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

Biosocial crime prevention, Corrections, Criminology theory, Desistance from crime, Life-course criminology, Race and crime, Race and school discipline, Risk assessment in corrections, Survey research

contemporary political theory, Marxism, poststructuralism

empirical philosophy, feminist philosophy, implicit associations, inclusion, moral philosophy, moral psychology, moral theory

choreographed performance, choreography, collaborative creative processes, dance and digital technologies, dance in cross disciplinary collaboration, dance-science collaboration, documentaries on choreographers’ creative processes, documentary video editing, e-learning and dance, improvistational performance, mediated performance, multi-media representation of dance knowledge, postmodern dance performance

20th-21st century environmental history, development studies, environmental history, environmental movements and social movement theory, environmental politics, Germany, international development theory and processes, Latin America, NGO studies, political geography

biomedical ethics, Buddhist moral and political philosophy, clinical medical ethics, intercultural bioethics, intercultural ethics, Kantian ethics and consequentialism, moral philosophy, political philosophy, rawls and political liberalism

cultural studies, onomastics, Russian, Russian media, Slavic linguistics, South Slavic, sport in Europe

diasporas, foreign refugees and the birth of modern humanitarianism since the 17th century (1685-1950), history and memory, history of the British Empire, humanitarianism and the development of rights claims, imperial Britain, modern Britain since 1688, sexual slander and defamation law, slavery and anti-slavery