Faculty Expertise

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

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

acting, contemporary acting drama, contemporary african and carribbean drama. american black theater history, directing, historical reenactment, historical theater, literary theatrical adaptation, media studies, new play production, playwright, public speaking, script analysis, theater, theater in education

Clinical Supervision, community engagement, Counseling Psychology, Critical Psychology, Immigrant Career and Mental Health, Multicultural Psychology, Race and Racism, Social Class and Classism, Social Justice and Mental Health, Sociopolitical Deveolpment, The Myth of Meritocracy, Women of Color, Work/Career Psychology