Comparative Politics, International Relations, Middle East, Muslim World
Charles Dickens, Victorian Fiction, British Literature, Transatlantic Studies, Digital Humanities, Service-Learning
Development of children and youth: Disability and individual differences; family and school; foster care and adoption; basic mechanisms in autism and other developmental disorders; sibling relationships among children with autism; school-to-prison pipeline.
Old and Middle English Literature and Languages, Classical Mythology, Early Women Writers
Theatre Arts
Sexuality and mental health, sexual identity, commercial sex work, sexual violence prevention
Business Law and Ethics, Commercial Transactions, Business Entities, Real Estate Law, Estate Planning and Administration
Berkowitz’s graduate & undergraduate teaching (“Teaching is a first love”) has focused on community and social psychology.
Digital Humanities, Digital Culture, New Media, 20th & 21st Century American Culture
Child Maltreatment, Psychology & Law, Memory for Trauma, Child Eyewitness Testimony, Prevention Science
Community psychology, workplace diversity and interpersonal dynamics
French Studies and Culture
The horror genre, film studies, composition and rhetoric
Medieval and Renaissance Art
Domestic violence, with a specific focus on criminal justice & societal interventions; victimology; police organizations & behavior.
Evidence-based practice; global crime and justice; criminal justice technology.
Personality, human development, & on-line teaching. Faculty Advisor Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology
Early Modern Europe, Renaissance Italy, Western Civilization
Sound recording technology
Musicianship & Music Business; Composition, Electroacoustic music, Music technology, Performance
Early American History, Public History
US Diplomatic History, Modern Chinese History, and Asian American History
Cambodian Literature & Culture, Genocide & Survivor Literature
Genocide studies; political sociology
American Politics, Political Methodology
Music History, Jazz History
Family studies and gender-related issues; immigration; ethnicity; social change and comparative perspective.
Composition and Literature
Poetry & Poetics
Clinical & community psychology; Immigrant psychology & families; Diversity; Feminism
Medieval and Reformation History, History of Christianity, World Civilization
Human sexuality, research methods, & online learning
Intersections of gender, race, and class; care work; labor market inequalities; research methods; and social policy.
Latin American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Economy of Development
Youth participatory action research, Critical community psychology, Conflict transformation and peacebuilding, Northeast India/South Asia
American Politics, Parties and Interest Groups, Public Policy
Latin America
Social theory; social stratification; war and peace; political sociology; globalization
Sociology of education; race and ethnicity
Percussion, Percussion Ensemble
Medieval Europe, Western Civilization & History of England
International security studies, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, homeland security.
U.S. History, Labor Studies, Global Development, Industrial History
Research methods, statistics, adolescent psychopathology, emerging adulthood
Bass Guitar, Music Theory, Jazz Ensembles
Labor economics, the economics of disability, applied econometrics, scholarship of teaching and learning
American Politics, Political Theory, Media Studies
American Politics, Politics and Sports, State and Local Politics
Health Communication, Health Campaign Design, Health Psychology, Research Methods & Statistics
Rhetoric & Composition
Music education
ESL Exposition, the Research Process, Linguistic Analysis, Gender & Nineteenth Century British Gothic Fiction, British Travel Literature & National Identity.
Early twentieth century American literature
Mental illness & the criminal justice system; sex offender management policy; juvenile justice policy & practice.
Policing, Developmental Criminology, Quantitative Research Methods
Ethics, Feminist Theory
Workplace Diversity, Stereotyping and Discrimination.
United States History, African-American History, History of the U.S. South
Autism spectrum disorder; adolescents and young adults; adult outcome, transition; employment; college/university; mentoring
Health psychology, psychophysiology, victimization & women's health
Metaphysics, Feminist Philosophy
Commercial sex market, human trafficking, forced migration, refugees and risk
Adult development & aging, adolescence, personality, cross-cultural psychology, the psychology of gender & research methods, service learning
Digital Humanities, Victorian Literature, Poetics, History of the Book
Lifespan development, applied developmental psychology, cross-cultural development & psychological assessment
Rhetoric/Composition, First-Year Writing, 19th, 20th, & 21st Century British Literature, Travel Writing, British Empire & National Identity
Economic growth and development, income inequality, migration
First Year Writing Program, Children's Literature
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind, American Philosophy
Business Law, Family Law, Real Estate Law
Ethics (Theoretical and Applied), Philosophy of Law, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Greek and Roman History
Contemporary literature, literary theory, Asian American studies, narrative theory, gender, class
Experimental Economics, Environmental Economics, Public Policy
Political Communication, Political Psychology, Race & Gender, and Methods
Corrections and Reentry, Life Course Criminology, Mixed Methods
Technology, Society & Human Values
Applied Macro and Micro Models, Energy & Environmental Economics, Economics of Occupational Health
Sensation and perception, research methods and statistics, portals of consciousness, computer applications in psychology, neuropsychology, and chaos and nonlinear dynamics applications in psychology
Social Psychology
Music Theory & Aural Skills
Mental health issues in the Criminal Justice system, especially Corrections; Self-handicapping behavior
Poetry & Poetics; 20th-Century American Literature
Civil wars, political violence, terrorism and security studies
Intersections of gender and migration; race; sexuality; feminist methodologies
Instrumental ensembles
American Politics, Political Psychology, Political Communication, Law & Politics
Applied Behavior Analysis
Gothic novel, American literature, law & literature, New England witchcraft trials, disability in literature
Performance, Woodwinds, Instrumental conducting, instrumental ensembles
Developmental psychology, especially language development, narrative, and life stories
Use of technology in older adult populations
Choral conducting, music history
Moral and Political Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, and Philosophy of Race
Musicianship and Musicology
Music Performance- Guitar
British and American modernist literature, composition and rhetoric, and gender studies.
American Studies; a globally oriented American Literary Studies (especially of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries); Political & Critical Theory; Public Humanities & Digital Humanities; Gender & LGBQ Studies
African American, Caribbean and Nineteenth & Twentieth century American literature
U.S. Social and Environmental History
Policing and Police Organizations, Public Health and Mental Illness, Comparative Policing, Gender
Labor Economics, Community Economic Development, Public Policy Analyst
Sound recording technology, music theory
Community psychology and women's studies
Interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women and work; gender studies; qualitative research methods; sociology of disability
18th & 19th century British Literature, The British Novel, Women Writers
Substance Abuse, Hidden Populations, Qualitative Research Methods
Crime Reporting, Corrections, Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault.
19th & early 20th century American Literature, American Women Novelists, Mystery & Detective Fiction
Political Violence and Extremism, Security Policy and Politics, Far-Right Politics (Europe, US and Israel), Political Socialization, Middle Eastern Politics, Research Methodology (SNA).
Composition and Literature; Renaissance Literature
American Political Culture
Collective action and social movements; immigration policy; youth civic engagement; public sociology and participatory action research; and experiential pedagogies.
19th & 20th Century Italian Literature, Women’s Studies & Life Writing, Italian Cinema, Foreign Language Education
biosocial criminology, psychophysiology, hormones, biologically-informed prevention
Transatlantic literature; autobiographical narrative & minority identity; gender in literature; digital culture
Development Economics, Microfinance
Areas of expertise include social change, work and inequality, and gender and science.
Orchestral conducting, Strings
Community-based participatory research; social movements and communication; environmental and climate sociology; and public sociology
Prisoner Reentry, Sex Offenders and Offenses, Community Supervision, Program Evaluation
Shakespeare, early modern literature & culture, performance theory, theatre history, theatre arts.
Applied Behavior Analysis in the treatment of autism; Experimental Analysis of Behavior; auditory & visual discrimination learning; simulation in distance-learning applications.
Violence prevention and control, Sexual violence
Sound recording technology, composition, electroacoustic music, harmonica
Terrorism, Security, malevolent creativity & innovation, decision-making.
Early Modern Literature & Culture; Online Pedagogy, Digital Culture
Journalism, American Studies, Composition and Popular Culture
Psychological issues of migration, qualitative research methods, narrative analysis
Japan, U.S. History, Radicalism, Reform
Offender re-entry & recidivism, Registered sex offenders, Public policy-making, Environmental criminology, GIS, Spatial Analyses.
Creative Nonfiction, Literary Journalism
Global/Comparative/Cross-Cultural Historical Perspectives, Native American and African History
Business Writing, Early Twentieth Century British Fiction, Oral Communication, Editing & Publishing
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature, Southern Literature, American Poetry
American Courts, American Public Administration & Public Policy.
Music theory
International Trade, Labor Economics
Comparative Politics, International Relations, Southeast Asian Politics
Service Learning, Ethnographies
20th & 21st Century American Literature & Culture, American Philosophy & Intellectual History, Comparative Media Studies (including computational media), & Public Humanities.
Civil Litigation, Employment Law, Business Law, Trade Secrets, Noncompete Agreements
Methodology & statistical analysis; criminal careers.
Sustainable housing and community economic development
International Relations; Comparative Politics; African Politics
Sound Recording Technology, Composition, Electroacoustic music
Rhetoric and Composition, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Music Technology, Audio and Media Production, Educational Leadership
Cognitive Psychology, Human Memory and Cognition, Applying Cognitive Psychology to Education, Metacognition, False Memory, Cognitive Errors
Music Education
Media Freedom, Comparative and International Political Communication, Human Rights, Repression and Dissent, International Relations, Research Methods
Psychology and Law, Eyewitness Memory, Plea-Bargaining, Repeated Testing, Decision-Making Biases
Music Business
History of the Modern Middle East, Ottoman History, Environmental, economic, and social history
Public Policy, International Political Economy, British Politics
Acting, Directing, The Creative Processes, Cross Cultural Exchange, Ensemble & Group Dynamics, Native/Indigenous Studies, Expressive Therapies, Improvisation, Clowning, Visual Arts
Modern French & European History
Transitional Organized Crime, Human Trafficking, Offender Re-entry and Rehabilitation, Program Evaluation.