Media studies, popular culture, popular music, visual culture, literature and audience and fan reception
Ancient philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, African American philosophy
Diversity in educational media, broadening participation in STEM, Learning Technologies
LGBTQ Studies; feminist and queer theory; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; gender and sexuality in Appalachia; role of gender equity centers in higher education
Sociology of ideas, theoretical sociology, political sociology, race and ethnic studies, urban communities, the sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois
Antiracist everything, documentary and fiction film, television, social media, war media, sports media, Black media, LGBTQ+ media, horror, action, and science fiction movies and TV, gender and sexuality.
African American history, women's history, history of lynching, labor history, Pan-Africanism
Race, gender, the African American experience, and the history of black women in the Atlantic World
race, ethnicity and nationalism, globalization, urban studies and international development and security.
African American, 20th century Cultural History, History of Death in America, American Popular Music, African American Religious History
late eighteenth century/early nineteenth century black antislavery writing with a particular emphasis on slave narrative autobiography, early black polemic, and their contributions to Atlantic political and intellectual currencies