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James W. Hughes

Thomas Sowell Professor of Economics

applied microeconomics, labor economics, migration and human trafficking, racial and sexual discrimination

Margaret Maurer-Fazio

Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics

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

Melinda A. Plastas

Visiting Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, critical race theory, peace studies, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

Joshua Rubin

Lecturer in Anthropology

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Assistant Professor of Spanish

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony

Elizabeth A. Eames

Associate Professor of Anthropology

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

Shuhui Yang

Professor of Chinese

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

Paul E. Schofield

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Environmental Ethics, ethics, History of Modern Philosophy (esp. Moral and Political), Philosophy of Film, Political Philosophy

Jonathan L. Kurzfeld

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

Jane T. Costlow

Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies

environmental literature and ecocriticism, film analysis and film history, genre criticism and environmental, representations of water, Russian literature and cultural history, significance of water in cultural histories, women’s film and treatments of the natural world with a primary focus on Russia, women’s writing and ecocritical issues
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