History of photography; photojournalism and news media; modern and contemporary visual culture; media studies; digital humanities; World War II and the Holocaust; Jewish Studies
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