Faculty Expertise

Australia, cultural anthropology, ethnicity and nationalism, Greece, interpretive or symbolic anthropology, Macedonia, refugees and diaspora communities, ritual and religion, Saudi Arabia

advertising, Buddhism and modernity, consumption, historical anthropology, historical memory, interpretive anthropology, modernity, Sri Lankan society, transnationalism

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

construction of national identity categories, construction of racial and ethnic identity categories, cultural anthropology, development, nationalism, politics of culture, postcolonial studies, social anthropology, the Caribbean region and African diaspora, transnationalism, underdevelopment

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

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

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