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Michela Andreatta

Andreatta, Michela

Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature

Chair, Department of Religion & Classics

Co-Director, Center for Jewish Studies

Research Active

Office Location
425 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-7465

Interests: Literary and intellectual history of Italian Jews from the medieval to the early modern period; Italian Hebrew poetry, particularly devotional and elegiac; Christian Hebraists of Renaissance Italy; Venetian Jewry

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Chao, Shin-yi

Associate Professor of Religion

Research Active

Office Location
424 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-4760
Web Address
Website

Interests: Chinese popular religion; Daoism; ritual studies

Cushing, Alex

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

Research Active

Office Location
430A Rush Rhees
Telephone
(585) 275-9370

Interests: Roman social history; Ancient slavery and Roman freedpersons; Roman epigraphy and papyrology

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Jack Downey

Downey, Jack

John Henry Newman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies

Associate 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

Joshua Dubler

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

Dwyer, Justin

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

Research Active

Office Location
432 Rush Rhees
Telephone
(585) 275-9370

Interests: Greek and Roman Comedy; Hellenistic Greece and Republican Rome; Greek and Latin Pedagogy; Ancient Theatre and Material Culture; Stagecraft and Performance; Fragmentary Authors; Manuscript Illumination; Coroplastic Studies; Historicism; Reception

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William Green

Green, William Scott

Philip S. Bernstein Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies

Dean Emeritus of the College

Nicholas Gresens

Gresens, Nicholas

Professor of Instruction, Classics

Associate Vice Provost for Academic Honesty Education and Outreach, Academic Excellence

Office Location
435 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-5112

Interests: Latin and Greek Language; Imperial Greek Prose; Ancient Geography, Topography, and Historiograpy

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Aaron Hughes

Hughes, Aaron W.

Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Judaic Studies and Dean's Professor of Humanities

Professor of Religion

Research Active

Office Location
430 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-9359

Interests: Jewish Studies; Islam; Method and Theory of Religion

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Karabela, Mehmet

Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies

Research Active

Office Location
418 Rush Rhees
Web Address
Website

Interests: Islam and the Reformation; religion and politics; political theology; comparative religion

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Kassim, Abdulbasit

Assistant Professor

Research Active

Office Location
417 Rush Rhees Library

Interests: Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies; Islamic History and Civilization; Islamic Thought ; African and African Diaspora Islamic Intellectual Traditions; Arabic and Ajami Literature of Africa

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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

Anne Merideth

Merideth, Anne

Professor of Instruction, Religion

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Religion and Classics

Office Location
434 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-9367

Interests: New Testament; History and Literature of Early Christianity

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Renato Perucchio

Perucchio, Renato

Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Program Director, Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures

Office Location
236 and 415 Hopeman
Telephone
(585) 275-4071

Interests: Computational solid and structural mechanics; Engineering practices in Classical Antiquity

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Rood, Caleb

Department Administrator: Religion and Classics

Program Coordinator: Center for Jewish Studies

Program Manager: Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures

Office Location
420 Rush Rhees
Telephone
(585) 275-7780
Web Address
Website
Nora Rubel

Rubel, Nora

Elizabeth Denio Professor

Associate Professor of Religion

Co-Director, Center for Jewish Studies

Research Active

Office Location
438 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-7215

Interests: American Religion; Race and Ethnicity; Religion and Foodways

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