Cultural anthropology of Latin America; Gender relations and transcultural constructions in the longue durée; Migration research: paths, spaces, mobility and temporality; Anthropology of sport: football cultures and ballgame rituals; Political Anthropology: Political Organization, Political Movements and Environment; Mexiko, Brasilien, USA
Theater and "speculative Fabulation"; Performance / performativity; Gender studies; Brazilian literature of the 21st century; Expansion of the literary field
International History and the History of Empires; North American History; Modern History, 19th - 21st Century; History of the United States: Diplomacy, Culture; U.S. Foreign Relations; Humanitarian Intervention; Nation Branding — Performance and Self-Representation of Nations; Public Diplomacy / Cultural Diplomacy; History of Emotions ; Media History; Music History
Cultural and Social History of Europe and North America, especially of the 19th to 21st Centuries; Transnational and Comparative History of the European-Atlantic Area; History of Cultural Globalization Processes; Media History of the 19th and 20th Centuries; New Military History, Cultural History of Violence; Body and Gender History
History and Performance Theory; History and/of Knowledge; History of Everyday Life; Practices and Theories of Memory and Remembering; U.S. Cultural History
Seriality, Popular Culture, and American Media History; American Cultural History, especially Early American (17th century) and Contemporary American (late 20th, early 21st century), (American) Enlightenment Studies, Religious History and Religious Communication in North America, Theories of American Modernity, The Humanities (Cultural Theory) and Naturalist Methodologies (Cognitive Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, Empirical Research), Thanatology.
Social and Cultural History of the USA (20th Century); U.S. Gender History (20th Century); Sports History as Cultural History of the Body; Great Depression & the New Deal; Informers & Informants in 20th Century U.S. Culture; History & Visual Culture