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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Humanities

Our faculty are using critical research methods to study human culture, history, literature, and communication. 

Brian Williams

Brian
Williams

Professor

History
Liberal Arts 334

Research site

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Research

Research interests

  • America's post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria
  • CIA drone warfare and global counter-terrorism
  • Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorism and warfare
  • Islamic Central Asia, Crimea, Russia, Chechnya, Ukraine, Turkey, Balkans
  • History of the Ottoman Islamic and Mongol Empires and Barbarian conquests

Timothy
Walker

Professor

History
Liberal Arts 330

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Research

Research interests

  • Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, the Portuguese and their Empire
  • Maritime History and European Global Colonial Expansion
  • The Adoption of Colonial Indigenous Medicines by Europeans
  • Climate Data Derived from Colonial-Era Archival documentation
  • Slave Trading in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Anna Klobucka

Anna
Klobucka, PhD

Commonwealth Professor

Portuguese
Liberal Arts 398H

Research site

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Research

Research interests

  • Modern Portuguese literature and culture
  • Women's writing and history
  • Gender and sexuality in Luso-Brazilian cultures
  • Modernist studies
  • Lesbian history
Glaucia Silva

Glaucia
Silva, PhD

Professor

Portuguese
Liberal Arts 396H

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Research

Research interests

  • Teaching and learning Portuguese as a heritage language

Victor
Mendes

Associate Professor / Director of Portuguese

Portuguese
Liberal Arts 398L

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Portrait of Anna Dempsey

Anna
Dempsey, PhD

Professor / Chairperson

Art Education, Art History & Media Studies
College of Visual & Performing Arts 360A

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Research

Research interests

  • Contemporary Art
  • Curatorial Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Design and Architectural History
  • Virtual Museums
Pamela Karimi

Pamela
Karimi

Professor

Art Education, Art History & Media Studies
College of Visual & Performing Arts 313

Research site

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Research

Research interests

  • Art
  • Architecture and visual culture of the modern Middle East
  • Design and sustainability in North America