International Studies Faculty

Areas of Expertise

Modern Europe, especially Germany and Central/East Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; European Jewish and women's history; East European and German film and literature, socialism, war and revolution.

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Chinese religions, Japanese religions, Buddhism.

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Ecological economics, wildlife economics

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Foreign language pedagogy, linguistics, computer-assisted language instruction.

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Medieval art history, Asian art history.

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Experimental and behavioral economics, agricultural economics, environmental and resource economics.

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Chinese and inner-Asian history, comparative history of north Asia 11th-14th centuries, Mongol empire.

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African diaspora religions, religion in America, sociology of religion and Caribbean society and culture.

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Post-colonial literature(s) and theory, South Asian literature, Canadian diasporic writing.

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Historical archaeology, colonialism, material culture

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Literary translation and translation studies, Spanish American poetry, and contemporary Spanish-Caribbean literatures and cultures.

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Islamic history, history of Central Eurasia, Ottoman history, women and gender in Islamic history.

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Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish literature, science and literature, theory of the novel, Islam and Spain, world literature.

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Macroeconomics, macroeconometrics.

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International relations, international criminal tribunals, transitional justice, human rights, civil wars, international organizations and United States foreign policy.

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Chinese politics, Chinese rural development, political economy of development, women in politics, globalization.

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Postcolonial studies, critical theory, transnational studies.

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Cultural identity formation and contestation, global and local dynamics of mass media, media ethnography, reception studies, indigenous modes of (self-re)presentation, subject-generated imagery, life history, Native North America, Southeast and East Asia.

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Immigration. Latin American politics. Global poverty.

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Nineteenth-century German-Jewish literature.

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Creative writing in Spanish, Spanish American poetry and essays, literature of the Cuban Revolution, Latin American film.

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Archaeology, Mesoamerica, politics, trade, history of theory.

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History of India and South Asia, Indian politics, globalization and migration, transnational communities.

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Archaeology, Mesoamerica, settlement patterns, ceramics, women in Latin America, ancient and modern Maya cultures.

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Sociology of development, comparative and historical methods, social change, political regimes, class formation, the Philippines and Latin America.

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Southern Africa, colonialism, history of religion.

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Modern and contemporary art, Chinese art history.