African American Studies Faculty

Fisher faculty are dedicated, highly credentialed professionals who consistently make the advancement of scholarship in their respective fields a top priority.

Professor and Chair, Anthropology and Sociology
Office:Kearney 311B
Phone:(585) 385-8220
David Baronov
Professor
Office:Basil 125
Phone:(585) 385-7374
Mark Rice
Assistant Professor
Office:KEARN 311A
Phone:(585) 385-8167
Christine Richards
Associate Professor; Chair, American Studies Department; Interim Program Director, African American Studies
Areas of Interest: anti-racism, social justice, DEJI, activism studies; autobiography and memoir studies; Black women’s literature and cultural history; dialogue studies (circle processes, non-violent communication, restorative practices, race and gender dialogues, Sustained Dialogue); immigration and refugee studies (fiction, memoir); pedagogy theory (place-based, community-engaged, Black feminist); and race, racism, and whiteness studies.
Office:Fay 103
Phone:(585) 385-8110
Jennifer Rossi
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: African American Literature, African Literature, Speculative Fiction, Queer Theory, Black Feminist Thought, Rhetoric of Social Movements
Office:Fay 109
Phone:(585) 383-8267
Cassandra Scherr
Professor and Academic Division Chair, Humanities
Office:Basil 124
Phone:(585) 385-8244
Carolyn Vacca