Affiliated Faculty
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
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
Berger, Karen
- Associate Professor of Instruction, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Co-Chair, University Council on Sustainability
Coordinator, College Sustainability Studies
Curriculum Coordinator, Environmental Programs
- karen.berger@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7611
- 227B Hutchison Hall
Interests: Teaching Interests: Human use of and impacts on energy and water resources; community-engaged learning; metrics of sustainability
Christensen, Peter
- Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities, Department of Art and Art History
- Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director, Humanities Center
Director, Andrew W. Mellon Program in the Digital Humanities
- peter.christensen@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7173
- 516 Morey Hall
Interests: 19th and 20th century architectural history, particularly Europe and North America’s international engagement with the Islamic world; history and aesthetics of infrastructure and industry; historicism; cartography and architecture; critical digital humanities
Curren, Randall
- Professor of Philosophy
- Co-chair (primary contact, January 1 to June 30)
- randall.curren@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8112
- 532 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Ethics; Moral Psychology; Philosophy of Education; Ancient Philosophy
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
FitzPatrick, William J.
- Gideon Webster Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy
- william.fitzpatrick@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4105
- 525 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Metaethics; Normative Ethics; Bioethics; Philosophy of Biology
Fleischman, Thomas
- Associate Professor of History
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- thomas.fleischman@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1140
- 460 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: German History; Environmental History; Animal History; Agricultural History; State Socialism; Cold War
Foster, Robert J.
- Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies, Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
- On leave fall semester 2022
- robert.foster@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8741
- 445 Lattimore
Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
Gamm, Gerald
- Professor of History
Professor of Political Science
- gerald.gamm@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8573
- 319 Harkness Hall
Interests: Political Science; American History
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
Heuer, Christopher P.
- Professor of Art History
- cheuer@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-6052
- 521 Morey
Interests: Early Modern art and theory; the history of art history; replicative technologies; art and prehistory; environmental aesthetics; disaster studies; performance; the American civil rights movement
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
Weaver, Stewart A.
- Professor of History
- stewart.weaver@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9348
- 368 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Modern British History; Himalayan History; Environmental History