Sociology of everyday life, social inequalities, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, youth and gender, sociology of food
Natural and cultural resources, intellectual property, World Heritage, and global environmentalism
Comparative politics, Latin America, political violence, human rights, transitional justice
Mexico-U.S. relations, organized crime, immigration, border security, and human trafficking
political sociology; economic sociology; social movements; globalization; transnational networks; sociology of human rights; law & transnational conflict; urban sociology; critical sociology of development; comparative & historical sociology; (Area Specialist in Burma/Myanmar).
Sociology of families and intimate relationships, gender ideologies, gender inequality, research methods
Political economy, computational and digital sociology, far-right digital cultures, science and technology, critical theory.
Immigration policy, minority political behavior, comparative immigration politics
Migration, sociology of globalization, transnationalism, migrant children and adolescents, the social welfare state, immigration policy
Social impact, innovation, and entrepreneurship; Rhetorical criticism, argument, persuasion; Political communication and public policy
poverty and inequality, education, health disparities, and community-based and participatory approaches to research
Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization
Trauma and resilience among families residing on the social, racial, and economic margins; Intersections of social policies, family diversity, and justice; Community-based participatory research (CBPR) and scholar-activism; Culturally-appropriate, contextually relevant methodologies and interventions
Sociology of Religion, Politics of the Middle East, Islamism, Religious Education, Religious Institutions
Aging, Family, Health, Marriage, Migration, Social Capital, Quantitative Methods
Quantitative and qualitative research methods, family, immigration, and child development.
Sociology of Globalization, Transnationalism, Human Rights, Sociology of Development, International Politics, Social Movements, Migration, Latin America and US International Relations, Indigenous Peoples' Rights, The Collective Unconscious
Anthropology: Social Complexity and Inequality, Social Interaction, Regional Demographic Analysis, Population Centralization and Decentralization, Quantitative and Spatial Analysis
Children's transition to school, development of self-regulation/executive functioning, private speech, bilingual language development, the arts and child development, and educational success and equity for children of color
Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan