Faculty Expertise

Bollywood, film and television studies, film festivals, issues of race and ethnicity in film and television, Italian Americans and media, media aesthetics, media authorship, multiculturalism and pedagogy, U.S. cultural history

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

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony

early Christian studies, early Rabbinic Judaism, feminist and queer theory, gender and religion, gender and religion in the late ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, historiography of religion, Jewish studies, material culture and historiography of Jews and Judaism, New Testament, The Bible

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

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, black feminism, critical race theory, cultural studies, gender studies, health justice, history of commodities, peace studies, Social Movements, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

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

Correspondence (resume) audit studies of Chinese firms' hiring decisions, economic well being of China’s ethnic minorities, Gender wage differentials in China, Labor force participation in China, labor market developments in China, Rates of return to investments in education in China, Transitions from work to retirement in China