Department Directory

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Alfatli, Afrah

  • Senior Lecturer in Arabic

Interests: Arabic language and literature

Michela Andreatta

Andreatta, Michela

  • Associate Professor in Hebrew Language and Literature

Interests: Literary and intellectual history of Italian Jews from the medieval to the early modern period; Italian Hebrew poetry, particularly devotional and elegiac; Christian Hebraists of Renaissance Italy; Venetian Jewry

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Bautista, Stefanie

  • Assistant Professor of Archaeology
Dan Beaumont

Beaumont, Daniel E.

  • Professor Emeritus of Religion and Classics

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Interests: Arabic Languages and Literature

Douglas Brooks

Brooks, Douglas R.

  • Professor of Religion

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Chao, Shin-yi

  • Associate Professor of Religion

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Interests: Chinese Religions

Elizabeth Colantoni

Colantoni, Elizabeth

  • Associate Professor of Classics

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Interests: Roman, Italic, and Etruscan Art and Archaeology; Roman religion; early Rome

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Cushing, Alex

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

Interests: Roman social history; Ancient slavery and Roman freedpersons; Roman epigraphy and papyrology

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Jack Downey

Downey, Jack

  • John Henry Newman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies
    Professor of Religion and Classics

Interests: Contemporary Justice Movements; Liberation Theologies; North American religious history; Christianity; Buddhism: and Contemplative Traditions

Joshua Dubler

Dubler, Joshua

  • Associate Professor of Religion
  • Director, Rochester Education Justice Initiative

Interests: Religion in America

Dwyer, Justin

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

Interests: Greek and Roman Comedy, Hellenistic Greece and Republican Rome, Greek and Latin Pedagogy, Ancient Theatre and Material Culture, Stagecraft and Performance, Fragmentary Authors, Manuscript Illumination, Coroplastic Studies, Historicism, Reception

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Gondos, Andrea

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies
William Green

Green, William Scott

  • Philip S. Bernstein Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies
  • Dean Emeritus of the College
    Nicholas Gresens

    Gresens, Nicholas

    • Associate Professor of Instruction, Classics

    Interests: Latin and Greek Language; Imperial Greek Prose; Ancient Geography, Topography, and Historiograpy

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    Th. Emil Homerin

    Homerin, Th. Emil

    • Professor Emeritus of Religion
      Aaron Hughes

      Hughes, Aaron W.

      • Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Judaic Studies
        Dean's Professor of the Humanities
        Professor of Religion and Classics

      Interests: Jewish Studies; Islam; Method and Theory of Religion

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      Marshall, Cona

      • Assistant Professor of American Religions

      Interests: Womanism, Black feminism, the Black church (as an institution), and African American public religious rhetoric

      Anne Merideth

      Merideth, Anne

      • Professor of Instruction, Religion
      • Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Religion and Classics

      Interests: New Testament; History and Literature of Early Christianity

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      Rood, Caleb

      • Department Administrator, Religion and Classics
        Program Coordinator, Center for Jewish Studies

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      Nora Rubel

      Rubel, Nora

      • Jane and Alan Batkin Professor in Jewish Studies
        Associate Professor of Religion and Classics
      • Chair, Department of Religion and Classics

      Interests: American Religion; Race and Ethnicity; Religion and Foodways

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      Edward Wierenga

      Wierenga, Edward

      • Professor Emeritus of Religion and of Philosophy

      Interests: Philosophy of Religion; Philosophical Theology