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

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

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

Clinical Supervision, community engagement, Counseling Psychology, Critical Psychology, Immigrant Career and Mental Health, Multicultural Psychology, Race and Racism, Social Class and Classism, Social Justice and Mental Health, Sociopolitical Deveolpment, The Myth of Meritocracy, Women of Color, Work/Career Psychology

crisis management, disaster, emergencies, Europe, monetary policy, political economy, politics of finance, populism, poverty and social policy, rural economies, United States

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

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