Faculty Expertise

college access and persistence, community and parent engagement, community organizing, education organizing, education reform, educational equity, higher education, portraiture, race and class in rural communities, rural communities and schools, rural education

economic well being of China’s ethnic minorities, gender wage differentials, interactions of rural migrants and urban residents, labor force participation patterns of China’s rural and urban elders, labor market developments in China, labor market developments in China, relationship between co-residency with adult children and the happiness of Chinese elders, resume audit studies of Chinese firms’ hiring decisions

African architecture, African photography, African religious and healing practices, African studies, art and visual culture, competitive dance societies in Tanzania, contemporary African art, empowered objects in African cultures, history of African art and architecture, masculinity in contemporary African art, performative photography, Sukuma-Danish diasporas, Tanzanian art and material culture

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

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

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

adolescent literacy, adolescent multiliteracies, autism, autism spectrum across the lifespan, early childhood, Early Head Start, public education reform, standards-based education, teacher education

educating for democracy, emancipatory potential of education, philosophy and practice of nonviolence, philosophy of education

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