Faculty Expertise

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

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

economic development, institutional economics, international trade

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

behavioral economics, econometrics, economic development, health threats in developing countries, housing, instrumental variables estimation, inter-temporal preferences, labor economics, military manpower, mobile telephony in Africa, public economics, U.S. social welfare programs, urban economics

economic well being of China’s ethnic minorities, gender wage differentials, interactions of rural migrants and urban residents, labor force participation patterns of China’s rural and urban elders, labor market developments in China, labor market developments in China, relationship between co-residency with adult children and the happiness of Chinese elders, resume audit studies of Chinese firms’ hiring decisions

fiscal multipliers, fiscal policy, international capital flows, international finance, international relative prices, international reserves, open macroeconomics

Asian American history, History of U.S.-China relations, museums and collecting, U.S. immigration history

acculturation, immigration, intercultural competence, psychology, psychometric assessment, racial and ethnic identity development

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