Faculty Expertise

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

assessing the practices of public scholarship, developmental psychology, gender and academic achievement, outcomes and impacts of civic engagement, play-based learning in early childhood, public scholarship

brain systems in normal and abnormal cognition, clinical neuroscience, emotion and personality, experimental neuropsychology, neuroscience of human psychopathology, social neuroendocrinology

abnormal and health psychology, body image, cardiovascular health and disease, psychotherapy, public health, sexual health, student mental health, women’s health

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