Visual culture, gender studies, post-colonialism, literature, and film
affect and politics; problems in mass culture and popular culture; science and technology studies; critical historicism and the contemporary moment; Shakespeare in public culture; Milton and early modern literature
American Indian literatures, U.S. and global Southern studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century, multi-ethnic American literatures
American Studies, art/media, biopolitics, difference/otherness, performance studies, social movements, visual culture
Memory studies, museum studies, arts & cultural policy, art history, caribbean studies
Native American and Indigenous Studies, performance theory, ethnography, folklore, collective memory, historical trauma and genocide, film and television studies, gender studies and feminist theory
Sociology of everyday life, social inequalities, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, youth and gender, sociology of food
Globalization, neoliberalism, economic sociology, Eastern Europe, socialism and postsocialism, gentrification, Washington, DC
Globalization, immigration
Social movements, cultural politics, power and hegemony, cultural and social resistance, biopolitics, digital activism
political, social, cultural and economic histories of late imperial/early modern China (1500-1800); ethnicity; state-formation; court studies
Ethics with interest in phenomenology, deconstruction, Kantian aesthetics, especially the sublime
Consumer and commodity studies, visual culture and media studies (especially representations of race, gender, labor, power, ethics), globalization, political economy and histories of capitalism, business ethics, and social movements
Islamic thought, Qur'anic Studies, Shi'ite and Sufi traditions, women's issues
political sociology; economic sociology; social movements; globalization; transnational networks; sociology of human rights; law & transnational conflict; urban sociology; critical sociology of development; comparative & historical sociology; (Area Specialist in Burma/Myanmar).
Medieval gender and sexuality, codes of normativity in gender and sexuality, neo-medievalism, popular culture, social institutionalism, medieval queenship, sociohistorical construction of heteronormative masculinity, collegiate masculinity, and collegiate sexual expression
European cultural history, history of modern Germany and Austria, German and Austrian art history
Urban spaces, gentrification, governmentality, globalization and transnational sexualities
Cultural economy, power relations, nationalism, globalization
Contemporary European Continental philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics
Documentaries, American media, war movies, black popular cultures, sports and media, horror, action, and science fiction, gender and sexuality
Race/ethnicity, biopolitics, African American Studies
Critical media studies, mass communication theory, and urban communication
Nineteenth-Century French studies, Quebec studies, women writers, Literature, Society, and the Arts; Women and Gender Studies (joint appointment): Violence and Gender; Violent Women; Narrative, Gender, and Human Rights; Cultural Studies; New Century College
Political economy of resource control, environmental sociology, social psychology of environmental concern, research methods and design, statistics, diffusion of technological innovation
migration, governance, kinship, information technology, East and Southeast Asia
Theories of ideology, aesthetics, post colonial theory, intellectual history, Arab arts & culture, visual arts, film, literature
critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts
early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory
American Studies, popular culture studies, critical theory
Early modern Europe, especially France, the Reformation, the history of wine, the history of the book
Visual culture, mass culture, and media and politics.
Popular culture, surrealism, postcolonial literature
Sociology of culture, social theory, social control and juvenile justice, public scandal
Gender and sexuality, mass and popular culture, postfeminism
Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history
Affect, irony, phenomenology, neoliberalism, niche markets and consumer culture, popular culture, alternative genders and sexualities
Education policy, critical pedagogy, political economy, and global affairs
Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization
Biopolitics, political economy, mass culture, body/subjectivity, gender/sexuality
A constellation of Marxist political economy, Frankfurt School aesthetics and critical environmental history as they pertain to the American Appalachian region and its history of coal mining and local music that runs the gamut from folk and bluegrass to black metal
Craft, "New Artisan Economy," Ethical Consumption, Authenticity
Political economy, American studies, consumption, food studies, nutrition and diet, subcultures, affect theory, semiotics (and psychoanalysis)
Gender/Sexuality, Culture and Political Economy, Crime and Punishment, American Studies, Latin America
Visual culture, the politics of memory, affective engagements with the past, political subjectivity
Sense of Place, Appalachian Studies, Transnational Migration
Feminist and queer anthropology, ethnography, bodies and embodiment, gender and sexuality, drag performance
Spanish in the US; language and identity, heritage language education; census; language policy; second language education
The internet, history of technology, history of philosophy, philosophy of history, critical theory, power relations, biopower, Africana philosophy, African art, art history, art theory.
Political economy, neoliberal governance and regimes of accumulation, militarization and militarized spaces, and the representation of terrorism in media and popular culture
Modernism;Anglophone novel and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; postcolonialism and cultural studies
Islam, globalization, development, international relations
cultural modernism, literary criticism, cultural policy, interwar Britain
Migration; diaspora; political economy; digital activism; language politics; gender; international development; religion; ethnography; Central Asia; Tajikistan
The political economy of black and grey markets, the medicalization of marijuana, U.S. labor history, Governmentality, and the War on Drugs
Sociology of media; critical theory; contemporary and classic sociological theory; political economics; digital media; globalization; social science methodologies
war and sexuality; globalization; militarization; queer refugees
Popular culture, urban communication, masculinities
Black cultural production, African Diasporicity, race, visual culture, North American cinema and television, media representations of masculinities, and Muslims in U.S. popular culture.
Political economy; state theory; class formation and surplus populations; labor history and social movements; critical theory of finance; globalization narratives and imperialism
Film history, film reception, "useful" film, Latin American film and other forms of mass media, Latin American literature, service-learning.
Political Economy, Digital Media Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Environmental Studies
New media theory, social movement studies, affect theory, biopolitics, gender and sexuality studies, concentrating on Feminism(s), Queer Theory
Cultural studies, Islamic studies, sociology of culture, Middle East, subjectivity, identity, alienation, cultural changes
Occupation, settler colonialism, colonialism, biopolitics, indigeneity, aboriginality, cultural loss and preservation, Hawai`i, cultural and environmental resources, landscape, resource extraction
medieval literature, science fiction, fantasy, literature and the arts, children's literature
religion and culture; the Middle East; nationalist narratives; colonialism
race, ethnicity and nationalism, globalization, urban studies and international development and security.
Feminist theory and gender studies, post-colonial feminist theory, phenomenology and existentialism, the study of citizenship, subjectivity, and politics, globalization, human rights and the nature of cosmopolitanism
global and transnational cinema; incarceration and security; diaspora and migration; violence and human rights; colonialism; Indian, Irish, and Latin American film; race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
scholarship of teaching and learning, online learning, digital humanities, history education
informal economies and markets,political economy,agrarian issues,gender,Latin America,Andean region,Peru;transnational and transracial adoption,U.S.
Transnational spaces, literature, South Asian American culture, kinship work, and The Midwest.
International trade and development, cultural economics, global governance, socio-economic impact of information technologies, and global diplomacy and deliberations
Political economy and culture, globalization, media and technology, critical race and gender theory
African American, 20th century Cultural History, History of Death in America, American Popular Music, African American Religious History
Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Political Philosophy, Visual Culture, Visual Studies, Visual Arts, Visual Communication, Political Economy, Gender Studies, and Women's Studies
Social institutions, rhetoric/literature and politics, social control
biopolitics, neoliberalism, critical race and ethnic studies, urban studies, political sociology, queer and feminist theory.
Restoration and 18th-Century British literature; nationalism, imperialism, and literary culture; postcolonial and world literature, esp. South Asian
governmentality, public policy, poverty, critical prison studies, critical race theory, religious networks and globalization
Early American history (colonial-1820s); Early American women; 18th-century transatlantic history and global history
Marxist political economy, biopower, digital media & visual culture, globalization, North Korea, Soviet Union/Russia, fascism, international development, celebrity politics
Art and political economy; cultural institutions; cultural policy; sociology of art and culture; museum studies; art historiography; globalization and art; theories of cultural transmission; critical theory; postcolonial theory; politics of representation; cultural institutions in the Middle East and East Asia; contemporary issues of labor; the gig economy; thrift culture; precariousness; contemporary issues of feminism; post-feminism