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

environmental history, Native American history, North American history before 1840, U.S. history

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

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

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

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

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

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

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Latin American culture, Latin American literature, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses