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

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

Brazil, Comparative Politics, Constructivist Methods, Ethnography, Feminist Methodologies, Fieldwork, Gender Politics, Latin America, LGBT Politics, Participatory Democracy, Policy Process, Political Institutions, Portuguese, Public Policy, Qualitative Methods, Queer and Trans Studies, Sexuality Politics, Social Movements, Transgender Politics

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

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

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

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

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