Faculty Expertise

community economies, diverse livelihood practice, ecological politics, economic anthropology, economic geography, feminist political economy, Marxian political economy, new materialist & actor network theory, political economy, political theory, post-capitalist community & economic development, poststructuralist political theory, regional community & economic development, regional development & environmental politics in Maine

20th century German literature and film, discourses of masculinity in German literature, film studies, German film after 1945, German studies, humor, images of German-Polish relationships in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy's relation to violence, literature in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), media

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

climate change and climate change policy, economic incentives, environmental and natural resource economics, fisheries, Himalayan and Andean glaciers, Maine, southwestern United States, valuation of the environment, water resources

childbirth experiences, development of meaning and purpose in life, developmental psychology, identity development, infant socioemotional development, memory development

American political development, archival research, citizenship theory, civil rights law, gender, institutional development, interview-based studies, judicial development, judicial politics, LGBT politics, political sociology, post-war civil rights mobilization, progressive era politics, qualitative methods, race, sexuality, social movements, U.S. constitutional law, U.S. politics

art, art and popular culture, art history, drawing, modern and contemporary art, painting, printmaking, studio art, visual art

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