Faculty Expertise

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

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

American political thought, contemporary political theory, democratic theory, history of political thought, literature and politics, political theory, Social Movements

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

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

American politics, comparative politics, Leisure activities and politics, New technologies in politics, political psychology, Youth political behavior

crisis management, disaster, emergencies, Europe, monetary policy, political economy, politics of finance, populism, poverty and social policy, rural economies, United States

American culture, competition, cultural sociology, economic sociology, European Union, institutionalist theory, international political economy, international trade, nationalism and nation states, political sociology

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