Faculty Expertise

Brazil, critical ethnography, cultural studies, cultural studies, curating, curatorial studies, death, food and culture, Francophone, gender and race, Haiti, loss, material culture, performance studies, performance studies, visual culture

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

18th century Irish history, classical reception, Greek literature, Greek religion, Greek religion, Homer, women in classical antiquity

Arctic oceanography, benthic ecology, climate change, coastal ecosystems, ecology, food web structure, invertebrate fisheries biology, marine ecology, oceanography, paleoecology, sclerochronology

African architecture, African photography, African religious and healing practices, African studies, art and visual culture, competitive dance societies in Tanzania, contemporary African art, empowered objects in African cultures, history of African art and architecture, masculinity in contemporary African art, performative photography, Sukuma-Danish diasporas, Tanzanian art and material culture

archives of sea level rise, biogeochemical cycling in Maine lakes and nearshore environments over a variety of time scales, carbon storage and sequestration in salt marshes, environmental and stable isotope geochemistry, mechanisms of salt marsh formation

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

art and visual and material culture, art of Mughal India, art of the crusader states, Byzantine art and the West, iconography of the Virgin Mary, Italian medieval and renaissance history, Italian medieval manuscripts, liturgy of the Latin medieval church, medieval Mediterranean basin, medieval studies