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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Jonas Wellendorf

Jonas Wellendorf

Dept of Scandinavian

Old Norse language and literature, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavian cultural history (Viking Age and Middle ages)

William J. Drummond

School of Journalism

politics, journalism, reporting, national security, freelancing in both print and radio

Cori Hayden

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, Mexico, social and cultural anthropology, kinship, anthropology of science, technology, medicine, post-colonial science, gender, queer studies

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban design and planning, design history, social and cultural factors in landscape design

Kate Heslop in office setting

Kate Heslop

Dept of Scandinavian

Medieval Studies, Old Norse literature, Viking and medieval Scandinavia, cultural memory, media theory

Dept of History

North America, Native American history, indigenous methodologies, Tewa philosophy, community-based research, oral history, history of physics, colonialism

Dept of Film and Media

feminist theory, cultural theory, archaeology of media technology, film and modernity, film theory, psychoanalytic theory

Charles L Briggs

Charles L Briggs

Dept of Anthropology

social cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, folklore and performance, racialization, linguistic anthropology

Archaeologists confer at the Yarumela site in Honduras

Rosemary A. Joyce

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, anthropology, cultural heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central America, feminism

Jocelyne Guilbault

Jocelyne Guilbault

power relations, global industrialization, labor practices, work ethics in Caribbean popular musics, diaspora, cultural entrepreneurship

Dept of Ethnic Studies

critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities

Dept of Geography

China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, the process of international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks

Dept of English

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies

Prof. Angela Marino

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

Latin American Studies, performance studies, Venezuela, Chicanx Latinx studies, Chicano Latino theater, political cultures, Populism, Festival and Carnival Studies, democracy, Latin America

Jennifer Miller

Jennifer Miller

Dept of English

Old English language and literature, textual criticism, drama, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, Scottish literature, Renaissance and Early Modern literature, Middle English literature

James W. Rector

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geoarchaeology, geophysics, acoustics, Seismology, machine learning, energy, carbon capture and storage, oil and gas

Mahesh Srinivasan

Mahesh Srinivasan

Dept of Psychology

flexible and pragmatic uses of language, representation of abstract concepts, linguistic relativity, social cognitive development in different cultural contexts

Colleen Lye

Dept of English

postcolonial theory, marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature

Cover image of Disorientation: France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality

Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity

Chiyuma Elliott

Chiyuma Elliott

Dept of African American Studies

poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography

john powell at lectern

john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Dept of Geography

critical cartography, media geographies, critical GIS and data studies, cultural memory and landscape, politics of representation - textualization - and visuality, digitalities

Stefania Pandolfo

Stefania Pandolfo

Dept of Anthropology

cultural anthropology, Islam, Middle East, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature, the Maghreb, mental illness

contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel

Mel Y Chen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity