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, Horror studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century,
Culture, gender and health, global health communication, health inequalities, 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
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, infrastructure studies, critical theory, media history and theory, cultural studies
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
MENA studies; comparative literature; discourse analysis; film&media
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
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
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
Contemporary Irish Folklore, Sense of Place, Appalachian Studies, Transnational Migration
20th century culture and politics; democracy; constitutional history; civil liberties; foreign relations; political institutions and political economy; media history; cultural globalization.
Spanish in the US; heritage language education; critical, antiracist language teaching; ethnicity, race, and language in censuses; language and social justice
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
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
Early Modern, Enlightenment, Revolutionary History, Literature, Art, & Music of the French Empire; Theories, Histories, and Practices of African Diaspora; Slavery & its Afterlives; War & Culture; Critical Race & Mixed-Race Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Human Rights & Social Justice; Theater; Film; Digital Humanities; Medical History; History of Emotion; Women’s Writing & History; History of News & Information Networks; Critical Pedagogy; Inclusive Pedagogy & Curricular Design; Student/Faculty Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Wellbeing; Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment, Retention, & Mentoring; Academic and Community Activism, Academe & Politics.
Film history, film reception, "useful" film, Latin American film and other forms of mass media, Latin American literature, service-learning.
20th century US history, digital history, legal history, African-American urban history, spatial history, history of sexuality
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
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
Marxism, political economy and culture, postcolonial studies, globalization, media and technology, critical race and gender theory, art and music industries, theories of culture, Cultural Studies
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
Early American history (colonial-1820s); Early American women; 18th-century transatlantic history and global history