Faculty Expertise

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

applied microeconomics, labor economics, migration and human trafficking, racial and sexual discrimination

eyewitness testimony, interviewing eyewitness, jury decision-making, memory, social influence, social psychology

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

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

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

comparative politics of gender African politics, democratizing states and democratizing gender power relations, gender and globalized militarization, militarizing Africa after 9/11

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