Faculty Expertise

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

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

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

community economies, diverse livelihood practice, ecological politics, economic anthropology, economic geography, feminist political economy, Marxian political economy, new materialist & actor network theory, political economy, political theory, post-capitalist community & economic development, poststructuralist political theory, regional community & economic development, regional development & environmental politics in Maine

Australia, cultural anthropology, ethnicity and nationalism, Greece, interpretive or symbolic anthropology, Macedonia, refugees and diaspora communities, ritual and religion, Saudi Arabia

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

18th Century Tibetan History, Asian religious history, Chinese borderland religions, Gender and Authority in Tibet, gender and religion, Hagiography in Asian contexts, Privilege studies, Religion and Gender in Asia, Religions of China, Religions of South Asia, Tibetan religion, Tibetan religion and history

ancient languages and literatures, ancient myth and society, how literature and myth reflect social and religious institutions in ancient Greece and India

20th century American music, African American music, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, historical musicology, jazz studies, popular music studies