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 language, literature and film; Soviet and post-Soviet film including the Caucasus, Central Asia, Mongolia, and Eastern Europe
Russian foreign policy, especially toward the Middle East; Transnational revolutionary movements
Historical pedagogy, digital humanities, public digital history, modern East Central Europe, Appalachian Studies
Comparative politics, Central Asian regime change, political Islam, effects of information communication technology on state and society