Faculty Expertise

feminist approaches to politics and television, genre studies, genre studies of conspiracy and captivity, myth and narrative in popular and political culture, mythic and narrative construction of alternative belief systems, rhetorical theory and criticism, television genres

Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin literature and history, Benedictine manuscript culture, Chaucer, French literary and historical connections to England, Iberian and Italian literary and historical connections to England, late medieval literary London, manuscript studies, medieval studies, Middle English language and culture, Middle English literature

American political development, archival research, citizenship theory, civil rights, civil rights, civil rights law, gender, institutional development, interview-based studies, judicial development, judicial politics, LGBT politics, political sociology, post-war civil rights mobilization, progressive era politics, qualitative methods, race, sexuality, social movements, U.S. constitutional law, U.S. politics

economic sociology, globalization, international political economy, political sociology, sociology of culture

eyewitness testimony, interviewing eyewitness, jury decision-making, memory, social influence, social psychology