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
middle eastern literature; world literature; postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality
American Indian literatures, 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
Culture, gender and health, health inequalities, global health communication, South and South East Asia
Education, social inequalities, youth, identity and intersectionality, children's health, community sociology, micro sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of everyday life, consumer markets and commercial life, sociology of food, farm to school, food access and food insecurity, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, ethnography, program evaluation
Globalization, neoliberalism, economic sociology, Eastern Europe, socialism and postsocialism, gentrification, Washington, DC
performance studies, critical theory, rhetorical theory and criticism, memory studies
political, social, cultural and economic histories of late imperial/early modern China (1500-1800); ethnicity; state-formation; court studies
Media ownership, telecommunication/media policy, media political economy, media representation of marginialized groups (race,gender, religion, etc...), popular culture
Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender
sociology of human rights; political sociology; social movements; global and transnational sociology; science, knowledge, and technology; law and transnational conflict; critical sociology of development; community and urban sociology; comparative and historical sociology; and area specialist in Burma/Myanmar.
Sociology of families and intimate relationships, gender ideologies, gender inequality, research methods
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Critical University Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnography, Film and Media Studies, Masculine Theory, Spectatorship, SWANA Studies, Iranian Studies, Globalization, Transnational Bodies, Fraternity(ies), and Social Institutions
Urban spaces, gentrification, governmentality, globalization and transnational sexualities
Gender and Sexuality; mass and popular culture; social media/digital ethnography; disability, historical and modern US culture.
18th and 19th century British literature and culture, esp. Romanticism; lyric poetry; history of reading; literary and cultural theory
Film and Media: global media and television studies, Middle East and Arab media studies, visual culture studies, urban studies, critical theory, media history and theory, religion and media, cultural studies
Contemporary European Continental philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics
Police reform, public sexuality, undercover surveillance, sex work, New York City, social history, archives
narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East
Non-normative genders, the construction of gender, TV/film/media, the U.S. security state and queer bodies. The figure of the queer child/trans child
Critical media studies, mass communication theory, and urban communication
MENA studies; comparative literature; discourse analysis; film&media
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
Islamic history, Middle East, Women's Studies, Global history
critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts
early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory
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
Modern Europe, Modern Germany, History of Sexuality, Legal History, History of Democracy
Speculative fiction and sci-fi; environmental humanities; C20/21 multi-ethnic American literatures; Indigenous and postcolonial literatures; science and technology studies; gender and sexuality studies.
Nationalism, sectarianism, transnational Islamic humanitarianism, activism and civil society, the Middle East
nineteenth-century British literature, history of science, interdisciplinary and cultural studies
Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history
Affect theory, digital media, political economy, labor, critical theory, popular culture
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
Contemporary Irish Folklore, Sense of Place, Appalachian Studies, Transnational Migration
Africana Studies; Collective & Institutional Memory; Libraries & Librarianship
Spanish in the US; heritage language education; critical, antiracist language teaching; ethnicity, race, and language in censuses; language and social justice
feminist and queer theory; ecofeminism and animal rights; human rights; race and immigration; transnational sexualities; media and cultural studies; disability studies
International climate and energy policy and governance, environmental policy and ethics, risk analysis, and ethics and emerging technologies
Modernism; Postcolonialism; Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, cultural studies, petroculture & theories of energy transition; History of English, Global English literary criticism
Islam, globalization, development, international relations
Race, gender, the African American experience, and the history of black women in the Atlantic World
Early modern literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, gender and sexuality
Internet Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, AI / Machine Learning, Big Data, Image Recognition, Computer Vision
Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Black Politics, Ethnography, Oral History
Film history, film reception, "useful" film, Latin American film and other forms of mass media, Latin American literature, service-learning.
Black History with a focus on Caribbean American experiences, Black feminism, youth development and community organizing
20th century US history, digital history, legal history, African-American urban history, spatial history, history of sexuality
Occupation, settler colonialism, colonialism, biopolitics, indigeneity, aboriginality, cultural loss and preservation, Hawai`i, cultural and environmental resources, landscape, resource extraction
Urban space, gender, and social mobility; infrastructure, design, and the built environment; language politics and ideologies; cultural identity formation; ethnography of literature; postcolonial theory, globalization, India
religion and culture; the Middle East; nationalist narratives; colonialism
Cinema studies, genre cinema theory, decolonization, Puerto Rican identity studies, queer and feminist media studies
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, history of higher education, online learning, scholarly digital storytelling, 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
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
Anthropology of Public Policy, Influence Elites, Corruption, Central and Eastern Europe, Foreign Aid, Governance, Privatization of Policy, Social Networks
Restoration and 18th-Century British literature; nationalism, imperialism, and literary culture; postcolonial and world literature, esp. South Asian; anthologies of African American writing
traditional narrative; material culture; family folklore; gender studies
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