Affiliated Faculty

Cary Adams doing acoustic radar research during a residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation

Adams, Cary

Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices

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

Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice

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Bakhmetyeva, Tanya

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Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Associate Academic Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Office Location
535 Lattimore
Telephone
(585) 273-5187

Interests: Russian and Eastern European History, History of Catholicism, Gender

Karen Berger

Berger, Karen

Associate Professor of Instruction, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Co-Chair, University Council on Sustainability

Coordinator, College Sustainability Studies

Curriculum Coordinator, Environmental Programs

Office Location
227B Hutchison Hall

Interests: Teaching Interests: Human use of and impacts on energy and water resources; community-engaged learning; metrics of sustainability

Peter Christensen

Christensen, Peter

Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities

Professor of Art and Art History

Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences

Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director, Humanities Center

Director, Andrew W. Mellon Program in the Digital Humanities

Office Location
212C Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 276-7173
Web Address
Website

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

Kristin Doughty

Doughty, Kristin

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Director of Undergraduate Studies

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: and Contemplative Traditions

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Fleischman, Thomas

Associate Professor of History

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Office Location
460 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-1140

Interests: German History; Environmental History; Animal History; Agricultural History; State Socialism; Cold War

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Foster, Robert J.

Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities

Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
445 Lattimore
Telephone
(585) 275-8741
Web Address
Website

Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia

Thomas Gibson

Gibson, Thomas P.

Professor of Anthropology

Office Location
442 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8739
Web Address
Website

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

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Heuer, Christopher P.

Professor of Art History

Office Location
521 Morey
Telephone
(585) 276-6052

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

Kathryn Mariner

Mariner, Kathryn

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; United States

Leila Nadir

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 and extractive capitalism; Immigration studies; Cold War geopolitics, especially related to Afghanistan; Politics of Race and Ethnicity; American Literature

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Weaver, Stewart A.

Franklin W. And Gladys I. Clark Professor of History

Professor of History

Office Location
368 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-9348

Interests: Modern British History; Himalayan History; Environmental History