Faculty Expertise

archaeology, arctic/subarctic, co-production of knowledge, decolonizing practices, feminist archaeology, gender, indigenous archaeology

anthropology, archaeology, climate and culture, climate catastrophies, environmental catastrophies, historical ecology, history, maritime cultures, medieval archaeology, North Atlantic archaeology, Scandinavian and Celtic archaeology and ethnohistory

desire, dispositional properties, epistemology, fashion and feminism, feminist philosophy, introspective knowledge, metaphysics, motivation, objectification, response-dependence, semantics of gendered slurs

feminist approaches to politics and television, genre studies, genre studies of conspiracy and captivity, myth and narrative in popular and political culture, mythic and narrative construction of alternative belief systems, rhetorical theory and criticism, television genres

collapse of pre-modern civilizations, environmental history, famine and disease in late-Roman and early medieval northwest Europe, late antiquity, later Roman Empire, maritime history, North Atlantic studies, Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England

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

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

18th-century studies, access, anti-racism, culture- and theory-making in unexalted contexts, feminist/queer/trans sports and movement studies, gender, pleasures, politics and practices of teaching, queer, resources, sexualities, sexuality and migration studies, sexuality studies, sports studies, trans, trans and queer studies, visual and popular culture studies, writing

19th century French literature, critical theory, cultural studies, Franco-American culture and identity, Franco-American history and literature, French feminist theory, French women writers of the 19th century, literature, literature as history, narrative, post-structuralist theory, race and ethnicity, representations of political and social change, women and gender studies

20th and 21st century Spanish literature and culture, cultural representations of history, discourse analysis, feminist analysis, gender studies, memory studies, narrative fiction, television