Sociology of everyday life, social inequalities, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, youth and gender, sociology of food
sociology of human rights; political sociology; social movements; global and transnational sociology; science, knowledge, and technology; law and transnational conflict; critical sociology of development; community and urban sociology; comparative and historical sociology; and area specialist in Burma/Myanmar.
Sociology of families and intimate relationships, gender ideologies, gender inequality, research methods
Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization
Higher education, social stratification, culture, race/ethnicity, class, gender, research methods
Anthropology: Social Complexity and Inequality, Social Interaction, Regional Demographic Analysis, Population Centralization and Decentralization, Quantitative and Spatial Analysis
Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan