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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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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
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Dubler, Joshua
Associate Professor of Religion
Director, Rochester Education Justice Initiative
- Office Location
- 428A Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4756
Interests: Religion in America
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Ealey, Jordan
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Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies
Interests: Black feminist theory and praxis; Black theatre and performance; Nineteenth and twentieth century Black intellectual history, sound studies, popular music, and Black girlhood studies
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Hunter, Cory
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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Kemedjio, Cilas
Professor of French
- Office Location
- 406 Lattimore
- Telephone
- (585) 275--425
Interests: Francophone Caribbean and African literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; transnational black studies; humanitarianism
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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
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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
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Marshall, Cona
Assistant Professor of American Religions
- Office Location
- 431 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- Office (585) 275-9368
Interests: Womanism, Black feminism, the Black church (as an institution), and African American public religious rhetoric
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McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.
Frederick Douglass Professor
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of Black Studies
Founding Chair, Department of Black Studies
- Office Location
- 311B Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5346
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McHarris, Philip V.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies
Interests: Racial inequality, housing, and policing
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Michael, John
John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
Professor of English
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
Director, American Studies
Interim Chair, Department of Black Studies
- Office Location
- 405 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9259
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies
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Omelsky, Matthew
Assistant Professor of English
Assistant Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Black Studies
- Office Location
- 417 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2376
Interests: Global black cultural studies; African, African American, and Caribbean literatures; film and media studies; speculative aesthetics; time and phenomenology; critical theory.
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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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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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![Sharon Willis](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/aah/people/faculty/willis_sharon/assets/images/willis_sharon.jpg)
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