Faculty Expertise

early Christian studies, early Rabbinic Judaism, feminist and queer theory, gender and religion, gender and religion in the late ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, historiography of religion, Jewish studies, material culture and historiography of Jews and Judaism, New Testament, The Bible

African American cultural studies, Black feminisms, Community-Engaged learning, cultural studies, Decolonizing methodologies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Indigenous studies, LGBTQ2+ Youth and Young Adults, North American Indigenous feminisms, North American Indigenous literatures, Peoplehood matrix, race and ethnicity, Settler colonialism, transgender studies

American political development, archival research, citizenship theory, civil rights, civil rights, 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

feminist approaches to politics and television, genre studies, genre studies of conspiracy and captivity, myth and narrative in popular and political culture, mythic and narrative construction of alternative belief systems, rhetorical theory and criticism, television genres

audiovisual art, digital and electronic music, experimental film, experimental music, feminist science and technology studies, media histories, media studies, sound art, sound studies, video art

community economies, diverse livelihood practice, ecological politics, economic anthropology, economic geography, feminist political economy, Marxian political economy, new materialist & actor network theory, political economy, political theory, post-capitalist community & economic development, poststructuralist political theory, regional community & economic development, regional development & environmental politics in Maine

ancient Greek and Roman culture, Ancient slavery, ancient street culture, ancient theories of disgust, cultural studies, feminist theory, gender, history, memory studies, Roman comedy and theater, Roman invective, Roman satire, urban theory, women and gender studies

16th- and 17th- century English drama, 16th- and 17th- century English poetry, affect theory, critical making, digital humanities and digital archives, early modern broadside ballads, early modern literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, historical phenomenology, history of the senses, phenomenology, print culture and history, printmaking, Renaissance politics, Shakespeare, sonnet cultures, theories of embodied voice, tragedy