HIV risk & prevention among high-risk groups; Psychosocial aspects of chronic disease and traumatic injury management
middle eastern literature; world literature; postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality
transnational feminist theory and aesthetics; contemporary French, francophone and Indian literatures; feminist perspectives on mothering; and feminist pedagogy
intersection of spirituality and higher education environments; diversity in higher education
Dr. Bailys research has focused primarily on the effects nonformal education has had on women and the communities in which they live.
Organizational change, cross cultural communication, conflict and change, group dynamics, knowledge creation, and virtual conversations
Continental philosophical and multi-disciplinary feminist traditions, epistemology, ethics, politics
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
globalization of the trans umbrella identity and its impact on liminal gender peoples, trans workplace and adult education inclusion, and cross-generational trans mentorship.
Comparative politics, Latin America, political violence, human rights, transitional justice
empowerment, resilience, community-based learning, transformative education, civic engagement, intimate partner violence, client-centered services
International Studies, Legal Studies, and Social Justice and Human Rights
Ancient philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, African American philosophy
documentary film, fiction film directing, transmedia, social issue media production
Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Mental Health, Gender and Race, Black Studies
Gender, culture and the arts; art as social action; creativity; educating for social justice; self-study of professional practices in teaching.
LGBTQ Studies, feminist and queer theory, television studies, friendship studies and rhetoric, critical trauma studies and rhetoric, ecofeminism/ Appalachia
Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender
Sociology of families and intimate relationships, gender ideologies, gender inequality, research methods
interpersonal violence, violence prevention, Title IX and higher education.
Social movements, race and ethnic studies, theories of genders and sexualities, pedagogy, mindfulness education, and the globalization of liberal arts education
Urban spaces, gentrification, governmentality, globalization and transnational sexualities
Community Psychology, Leadership, Faculty Development
Bioethics, health care ethics, public health ethics, feminist ethical and political theory
Documentary, television, social media, war movies, sports media, black popular cultures, LGBTQ media, horror, action, and science fiction movies and TV, gender and sexuality
Non-normative genders, the construction of gender, TV/film/media, the U.S. security state and queer bodies. The figure of the queer child/trans child
Nineteenth-Century French studies, Quebec studies, women writers, Literature, Society, and the Arts; Women and Gender Studies (joint appointment): Violence and Gender; Violent Women; Narrative, Gender, and Human Rights; Cultural Studies; New Century College
Trauma counseling, intergenerational trauma, and resilience Immigrant and refugee women and families Counselor training and development Mindfulness practices in counseling and counselor training Community-based participatory research (CBPR) practices and social action
Islamic history, Middle East, Women's Studies, Global history
critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts
early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory
Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States
Modern Europe, Modern Germany, History of Sexuality, Legal History, History of Science and Mathematics
19th & 20th century continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, aesthetics
African American history, women's history, history of lynching, labor history, Pan-Africanism
Gender and sexuality, mass and popular culture, postfeminism
Asian American students, student development, multiple identities, intersectionality, and graduate student success
Feminist psychology and psychotherapy, women’s sexualities and spiritualities, trauma and recovery
Teen/Young Adult Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Multi-Ethnic American Literature; African American Literature; Women Writers; Harry Potter
Feminist research/feminist rhetoric, creative nonfiction, community writing, writing across the curriculum/in the disciplines, ethnography, writing program administration and pedagogy
Medical rhetoric, vaccine controversy, professional and technical communication, public rhetoric, rhetoric of science and technology
Feminist and queer anthropology, ethnography, bodies and embodiment, gender and sexuality, drag performance
transnational sexualities; race and immigration; human rights; feminist and queer theory; media and cultural studies; disability studies
HIV/STD and unintended pregnancy prevention among adolescents and young adults
nineteenth-century American literature; gender and sexuality studies; research methods; queer theory
Modernism; Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, postcolonialism and cultural studies; history of English.
Race, gender, the African American experience, and the history of black women in the Atlantic World
history of children's literature; eighteenth-century British literature; disability studies
Political communication
Medieval and Renaissance studies, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, gender studies, reception studies
leadership and intersectional identity development; liberatory pedagogy and research methods
Critical Health Communication, Black Health, Community Participatory Engagement, Chronic Disease, Clinical Outcomes, Health Disparities & Inequities, Social Determinants, Structural Racism, Psychosocial Factors, Digital Health, Health Information Seeking, Intervention Development and Dissemination, Message and Survey Development and Evaluation
Early Modern and Revolutionary Literature, History, and Art of the French Empire; War and Culture; Critical Race and Critical Mixed Race Studies; Human Rights and Social Justice; Multiculturalism; Theater; Film Theory; Digital Humanities; Medical History; History of Emotion; Women’s Writing and History; History of News and Information Networks; Critical Pedagogy; Inclusive Pedagogy and Curricular Design; Student/Faculty Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Wellbeing; Faculty Recruitment, Retention, and Mentoring; Grad Student Recruitment and Mentoring, Academic and Community Activism, Academe and Politics.
Film history, film reception, "useful" film, Latin American film and other forms of mass media, Latin American literature, service-learning.
Information and communication privacy policy, digital government, public policy process.
Global and American social problems from an economic perspective; comparative stigma
Organizational change, community corrections (probation/parole), prisons, law & society, reentry, problem-solving courts, implementation studies, street-level bureaucrats, and qualitative methods
Urban space, gender, and social mobility; infrastructure, design, and the built environment; language politics and ideologies; cultural identity formation; ethnography of literature; postcolonial theory, globalization, India
British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, nineteenth-century British novel, materialist approaches to literature.
scholarship of teaching and learning, online learning, scholarly digital storytelling, digital humanities
Psychoanalysis, literature on traumatic memory, unconscious memory, feminist theory, trauma theory, healing narrative
Interpersonal Violence Awareness and Prevention; Student Activism and Agency; Institutional Culture, Power, and Decision-Making; Intersectional Feminism
Genomics; Epigenomics; Ancient DNA; Power and Social Inequality; Settler Colonialism; Ancient Urbanism and Imperialism; Feminist, Queer, and Indigenous Science Studies. Primary geographic foci include the American South, Texas, Mesoamerica, and the Andes.
Modern European and American and comparative social history, history of emotions, world history
poetry; war poetry; visual poetry; mixed form (prose & poetry); poetry's intersections with walking art and land art;
Gender, punishment and incarceration, the life course, qualitative research methods
Bioarchaeology, Evolution of Health and Disease, Growth and Development, Osteology, Diet
Latina/o/x Studies, Chicana/o/x Studies, Latin American Studies, Iberian Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Migration Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, LGTBQIA+ Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, Panhispanic Cultural Studies, Translation Studies, Editing & Publishing
traditional narrative; material culture; family folklore; gender studies
Political economy, German contemporary films, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.
