Research & Teaching Specialties

Faculty research and teaching specialties in History and Government currently include:

• Social, political, cultural, and religious history of the U.S., Early Modern Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America
• Cross-cultural/Multicultural Studies of the Colonial Atlantic World
• History, politics, and popular culture
• Museum studies and historic preservation
• Rural, agricultural, and environmental history
• Political socialization
• Women in aviation, Women Air Force Service Pilots of World War II
• Women in history, law, politics, and government
• Race, class, ethnicity and the law
• Law in historical and political context
• Political theory
• Politics and literature
• Politics and government in Japan and China
• International relations, U.S. national defense policy, global politics
• Critical approaches to the study of law: critical race theory, feminist jurisprudence, critical race feminism, Latcrit theory
• Diversity in the legal profession
• African-American History
• Slavery in the Americas