Faculty Expertise

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

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

autoethnography, composition, feminist writing theory, memoir, peer education, social justice pedagogy, writing across the curriculum, writing assessment and curriculum design, writing centers, Writing Pedagogy

cognitive linguistics, composition, functionalist linguistics, language as a complex adaptive system, metaphor, peer-led learning, second-language writing, writing across the curriculum, writing center pedagogy

laser physics, nonlinear dynamics in lasers and other nonlinear optical systems, optics

empirical philosophy, feminist philosophy, implicit associations, inclusion, moral philosophy, moral psychology, moral theory

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

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

African politics, comparative politics of gender African politics, Feminism(s), Gender and Politics, human rights, Religion and politics, Women's movement, Women's political participation