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, Southern studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century, multi-ethnic American literatures
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
political, social, cultural and economic histories of late imperial/early modern China (1500-1800); ethnicity; state-formation; court studies
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).
European cultural history, history of modern Germany and Austria, German and Austrian art history
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
narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East
Critical media studies, mass communication theory, and urban communication
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
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, technical and professional communication, digital rhetoric, cultural rhetorics, social media, and videogames
Early modern Europe, especially France, the Reformation, the history of wine, the history of the book
Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States
Sociology of culture, social theory, social control and juvenile justice, public scandal
Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history
Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization
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
Spanish in the US; language and identity, heritage language education; census; language policy; second language education
sexuality, race and immigration; human rights; feminist and queer theory; film and media studies; disability studies
International climate policy and governance, environmental policy and ethics, risk analysis, and ethics and emerging technologies
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
Film and Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Cultural Studies, AI / Machine Learning, Big Data, Machine Vision, Eye Tracking
Film history, film reception, "useful" film, Latin American film and other forms of mass media, Latin American literature, service-learning.
digital history, history of sexuality, history of New York City, legal history
Occupation, settler colonialism, colonialism, biopolitics, indigeneity, aboriginality, cultural loss and preservation, Hawai`i, cultural and environmental resources, landscape, resource extraction
Urban space and design, social mobility and infrastructure, language politics and ideologies, cultural identity formation, ethnography and literature, postcolonial theory, globalization, India
religion and culture; the Middle East; nationalist narratives; colonialism
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
informal economies and markets, agrarian issues, gender relations, quinoa, culture and food, Latin America, Andean region, Peru; transnational and transracial adoption, U.S., anthropological theory and methods
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
Anthropology of Public Policy, Influence Elites, Corruption, Central and Eastern Europe, Foreign Aid, Governance, Privatization of Policy, Social Networks
visual culture, photography, political economy, gender/race theory, political economy, globalization
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
Political economy, German contemporary films, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.
Early American history (colonial-1820s); Early American women; 18th-century transatlantic history and global history