Faculty Expertise

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

eyewitness testimony, interviewing eyewitness, jury decision-making, memory, social influence, social psychology

comparative and legal traditions, declamation, late republic and principate traditions, legal history, Roman history, social history of rhetoric

Environmental Ethics, ethics, History of Modern Philosophy (esp. Moral and Political), Philosophy of Film, Political Philosophy

development economics, integration and outsourcing, law and economics, organizational economics, peer-effects of students, property rights, subsidiaries and divisions

applied microeconomics, labor economics, migration and human trafficking, racial and sexual discrimination

implicit social cognition, intergroup cognition, narrative psychology, social cognition, social psychology

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

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