Visual culture, gender studies, post-colonialism, literature, and film
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
Globalization, immigration
Social movements, cultural politics, power and hegemony, cultural and social resistance, biopolitics, digital activism
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
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
Cultural economy, power relations, nationalism, globalization
Urban spaces, gentrification, governmentality, globalization and transnational sexualities
Race/ethnicity, biopolitics, African American Studies
Theories of ideology, aesthetics, post colonial theory, intellectual history, Arab arts & culture, visual arts, film, literature
American Studies, popular culture studies, critical theory
Visual culture, mass culture, and media and politics.
Gender and sexuality, mass and popular culture, postfeminism
Affect, irony, phenomenology, neoliberalism, niche markets and consumer culture, popular culture, alternative genders and sexualities
Education policy, critical pedagogy, political economy, and global affairs
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)
Feminist and queer anthropology, ethnography, bodies and embodiment, gender and sexuality, drag performance
The internet, history of technology, history of philosophy, philosophy of history, critical theory, power relations, biopower, Africana philosophy, African art, art history, art theory.
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
Political economy; state theory; class formation and surplus populations; labor history and social movements; critical theory of finance; globalization narratives and imperialism
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
religion and culture; the Middle East; nationalist narratives; colonialism
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
Transnational spaces, literature, South Asian American culture, kinship work, and The Midwest.
Social institutions, rhetoric/literature and politics, social control
governmentality, public policy, poverty, critical prison studies, critical race theory, religious networks and globalization
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