Faculty Expertise

applied linguistics, critical media literacy, language pedagogy, project-based language teaching, technology and media in language teaching

immigrant/diaspora-home country political and economic engagement, immigration and democracy, immigration and economic development, immigration politics, international finance, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, state-diaspora relations

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

environmental history, Native American history, North American history before 1840, U.S. history

climate change, earth surface processes, glacial and quaternary geology, glacial environments and environmental change in northern New England, the North Atlantic and the high arctic

applied microeconomics, labor economics, migration and human trafficking, racial and sexual discrimination

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

environmental literature and ecocriticism, film analysis and film history, genre criticism and environmental, representations of water, Russian literature and cultural history, significance of water in cultural histories, women’s film and treatments of the natural world with a primary focus on Russia, women’s writing and ecocritical issues

math and quantitative reasoning education, math and quantitative reasoning education