Associated Faculty

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Adams, Cary

Associate Professor of Studio Arts

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Telephone
(585) 273-5994
Web Address
Website

Interests: Sound art; Generative art; Emerging technologies and art; Social practice

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Ball, Molly

Assistant Professor of History

Director, Latin American Studies Program

Office Location
449 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 276-7184
Web Address
Website

Interests: Brazilian History; Latin American History; Economic History; Immigration History

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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 media and culture; Literary theory, especially African American literary theory and the theory of the novel; Translation (theory and practice); Creative Nonfiction; Digital Humanities; Reparations and Intergenerational Justice

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Kristin Doughty

Doughty, Kristin

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Anthropology

Co-Director, Rochester Educational Justice Initiative

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

Jack Downey

Downey, Jack

John Henry Newman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies

Associate Professor of Religion

Research Active

Office Location
436 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-5224

Interests: Contemporary justice movements; Liberation theologies; North American religious history; Christianity; Buddhism; Contemplative traditions

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Dubler, Joshua

Associate Professor of Religion

Director, Rochester Education Justice Initiative

Research Active

Office Location
428A Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-4756

Interests: Religion in America

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Nadine Grimm

Grimm, Nadine

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James P. Wilmot Distinguished Associate Professor of Linguistics

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Director of Language Documentation and Description Program

Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab

Office Location
509 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Language Documentation and Description; Typology; Linguistic Fieldwork; African Linguistics; Grammatical Tone; Grammar Writing; Language and Culture; Language and Cognition

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Hunter, Cory

Associate Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences

Associate Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music

Office Location
1-341 Dewey Hall

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Kyker, Jennifer

Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences

Professor of Ethnomusicology, Eastman School of Music

Chair, Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences

Office Location
1-308 Dewey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0239

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Kathryn Mariner

Mariner, Kathryn

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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; beauty and embodiment; United States

Marshall, Cona

Assistant Professor of American Religions

Research Active

Office Location
431 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
Office (585) 275-9368

Interests: Womanism; Black feminism; the Black church (as an institution); African American public religious rhetoric

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Papaioannou, Julie

Professor of Instruction in French

Language Pedagogy Coordinator, French

Study Abroad Advisor, French

Undergraduate Advisor, Spring 2026

Office Location
427 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251

Interests: French language and culture; French and Francophone literature and film (twentieth and twenty-first centuries); French literary translation; French criticism, literary and postcolonial theory

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Nora Rubel

Rubel, Nora

Elizabeth Denio Professor

Associate Professor of Religion

Co-Director, Center for Jewish Studies

Research Active

Office Location
438 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-7215

Interests: American Religion; Race and Ethnicity; Religion and Foodways

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Jeffrey Tucker

Tucker, Jeffrey Allen

Associate Professor of English

Director of Undergraduate Studies

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

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

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