Faculty Expertise

African American freedom struggle in its national and international contexts from 1900-1945, African American history, American popular front, modern African American social and intellectual and literary history and biography, modern U.S. history, New Deal labor history, U.S. labor history

African American culture, African Americans in France, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American religious history, American religious studies, cultural studies

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

19th century American social and cultural history, American history, American studies

20th century American music, African American music, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, historical musicology, jazz studies, popular music studies

African architecture, African photography, African religious and healing practices, African studies, art and visual culture, competitive dance societies in Tanzania, contemporary African art, empowered objects in African cultures, history of African art and architecture, masculinity in contemporary African art, performative photography, Sukuma-Danish diasporas, Tanzanian art and material culture

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, critical race theory, peace studies, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

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

African American literature and literary theory, African-American studies, American studies, and the humanities, commodity culture and consumerism, creative writing, critical race studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, histories and theories of privacy in law, histories and theories of privacy in literature and culture, histories of U.S. race and ethnicity, law, legal studies, LGBTQ politics, literary analysis, literature, literature and law, media studies, media studies, nationalism, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, photography, poetry, post-racialism, privacy, privacy law, queer studies, racial passing, representations of disability and illness, theories of the public sphere, Twentieth-Century American Literature, U.S. literature and culture 1865 to the present, visual culture, women and gender studies

Afro-Hispanic diaspora, atlantic studies, Cervantes, literature and culture of Equatorial Guinea, race and religion in early modern Spain and Spanish America, Spanish, Spanish baroque theater, Spanish-American culture, Spanish-American renaissance and baroque literature