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Lisa R. Gilson

Assistant Professor of Politics

American political thought, contemporary political theory, democratic theory, history of political thought, literature and politics, political theory, Social Movements

Lucy C. Britt

Assistant Professor of Politics

African American Political Thought, Feminist Political Theory and Pop Culture, Memorials and Memory, political theory, Race and Politics, Race and Whiteness in U.S.

John R. Baughman

Professor of Politics

American political development, American political parties, American political theory, elections, political institutions, U.S. Congress

Rafael Alexandre Mello

Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics

international development, international political economy, international relations, international theory, Latin American Politics, Latin American social theory, politics of the Global South

Hiroya Miura

Associate Professor of Music

composition and music theory, contemporary and 20th century music theory, contemporary performance practice, Japanese court music

Stephen M. Engel

Professor of Politics and Associate Dean of the Faculty

American political development, archival research, citizenship theory, civil rights, civil rights, 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

David R. Cummiskey

Professor of Philosophy

biomedical ethics, Buddhist moral and political philosophy, clinical medical ethics, intercultural bioethics, intercultural ethics, Kantian ethics and consequentialism, moral philosophy, political philosophy, rawls and political liberalism

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

Katie M. Adkison

Assistant Professor of English

16th- and 17th- century English drama, 16th- and 17th- century English poetry, affect theory, critical making, digital humanities and digital archives, early modern broadside ballads, early modern literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, historical phenomenology, history of the senses, phenomenology, print culture and history, printmaking, Renaissance politics, Shakespeare, sonnet cultures, theories of embodied voice, tragedy

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony