Faculty Expertise

childhood studies, community-based research, gender and childhood, gender and parenting, gender and sexuality in the U.S., higher education and the public good, poverty and social policy, public sociology, publicly-engaged scholarship, race and class in the U.S., scholarship on community-engaged pedagogy, sociology of family, sociology of gender

alcohol, fatal automobile crashes, health and health-related behaviors, Health Economics, labor economics, mental health, nutritional supplements, obesity, public economics, safety net programs, taxation, tobacco

early American history and culture, early American literature, early American puritan conversion and narratives, Indian and English translation efforts in the 17th century, poetics, poetics, poetry, poetry, poetry and archival research

early modern French literature (1500-1700), early modern medicine and midwifery, femininity, French renaissance poetry, gender, intersexuality, literary analysis, masculinity, medical and anthropological readings of literature, sex and sexuality, women writers

16th- and 17th- century English drama, 16th- and 17th- century English poetry, affect theory, critical making, digital humanities and digital archives, early modern broadside ballads, early modern literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, historical phenomenology, history of the senses, phenomenology, print culture and history, printmaking, Renaissance politics, Shakespeare, sonnet cultures, theories of embodied voice, tragedy

early Christian studies, early Rabbinic Judaism, feminist and queer theory, gender and religion, gender and religion in the late ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, historiography of religion, Jewish studies, material culture and historiography of Jews and Judaism, New Testament, The Bible

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

20th century continental philosophy, Davidson, early Heidegger, history of philosophy, intentionality, Kant, Merleau-Ponty, metaphysics, metaphysics of mind, philosophy, philosophy of mind, pragmatism