Faculty Expertise

American political thought, democratic theory, literature and politics, Social Movements

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

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, black feminism, critical race theory, cultural studies, gender studies, health justice, history of commodities, peace studies, Social Movements, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

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

American political development, archival research, citizenship theory, 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

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