Faculty Expertise

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

comparative politics, ethnic conflict, Middle East politics, Moroccan politics, nationalism, state-building, state-minority relations, symbolic politics, Turkish politics

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

20th and 21st century African American/Arab American literature, African American literature and cultural studies, Arab American literature and cultural studies, black feminism, cognitive impairment, disability, disability studies, gender studies, literary theory, mental health, physical impairment, spectacular fiction

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

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

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