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Faculty Research Areas

• 17th century literature
• 18th century European art
• 18th century enlightenment
• 19th century European art
• 19th century US travel urban, and transatlantic writings
• 19th century literature
• 19th century music
• 20th century Germany
• 20th century Popular music
• 20th century U.S.
• 20th century culture
• 21st century literature
• 3D Modeling / Visualization
• AIDS
• Access to Data/Information
• Acting
• Acute Care/Medicine
• (...more)
• Administrative and military history of the medieval kingdoms of Germany and England
• Aerial dance
• Aesthetic responses to war and conflict
• Aesthetics
• Affect
• African Languages/Literature
• African history
• African religions
• African-American History
• Aging and life course
• American Revolution, especially its international history
• American elections and campaigns
• American legal history
• American literature
• American studies
• Anatolian archaeology
• Ancient Greek economy and economics
• Ancient urbanism and urban landscapes (ancient urbanism and urban landscapes)
• Animal Communication
• Animals
• Anthropology
• Apologies and forgiveness
• Apparel
• Application of the science of learning to foreign language acquisition
• Applied Sociology
• Applied arts
• Applied/interactive theatre
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Archaeological methods and theory
• Archaeology
• Archaeology: Mesoamerica/Maya archaeology
• Archaeology: Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the ancient Bay of Naples
• Archaeology: anthropocene
• Architecture
• Architecture History
• Arctic
• Art History of the Renaissance
• Art Theory
• Asia-Pacific Studies; modernism
• Asian Languages/Literature
• Asian North American studies
• Asian Studies
• Asian cinema
• Asian/Pacific Islanders
• Assessing human abilities to understand emotions and personalities
• Atlantic history
• Atmospheric Sciences
• Attention management
• Audiences
• Ballet
• Behavior
• Behavioral neuroscience
• Bible
• Big Data
• Biopolitics
• Black radicalism and resistance
• Bone and tooth histology
• Brain
• Brazil
• Breastfeeding
• Broadcast Media
• Budapest study abroad
• Campaign finance
• Cardiovascular System
• Caregivers
• Ceramics (Visual Arts)
• Chaucer
• Child Psychology/Development
• Child/Maternal Health
• Children's Literature
• Children's collaboration, learning, motivation, and prosocial helping
• Children/Youth
• Children’s engagement in problem solving with caregivers and other children
• Chile
• China
• China foreign relations
• China religion
• China's domestic policy
• Choreography
• Cinema studies
• Citizenship
• Civil Rights movement
• Clarinet
• Classroom Instruction
• Climate Change
• Climate Change - Impacts
• Climate change
• Climatology
• Clown/Commedia, xolo performance
• Coastal Environment
• Cognition
• Cognitive Development/Processes
• Cognitive Sciences
• Cognitive psychology
• Collective identities
• Colonialism
• Communication technology
• Communicative writing
• Community and School Relations
• Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Thought
• Comparative historical sociology
• Comparative politics
• Composition
• Composition theory
• Computer Games/Gaming
• Computer Graphics
• Computer Interface
• Computer/Digital Arts
• Conducting
• Conflict
• Conflict and human security
• Consumer and financial culture
• Contemporary American poetry
• Contemporary British literature
• Contemporary Irish literature
• Contemporary Latin American literature
• Contemporary Mexican literature
• Contemporary Nicaraguan literature
• Contemporary continental philosophy
• Conversational interaction
• Cosmopolitanism
• Costume design
• Craft Arts
• Creative Arts
• Creative nonfiction
• Creative writing
• Crime
• Criminal Justice
• Criminal justice
• Critical analysis and development of interfaces
• Critical cultural studies
• Critical race theory
• Critical theory
• Crusades
• Cultural History
• Cultural Identity
• Cultural heritage and sustainability
• Cultural perspectives on human development
• Cultural/Social Anthropology
• Culture
• Culture and child development
• Culture, cognition, and communication
• Culture--Gender and Sexuality
• Cultures
• Curriculum theory and philosophy of education
• Dance filmography
• Dance pedagogy
• Dance technology (computer software that interacts with dancers)
• Data Analysis
• Death and Dying, Behavioral/Social
• Decision making
• Decorative Arts
• Democracy
• Demographic Change
• Demography
• Dental Health & Hygiene
• Dental anthropology
• Deontic logic
• Design Arts
• Design history and pedagogy
• Design of digital art and creative experiments
• Developmental psychology, focusing on memory development in educational and cultural contexts
• Diaspora studies
• Digital Communications
• Digital humanities
• Digital literacies
• Digital media
• Digital memoir
• Digital rhetoric
• Digital storytelling
• Diplomacy
• Directing
• Disability studies
• Diversity political theory including: feminist, queer, critical race, Jewish, class, de-colonial
• Divine kinship
• Dracula
• Drama
• Dramatic/Theatre Arts
• Drawing
• Dreaming and culture
• Drug addiction
• EDUCATION
• Early Childhood Education
• Early English drama
• Early Modern philosophy
• Early Modern rhetoric/literature
• Early Modern science and maths
• Early literacy development
• Earth System Science
• East Asia
• Ecology
• Economic Justice
• Economic sociology
• Educational Planning/Policy
• Effects of drugs and alcohol on skeletal microstructure
• Egypt
• Electronic literature
• Elementary Education
• Emotion
• Employment skills
• English Language/Literature
• Environment and social change
• Environmental Justice
• Environmental Planning/Policy
• Environmental history
• Environmental policy
• Environmental politics and social change
• Environmental sociology
• Epistemology
• Equality
• Essay
• Ethical theory
• Ethics
• Ethics/Values in Science and Technology
• Ethnic Politics
• Ethnic Studies
• Ethnic conflict
• Ethnicity
• Ethnography
• European Communities
• European History
• European Studies
• European cultural history
• European politics
• Exploration
• Families
• Family
• Feminism
• Feminist and queer theory
• Feminist rhetoric
• Feminist theory
• Fiction writing
• Fieldwork
• Film
• Film analysis
• Film history
• Film theory
• Film/Cinema Studies
• Finance
• Fine Arts
• Fisheries Management
• Folklore and Mythology
• Food
• Foreign language education
• Forensic Science
• Forensic anthropology
• Form and technique of fiction
• Foundationalist/coherentist dispute
• France
• Francophone and transcultural literatures
• French cultural studies
• Games Theory
• Games in Education
• Gender
• Gender Differences
• Gender Equality
• Gender Roles
• Gender and race studies
• Gender studies
• Gender, race, class in media
• Generational changes in childrearing practices
• Geosciences
• Geospatial modeling
• German modernism
• Global Health
• Global communication
• Global production networks
• Globalization
• Graphic Design
• Graphic narratives and comics
• Greco-Roman history
• Greek and Roman mythography
• Happiness/well-being
• Health Communication
• Health Disparities
• Heritage & Cultural Conservation
• Heroin
• History
• History & Appreciation of Art
• History of Canada
• History of Islam
• History of Islamic art
• History of Law
• History of Science & Technology
• History of emotions
• History of medicine
• History of medicine and the body
• History of science and medicine
• History of science and technology, especially in colonial settings
• History of science, especially chemistry and meteorology
• History of the Middle East
• History of world capitalism
• Hittite philology
• Human Factors
• Human Learning and Memory
• Human Reproduction/Fertility
• Human Rights & Justice Issues
• Human-environment geography
• Humanitarian intervention
• Identity
• Immigrant Children and Families
• Immigration
• India
• Indigenous Arts
• Industrial districts
• Information Science/Systems
• Intellectual History
• Intercultural Communications
• Interdisciplinary approaches: visual, historical, geographical
• Interdisciplinary inquiry
• Interdisciplinary studies
• Interfaces
• International Affairs
• International Planning/Policy
• International political economy
• International university students’ acculturation processes
• International/Global Development
• Internet
• Intersection between culture, capitalism, and diplomacy in the nineteenth century
• Intonation
• Islamic Studies
• Issues and policy regarding the preparation, recruitment, and retention of special education personnel
• Italian History
• Italian Language/Literature
• Italian cinema
• Italian women writers
• Italy
• J.S. Bach
• Jazz
• Jazz dance
• Jewish English
• Jewish Studies
• Johannes Brahms
• John Cage
• John Milton
• Journalism
• Journalism: reporting, writing, editing
• Judicial politics
• K-12 literacy
• LGBTQ Literature
• Labor geography
• Labor markets
• Lactation
• Landscape
• Language acquisiton
• Language and social Interaction; examines video-recorded, naturally-occurring face-to-face casual and professional interactions
• Language and/or Literature, Classical Greek
• Language and/or Literature, Classical Latin
• Language and/or Literature, Drama
• Language and/or Literature, Fiction
• Language and/or Literature, Victorian
• Language contact
• Latin America
• Latin American Languages/Literature
• Latino studies
• Latinx studies
• Law Enforcement
• Law enforcement
• Learning with drug states
• Legitimacy of police
• Life course
• Linguistic politeness
• Literary Criticism
• Literary History
• Literary Modernism
• Literary journalism
• Literary theory
• Literatures and languages of Latin America
• Longform
• Longitudinal data analysis
• Love poetry
• Marine Environment
• Mass Communication/Media
• Material Culture
• Maya bioarchaeology
• Media
• Media and cultural studies
• Media history and theory
• Media studies
• Media theory
• Medical Sociology
• Medical humanities
• Medieval Europe
• Medieval History
• Medieval Middle East
• Medieval Studies
• Medieval literature
• Memoir
• Memory/forgetting
• Methamphetamine
• Microanalysis of face-to-face interaction between children, adults and individuals in policing contexts
• Microscopy
• Middle East
• Migration
• Military History
• Military Rule
• Minimalism
• Minorities
• Mixed methods research in applied linguistics
• Mobile Media
• Modern Art
• Modern Britain
• Modern Chinese literature and culture
• Modernism
• Modernist cultures
• Modernity
• Moral and political philosophy
• Moral, Ethical and Religious Aspects of Digital Culture
• MultilevelModeling and Mathematics Education
• Multilingual poetry
• Multimedia
• Multispecies ethnography
• Music
• Music - Performance
• Music Conducting
• Music Criticism
• Music Education
• Music criticism
• Music education
• Music theory
• Musicology/Music Theory
• Myth and geography
• Narrative nonfiction
• National memorials in Italian literature and art
• Nationalism
• Native American literature with a focus on New England
• Natural Resources Management
• New Music
• Nicotine
• Non-Western History
• Nonverbal Communication
• North America
• Novella
• Novels
• Opera
• Opera/Musical Theatre
• Orchestra
• Orchestral Music
• Organizational, environmental, science and technology
• Orientalism
• Painting
• Pakistan
• Parent Involvement
• Passing
• Pastoral
• Pathology
• Peacekeeping
• Pedagogy
• Performance studies
• Performing Arts
• Personal essay
• Personality psychology and measurement
• Personhood
• Pharmacology
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Philippines
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of biology
• Philosophy of evolutionary explanation
• Philosophy of law
• Philosophy of mind
• Philosophy of moral language
• Phonetics
• Photography
• Physical Geography
• Play
• Podcast
• Poetry
• Political Behavior
• Political Ecology
• Political History
• Political Participation
• Political Science
• Political Theory
• Political behavior
• Political collapse
• Political discourse
• Political economy
• Political history
• Political theory
• Political thought
• Politics and literature
• Politics and society
• Popular culture
• Presidential nomination process
• Primary Care
• Printmaking
• Privacy
• Professional culture
• Progressive era; race, ethnicity, and immigration
• Prosody
• Psychology
• Psychometrics
• Psychophysiology
• Public Engagement
• Public opinion
• Public pedagogy and feminist theory
• Qualitative research methods
• Quantitative analysis
• Quantitative methodology
• Queer Linguistics
• Queer theory
• Race
• Race and ethnic relations
• Race and ethnic studies
• Race and racism
• Religion
• Religion & Society
• Religious Studies
• Religious ideology
• Renaissance History
• Renaissance literature
• Renaissance transnationalism
• Rendering
• Renewable Energy Sources
• Reputation
• Rhetoric
• Rhetoric of science
• Risk
• Robert Walser
• Roman, Greek, and Etruscan art
• Romanticism
• Rule of law
• Rural Education
• Rural Studies
• Rural and urban sociology
• Sacred landscapes
• Saxophone
• Scenic painting
• Schizophrenia in literature
• Sculpture
• Second language writing
• Seneca the Younger
• Set design
• Sexual violence bystander prevention and response strategies for university, military and community settings
• Shakespeare
• Sherlock Holmes
• Short story
• Skeletal Diseases
• Skeletal trauma
• Skull-photo superimposition and image comparison
• Social Change
• Social Control
• Social Exclusion
• Social Geography
• Social History
• Social Inclusion
• Social Justice
• Social Movements
• Social Psychology
• Social and political philosophy
• Social identity
• Social justice
• Social justice education
• Social movements
• Social protest
• Social psychology
• Social stratification
• Social theory
• Sociocultural anthropology
• Sociocultural anthropology: heritage
• Sociolinguistics
• Sociology
• Sociology Education
• Sociology of Science
• Sociology of mental health
• Sociology of the Family
• Sociology of the family
• South Asia
• Spanish and comparative literature
• Spanish in the U.S.
• Spatial data analysis
• Special Economic Zones
• Special studies in fiction
• Sports
• Stage combat/Choreography
• Stage makeup
• Statistics
• Storytelling
• Strengthen relationships, communities, organizations and our sense of responsibility to each other
• Stress processes and mental health
• String music education
• Substance use
• Surveillance
• Survey research
• Surveys & Survey Research
• TESOL
• Teacher Education
• Teacher education
• Teacher training
• Teaching and learning in the context of transitional justice
• Teaching pre-college philosophy
• Technical writing
• Technology
• Textile/Weaving Arts
• The Counter-Reformation
• The Crusader States
• The impact of traumatic historical events on teaching and learning
• The public sphere
• Theater/Theatre
• Theatre and social justice
• Theatre dance
• Theatre education
• Theatre history
• Theatre technology
• Theory
• Traditional Arts
• Translation
• Translation theory
• Translational neuroscience of cognitive control, prefrontal cortex and prenatal insults
• Transnational migration
• Trauma
• US Foreign Policy
• US imperialism
• US labor movement
• United Nations
• United States
• United States Constitution
• Universal Design
• Urban political economy
• Values/Moral Education
• Variation and change
• Vernacular Public Discourse
• Virginia Woolf
• Virtual Reality
• Vision Science
• Visual Arts
• Visual Perception/Processing
• Visual culture
• Visual perception
• Visual perception, with an emphasis on stereopsis, motion, and mathematical models
• Voter demography
• War
• War and Society
• Weather
• Wind Symphony
• Wine
• Women and gender
• Women in Science/Technology/Engineering/Math (STEM)
• Women writers
• Women's Health
• Women's Studies
• Women's history
• Wood/furniture design
• Woodwinds
• Work
• World History
• World politics
• World/non-Western history
• Writing and reading instruction
• Yiddish
• Youth theatre
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