics, media authorship, U.S. cultural history

acculturation, immigration, intercultural competence, multicultural children's literature, psychology, psychometric assessment, racial and ethnic identity development

20th and 21st century French and Francophone, AIDS literature, autobiography and testimony as genre, genocide against the Tutsi, genocide studies, identity politics, literary and cinematic analysis, post-genocide in Rwanda, writing of history