Faculty Associates
Associates
Bakhmetyeva, Tanya
- Associate 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
Beaudette, Sylvie
- Assistant Professor of Chamber Music & Accompanying
- sbeaudette@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 274-1415
Bernardi, Joanne
- Professor of Japanese and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Head, Japanese Program
Project Director, Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th C. Visual and Material Culture
- joanne.bernardi@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 409 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Japanese cinema and culture, especially popular culture; film and media studies; visual and material culture; moving image archiving and preservation; travel and tourism studies; nuclear culture; digital humanities; ephemera studies; object-based learning
Bleich, David
- Professor
- david.bleich@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8568
- 409 Morey Hall
Interests: Literary and language theory; writing and language pedagogy; women's studies; science studies; Jewish studies; film and popular culture
Cerulli, Catherine
- Director, Susan B. Anthony Center
- catherine_cerulli@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275--879
Chao, Shin-yi
- Associate Professor of Religion
- schao6@z.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4760
- 424 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Chinese Religions
Chin, Nancy
- Associate Professr of Community and Preventive Medicine (SMD)
- nancy_chin@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9780
Clark, Stephanie Brown
- Associate Professor of Medical Humanities (SMD)
- stephanie_brownclark@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-6469
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
Curry, Mary Jane
- Associate Professor of Education, Teaching and Curriculum
- mjcurry@warner.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5934
Devaney, Thomas C.
- Associate Professor
- Director of Graduate Studies, History
- thomas.devaney@rochester.edu
- 208 Lattimore Hall
Doughty, Kristin
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- 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
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
Gustafson, Susan E.
- Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
- Head, German Program
Director, Literary Translation Studies (MALTS)
- susangustafson@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 425 Lattimore Hall
Interests: German literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; feminism and gender studies; psychoanalysis
Hahn, Thomas
- Professor
- thomas.hahn@rochester.edu
- 402A Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval literature and culture; popular culture
Haidu, Rachel
- Associate Professor of Art History
- rachel.haidu@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4112
- 506A Morey Hall
Interests: Modern, postwar and contemporary art; Eastern European postwar and contemporary art; artist's films and videos; contemporary painting; history of photography; national identity and transnationalism; critical theory and poststructuralist theory; feminism, gender and race studies; visual studies
Higley, Sarah L
- Professor
- sarah.higley@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9261
- 411 Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe; film and media studies; fiction
Hudson, Larry E.
- Associate Professor of History
- larry.hudson@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4557
- 370B Rush Rhees Library
Interests: African-American History; Comparative Slavery; Civil War and Reconstruction; New South; Theory and Methods of Oral History
Hwang, June J.
- Associate Professor of German
- Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
- june.hwang@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 538 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century film; literature and critical theory
Kegl, Rosemary
- Associate Professor
- rosemary.kegl@rochester.edu
- 318 Morey Hall
Interests: Shakespeare and English Renaissance drama; early modern literature and culture; literary theory; gender studies
Kemedjio, Cilas
- Professor of French
- cilaskemedjio@rochester.edu | (585) 275--425
- 406 Lattimore
Interests: Francophone Caribbean and African literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; transnational black studies; humanitarianism
Koulouglioti, Christina
- Assistant Professor of Nursing
- Christina_Koulouglioti@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3880
Kyker, Jennifer
- Associate Professor of Music, Department of Music, College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Eastman School of Music
- jennifer.kyker@rochester.edu | (585) 275-0239
- 1-308 Dewey Hall
London, Bette
- Professor
- bette.london@rochester.edu
- 304 Morey Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies
Mannheimer, Katherine
- Associate Professor of English
- Chair , Department of English
- katherine.mannheimer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9257
- 417 Morey Hall
Interests: Restoration; Eighteenth-century literature
Mariner, Kathryn
- Assistant Professor
- kathryn.mariner@rochester.edu | Office (585) 275-8734
- 444 Lattimore
McDonough, Joyce
- Professor, Department of Linguistics (On Sabbatical for 2021-22)
- joyce.mcdonough@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2895
- 505 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Phonetics, phonology and morphology and their interfaces; Laboratory phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) linguistics; Neural coding of vowels (w Laurel Carney)
McHugh, Ernestine
- Associate Professor of Anthropology, The College; Senior Instructor in Community and Preventive Medicine, The Medical School
- emchugh@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 274-1453
Meconi, Honey
- Arthur Satz Professor of Music, Department of Music, College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
- honey.meconi@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9399
- 1-320 Dewey Hall
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
Michael, John
- John Hall Deane Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Director of American Studies
- john.michael@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9259
- 405 Morey Hall
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies
Mustian, Karen
- Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology (SMD), Community and Preventative Medicine
- karen_mustian@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-1796
Osburg, John
- Associate Professor
- Chair of Anthropology
- john.osburg@rochester.edu | (585) 273-3329
- 436 Lattimore Hall
Interests: China; Capitalism; Postsocialism; Gender; Political corruption and organized crime; Buddhist revival in China
Pedersen, Jean
- Professor of History
Professor of Humanities, Eastman School of Music
- jpedersen@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3616
- 447 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Modern European History; French History; Feminist Theory, Women's History, and Gender Studies; Philosophy of Science; Sociology of Knowledge; History of Academic Disciplines
Prendergast, Ryan
- Associate Professor of Spanish
- Chair, Modern Languages and Cultures
- ryan.prendergast@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4113
- 408A Lattimore Hall
Interests: Representations of identity and difference in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish America
Rodríguez-Hernández, Raúl
- Assistant Professor of Spanish
- Program Head, Spanish Program, Advisor to Minors, Clusters, Study Abroad credit for Clusters, Take-Fives, Placement Appeals
- raul.rodriguez-hernandez@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4257
- 420 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures; literary theory; Frankfurt School; European philosophical traditions in Latin America; Latin American cinema; the visual arts; the Baroque and Neo-Baroque; the Gothic tradition
Rubel, Nora
- Jane and Alan Batkin Professor of Jewish Studies
- 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
Rubin, Joan S.
- Dexter Perkins Professor in History
- joan.rubin@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9347
- 336 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History; The History of the Book
Runner, Jeffrey T.
- Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
- Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5000
- 317L Lattimore Hall
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface
Saab, A. Joan
- Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Vice Provost of Academic Affairs
- joan.saab@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7922
- 519 Morey Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century American cultural history; media and culture; urban and community studies; popular culture; cultural studies; aesthetic categories and values
Schaefer, Claudia
- Rush Rhees Chair
Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Professor of Film and Media Studies
Advisor to Majors, Transfers and Study Abroad Credit
- claudia.schaefer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5569
- 418 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures; Spanish cinema; critical theory; popular culture; the visual arts; Spanish modernity; the culture of science in Spain; surrealism in Spain; digital humanities
Scott, Joanna
- Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
- Director, Literary Arts Programs
- joanna.scott@rochester.edu
- 404C Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary fiction; the art of imaginative writing
Searle, Llerena G.
- Associate Professor
- Llerena.searle@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8740
- 443 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Urbanization; infrastructure; capitalism and global finance; value; speculation; material culture; media and consumer cultures; South Asia
Seiberling, Grace
- Associate Professor
- grace.seiberling@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4169
- 523 Morey Hall
Interests: Nineteenth-century painting and photography, especially Impressionism; Early British photography; Museums
Topolski, Allen
- Associate Professor
- Chair, Department of Art and Art History
Undergraduate Advisor, Studio Arts
- allen.topolski@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.
Willis, Sharon
- Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
- sharon.willis@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5757
- 517 Morey Hall
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