Faculty Expertise

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

18th century English landscape gardens, 18th century European intellectual history, art and visual culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, history of gardens and landscape architecture, history of gardens and landscape architecture, romantic landscape painting

American political development, archival research, citizenship theory, 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

Appalachian and New Zealand tectonics, bedrock geology, geochronology, geographic information systems (GIS), geologic mapping, landscape evolution, plate tectonics, structural geology, White Mountain (NH) geologic history

contemporary landscape photography, German photography, historic and contemporary photography studies, new topographics (1970s and1980s), photographic image-making

applications for decision-making, disturbance ecology, GIS, landscape ecology, plant-insect interactions

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

common pool resources, conflict and cooperation over fisheries; oil; wind, coupled human and natural systems, fisheries management regimes, global warming, impacts on ocean governance, international cooperation, international political economy, international relations, ocean governance, territorial boundaries

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