Faculty Expertise

contemporary American drama, directing, film, playwriting, theater, theater and film in central Europe

design and technology for the performing arts, photography, scenic and lighting design for theater, visual art

contemporary landscape photography, German photography, historic and contemporary photography studies, new topographics (1970s and1980s), photographic image-making

artist educators, arts education, assessment and standards in k-12, creativity studies, curriculum, drawing and painting, instruction, practice based visual and performing arts, practice-based curriculum and instruction, studio art, studio praxis, teacher education, teacher leadership, teacher leadership and development, visual ar

adaptive optics, development and application of fluorescence microscopy techniques, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, fluorescence nanoscopy, image processing, Lightsheet microscopy, STED microscopy, Super-resolution microscopy

Biosocial crime prevention, Corrections, Criminology theory, Desistance from crime, Life-course criminology, Race and crime, Race and school discipline, Risk assessment in corrections, Survey research

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

community economies, diverse livelihood practice, ecological politics, economic anthropology, economic geography, feminist political economy, Marxian political economy, new materialist & actor network theory, political economy, political theory, post-capitalist community & economic development, poststructuralist political theory, regional community & economic development, regional development & environmental politics in Maine

climate change and climate change policy, economic incentives, environmental and natural resource economics, fisheries, Himalayan and Andean glaciers, Maine, southwestern United States, valuation of the environment, water resources