formation of middle classes in developing countries; effects of short-term capital flows on the Turkish economy and economic development; international finance and political economy of the Middle East
colonization of North America, with emphasis on the Intermountain West; Great Basin Prehistory, with emphasis on the Paleoindian period; evolutionary and ecological theory; surface archaeology and shronology; Lithic artifact analysis
Late Roman Empire; Early Islamic History; Early Medieval Mediterranean and Europe; the Global Middle Ages; Premodern Political Economy; Postcolonial Methodologies; Eastern Christianity and Syriac Studies