Faculty Expertise

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

coevolution, complex adaptive systems, development of teaching practice, disease modeling, evolutionary theory, higher education, Interdisciplinary STEM education, Mathematical and Computational Biology, resource-user networks

Brazil, critical ethnography, cultural studies, cultural studies, curating, curatorial studies, death, digital humanities, food and culture, Francophone, gender and race, Haiti, material culture, performance studies, performance studies, public humanities, visual culture

eyewitness testimony, interviewing eyewitness, jury decision-making, memory, social influence, social psychology

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