Affiliated Faculty
![Cary Adams doing acoustic radar research during a residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/aah/people/faculty/adams_cary/assets/images/cary-peppermint.jpg)
Adams, Cary
- Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices
- cary.adams@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice
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Bakhmetyeva, Tanya
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- Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
- Associate Academic Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
- tatyana.bakhmetyeva@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5187
- 535 Lattimore
Interests: Russian and Eastern European History, History of Catholicism, Gender
![Karen Berger](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ees/people/faculty/berger_karen/assets/images/KarenBerger.jpg)
Berger, Karen
- Associate Professor of Instruction, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Co-Chair, University Council on Sustainability
Coordinator, College Sustainability Studies
Curriculum Coordinator, Environmental Programs
- karen.berger@rochester.edu
- 227B Hutchison Hall
Interests: Teaching Interests: Human use of and impacts on energy and water resources; community-engaged learning; metrics of sustainability
![Peter Christensen](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/aah/assets/images/90.jpeg)
Christensen, Peter
- Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
Professor of Art and Art History - Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director, Humanities Center
Director, Andrew W. Mellon Program in the Digital Humanities
- peter.christensen@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7173
- 212C Rush Rhees Library
Interests: 19th and 20th century architectural history, particularly Europe and North America’s international engagement with the Islamic world; history and aesthetics of infrastructure and industry; historicism; cartography and architecture; critical digital humanities
![Randall Curren](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/phl/people/faculty/curren_randall/assets/images/randall_curren.jpg)
Curren, Randall
- Professor of Philosophy
- randall.curren@rochester.edu
- 524 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Ethics; Moral Psychology; Philosophy of Education; Ancient Philosophy
![Kristin Doughty](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ant/people/faculty/doughty_kristin/assets/images/doughty2022or.jpg)
Doughty, Kristin
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Interim Director, SBAI
- kristin.doughty@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5155
- 437 Lattimore Hall
Interests: political and legal anthropology; politics of reconciliation; transitional justice; violence and conflict; memory; politics of energy; Africa; Rwanda
![Jack Downey](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/rel/people/faculty/downey_jack/assets/images/downey.jpg)
Downey, Jack
- John Henry Newman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies
Professor of Religion and Classics
- j.downey@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5224
- 436 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Contemporary Justice Movements; Liberation Theologies; North American religious history; Christianity; Buddhism: and Contemplative Traditions
![William J. FitzPatrick](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/phl/people/faculty/fitzpatrick_william/assets/images/fitzpatrick.jpg)
FitzPatrick, William J.
- Gideon Webster Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy
- william.fitzpatrick@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4105
- 525 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Metaethics; Normative Ethics; Bioethics; Philosophy of Biology
![Thomas Fleischman Headshot](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/his/people/faculty/fleischman_thomas/assets/images/fleischman-bio-picture.jpg)
Fleischman, Thomas
- Associate Professor of History
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- thomas.fleischman@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1140
- 460 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: German History; Environmental History; Animal History; Agricultural History; State Socialism; Cold War
![Robert Foster](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ant/people/faculty/foster_robert/assets/images/foster_small.jpg)
Foster, Robert J.
- Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies
- robert.foster@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8741
- 445 Lattimore
Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
![Gerald Gamm Headshot](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/his/people/faculty/gamm_gerald/assets/images/ggamm.jpg)
Gamm, Gerald
- Professor of History
Professor of Political Science
- gerald.gamm@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8573
- 319 Harkness Hall
Interests: Political Science; American History
![Thomas Gibson](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ant/people/faculty/gibson_thomas/assets/images/gibson2.jpg)
Gibson, Thomas P.
- Professor of Anthropology
- thomas.gibson@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8739
- 442 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia; The anthropology of war and peace; Cosmology and state formation; Islamic states; Religious nationalism in the Indian Ocean; Colonialism and bureaucracy
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Heuer, Christopher P.
- Professor of Art History
- cheuer@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-6052
- 521 Morey
Interests: Early Modern art and theory; the history of art history; replicative technologies; art and prehistory; environmental aesthetics; disaster studies; performance; the American civil rights movement
![Kathryn Mariner](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ant/people/faculty/mariner_kathryn/assets/images/mariner.jpg)
Mariner, Kathryn
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- kathryn.mariner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8734
- 444 Lattimore Hall
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
![Leila Nadir](nadir-leila/assets/images/leila-nadir.jpg)
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
![Kate Phillips Headshot](https://writing.rochester.edu/people/phillips_kate/assets/images/Kathryn_Phillips.jpg)
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![Stewart Weaver Headshot](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/his/people/faculty/weaver_stewart/assets/images/img_2428-2.jpg)
Weaver, Stewart A.
- Professor of History
- stewart.weaver@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9348
- 368 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Modern British History; Himalayan History; Environmental History