Faculty Expertise

Asian American history, History of U.S.-China relations, museums and collecting, U.S. immigration history

African American freedom struggle in its national and international contexts from 1900-1945, African American history, American popular front, modern African American social and intellectual and literary history and biography, modern U.S. history, New Deal labor history, U.S. labor history

film and television studies, film festival management, film festival programming, issues of race and ethnicity in film and television, media aesthetics, media authorship, media genres, multiculturalism and pedagogy, U.S. cultural history

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Latin American culture, Latin American literature, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

African American culture, African Americans in France, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American religious history, American religious studies, cultural studies

19th century American social and cultural history, American history, American studies

anthropology of education, cultural change, cultural production theory, education in humanitarian aid policy, ethnographic approaches to education, forced migration and education, foundational studies in education, gender identity formation, narrating lives in school, post colonial studies in education

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, critical race theory, peace studies, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

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

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