H.William Westerman

Migration and ethnic studies, with a focus on refugees; immigration detention; political asylum; immigrant arts, music, and education; human rights; immigrant communities in New Jersey; undocumented youth and DACA.

Museums, particularly ethnographic and history museums and museums of immigration.

Folklore and traditional culture, especially pertaining to belief systems; visual sociology and the sociology of cinema and photography; the sociology of culture including folklife, oral literature, music, and folk protest; inclusive pedagogy; indigenous languages and literatures and cultural sustainability; oral history; nonviolence; social justice and the sociology of knowledge.