Migration and borders, humanitarianism, securitization, kinship and family, East Africa, the Horn of Africa, North America
Education, social inequalities, youth, identity and intersectionality, children's health, community sociology, micro sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of everyday life, consumer markets and commercial life, sociology of food, farm to school, food access and food insecurity, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, ethnography, program evaluation
Public economics, public choice, psychology and economics, economics of the family
Mexico-U.S. relations, organized crime, immigration, border security, social movements, and human trafficking
U.S. immigration law and policy; legality, citizenship, membership, and belonging; immigrant incorporation; refugee resettlement; global migration management; Middle East migration
narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East
Immigration policy, minority political behavior, comparative immigration politics
Folklore, music, dance, public humanities, performance studies, African Studies, women's and gender studies, migration, war, politics and culture, ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, digital storytelling.
Social impact, innovation, and entrepreneurship; Rhetorical criticism, argument, persuasion; Political communication and public policy
Research: Colonial Virginia, Early Modern Atlantic World, bound/unfree labor (slavery, indentured servitude, apprenticeship), environmental history and history of diseases/pandemics
poverty and inequality, education, health disparities, and community-based and participatory approaches to research
Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization
Inequality, Poverty, Mobility; Neighborhoods; Community and Urban Sociology; Race, Class, and Gender; Education; Social Demography; Quantitative Research Methods; Causal Inference
Migration, diaspora, transnationalism, digital activism, social movements, media, language politics, family, gender, healthcare, religion, ethnography, Central Asia, Tajikistan
U.S. Politics and Legal Studies; Social Policy; Immigration Policy
Immigrant’s issues, Immigration Reforms and American Values, Contributions of diasporas in US Society and Economy, Social Science and Globalization, Public-Private sector’s engagements to mitigate institutional issues hampering economic growth, Policy towards Industry 4.0
Higher education; inequality and mobility; culture; race, class, and gender; parent and family involvement in education; transition to adulthood; research methods; second-generation immigrant students
American culture, the anthropology of anthropology, sociology of knowledge, anthropological theory and practice, and the history of anthropology
Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan
Political economy, German contemporary films, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.