Faculty Expertise

Chinese and comparative literature, Ming-Qing dynasty fiction (1368 to 1911)

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

animal studies, biopolitics, critical race studies, feminist theory, interdisciplinary research methods, practical ethics, science and technology studies, U.S. social and cultural history

composition and music theory, contemporary and 20th century music theory, contemporary performance practice, Japanese court music

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

jigsaw puzzle history, population, toy industry

20th and 21st century Spanish literature and culture, cultural representations of history, discourse analysis, feminist analysis, gender studies, memory studies, narrative fiction, television

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