History of modern Russia, Kazakhstan, and the Soviet Union, history of Gulag, history of concentration camps, history of totalitarianism
Globalization, neoliberalism, economic sociology, Eastern Europe, socialism and postsocialism, gentrification, Washington, DC
Austrian economics, institutional economics, and comparative economics
Russian foreign policy, especially toward the Middle East; Transnational revolutionary movements
Digital humanities, public digital history, historical pedagogy, Appalachian Studies, modern East Central Europe
19th and 20th century Russian literature, Soviet and Russian film, Russian and European culture, medical history, environmental studies, space and place in literature, literary and critical theory, Russian language and culture through media
Comparative politics, Central Asian regime change, political Islam, effects of information communication technology on state and society