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
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
Critical Development Studies; Citizenship; Biopolitics; Globalization; Immigration; Migration; Colonialism; Postcolonialism
Techno-religion, cultural politics, digital activism, social movements
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
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
18th and 19th century British literature and culture, esp. Romanticism; lyric poetry; history of reading; literary and cultural theory
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
Well-being, positive lifestyle, and organizational cultures
migration, governance, kinship, information technology, East and Southeast Asia
critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts
early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory
Gender, race,inequality, intersections of inequalities, intimate partner violence, incarceration, families
theories and histories of rhetoric, material rhetorics, continental philosophy, digital rhetoric, videogames, mobile media, cultural studies, composition pedagogy
Early modern Europe, especially France, the Reformation, the history of wine, the history of the book
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
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
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, Frankfurt School, race in mass culture, politics of aesthetics
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.
transnational sexualities; human rights; film and media studies; feminist and queer theory
International climate policy and governance, environmental policy and ethics, risk analysis, and ethics and emerging technologies
Marxist political economy, critical media studies, critical theory.
Modernism; Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, postcolonialism and cultural studies; history of English.
Islam, globalization, development, international relations
Early modern literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, gender and sexuality
Migration; diaspora; political economy; digital activism; language politics; gender; international development; religion; ethnography; Central Asia; Tajikistan
Media Studies, Software and Critical Code Studies, Cultural Studies, History of Technology, Philosophy of Technology
war and sexuality; globalization; militarization; queer refugees
Political economy; state theory; race and class; history and culture of the labor movement; globalization 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
digital history, history of sexuality, history of New York City, legal history
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
American Studies, 20th century American cultural and political history, museum studies, popular culture, critical theory, and media studies (in particular representations of space, place, and memory)
Social mobility and infrastructure, urban space and design, language politics and ideologies, cultural identity formation, ethnography and literature, postcolonial theory, globalization, India
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 study of science and technology; culture and political economy; visual culture
visual culture, photography, political economy, gender/race theory, political economy, globalization
Social institutions, rhetoric/literature and politics, social control
African American studies, power-based violence, masculinity, and social reproduction through the lens of education/educational spaces.
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
"debtors' prisons", cyclical court debt and poverty, for-profit justice, social innovation
Political economy, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.
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
Museums; cultural institutions; cultural policy; globalization and art; art and political economy; critical theory; postcolonial theory; museum studies; art theory; art historiography; Arab States of the Persian Gulf