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Elizabeth J. Woodward

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture

art history, courtly art, History of the book, material culture of love and romance, medieval manuscripts, medieval studies, reception studies

Ali Humayun Akhtar

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Myron M. Beasley

Associate Professor of American Studies

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

B. Christine McDowell

Associate Professor of Theater

architectural drafting, costume design, costume history, figure drawing, historical clothing reconstruction, material culture studies, pattern drafting and draping, scenic painting, Set Design

Zhenzhen Lu

Assistant Professor of Chinese

archival research, chinese language pedagogy, cultural studies, dramatic literature, late imperial China, literature and history, manuscript studies, material culture, performance studies, popular culture, vernacular literatures of East Asia

Cynthia M. Baker

Professor of Religious Studies

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

Elizabeth A. Eames

Associate Professor of Anthropology

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

Erica Rand

Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Gender and Sexuality Studies

anti-racism, culture- and theory-making in unexalted contexts, feminist/queer/trans sports and movement studies, pleasures, politics and practices of teaching, queer and trans migration studies, resources, sexualities, trans and queer studies, visual and popular culture studies, writing

Jacqueline Lyon

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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

Jakub J. Kazecki

Associate Professor of German

20th century German literature and film, discourses of masculinity in German literature, film studies, German film after 1945, German studies, humor, images of German-Polish relationships in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy's relation to violence, literature in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), media
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