Faculty Expertise

contemporary American drama, directing, film, playwriting, theater, theater and film in central Europe

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

acting, acting on film, arts education, collaboration, contemporary American drama, directing, Fitzmaurice Voicework, improvisation, Michael Chekhov Technique, performing arts as individual and cultural expression, public speaking, Shakespeare, stage combat, theater and film, voice and speech training for actors

Community and Population Ecology, Invertebrate Zoology, Kelp (Laminariales), marine ecology, Phycology

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

Biosocial crime prevention, Corrections, Criminology theory, Desistance from crime, Life-course criminology, Race and crime, Race and school discipline, Risk assessment in corrections, Survey research

African American literature and literary theory, African-American studies, American studies, and the humanities, commodity culture and consumerism, creative writing, critical race studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, histories and theories of privacy in law, histories and theories of privacy in literature and culture, histories of U.S. race and ethnicity, law, legal studies, LGBTQ politics, literary analysis, literature, literature and law, media studies, media studies, nationalism, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, photography, poetry, post-racialism, privacy, privacy law, queer studies, racial passing, representations of disability and illness, theories of the public sphere, Twentieth-Century American Literature, U.S. literature and culture 1865 to the present, visual culture, women and gender studies

alliance politics, East Asia, international relations, international security, nationalism, nuclear proliferation, public opinion

20th and 21st century African American/Arab American literature, African American literature and cultural studies, Arab American literature and cultural studies, black feminism, cognitive impairment, disability, disability studies, gender studies, literary theory, mental health, physical impairment, spectacular fiction

anthropology of education, cultural change, cultural production theory, education in humanitarian aid policy, ethnographic approaches to education, forced migration and education, foundational studies in education, gender identity formation, narrating lives in school, post colonial studies in education