Faculty Expertise

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

feminist approaches to politics and television, genre studies, genre studies of conspiracy and captivity, myth and narrative in popular and political culture, mythic and narrative construction of alternative belief systems, rhetorical theory and criticism, television genres

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

authenticity, contemporary political theory, democratic theory, feminist and queer theory, history of political thought, identity politics, theories of recognition

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

behavioral economics, econometrics, economic development, health threats in developing countries, housing, instrumental variables estimation, inter-temporal preferences, labor economics, military manpower, mobile telephony in Africa, public economics, U.S. social welfare programs, urban economics

applied linguistics, critical media literacy, language pedagogy, project-based language teaching, technology and media in language teaching

alcohol, fatal automobile crashes, health and health-related behaviors, Health Economics, labor economics, mental health, nutritional supplements, obesity, public economics, safety net programs, taxation, tobacco