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

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

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

alternative writing and politics, area studies in the Middle East and China, political philosophy and theory, Politics and Literature, politics of landscape, politics of place

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony

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

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

comparative politics, ethnic conflict, Middle East politics, Moroccan politics, nationalism, state-building, state-minority relations, symbolic politics, Turkish politics

comparative politics of gender African politics, democratizing states and democratizing gender power relations, gender and globalized militarization, militarizing Africa after 9/11