Faculty Expertise

applied microeconomics, labor economics, migration and human trafficking, racial and sexual discrimination

African immigrants in Maine, African markets, African studies, community engagement, cultural politics, cultural politics of Hollywood film, culturally informed financial programming, Disney animation, economic anthropology, female chieftaincies, financial literacy, gender studies, human rights, impact of ‘economic development’ programs, Lewiston + Auburn, Nigerian bureaucracies, Ondo history, Ondo Women's War, public anthropology, representations of Africa and Africans in various film industries, restorative justice, sharia compliant banking, Somali Bantu resettlement, Somalis in diaspora, Somalis in Maine, visual anthropology, West African theories of gender, Women's protests, Yoruba culture

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

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

common pool resources, conflict and cooperation over fisheries; oil; wind, coupled human and natural systems, fisheries management regimes, global warming, impacts on ocean governance, international cooperation, international political economy, international relations, ocean governance, territorial boundaries

comparative politics of gender African politics, democratizing states and democratizing gender power relations, gender and globalized militarization, militarizing Africa after 9/11