Associated Faculty
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Adams, Cary
Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5994
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice
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Bakhmetyeva, Tanya
she/her/hers
Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Associate Academic Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
- Office Location
- 535 Lattimore
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5187
Interests: Russian and Eastern European History, History of Catholicism, Gender
Ball, Molly
Assistant Professor of History
- Office Location
- 449 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7184
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Brazilian History; Latin American History; Economic History; Immigration History
Bangoura, Kerfala "Fana"
Director, UR West African Drumming Ensemble
- Office Location
- 1-337 Dewey Hall
Beaumont, Daniel E.
Professor Emeritus of Religion and Classics
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Arabic Languages and Literature
Bridges, William H., IV
Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
- Office Location
- 407 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2235
Interests: Modern Japanese language, literature, and culture; Race and ethnicity in modern Japanese literature and culture; Contemporary Japanese popular culture, especially anime; 20th-century African American literature; Literary theory, especially African American literary theory and the theory of the novel; Translation (theory and practice); Rhetoric and composition; Digital Humanities
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Carter, Anthony T.
Professor Emeritus
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8614
Interests: rural politics; kinship and marriage; households and personhood
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Doughty, Kristin
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Office Location
- 437 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5155
Interests: political and legal anthropology; politics of reconciliation; transitional justice; violence and conflict; memory; politics of energy; Africa; Rwanda
Downey, Jack
John Henry Newman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies
Professor of Religion
Research Active
- Office Location
- 436 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5224
Interests: Contemporary Justice Movements; Liberation Theologies; North American religious history; Christianity; Buddhism: and Contemplative Traditions
Dubler, Joshua
Associate Professor of Religion
Director, Rochester Education Justice Initiative
Research Active
- Office Location
- 428A Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4756
Interests: Religion in America
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Finnigan, Kara
Professor of Educational Leadership
- Office Location
- 414 LeChase Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9942
- Web Address
- Website
Fordham, Signithia
Professor, University of Rochester
- Office Location
- 214 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5773
Interests: Research
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Gamm, Gerald
Professor of History
Professor of Political Science
- Office Location
- 319 Harkness Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8573
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Political Science; American History
Grimm, Nadine
she/her/hers
James P. Wilmot Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Director of Language Documentation and Description Program
Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
- Office Location
- 509 Lattimore Hall
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Hunter, Cory
James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
- Office Location
- 1-341 Dewey Hall
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Inikori, Joseph E.
Professor Emeritus of History
- Office Location
- 437 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9020
Interests: Atlantic World Economic History
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Kyker, Jennifer
Academic Leave 2024-2025
Associate Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Eastman School of Music
- Office Location
- 1-308 Dewey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0239
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Mandala, Elias C.
Professor of History
- Office Location
- 439 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2058
Interests: Southern Africa since the 19th Century; Social History
Mariner, Kathryn
Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 444 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8734
Interests: intimacy and social inequality; politics of race, class and gender; temporality; kinship and adoption; care; social work; space and place; visual anthropology; United States
Marshall, Cona
Assistant Professor of American Religions
Research Active
- Office Location
- 431 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- Office (585) 275-9368
Interests: Womanism; Black feminism; the Black church (as an institution); African American public religious rhetoric
Michael, John
John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
Professor of English
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
Director, American Studies
- Office Location
- 405 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9259
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies
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Nadir, Leila Christine
Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities
Director, Environmental Humanities Program
Interests: Anthropocene; Apocalypse; Environmental humanities; Memoir and creative nonfiction; Social practice art; Food studies; Theories of modernity/modernism; Cultural histories of colonialism and extractive capitalism; Immigration studies; Cold War geopolitics, especially related to Afghanistan; Politics of Race and Ethnicity; American Literature
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Papaioannou, Julie
Professor of Instruction in French
Language Pedagogy Coordinator, French
Study Abroad Advisor, French
- Office Location
- 427 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: French language and culture; French and Francophone literature and film (twentieth and twenty-first centuries); French literary translation; French criticism, literary and postcolonial theory
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Rubel, Nora
Jane and Alan Batkin Professor in Jewish Studies
Professor of Jewish Studies
Chair, Department of Religion and Classics
Research Active
- Office Location
- 438 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7215
Interests: American Religion; Race and Ethnicity; Religion and Foodways
Russell, Todd
Adjunct Instructor, Dance Program
- Web Address
- Website
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Sierra Silva, Pablo M.
Associate Professor of History
- Office Location
- 461 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8354
Interests: African Diaspora, Latin American, Caribbean and Atlantic History
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Titus, Jason
Senior Lecturer
- Office Location
- 1-347 Dewey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4193
Tucker, Jeffrey Allen
Associate Professor of English
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English
- Office Location
- 418 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2064
Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction
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West, Glenn A.
Director of Mbira Ensemble
ECMS Collegiate Instructor in Mbira
- Office Location
- Department of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
- Web Address
- Website
Willis, Sharon
Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
Professor of Art and Art History
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 517 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5757
Interests: Film history and theory; visual and cultural studies; women's studies and feminist theory; comparative literature and critical theory; French cinema; 19th and 20th century French literature