Faculty Expertise

childhood studies, community-based research, gender and childhood, gender and parenting, gender and sexuality in the U.S., higher education and the public good, poverty and social policy, public sociology, publicly-engaged scholarship, race and class in the U.S., scholarship on community-engaged pedagogy, sociology of family, sociology of gender

biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, environmental history, environmental movements, environmental politics, human geography, memory studies

cognitive linguistics, composition, functionalist linguistics, language as a complex adaptive system, metaphor, peer-led learning, second-language writing, writing across the curriculum, writing center pedagogy

cultural studies, onomastics, Russian, Russian media, Slavic linguistics, South Slavic, sport in Europe

adolescent literacy, adolescent multiliteracies, autism spectrum, autism spectrum across the lifespan, early childhood, Early Head Start, public education reform, special education, standards-based education, teacher education

autoethnography, composition, feminist writing theory, memoir, peer education, social justice pedagogy, writing across the curriculum, writing assessment and curriculum design, writing centers, Writing Pedagogy

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

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

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

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