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Stephen M. Engel
Professor of Politics and Associate Dean of the Faculty
American political development, archival research, citizenship theory, civil rights, civil rights, civil rights law, gender, institutional development, interview-based studies, judicial development, judicial politics, LGBT politics, political sociology, post-war civil rights mobilization, progressive era politics, qualitative methods, race, sexuality, social movements, U.S. constitutional law, U.S. politics
Caroline E. Shaw
Associate Professor of History
diasporas, foreign refugees and the birth of modern humanitarianism since the 17th century (1685-1950), history and memory, history of the British Empire, humanitarianism and the development of rights claims, imperial Britain, modern Britain since 1688, sexual slander and defamation law, slavery and anti-slavery
Jakub J. Kazecki
Associate Professor of German
20th century German literature and film, discourses of masculinity in German literature, film studies, German film after 1945, German studies, humor, images of German-Polish relationships in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy's relation to violence, literature in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), media
S. E. Houchins
Associate Professor of Africana
anglophone continental African and Caribbean and Canadian and some U.S. African American, anthropological analyses, critical race theory, exploring the political and cultural and social contexts of texts, indigenous Islamic and Christian religions in their African and Caribbean and American contexts, interpreting African literature by women, literatures of the African diaspora, religions of Africa and the African diaspora, theories of gender and sexualities as well as literary theories, work theorizing
Therí Pickens
Professor of English
20th and 21st century African American/Arab American literature, African American literature and cultural studies, Arab American literature and cultural studies, black feminism, cognitive impairment, disability, disability studies, gender studies, literary theory, mental health, physical impairment, spectacular fiction