Faculty Expertise

ancient Greek and Roman culture, Ancient slavery, ancient street culture, ancient theories of disgust, cultural studies, feminist theory, gender, history, memory studies, Roman comedy and theater, Roman invective, Roman satire, urban theory, women and gender studies

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

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

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

behavior, behavioral pharmacology, neuro-informatics, neurophysiology, neuroscience, olfactory system, physiology, sensory systems

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

environmental history, Native American history, North American history before 1840, U.S. history

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