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

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

archaeology, arctic/subarctic, co-production of knowledge, decolonizing practices, feminist archaeology, gender, indigenous archaeology

autoethnography, composition, feminist writing theory, memoir, peer education, social justice pedagogy, writing across the curriculum, writing assessment and curriculum design, writing centers, Writing Pedagogy

arts activism, contact improv, creative consulting, dance, dance theater, interdisciplinary application, performance and live art, social justice art