Steering Committee
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
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
- peter.christensen@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7173
- 212C Rush Rhees Library
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
Doughty, Kristin
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Interim Director, SBAI
- 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 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
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
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
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
