Department Directory
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Alfatli, Afrah
- Senior Lecturer in Arabic
- aalfatli@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9371
- 421 Rush Rhees
Interests: Arabic language and literature
![Michela Andreatta](faculty/andreatta_michela/assets/images/2019andreatta.jpg)
Andreatta, Michela
- Associate Professor in Hebrew Language and Literature
- michelaandreatta@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7465
- 425 Rush Rhees Library
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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Bautista, Stefanie
- Assistant Professor of Archaeology
- sbautist@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5378
- 427 Rush Rhees
![Dan Beaumont](emeritus/beaumont_daniel/assets/images/beaumont.jpg)
Beaumont, Daniel E.
- Professor Emeritus of Religion and Classics
Interests: Arabic Languages and Literature
![Douglas Brooks](faculty/brooks_douglas/assets/images/d_brooks1.jpg)
Brooks, Douglas R.
- Professor of Religion
- douglas.brooks@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9369
- 433 Rush Rhees Library
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Chao, Shin-yi
- Associate Professor of Religion
- schao6@z.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4760
- 424 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Chinese Religions
![Elizabeth Colantoni](faculty/colantoni_elizabeth/assets/images/colantoni.jpg)
Colantoni, Elizabeth
- Associate Professor of Classics
- elizabeth.colantoni@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9360
- 429 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Roman, Italic, and Etruscan Art and Archaeology; Roman religion; early Rome
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Cushing, Alex
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
- acushing@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9370
- 430A Rush Rhees
Interests: Roman social history; Ancient slavery and Roman freedpersons; Roman epigraphy and papyrology
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![Jack Downey](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
![Joshua Dubler](faculty/dubler_joshua/assets/images/Dubler_Joshua.jpg)
Dubler, Joshua
- Associate Professor of Religion
- Director, Rochester Education Justice Initiative
- joshua.dubler@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4756
- 428A Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Religion in America
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Dwyer, Justin
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
- justin.dwyer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9370
- 432 Rush Rhees
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](emeritus/green_william/assets/images/green.jpg)
Green, William Scott
- Philip S. Bernstein Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies
- Dean Emeritus of the College
![Nicholas Gresens](faculty/gresens_nicholas/assets/images/Gresens_Nicholas.jpg)
Gresens, Nicholas
- Associate Professor of Instruction, Classics
- nicholas.gresens@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5112
- 435 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Latin and Greek Language; Imperial Greek Prose; Ancient Geography, Topography, and Historiograpy
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![Th. Emil Homerin](emeritus/homerin_t/assets/images/homerin.jpg)
![Aaron Hughes](faculty/hughes_aaron/assets/images/AaronHughes.jpg)
Hughes, Aaron W.
- Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Judaic Studies
Dean's Professor of the Humanities
Professor of Religion and Classics
- aaron.hughes@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9359
- 430 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Jewish Studies; Islam; Method and Theory of Religion
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Marshall, Cona
- Assistant Professor of American Religions
- cona.marshall@rochester.edu | Office (585) 275-9368
- 431 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Womanism, Black feminism, the Black church (as an institution), and African American public religious rhetoric
![Anne Merideth](faculty/merideth_anne/assets/images/merideth.jpg)
Merideth, Anne
- Professor of Instruction, Religion
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Religion and Classics
- anne.merideth@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9367
- 434 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: New Testament; History and Literature of Early Christianity
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Rood, Caleb
- Department Administrator, Religion and Classics
Program Coordinator, Center for Jewish Studies
- caleb.rood@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7780
- 419 Rush Rhees
![Nora Rubel](faculty/rubel_nora/assets/images/rubel-website.jpg)
Rubel, Nora
- Jane and Alan Batkin Professor in Jewish Studies
Associate Professor of Religion and Classics - Chair, Department of Religion and Classics
- nora.rubel@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7215
- 438 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: American Religion; Race and Ethnicity; Religion and Foodways
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![Edward Wierenga](emeritus/wierenga_edward/assets/images/2019wierenga.jpg)
Wierenga, Edward
- Professor Emeritus of Religion and of Philosophy
Interests: Philosophy of Religion; Philosophical Theology