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

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

African politics, comparative politics of gender African politics, Feminism(s), Gender and Politics, human rights, Religion and politics, Women's movement, Women's political participation

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

civil society, historical institutionalism, international politics, national identity and foreign policy, NGOs, Russian NGOs, Russian politics, Russian women’s movement, social movements, state-society relations in Russia

American political thought, democratic theory, literature and politics, Social Movements

alliance politics, East Asia, international relations, international security, nationalism, nuclear proliferation, public opinion

American political development, American political parties, American political theory, elections, political institutions, U.S. Congress

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