People
Staff
Faculty Director
Joshua Dubler is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and Classics. He is author of Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison (FSG, 2013) and co-author of Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons (Oxford University Press, 2019).
joshua.dubler@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4756
Assistant Director of Programming
Eitan Freedenberg joined REJI in 2017, first as an instructor of art history at Five Points Correctional Facility (taught in partnership with the Cornell Prison Education Program) and then as the assistant director of programming. He completed a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester in 2020.
e.freedenberg@rochester.edu | (301) 646-4469
Assistant Director of Community Outreach
Precious Bedell is a PhD candidate in the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester and a specialist in in providing resources to and helping those reentering from prisons and jails on how to navigate complex medical, social and reentry services.
precious_bedell@urmc.rochester.edu
Admissions and Pre-College Program Coordinator
Ed Wiltse is a Professor of English and Communication at Nazareth College. He founded and directs the Jail Project, a collaboration between Nazareth and the Monroe County Jail, which over the last twenty years has facilitated meaningful intellectual exchanges between Nazareth students and incarcerated men and women. He has taught college-in-prison courses at Albion, Groveland and Auburn.
Instructors (2015–present)
Solveiga Armoskaite
Joel Burges
Jerome Dent
Kristin Doughty
Brady Fletcher
Eitan Freedenberg
Robin Frye
R. Michael Gosselin
Murat Guner
David Holloway
Alexander Kotelsky
Marianne Kupin-Lisbin
Youngchae Lee
Trevor Nelson
Alison Peterman
Jarod Sickler
Allen Topolski
Ed Wiltse