As University of Rochester students know from the first moment they step onto campus, our world is wondrous. As we strive to better understand and appreciate our planet and its people, travel is the ultimate, lifelong educator. Join fellow alumni, parents, friends, and our University hosts to explore the world as a part of the University of Rochester Travel Club!
Egypt and the Eternal Nile
Renato Perucchio, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, program director of Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures
Renato Perucchio has directed several projects on the structural design of world-heritage monumental buildings. He is the recipient of the 2010 Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and in 1995 he received the Teacher of the Year Award from the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Since 2012, Perucchio has led University of Rochester alumni travels to examine engineering in Italy, Turkey, Yucatan, and Morocco.
Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio, associate professor of Italian
Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio is an associate professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC) and has been with the University of Rochester for over thirty years. Professor Stocchi-Perucchio specializes in Italian medieval and modern literature and culture. Her research and teaching centers on Dante studies and modern Italian history with attention to the interplay of literature, philosophy, intellectual history, and the arts. At the University, Stocchi-Perucchio is the founder and director of the Italian program and the faculty-led semester program in Italian studies in Arezzo, Italy. Stocchi-Perucchio will bring her knowledge from the interdisciplinary major in Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures at the University of Rochester to this trip for all to experience.
Southwest National Parks
Daniel McDermott ’21 (MA), PhD candidate, former National Park ranger
Daniel McDermott ’21 (MA) is interested in the long, intertwined histories of tourism and nature conservation worldwide. His dissertation, “The Forest of Tomorrow: Wilderness in the Harz National Park” examines the history of forestry, tourism, and nature conservation in central Germany’s Harz Mountains. By tracing the creation of wilderness in a landscape where pristine nature was not thought to exist, he shows how entangled humans are with the ecological processes they seek to protect and exploit. At the University, he teaches the course, “America’s Best Idea? History of National Parks & Beyond.” Before coming to Rochester, McDermott worked six summers as a park ranger at Acadia National Park, where he led educational programs on national park history, bird ecology, and coastal ecosystems.
Alpine Splendor: Switzerland and Austria
Stewart Weaver, professor of history
Stewart Weaver has a long-standing interest in travel, exploration, and the history of extreme environments. He is co-author of the award-winning Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes and Exploration: A Very Short Introduction. He is collaborating with Professor Tatyana Bakhmetyeva and colleagues from the Swiss Polar Institute and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities on a cultural history of glaciers and glacial science in the Alps and the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. An avid explorer and mountain hiker, Weaver has won several teaching awards and offers courses on environmental history, British colonial history, and the history of science and global exploration.
Tanya Bakhmetyeva ’06 (PhD), professor of history and gender, sexuality, and women’s, director of the Humanities Center
Tanya Bakhmetyeva ’06 (PhD) is a professor of history and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of Rochester. She also serves as associate director of the Humanities Center and is a winner of multiple teaching and research awards. Since the publication of her book, Mother of the Church: Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France, she has shifted her interest to environmental history and the history of science. She is currently completing a book, The Politburo Goes Hunting: Masculinity, Nature, and Power in the Soviet Union, and is collaborating with Stewart Weaver and an international team of colleagues on a project on the history of glaciers and glaciology in the Alps and the Pamirs (Tajikistan). Together with Weaver, she has extensively hiked and climbed in the Alps, visiting sites of early glaciological studies in Austria, Germany, France, and Switzerland.
Paris featuring the African American Experience
Cilas Kemedjio, professor of French and Francophone studies
Cilas Kemedjio is a professor of French and Francophone studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures and the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester. His work focuses on the memory of slavery, the decolonization of the theoretical infrastructure of postcolonial literature, the representation of the Black body, “anthropological mutilation,” and critical investigations of humanitarian interventions in Africa. During his tenure as a director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies, he held the Frederick Douglass Professor Chair. His research on Black Paris and the transnational struggles for Black communities has been translated into two courses: “Black Paris” and “Biographies of Emancipation in the Black World.” These two courses, along with other publications, are a portion of global Black studies, understood at the University as the commitment to research rooted consciously in making the world a better place for our shared humanity.
Questions?
For more information on these trips or the University of Rochester Travel Club, contact Rebecca Picone, Associate Director of Lifelong Learning & Career Services, at rebecca.picone@rochester.edu
or 585-797-5709.
Egypt and the Eternal Nile
Renato Perucchio, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, program director of Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures
Renato Perucchio has directed several projects on the structural design of world-heritage monumental buildings. He is the recipient of the 2010 Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and in 1995 he received the Teacher of the Year Award from the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Since 2012, Perucchio has led University of Rochester alumni travels to examine engineering in Italy, Turkey, Yucatan, and Morocco.
Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio, associate professor of Italian
Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio is an associate professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC) and has been with the University of Rochester for over thirty years. Professor Stocchi-Perucchio specializes in Italian medieval and modern literature and culture. Her research and teaching centers on Dante studies and modern Italian history with attention to the interplay of literature, philosophy, intellectual history, and the arts. At the University, Stocchi-Perucchio is the founder and director of the Italian program and the faculty-led semester program in Italian studies in Arezzo, Italy. Stocchi-Perucchio will bring her knowledge from the interdisciplinary major in Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures at the University of Rochester to this trip for all to experience.
Southwest National Parks
Daniel McDermott ’21 (MA), PhD candidate, former National Park ranger
Daniel McDermott ’21 (MA) is interested in the long, intertwined histories of tourism and nature conservation worldwide. His dissertation, “The Forest of Tomorrow: Wilderness in the Harz National Park” examines the history of forestry, tourism, and nature conservation in central Germany’s Harz Mountains. By tracing the creation of wilderness in a landscape where pristine nature was not thought to exist, he shows how entangled humans are with the ecological processes they seek to protect and exploit. At the University, he teaches the course, “America’s Best Idea? History of National Parks & Beyond.” Before coming to Rochester, McDermott worked six summers as a park ranger at Acadia National Park, where he led educational programs on national park history, bird ecology, and coastal ecosystems.
Alpine Splendor: Switzerland and Austria
Stewart Weaver, professor of history
Stewart Weaver has a long-standing interest in travel, exploration, and the history of extreme environments. He is co-author of the award-winning Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes and Exploration: A Very Short Introduction. He is collaborating with Professor Tatyana Bakhmetyeva and colleagues from the Swiss Polar Institute and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities on a cultural history of glaciers and glacial science in the Alps and the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. An avid explorer and mountain hiker, Weaver has won several teaching awards and offers courses on environmental history, British colonial history, and the history of science and global exploration.
Tanya Bakhmetyeva ’06 (PhD), professor of history and gender, sexuality, and women’s, director of the Humanities Center
Tanya Bakhmetyeva ’06 (PhD) is a professor of history and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of Rochester. She also serves as associate director of the Humanities Center and is a winner of multiple teaching and research awards. Since the publication of her book, Mother of the Church: Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France, she has shifted her interest to environmental history and the history of science. She is currently completing a book, The Politburo Goes Hunting: Masculinity, Nature, and Power in the Soviet Union, and is collaborating with Stewart Weaver and an international team of colleagues on a project on the history of glaciers and glaciology in the Alps and the Pamirs (Tajikistan). Together with Weaver, she has extensively hiked and climbed in the Alps, visiting sites of early glaciological studies in Austria, Germany, France, and Switzerland.
Paris featuring the African American Experience
Cilas Kemedjio, professor of French and Francophone studies
Cilas Kemedjio is a professor of French and Francophone studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures and the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester. His work focuses on the memory of slavery, the decolonization of the theoretical infrastructure of postcolonial literature, the representation of the Black body, “anthropological mutilation,” and critical investigations of humanitarian interventions in Africa. During his tenure as a director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies, he held the Frederick Douglass Professor Chair. His research on Black Paris and the transnational struggles for Black communities has been translated into two courses: “Black Paris” and “Biographies of Emancipation in the Black World.” These two courses, along with other publications, are a portion of global Black studies, understood at the University as the commitment to research rooted consciously in making the world a better place for our shared humanity.
Questions?
For more information on these trips or the University of Rochester Travel Club, contact Rebecca Picone, Associate Director of Lifelong Learning & Career Services, at rebecca.picone@rochester.edu or 585-797-5709.