Faculty Expertise

(trans)nationalism, activism, Afro-Latin America, citizenship theory, Dominican Republic, immigration, Spanish-speaking Caribbean

immigrant/diaspora-home country political and economic engagement, immigration and democracy, immigration and economic development, immigration politics, international finance, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, state-diaspora relations

comparative and legal traditions, declamation, late republic and principate traditions, legal history, Roman history, social history of rhetoric

civil society, historical institutionalism, international politics, national identity and foreign policy, NGOs, Russian NGOs, Russian politics, Russian women’s movement, social movements, state-society relations in Russia

contemporary theater and productions in Hungary; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia, post-1989 central European drama and productions, vocal health and pedagogy, voice abuse prevention, voice and speech training for actors, voice and speech training for professional voice users

ancient Greek and Roman culture, Ancient slavery, ancient street culture, ancient theories of disgust, cultural studies, feminist theory, gender, history, memory studies, Roman comedy and theater, Roman invective, Roman satire, urban theory, women and gender studies

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

composition and music theory, contemporary and 20th century music theory, contemporary performance practice, Japanese court music

American political development, archival research, citizenship theory, 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