Faculty Expertise

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

contemporary political theory, Marxism, poststructuralism

decolonial feminisms, feminist and queer theory, history of political thought, intersectionality, Lesbian political theory and second wave feminism, politics of the family and sexuality

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

20th-21st century environmental history, development studies, environmental history, environmental movements and social movement theory, environmental politics, Germany, international development theory and processes, Latin America, NGO studies, political geography

comparative and legal traditions, declamation, late republic and principate traditions, legal history, Roman history, social history of rhetoric