Faculty Expertise

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

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

biography, Charles Dickens, Dickens studies, life writing, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Victorian authorship, Victorian fiction, Victorian gender studies, Wilkie Collins

cross-cultural differences in self-related processes (US vs. East Asia comparisons), cultural psychology, ego depletion model, meaning maintenance model, money priming, naive dialecticism, positive psychology, self-concept, self-esteem, self-regulation, social psychology, terror management theory

American culture, competition, cultural sociology, economic sociology, European Union, institutionalist theory, international political economy, international trade, nationalism and nation states, political sociology

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