Faculty Expertise

art and culture, collaboration, contemporary performance practices, dance, performance and live art, performing arts as individual and cultural expression

artist educators, arts education, assessment and standards in k-12, creativity studies, curriculum, drawing and painting, instruction, studio art, studio praxis, teacher education, teacher leadership, teacher leadership and development, visual ar

design and technology for the performing arts, photography, scenic and lighting design for theater, visual art

implicit social cognition, intergroup cognition, narrative psychology, social cognition, social psychology

economic well being of China’s ethnic minorities, gender wage differentials, interactions of rural migrants and urban residents, labor force participation patterns of China’s rural and urban elders, labor market developments in China, labor market developments in China, relationship between co-residency with adult children and the happiness of Chinese elders, resume audit studies of Chinese firms’ hiring decisions

body image, bullying, psychology, respect (definition and experiences), substance use (alcohol and psychostimulants)

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

18th century French literature and science, cultural theory, dance practice and philosophy, ecology of bodies in movement, representations of imagination, science and critical theory, semiotics of dance

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

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