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Emily W. Kane

Professor of Sociology

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

Joseph M. Hall Jr.

Associate Professor of History

environmental history, Native American history, North American history before 1840, U.S. history

Michael Rocque

Professor of Sociology

Biosocial crime prevention, Corrections, Criminology theory, Desistance from crime, Life-course criminology, Race and crime, Race and school discipline, Risk assessment in corrections, Survey research

Kirk D. Read

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

early modern French literature (1500-1700), early modern medicine and midwifery, femininity, French renaissance poetry, gender, intersexuality, literary analysis, masculinity, medical and anthropological readings of literature, sex and sexuality, women writers

Marcus C. Bruce

Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies

African American culture, African Americans in France, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American religious history, American religious studies, cultural studies

Melinda A. Plastas

Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality 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

Christopher F. Petrella Ph.D.

Visiting Lecturer

African Diaspora Studies, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American studies, Black Panther Party, black power, blackness, critical theory, cultural studies, race, race and science, racism, radical pedagogy, white nationalism, white supremacy, whiteness

David R. George Jr.

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Global Hispanophone Studies, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, Japanese studies, media studies, nineteenth-century studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

Benoit Y. Vallee

Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies

(trans)nationalism, Afro-Latin America, Blackness, Caribbean studies, Deportation, Dominican Republic, Dominicans in Hip-Hop, Immigrant and Diaspora studies, Latin American Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies, New York Afro-Latina/o/x and Latina/o/x, New York Hip-Hop history, Quisqueya-Hispaniola, race and ethnicity, urban anthropology

Dale E. Chapman

Professor of Music

20th century American music, African American music, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, historical musicology, jazz studies, popular music studies