Faculty Expertise

college access and persistence, community and parent engagement, community organizing, education organizing, education reform, educational equity, higher education, portraiture, race and class in rural communities, rural communities and schools, rural education

adolescent literacy, comparative education, public education reform, special education, teacher education

American political thought, contemporary political theory, democratic theory, history of political thought, literature and politics, political theory, Social Movements

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

American political development, archival research, citizenship theory, civil rights, civil rights, 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

American political development, American political parties, American political theory, elections, political institutions, U.S. Congress

coevolution, complex adaptive systems, development of teaching practice, disease modeling, evolutionary theory, higher education, Interdisciplinary STEM education, Mathematical and Computational Biology, resource-user networks

anthropology of education, cultural change, cultural production theory, education in humanitarian aid policy, ethnographic approaches to education, forced migration and education, foundational studies in education, gender identity formation, narrating lives in school, post colonial studies in education