Full Directory
The Institute invites several visiting speakers each year and sponsors conferences that are linked to the research and teaching interests of our faculty. The Institute now offers faculty fellowships and a graduate certificate in addition to research grants to faculty associates to support research in African and African-American Studies.
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Adams, Cary
- Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices
- cary.adams@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice
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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

Ball, Molly
- History Lecturer
- mollycball@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7184
- 449 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Brazilian History; Latin American History; Economic History; Immigration History
Bangoura, Kerfala "Fana"
- Director, UR West African Drumming Ensemble
- kerfala.bangoura@gmail.com
- 1-337 Dewey Hall

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


Bridges, William H., IV
- Associate Professor of Japanese
Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
- wbridges@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2235
- 407 Lattimore Hall
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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Carter, Anthony T.
- Professor Emeritus
- anthony.carter@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8614
Interests: rural politics; kinship and marriage; households and personhood
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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

Downey, Jack
- John Henry Newman Associate Professor of Catholic Studies
- 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
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Finnigan, Kara
- Professor of Educational Leadership
- kfinnigan@warner.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9942
- 414 LeChase Hall

Fordham, Signithia
- Professor, University of Rochester
- s.fordham@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5773
- 214 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Research
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Gamm, Gerald
- Professor of History
Professor of Political Science
- gerald.gamm@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8573
- 319 Harkness Hall
Interests: Political Science; American History

Grimm, Nadine
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
- Director, Language Documentation and Description Program
Interim Director of Graduate Studies, Linguistics
- nadine.grimm@rochester.edu | (585) 273-2366
- 509 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Grammatical tone; Language documentation and description; Typology; African languages, particularly Bantu
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Hunter, Cory
- Assistant Professor of Music, Department of Music, School of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
- cory.hunter@rochester.edu
- 1-341 Dewey Hall
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Inikori, Joseph E.
- Professor of History
- inik@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9020
- 437 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Atlantic World Economic History
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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

Kyker, Jennifer
- Associate Professor of Music, Department of Music, School of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Eastman School of Music
- jennifer.kyker@rochester.edu | (585) 275-0239
- 1-308 Dewey Hall
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Mandala, Elias C.
- Professor of History
- elias.mandala@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2058
- 439 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Southern Africa since the 19th Century; Social History

Mariner, Kathryn
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- kathryn.mariner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8734
- 444 Lattimore Hall
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

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

McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.
- Frederick Douglass Associate Professor of African-American Literature and Culture
- Director, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies
- jmccune@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5346
- 311B Morey Hall


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

Moon, Alexander
- Lecturer, Department of Political Science
- amoon4@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4291
- 330 Harkness Hall
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Nadir, Leila Christine
- Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities
- Director, Environmental Humanities Program
Interests: Anthropocene; apocalypse; environmental humanities; memoir and creative nonfiction; social practice art; food studies; theories of modernity/modernism; cultural histories of colonialism, immigration, extractive capitalism, and geopolitical displacements; Cold War politics; theories of race
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Omelsky, Matthew
- Assistant Professor of English
- matthew.omelsky@rochester.edu
- 417 Morey Hall
Interests: Global black cultural studies; African and Caribbean literatures; film and digital media; time and phenomenology; speculative fiction; critical theory.
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Papaioannou, Julie
- Professor of Instruction in French
- Language Pedagogy Coordinator, French
Study Abroad Advisor, French
- julie.papaioannou@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 427 Lattimore Hall
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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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

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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

Sierra Silva, Pablo M.
- Associate Professor of History
- pablo.sierra@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8354
- 461 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: African Diaspora, Latin American and Atlantic History
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Tucker, Jeffrey Allen
- Associate Professor of English
- Director, Undergraduate Studies
- jeffrey.tucker@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2064
- 418 Morey Hall
Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction

Tucker, Jeffrey Allen
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- jeffrey.tucker@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2064
- 418 Morey Hall
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West, Glenn A.
- Director of Mbira Ensemble
ECMS Collegiate Instructor in Mbira
- gwest@esm.rochester.edu
- Department of Musicology, Eastman School of Music

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

Wolkoff, Michael
- Professor of Economics - part-time
- michael.wolkoff@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5279
- 234 Harkness Hall
Interests: Public Policy; Economics