Postcolonial literary categories; the French banlieue cultural field; contemporary film; North Africa/France transnational relationships

Modern Arabic literature and cultural studies; trauma and war novel; Arabic dictator novels; film and television studies; postcolonial and literary translation theory; second language acquisition (Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language)

Development economics; policy, strategy, and programming evaluation; Central Africa; Colombia

Latin America; colonialism and the era of independence; Mexican history; ecclesiastical and institutional history

Contemporary Latin American production; Venezuelan literature; Gender and Transgender Studies; Hispanic cinema; and the culture of illicit drugs in the Americas

Theatre of the 19th and 20th centuries; popular culture; ideology studies; Spanish television during the transition

Contemporary Arabic Literature; Arab American literature; identity; diasporic Muslim and Arab communities

Middle Eastern politics, especially in the Levant, ethnic conflict, and civil war; international organizations, human rights, and democratization

19th century French literature, particularly the novel and the works of Victor Hugo; questions of individual, political, and social identity; narrative and narrative forms; women in literature

Literary theory and history of literary criticism; graphic novels; pedagogy of current issues in German politics and culture; GDR history; popular culture, especially visual culture

Criminal violence in Mexico; ethnic politics and social movements in Mexico and Latin America; immigration to the U.S.; U.S.-Mexico border issues

Modern Turkey; Modern Germany; Middle East and North African Studies; Migration & Diaspora Studies; Transnational & Globalization Studies

European politics; comparative political economy; political institutions; inequality; social policy; labor politics

Management of innovation and technology; managerial economics; economic development (with a focus on Africa and the Middle East); globalization and international political economy

The History of Medical Ethics, Criminology, and the Social Sciences in Russia and the Soviet Union; Modern European History; Eastern Europe and Russian History; Medical History

20th-century Latin American culture; literature of the Cuban Revolution; Latin American women’s literature; translation studies; feminist and postmodern debates

Chinese politics; transnationalism; gender politics and society; globalization and state-society relations in China and East Asia; feminism, civil society, and intellectual criticism in contemporary China

Imperial and Modern China; Intellectual History; the Chinese Communist Movement; Women’s History; Military History