Faculty Expertise

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

Black Caribbean immigrants in the US, Black sociology, Ethnography, immigrant racialization, Qualitative Methods, sociology of immigration, urban immigration, urban sociology

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

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

9/11 literature, African American literature and literary theory, African-American studies, American studies, 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

civil war, comparative politics, Conflict, ethnicity, international relations, security, terrorism

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

African American cultural studies, Black feminisms, Community-Engaged learning, cultural studies, Decolonizing methodologies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Indigenous studies, LGBTQ2+ Youth and Young Adults, North American Indigenous feminisms, North American Indigenous literatures, Peoplehood matrix, race and ethnicity, Settler colonialism, transgender studies

acculturation, immigration, intercultural competence, multicultural children's literature, psychology, psychometric assessment, racial and ethnic identity development