Faculty Expertise

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, black feminism, critical race theory, cultural studies, gender studies, health justice, history of commodities, peace studies, Social Movements, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

American political thought, democratic theory, literature and politics, Social Movements

Brazil, Comparative Politics, Constructivist Methods, Ethnography, Feminist Methodologies, Fieldwork, Gender Politics, Latin America, LGBT Politics, Participatory Democracy, Policy Process, Political Institutions, Portuguese, Public Policy, Qualitative Methods, Queer and Trans Studies, Sexuality Politics, Social Movements, Transgender Politics

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

biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, environmental history, environmental movements, environmental politics, human geography, memory studies

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

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

feminist approaches to politics and television, genre studies, genre studies of conspiracy and captivity, myth and narrative in popular and political culture, mythic and narrative construction of alternative belief systems, rhetorical theory and criticism, television genres

diasporas, foreign refugees and the birth of modern humanitarianism since the 17th century (1685-1950), history and memory, history of the British Empire, humanitarianism and the development of rights claims, imperial Britain, modern Britain since 1688, sexual slander and defamation law, slavery and anti-slavery