Faculty Expertise

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

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

(trans)nationalism, activism, Afro-Latin America, citizenship theory, Dominican Republic, immigration, Spanish-speaking Caribbean

community economies, diverse livelihood practice, ecological politics, economic anthropology, economic geography, feminist political economy, Marxian political economy, new materialist & actor network theory, political economy, political theory, post-capitalist community & economic development, poststructuralist political theory, regional community & economic development, regional development & environmental politics in Maine

anthropology of education, cultural change, cultural production theory, education in humanitarian aid policy, ethnographic approaches to education, forced migration and education, foundational studies in education, gender identity formation, narrating lives in school, post colonial studies in education

alcohol, fatal automobile crashes, health and health-related behaviors, Health Economics, labor economics, mental health, nutritional supplements, obesity, public economics, safety net programs, taxation, tobacco

childhood studies, community-based research, gender and childhood, gender and parenting, gender and sexuality in the U.S., higher education and the public good, poverty and social policy, public sociology, publicly-engaged scholarship, race and class in the U.S., scholarship on community-engaged pedagogy, sociology of family, sociology of gender