Faculty Expertise

anthropology, archaeology, climate and culture, climate catastrophies, environmental catastrophies, historical ecology, history, maritime cultures, medieval archaeology, North Atlantic archaeology, Scandinavian and Celtic archaeology and ethnohistory

collapse of pre-modern civilizations, environmental history, famine and disease in late-Roman and early medieval northwest Europe, late antiquity, later Roman Empire, maritime history, North Atlantic studies, Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England

archaeology, arctic/subarctic, co-production of knowledge, decolonizing practices, feminist archaeology, gender, indigenous archaeology

climate change, earth surface processes, glacial and quaternary geology, glacial environments and environmental change in northern New England, the North Atlantic and the high arctic

alternative writing and politics, area studies in the Middle East and China, political philosophy and theory, Politics and Literature, politics of landscape, politics of place

Archaic and classical Greek religion, Greek and Roman history and religion, Greek and Roman mythology and literature, mythology, oral poetry, oral studies and gender studies, women’s 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

contemporary German literature and film, East-Central European literature and film, film adaptation, German literature and culture since the 19th century, German literature and film, intercultural literature and film, literatures and cultures of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, poetry, Romanian-German literature, spatial constructions in literature and film

18th-century studies, access, anti-racism, culture- and theory-making in unexalted contexts, feminist/queer/trans sports and movement studies, gender, pleasures, politics and practices of teaching, queer, resources, sexualities, sexuality and migration studies, sexuality studies, sports studies, trans, trans and queer studies, visual and popular culture studies, writing

art and visual and material culture, art of Mughal India, art of the crusader states, Byzantine art and the West, iconography of the Virgin Mary, Italian medieval and renaissance history, Italian medieval manuscripts, liturgy of the Latin medieval church, medieval Mediterranean basin, medieval studies