Faculty Associates
Associates
![Photo of Michael Anderson](anderson-michael/assets/images/MichaelAnderson.jpg)
Anderson, Michael Alan
Assistant Professor of Musicology
- Telephone
- (585) 274-1124
- Web Address
- Website
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Bakhmetyeva, Tanya
she/her/hers
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
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Beaudette, Sylvie
Assistant Professor of Chamber Music & Accompanying
- Telephone
- (585) 274-1415
- Web Address
- Website
![Person's photo](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/people/faculty/bernardi_joanne/assets/images/joanne_bernardi.jpg)
Bernardi, Joanne
Professor of Japanese and Visual and Cultural Studies
Head, Japanese Program
Project Director, Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th C. Visual and Material Culture
- Office Location
- 409 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Japanese cinema and culture, especially popular culture; film and media studies; visual and material culture; moving image archiving and preservation; travel and tourism studies; nuclear culture; digital humanities; ephemera studies; object-based learning
![Professor of English David Bleich](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/bleich_david/assets/images/david_bleich.jpg)
Bleich, David
Professor
- Office Location
- 409 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8568
Interests: Literary and language theory; writing and language pedagogy; women's studies; science studies; Jewish studies; film and popular culture
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Cerulli, Catherine
Director, Susan B. Anthony Center
- Telephone
- (585) 275--879
- Web Address
- Website
![Placeholder Graphic](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/rel/people/faculty/chao_shin-yi/assets/images/chao.jpg)
Chao, Shin-yi
Associate Professor of Religion
- Office Location
- 424 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4760
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Chinese Religions
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Chin, Nancy
Associate Professr of Community and Preventive Medicine (SMD)
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9780
- Web Address
- Website
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Clark, Stephanie Brown
Associate Professor of Medical Humanities (SMD)
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6469
- Web Address
- Website
![Elizabeth Colantoni](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/rel/people/faculty/colantoni_elizabeth/assets/images/colantoni.jpg)
Colantoni, Elizabeth
Associate Professor of Classics
- Office Location
- 429 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9360
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Roman, Italic, and Etruscan Art and Archaeology; Roman religion; early Rome
![IMAGE OF MARY JANE CURRY](curry-mary-jane/assets/images/curry_maryjane.jpg)
Curry, Mary Jane
Associate Professor of Education, Teaching and Curriculum
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5934
- Web Address
- Website
Devaney, Thomas C.
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, History
- Office Location
- 208 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
![Kristin Doughty](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ant/people/faculty/doughty_kristin/assets/images/doughty2022or.jpg)
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
![Faculty photo](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/psy//people/faculty/estrada_marie-joelle/assets/images/mjestrada.jpg)
Estrada, Marie-Joelle
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 402 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8685
![Profile photo](freitas-roger/assets/images/freitas_roger2-250x333.jpg)
Freitas, Roger
Professor of Musicology
- Telephone
- (585) 274-1458
- Web Address
- Website
![Thomas Gibson](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ant/people/faculty/gibson_thomas/assets/images/gibson2.jpg)
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
![Susan Gustafson](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/people/faculty/gustafson_susan/assets/images/susan_gustafson.jpg)
Gustafson, Susan E.
Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
Head, German Program
Director, Literary Translation Studies (MALTS)
- Office Location
- 425 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: German literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; feminism and gender studies; psychoanalysis
![Thomas Hahn](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/hahn_thomas/assets/images/tom-hahn-headshot-2023.jpg)
Hahn, Thomas
Professor
- Office Location
- 402A Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval literature and culture; popular culture
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Haidu, Rachel
Associate Professor of Art History
- Office Location
- 506A Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4112
Interests: Modern, postwar and contemporary art; Eastern European postwar and contemporary art; artist's films and videos; contemporary painting; history of photography; national identity and transnationalism; critical theory and poststructuralist theory; feminism, gender and race studies; visual studies
![Sarah Higley](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/higley_sarah/assets/images/sarah_higley_60379.jpg)
Higley, Sarah L
Professor
- Office Location
- 411 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9261
Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe and their interchanges; Film and media studies; Teratology (the study of the monstrous); Ecocriticism
![Larry Hudson Headshot](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/his/people/retired-faculty/hudson_larry/assets/images/hudson.jpg)
Hudson, Larry E.
Associate Professor of History, retired
- Office Location
- 370B Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4557
Interests: African-American History; Comparative Slavery; Civil War and Reconstruction; New South; Theory and Methods of Oral History
![Person's photo](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/people/faculty/hwang_june/assets/images/june_hwang.jpg)
Hwang, June J.
Associate Professor of German
Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
- Office Location
- 538 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Twentieth-century film; literature and critical theory
![Beth Jörgensen](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/people/emeriti/jorgensen_beth/assets/images/beth_jorgensen.jpg)
Jörgensen, Beth E.
Professor Emerita of Spanish
![Headshot of Rosemary Kegl.](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/kegl_rosemary/assets/images/rosemary-kegl-2023.jpg)
Kegl, Rosemary
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 318 Morey Hall
Interests: English Renaissance drama; Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing; Productions of Shakespeare in Britain and the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Theories of the aesthetic and of the utopian
![Cilas Kemedjio](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/people/faculty/kemedjio_cilas/assets/images/cilas_kemedjio.jpg)
Kemedjio, Cilas
Professor of French
- Office Location
- 406 Lattimore
- Telephone
- (585) 275--425
Interests: Francophone Caribbean and African literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; transnational black studies; humanitarianism
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Koulouglioti, Christina
Assistant Professor of Nursing
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3880
- Web Address
- Website
![Jennifer Kyker](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mur/people/kyker_jennifer/assets/images/kyker2022.jpg)
Kyker, Jennifer
Academic Leave 2024-2025
Associate Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Eastman School of Music
- Office Location
- 1-308 Dewey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0239
![Bette London](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/london_bette/assets/images/bette-headshot-2018.jpg)
London, Bette
Professor
- Office Location
- 304 Morey Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies
![Katherine Mannheimer](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/mannheimer_katherine/assets/images/katherine_mannheimer_0971.jpg)
Mannheimer, Katherine
Associate Professor of English
Chair , Department of English
- Office Location
- 417 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9257
Interests: Restoration; Eighteenth-century literature
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Mariner, Kathryn
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 444 Lattimore
- Telephone
- Office (585) 275-8734
![Joyce McDonough](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/people/faculty/mcdonough_joyce/assets/images/joyce4.jpg)
McDonough, Joyce M.
she/her/hers
Richard L. Turner Professor
Professor of Linguistics
- Office Location
- 505 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Phonetics, phonology and morphology and their interfaces; Laboratory phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) linguistics; Neural coding of vowels (w Laurel Carney)
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McHugh, Ernestine
Associate Professor of Anthropology, The College; Senior Instructor in Community and Preventive Medicine, The Medical School
- Telephone
- (585) 274-1453
- Web Address
- Website
![Honey Meconi](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mur/people/meconi_honey/assets/images/meconi.jpg)
Meconi, Honey
Arthur Satz Professor for the Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Music, Eastman School of Music
- Office Location
- 1-320 Dewey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9399
- Web Address
- Website
![Anne Merideth](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/rel/people/faculty/merideth_anne/assets/images/merideth.jpg)
Merideth, Anne
Professor of Instruction, Religion
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Religion and Classics
- Office Location
- 434 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9367
Interests: New Testament; History and Literature of Early Christianity
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Metcalf, Lois
Not available
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7397
![John Michael](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/michael_john/assets/images/john-michael-2022.jpg)
Michael, John
John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
Professor of English
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
Director, American Studies
- Office Location
- 405 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9259
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies
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Mustian, Karen
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology (SMD), Community and Preventative Medicine
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1796
- Web Address
- Website
![John Osburg](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ant/people/faculty/osburg_john/assets/images/Osburg.jpg)
Osburg, John
Associate Professor
Chair of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 436 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3329
Interests: China; Capitalism; Postsocialism; Gender; Political corruption and organized crime; Buddhist revival in China
![Jean Pedersen Headshot](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/his/people/faculty/pedersen_jean/assets/images/pedersen photo.jpg)
Pedersen, Jean
Professor of History
Professor of Humanities, Eastman School of Music
- Office Location
- 447 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3616
Interests: Modern European History; French History; Feminist Theory, Women's History, and Gender Studies; Philosophy of Science; Sociology of Knowledge; History of Academic Disciplines
![Person's photo](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/people/faculty/prendergast_ryan/assets/images/ryan_prendergast.jpg)
Prendergast, Ryan
Associate Professor of Spanish
Chair, Modern Languages and Cultures
- Office Location
- 408A Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4113
Interests: Representations of identity and difference in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish America
![Person's photo](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/people/faculty/rodriguez-hernandez_raul/assets/images/raul_rodriguez_hernandez.jpg)
Rodríguez-Hernández, Raúl
Associate Professor of Spanish
Program Head, Advisors to Minors, Placement Petitions, Take-Five
- Office Location
- 420 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4257
Interests: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures; literary theory; Frankfurt School; European philosophical traditions in Latin America; Latin American cinema; the visual arts; the Baroque and Neo-Baroque; the Gothic tradition
![Nora Rubel](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/rel/people/faculty/rubel_nora/assets/images/rubel-website.jpg)
Rubel, Nora
Jane and Alan Batkin Professor in Jewish Studies
Associate Professor of Religion and Classics
Chair, Department of Religion and Classics
- Office Location
- 438 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7215
Interests: American Religion; Race and Ethnicity; Religion and Foodways
![Joan Rubin Headshot](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/his/people/faculty/rubin_joan/assets/images/rubin picture.jpg)
Rubin, Joan S.
Dexter Perkins Professor in History
Professor of History
- Office Location
- 363 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9347
Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History; The History of the Book
![Jeff Runner](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/people/faculty/runner_jeff/assets/images/runner_new.jpg)
Runner, Jeffrey T.
he/him/his
Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 317L Lattimore Hall
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface
![Person's photo](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/people/faculty/schaefer_claudia/assets/images/claudia_schaefer.jpg)
Schaefer, Claudia
Rush Rhees Professor
Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
Professor of Film and Media Studies
Program head fall 2024, minors, transfers, and study abroad credit for minors, Take Five
- Office Location
- 418 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures; Spanish cinema; critical theory; popular culture; the visual arts; Spanish modernity; the culture of science in Spain; surrealism in Spain; digital humanities
![Joanna Scott](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/scott_joanna/assets/images/joanna_scott.jpg)
Scott, Joanna
Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
Professor of English
Director, Literary Arts Programs
- Office Location
- 404C Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary fiction; the art of imaginative writing
![Llerena Searle](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ant/people/faculty/searle_llerena/assets/images/llerena_searle.jpg)
Searle, Llerena G.
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 443 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8740
Interests: Urbanization; infrastructure; capitalism and global finance; value; speculation; material culture; media and consumer cultures; South Asia
![Grace Seiberling](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/aah/people/faculty/seiberling_grace/assets/images/seiberling.jpg)
Seiberling, Grace
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 523 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4169
Interests: Nineteenth-century painting and photography, especially Impressionism; Early British photography; Museums
![Profile photo](steingrover-reinhild/assets/images/reinhild-steingrover-DSC_0051_DxOa-250x250.jpg)
Steingröver, Reinhild
Professor of German
- Telephone
- (585) 274-1616
- Web Address
- Website
![Allen Topolski](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/aah/people/faculty/topolski_allen/assets/images/topolski.jpg)
Topolski, Allen
Associate Professor
Chair, Department of Art and Art History
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5994
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.
![Sharon Willis](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/aah/people/faculty/willis_sharon/assets/images/willis_sharon.jpg)
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
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5757
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