Faculty Expertise

anthropology of education, cultural change, cultural production theory, education in humanitarian aid policy, ethnographic approaches to education, forced migration and education, foundational studies in education, gender identity formation, narrating lives in school, post colonial studies in education

adolescent literacy, comparative education, public education reform, special education, teacher education

American political development, archival research, citizenship theory, civil rights, civil rights, civil rights law, gender, institutional development, interview-based studies, judicial development, judicial politics, LGBT politics, political sociology, post-war civil rights mobilization, progressive era politics, qualitative methods, race, sexuality, social movements, U.S. constitutional law, U.S. politics

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

college access and persistence, community and parent engagement, community organizing, education organizing, education reform, educational equity, higher education, portraiture, race and class in rural communities, rural communities and schools, rural education

color theory, creation of ceramic art works with drawn and painted surfaces for exhibition, exhibition planning and negotiation, glaze chemistry testing and development, high and low fire technology using gas and electric kilns, ornamentation and pattern, studio practice, utilitarian ceramics, wheel throwing and hand building technologies

acting, contemporary acting drama, contemporary african and carribbean drama. american black theater history, directing, historical reenactment, historical theater, literary theatrical adaptation, media studies, new play production, playwright, public speaking, script analysis, theater, theater in education

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