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Contemporary Latin American and Latino literature and cultural studies, Caribbean studies, film studies, migration studies and literary translation.

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Flute, Music History

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anthropology of food, medical anthropology, community development, the social construction and politics of gender/ethnic/racial/national identities, migration, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, public health

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Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology & Counseling

• professional training, development, and practice in sport psychologists,
• self-care and wellbeing in sport psychologists and other professionals,
• cultural competence and humility in psychology practitioners,
• identity in psychology practitioners,
• performance psychology in esports,
• organizational culture in sport and health organizations.

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Hispanic Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics, Spanish in the United States, Critical Media Studies, Spanish for the Health Professions

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Flute, Music History

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Spanish American poetry, Southern Cone, daughter-mother relationships, and performance poetry

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XX Century Peninsular Literature, Film Studies, 2nd Language Acquisition

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Demography, Social Stratification, Social Statistics and Quantitative Research Methods

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Social Movements, Collective Behavior, Leisure Groups, Identity (individual and collective), Qualitative Research, Popular Culture

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Various ethnic American literature, immigration literature, postcolonial studies, Caribbean literature and culture, world literatures, cultural studies, folklore, cultural memory, globalization and literature, and critical theory.

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anthropology of food, medical anthropology, community development, the social construction and politics of gender/ethnic/racial/national identities, migration, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, public health

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Dr. Linville's main research areas are digital storytelling as translanguaging, advocacy for English learners (ELs), language teacher education, and language ideologies.

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Latinx/a/o identity development and leadership development; student development theory; ethnic cultural centers; qualitative research

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Latin American, Mexican, Latinx histories and history of gender and sexuality.  Latin Americanists study the history of nineteen different countries in the Americas, plus the Philippines, Spain, and the U.S.A.  I focus on nineteenth-century Mexico, especially the Porfiriato (1876-1911) and the U.S. Southwest. Research interests include diplomacy, transnational migration, Mexican diaspora, consumption and material culture, masculinity, Latin@s in the Midwest, the homophile movement, and LGBTQ history of the Midwest.    Service interests include development of outreach programs to increase Latino entry into higher education, graduate, and professional programs, as well as LGBTQ public history programs, and faculty promotion and retention programs.

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Urban Ethnography, Critical & Cultural Criminology, Race & Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Human Rights Policing, Transgressive Criminology, Travel and Tourism, Urban Sociology, Hispanic Immigration, among other topics.

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South American/Andean Archaeology, Rise of Complex Society, Origins of Urbanism, Sedentary Village-Based Adaptations

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Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology & Counseling

• professional training, development, and practice in sport psychologists,
• self-care and wellbeing in sport psychologists and other professionals,
• cultural competence and humility in psychology practitioners,
• identity in psychology practitioners,
• performance psychology in esports,
• organizational culture in sport and health organizations.

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Academic and Financial Retention, Males of Color in higher education, Transnationalism and identity within the context of migration; globalization and its effects; African Diaspora in Central America and the Caribbean, especially in the Dominican Republic and Haiti; critical race theory; cultural studies; masculinity, class, gender

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Hispanic Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics, Spanish in the United States, Critical Media Studies, Spanish for the Health Professions