People
Full Directory
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Aten, Marilyn, PhD, RN
- Director, Center for High Risk Children and Youth
- Marilyn_Aten@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-2524
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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
Beaudette, Sylvie
- Assistant Professor of Chamber Music & Accompanying
- sbeaudette@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 274-1415
Bernardi, Joanne
- Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies
- Head, Japanese Program
Project Director, Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th C. Visual and Material Culture
- joanne.bernardi@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 409 Lattimore Hall
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
Bigelow, Nicholas P.
- Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Physics and Optics
- nbig@pas.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8549
- 312 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Interests: experimental atomic; molecular and optical physics
Bleich, David
- Professor
- david.bleich@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8568
- 409 Morey Hall
Interests: Literary and language theory; writing and language pedagogy; women's studies; science studies; Jewish studies; film and popular culture
Bodek, Arie
- George E. Pake Professor of Physics
- bodek@pas.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5445
- 354 Bausch & Lomb
Interests: experimental elementary-particle physics
Britton, Marla
- Senior Assistant Director of Admissions for College/Community Programs
- marla.britton@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8600
Brown, Theodore
- Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine
- theodore.brown@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2051
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Carlson, Greg
- Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
- gregory.carlson@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5907
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse
Carter, Anthony T.
- Professor Emeritus
- anthony.carter@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8614
Interests: rural politics; kinship and marriage; households and personhood
Cerulli, Catherine
- Director, Susan B. Anthony Center
- catherine_cerulli@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275--879
Chao, Shin-yi
- Associate Professor of Religion
- schao6@z.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9644
- 430A Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Chinese Religions
Chin, Nancy
- Associate Professr of Community and Preventive Medicine (SMD)
- nancy_chin@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9780
Clark, Stephanie Brown
- Associate Professor of Medical Humanities (SMD)
- stephanie_brownclark@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-6469
Colantoni, Elizabeth
- Associate Professor of Classics
- elizabeth.colantoni@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9360
- 429 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Roman, Italic, and Etruscan Art and Archaeology; Roman religion; early Rome
Curry, Mary Jane
- Associate Professor of Education, Teaching and Curriculum
- mjcurry@warner.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5934
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Desai-Stephens, Anaar
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology
Doughty, Kristin
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
and Interim Director, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies
- 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
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
Duro, Paul
- Professor, Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
- paul.duro@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9262
- 514 Morey Hall
Interests: theories of imitation; history painting; hierarchy of the genres; theories of the sublime; frame discourse and analysis; word and image studies; travel writing
Dwarkadas, Sandhya
- Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- sandhya@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5647
- 3403 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Parallel and distributed computing; Computer architecture and networks; Interaction and interface between the compiler, runtime system, and underlying architecture; Software distributed shared memory; Integrated compiler and runtime support for parallelism; Simulation methodology; Uniprocessor and multiprocessor architectures; Parallel applications development; Performance evaluation
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Foster, Robert J.
- Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies, Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
- robert.foster@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8741
- 445 Lattimore
Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
Frye, Robin
- Assistant Director of Study Skills and Workshops, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
- robin.frye@Simon.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9049
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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
Gross, Kenneth
- Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor of English
- kenneth.gross@rochester.edu
- 404B Morey Hall
Interests: Shakespeare; lyric poetry; Renaissance literature; romance
Gustafson, Susan E.
- Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
- Head, German Program
- susangustafson@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 425 Lattimore Hall
Interests: German literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; feminism and gender studies; psychoanalysis
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Hahn, Thomas
- Professor
- thomas.hahn@rochester.edu
- 402A Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval literature and culture; popular culture
Haidu, Rachel
- Associate Professor of Art History
- Chair, Department of Art and Art History
- rachel.haidu@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4112
- 506A Morey Hall
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
Higley, Sarah L
- Professor
- sarah.higley@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9261
- 411 Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe; film and media studies; fiction
Hudson, Larry E.
- Associate Professor of History
- larry.hudson@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4557
- 370B Rush Rhees Library
Interests: African-American History; Comparative Slavery; Civil War and Reconstruction; New South; Theory and Methods of Oral History
Hwang, June J.
- Associate Professor of German
- june.hwang@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 429 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century film; literature and critical theory
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Iglewski, Barbara
- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Director of International Programs at URMC
- barbara_iglewski@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1356
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Jörgensen, Beth E.
- Professor Emerita of Spanish
- beth.jorgensen@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4265
- 422 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century Spanish-American literature, with an emphasis on Mexico; women writers; theory and practice of literary nonfiction; Mexican chronicle; disability studies
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Kegl, Rosemary
- Associate Professor
- rosemary.kegl@rochester.edu
- 318 Morey Hall
Interests: Shakespeare and English Renaissance drama; early modern literature and culture; literary theory; gender studies
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
Koulouglioti, Christina
- Assistant Professor of Nursing
- Christina_Koulouglioti@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3880
Kyker, Jennifer
- Associate Professor of Music, Department of Music, College 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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Layton, Heather
- Senior Lecturer
- heather.layton@rochester.edu | (585) 755-6819
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Contemporary art; Painting; Art as activism; Storytelling; Magical realism; Mexican religious art; Democratic dialogue; Intrinsic motivation
LeCuyer, Elizabeth
- Assistant Professor of Nursing
- Elizabeth_Lecuyer@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-1897
Lee, Brenda
- Assistant Dean for Medicine Education and Student Affairs
- brenda_lee@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4537
Levine, Jacqueline
- Director, College Center for Study Abroad
- jacqueline.levine@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7532
Lewis, Vivian
- Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Diversity
- vivian.lewis@rochester.edu | (585) 273-2760
London, Bette
- Professor
- bette.london@rochester.edu
- 304 Morey Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies
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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
Mannheimer, Katherine
- Associate Professor of English
- Chair , Department of English
- katherine.mannheimer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9257
- 417 Morey Hall
Interests: Restoration; Eighteenth-century literature
Mariner, Kathryn
- Assistant Professor
- kathryn.mariner@rochester.edu | Office (585) 275-8734
- 444 Lattimore
Marquis, Andre
- Associate Professor of Counseling and Human Development
- a.marquis@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5582
McDonough, Joyce
- Professor, Department of Linguistics
- joyce.mcdonough@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2895
- 505 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Phonetics, phonology and morphology and their interfaces; Laboratory phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) linguistics; Neural coding of vowels (w Laurel Carney)
McHugh, Ernestine
- Associate Professor of Anthropology, The College; Senior Instructor in Community and Preventive Medicine, The Medical School
- emchugh@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 274-1453
Meconi, Honey
- Arthur Satz Professor of Music, Department of Music, College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
- honey.meconi@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9399
- 1-320 Dewey Hall
Merideth, Anne
- Professor of Instruction, Religion
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Religion and Classics
- anne.merideth@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9367
- 434 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: New Testament; History and Literature of Early Christianity
Michael, John
- 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
Modrak, Deborah
- Professor of Philosophy
- deborah.modrak@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4105
- 527 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Aristotle; History of Ancient Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind
Mustian, Karen
- Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology (SMD), Community and Preventative Medicine
- karen_mustian@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-1796
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Norwood, Lisa
- Assistant Dean, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- lisa.norwood@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4155
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Osburg, John
- Associate Professor
- john.osburg@rochester.edu | (585) 273-3329
- 436 Lattimore Hall
Interests: China; Capitalism; Postsocialism; Gender; Political corruption and organized crime; Buddhist revival in China
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Pedersen, Jean
- Associate Professor of History
Associate Professor of Humanities, Eastman School of Music
- jpedersen@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3616
- 447 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Modern European History; French History; Feminist Theory, Women's History, and Gender Studies; Philosophy of Science; Sociology of Knowledge; History of Academic Disciplines
Peterman, Alison
- Associate Professor of Philosophy
- alison.peterman@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4105
- 520 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Early Modern Philosophy; History of Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Perception
Prendergast, Ryan
- Associate Professor of Spanish
- ryan.prendergast@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4113
- 430 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Representations of identity and difference in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish America
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Quillen, Alice C.
- Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- aquillen@pas.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9625
- 424 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Interests: theoretical astrophysics and observational astronomy
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Rodríguez-Hernández, Raúl
- Associate Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Film and Media Studies
- Head, Spanish Program
- raul.rodriguez-hernandez@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4257
- 420 Lattimore Hall
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
Rossen-Knill, Deborah, MFA, PhD
- Professor
- Executive Director, Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program
- deb.rossen-knill@rochester.edu | (585) 273-3583
- G-122NC Rush Rhees Library
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
Rubin, Joan S.
- Dexter Perkins Professor in History
- joan.rubin@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9347
- 363 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History; The History of the Book
Runner, Jeffrey T.
- Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
- Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5000
- 317L Lattimore Hall
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface
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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
Schaefer, Claudia
- Rush Rhees Chair
Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Professor of Film and Media Studies
- claudia.schaefer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5569
- 418 Lattimore Hall
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
Scott, Joanna
- Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
- Director, Literary Arts Programs
- joanna.scott@rochester.edu
- 404C Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary fiction; the art of imaginative writing
Searle, Llerena G.
- Assistant Professor
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Llerena.searle@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8740
- 443 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Urbanization; infrastructure; capitalism and global finance; value; speculation; material culture; media and consumer cultures; South Asia
Seiberling, Grace
- Associate Professor
- grace.seiberling@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4169
- 523 Morey Hall
Interests: Nineteenth-century painting and photography, especially Impressionism; Early British photography; Museums
Stocchi-Perucchio, Donatella
- Associate Professor of Italian
- Head, Italian Program
- donatella.stocchi-perucchio@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 405 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Dante; nineteenth-century poetry and prose; fascism
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Topolski, Allen
- Associate Professor
- Undergraduate Advisor, Studio Arts
- allen.topolski@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.
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
Tuttle, Jane
- Professor of Clinical Nursing; Specialty Director, Family Nurse Practitioner Program
- jane_tuttle@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8892
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Willis, Sharon
- Professor, Art and Art History/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
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Zhang, Elya J.
- Assistant Professor of History
- elya.zhang@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9358
- 418 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Chinese History, Financial History, Spatial History, and Network Studies
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Žigelyte, Lina
- Adjunct Instructor
- lzigelyt@ur.rochester.edu
- 538 Lattimore
Interests: Queer theory; Disability studies; Gender studies