Middle Eastern culture and society, ethnography, immigration, gender and feminist studies, Middle Eastern diaspora communities in the United States, political and social activism among Palestinian women
Immigrant Artists, International Migration, Integration Theories, Immigration Policies
International Migration and Immigration Policies, Migration Studies,Integration Theories,lslamophobia
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
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, labor, class, platform capitalism, technology, historical sociology, social theory.
Immigration policy, minority political behavior, comparative immigration politics
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.
Day laborers, credentials and human capital, immigration policies, immigrant integration including concepts of social capital, English proficiency, socioeconomic attainment, interview techniques and data collection methods for both qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Anthropology: Social Complexity and Inequality, Social Interaction, Regional Demographic Analysis, Population Centralization and Decentralization, Quantitative and Spatial Analysis
Program Coordinator, Institute for Immigration Research
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
Political economy, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.