Faculty Expertise

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

20th-21st century environmental history, development studies, environmental history, environmental movements and social movement theory, environmental politics, Germany, international development theory and processes, Latin America, NGO studies, political geography

19th century American social and cultural history, American history, American studies

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

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

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

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Latin American culture, Latin American literature, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

diasporas, foreign refugees and the birth of modern humanitarianism since the 17th century (1685-1950), history and memory, history of the British Empire, humanitarianism and the development of rights claims, imperial Britain, modern Britain since 1688, sexual slander and defamation law, slavery and anti-slavery