Faculty Expertise

Chicana/o History, immigration, Labor History, Latin American, Latinx Studies, US-Mexico Borderlands

immigrant/diaspora-home country political and economic engagement, immigration and democracy, immigration and economic development, immigration politics, international finance, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, state-diaspora relations

borderlands, immigration, Latin American Cultural Studies, Latinx Gender & Sexuality, Latinx Identity and Representation, Latinx Pop Culture, Latinx Studies

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Latin American culture, Latin American literature, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

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

Black Caribbean immigrants in the US, Black sociology, Ethnography, immigrant racialization, Qualitative Methods, sociology of immigration, urban immigration, urban sociology

Cliometrics, critical race theory, Data, death, Digital and Computational Studies, Digital Humanities, Disasters, Famine, Gender and Technology, gender studies, history, immigration, Ireland, Philanthropy

(trans)nationalism, activism, Afro-Latin America, citizenship theory, Dominican Republic, immigration, Spanish-speaking Caribbean

acculturation, immigration, intercultural competence, multicultural children's literature, psychology, psychometric assessment, racial and ethnic identity development

African immigrants in Maine, African markets, African studies, community engagement, cultural politics, cultural politics of Hollywood film, culturally informed financial programming, Disney animation, economic anthropology, female chieftaincies, financial literacy, gender studies, human rights, impact of ‘economic development’ programs, Lewiston + Auburn, Nigerian bureaucracies, Ondo history, Ondo Women's War, public anthropology, representations of Africa and Africans in various film industries, restorative justice, sharia compliant banking, Somali Bantu resettlement, Somalis in diaspora, Somalis in Maine, visual anthropology, West African theories of gender, Women's protests, Yoruba culture