Faculty Expertise

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

contemporary political theory, Marxism, poststructuralism

algebraic topology, geometric group theory, geometry, history of mathematics, history of wasan and sangaku, topological fixed point theory, topology

arithmetic dynamical systems, arithmetic geometry, arithmetic mirror symmetry, computation of congruent zeta functions, experimental number theory, hypergeometric functions, multiple zeta values, number theory, p-adic methods in arithmetic geometry

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

interactive computer applications for music, music composition, Music for dance and theatre, music theory, Relationship between music theory and music cognitive neuroscience

combinatorial proofs of topological theorems and orthogonal polynomial identities, combinatorics, fair division using combinatorial and topological methods, graph theory

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