Faculty Expertise

desire, dispositional properties, epistemology, fashion and feminism, feminist philosophy, introspective knowledge, metaphysics, objectification, semantics of gendered slurs

childhood studies, community-based research, gender and childhood, gender and parenting, gender and sexuality in the U.S., higher education and the public good, poverty and social policy, public sociology, publicly-engaged scholarship, race and class in the U.S., scholarship on community-engaged pedagogy, sociology of family, sociology of gender

early modern French literature (1500-1700), early modern medicine and midwifery, femininity, French renaissance poetry, gender, intersexuality, literary analysis, masculinity, medical and anthropological readings of literature, sex and sexuality, women writers

African American literature and literary theory, African-American studies, American studies, and the humanities, 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

art and popular culture, art practice, artist and curator, contemporary art, contemporary international art, curating and curatorial practice, issues pertaining to museums and academic museums, museums

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

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

20th century continental philosophy, Davidson, early Heidegger, history of philosophy, intentionality, Kant, Merleau-Ponty, metaphysics, metaphysics of mind, philosophy, philosophy of mind, pragmatism