Full Directory
The Institute invites several visiting speakers each year and sponsors conferences that are linked to the research and teaching interests of our faculty. The Institute now offers faculty fellowships and a graduate certificate in addition to research grants to faculty associates to support research in African and African-American Studies.
Last names that start with A
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
Last names that start with B
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
Ball, Molly
History Lecturer
- Office Location
- 449 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7184
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Brazilian History; Latin American History; Economic History; Immigration History
Bangoura, Kerfala "Fana"
Director, UR West African Drumming Ensemble
- Office Location
- 1-337 Dewey Hall
Beaumont, Daniel E.
Professor Emeritus of Religion and Classics
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Arabic Languages and Literature
Bonds, Josephine
Departmental Manager
- Office Location
- 311A Morey Hall
Bridges, William H., IV
Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
- Office Location
- 407 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2235
Interests: Modern Japanese language, literature, and culture; Race and ethnicity in modern Japanese literature and culture; Contemporary Japanese popular culture, especially anime; 20th-century African American literature; Literary theory, especially African American literary theory and the theory of the novel; Translation (theory and practice); Rhetoric and composition; Digital Humanities
Last names that start with C
Carter, Anthony T.
Professor Emeritus
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8614
Interests: rural politics; kinship and marriage; households and personhood
Last names that start with D
Doughty, Kristin
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Interim Director, SBAI
- 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
Downey, Jack
John Henry Newman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies
Professor of Religion and Classics
- 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
Dubler, Joshua
Associate Professor of Religion
Director, Rochester Education Justice Initiative
- Office Location
- 428A Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4756
Interests: Religion in America
Last names that start with E
Ealey, Jordan
they/she
Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies
Interests: Black feminist theory and praxis; Black theatre and performance; Nineteenth and twentieth century Black intellectual history, sound studies, popular music, and Black girlhood studies
Last names that start with F
Finnigan, Kara
Professor of Educational Leadership
- Office Location
- 414 LeChase Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9942
- Web Address
- Website
Fordham, Signithia
Professor, University of Rochester
- Office Location
- 214 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5773
Interests: Research
Last names that start with G
Gamm, Gerald
Professor of History
Professor of Political Science
- Office Location
- 319 Harkness Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8573
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Political Science; American History
Grimm, Nadine
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Director of Language Documentation and Description Program
Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
On leave for the 23-24 academic year
- Office Location
- 509 Lattimore Hall
Last names that start with H
Hunter, Cory
Assistant Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
- Office Location
- 1-341 Dewey Hall
Last names that start with I
Inikori, Joseph E.
Professor Emeritus of History
- Office Location
- 437 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9020
Interests: Atlantic World Economic History
Last names that start with K
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
Kyker, Jennifer
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
Last names that start with M
Mandala, Elias C.
Professor of History
- Office Location
- 439 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2058
Interests: Southern Africa since the 19th Century; Social History
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
Marshall, Cona
Assistant Professor of American Religions
- Office Location
- 431 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- Office (585) 275-9368
Interests: Womanism, Black feminism, the Black church (as an institution), and African American public religious rhetoric
McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.
Frederick Douglass Professor
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of Black Studies
Chair, Faculty Programs and Departmental Initiatives, Department of Black Studies
- Office Location
- 311B Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5346
McHarris, Philip V.
he/him/his
Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies
Interests: Racial inequality, housing, and policing
Michael, John
John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
Professor of English
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
Director, American Studies
Interim Chair, Department of Black Studies
- Office Location
- 405 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9259
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies
Last names that start with N
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
Last names that start with O
Omelsky, Matthew
Assistant Professor of English
Assistant Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Black Studies
- Office Location
- 417 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2376
Interests: Global black cultural studies; African, African American, and Caribbean literatures; film and media studies; speculative aesthetics; time and phenomenology; critical theory.
Last names that start with P
Papaioannou, Julie
Professor of Instruction in French
Language Pedagogy Coordinator, French
Study Abroad Advisor, French
- Office Location
- 427 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: French language and culture; French and Francophone literature and film (twentieth and twenty-first centuries); French literary translation; French criticism, literary and postcolonial theory
Last names that start with R
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
Russell, Todd
Adjunct Instructor, Dance Program
- Web Address
- Website
Last names that start with S
Sierra Silva, Pablo M.
Associate Professor of History
- Office Location
- 461 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8354
Interests: African Diaspora, Latin American and Atlantic History
Last names that start with T
Titus, Jason
Senior Lecturer
- Office Location
- 1-347 Dewey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4193
Tucker, Jeffrey Allen
Associate Professor of English
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English
- Office Location
- 418 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2064
Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction
Last names that start with W
West, Glenn A.
Director of Mbira Ensemble
ECMS Collegiate Instructor in Mbira
- Office Location
- Department of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
- Web Address
- Website
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