Faculty Expertise

bifurcation and orbit diagrams, dynamical systems, fractals, graphical analysis, Julia sets repelling periodic points, parameter space diagrams

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

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

acting, acting on film, arts education, collaboration, contemporary American drama, directing, Fitzmaurice Voicework, improvisation, Michael Chekhov Technique, performing arts as individual and cultural expression, public speaking, Shakespeare, stage combat, theater and film, voice and speech training for actors

cross-cultural differences in self-related processes (US vs. East Asia comparisons), cultural psychology, ego depletion model, meaning maintenance model, money priming, naive dialecticism, positive psychology, self-concept, self-esteem, self-regulation, social psychology, terror management theory

art and popular culture, art practice, artist and curator, contemporary art, contemporary art practice, contemporary international art, curating and curatorial practice, issues pertaining to museums and academic museums, museums

behavior, behavioral pharmacology, neuro-informatics, neurophysiology, neuroscience, olfactory system, physiology, sensory systems

African American literature and literary theory, African-American studies, American studies, and the humanities, commodity culture and consumerism, creative writing, critical race studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, histories and theories of privacy in law, histories and theories of privacy in literature and culture, histories of U.S. race and ethnicity, law, legal studies, LGBTQ politics, literary analysis, literature, literature and law, media studies, media studies, nationalism, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, photography, poetry, post-racialism, privacy, privacy law, queer studies, racial passing, representations of disability and illness, theories of the public sphere, Twentieth-Century American Literature, U.S. literature and culture 1865 to the present, visual culture, women and gender studies

20th and 21st century French and Francophone, AIDS literature, autobiography and testimony as genre, genocide against the Tutsi, genocide studies, identity politics, literary and cinematic analysis, post-genocide in Rwanda, writing of history