Department Directory
A

Alfatli, Afrah
- Senior Lecturer in Arabic
- aalfatli@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9371
- 421 Rush Rhees
Interests: Arabic language and literature

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
B

Bautista, Stefanie
- Assistant Professor of Archaeology
- sbautist@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5378
- 427 Rush Rhees

Beaumont, Daniel E.
- Professor Emeritus of Religion and Classics
Interests: Arabic Languages and Literature

Brooks, Douglas R.
- Professor of Religion
- douglas.brooks@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9369
- 433 Rush Rhees Library
C

Chao, Shin-yi
- Associate Professor of Religion
- schao6@z.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4760
- 424 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Chinese Religions

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

Cushing, Alex
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
- acushing@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9370
- 432 Rush Rhees
Interests: Roman social history; Ancient slavery and Roman freedpersons; Roman epigraphy and papyrology
D

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

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

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
G


Green, William Scott
- Philip S. Bernstein Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies
- Dean Emeritus of the College

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
H


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
M

Marshall, Cona
- Assistant Professor of American Religions
- cona.marshall@rochester.edu | Office (585) 275-9368
- 420 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Womanism, Black feminism, the Black church (as an institution), and African American public religious rhetoric

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
R

Rood, Caleb
- Department Administrator, Religion and Classics
Program Coordinator, Center for Jewish Studies
- caleb.rood@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7780
- 419 Rush Rhees

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
W

Wierenga, Edward
- Professor Emeritus of Religion and of Philosophy
Interests: Philosophy of Religion; Philosophical Theology