Faculty

Tel:(415) 422-6619
edwardsw@usfca.edu

William Edwards

Associate Professor

William A. Edwards received his B.A. from Virginia Union University, his M.A. from the University of Washington, and his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to USF he taught in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he was also a Fellow at the Center for Black Studies. His research interests include: Urbanization, consumer credit, sociology and the mystery novel, and globalization and development.

Tel:(415) 422-4453
sbgmelch@usfca.edu

Sharon Gmelch

Professor

Sharon Bohn Gmelch earned her Ph.D in cultural anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  Her interests include visual anthropology, gender, ethnicity, and tourism.  She is the author of eight books, most recently Tasting the Good Life: Wine Tourism in the Napa Valley.

Tel:415-422-6902
bgoldman@usfca.edu

William Goldman

Assistant Professor

Tel:(415) 422-5483
gonzalez@usfca.edu

Jay Gonzalez

Associate Professor

Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III has a B.A. in History and Political Science from De La Salle University (Manila), a Master of Public Administration from the University of the Philippines, and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. He teaches Filipino American and Philippine studies, Asian studies, as well as international politics and public policy courses for the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program, the Politics Department, the Asian Studies Program, and the Asian American Studies Program. Dr. Gonzalez is the author of numerous publications and has served the city of San Francisco as Commissioner for Immigrant Rights.

Tel:(415) 422-5412
hjhoag@usfca.edu

Heather Hoag

Associate Professor

Heather Hoag is an associate professor of History. She received her Ph.D. in History from Boston University in 2003 where she was involved in BU's African Studies Center. Her specialization is in the fields of African environmental history with an emphasis in river history, hydropower development, technology, and development planning. She is one of the founding editors-in-chief for the International Water History Association's journal, Water History.

Tel:(415) 422-5141
kaisers@usfca.edu

Susana Kaiser

Associate Professor

Susana Kaiser teaches at the Media Studies Department and the Latin American Studies program. She earned her Ph.D. from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, her M.A. from the Department of Communication at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and her B.A. in Advertising from the Jesuit University of El Salvador, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, her country of origin. Spring 2013 office hours are Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. and 4:45-5:45 p.m. and by appointment.

Tel:(415) 422-5413
egkatz@usfca.edu

Elizabeth Katz

Associate Professor

Professor Katz is Ph.D from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research areas of specialization are development economics, women in development, agricultural economics, and history of economic thought. Dr. Katz's recent research has focused on the relationship between gender, intra-household bargaining and development in Latin America.

Tel:(415) 422-2215
zli2@usfca.edu

Zhiqiang Li

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the coordinator of the Chinese language program in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. His research interests include phonetics, phonology and
 Chinese linguistics.

Tel:(415) 422-5895
macdonaldt@usfca.edu

Thomas MacDonald

Associate Professor

Tom MacDonald received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Dr. MacDonald's research focuses on designing computer simulations of problems of pollution migration and using the results to engineer systems to contain pollutants and prevent further spreading. He has also published his research on the neural network application for bioremediation. Recently he has co-authored papers dealing with environmental risk and the precautionary principle.

Tel:(415) 422-6080
roddys@usfca.edu

Stephen Roddy

Associate Professor

Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Modern and Classical Languages, received his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, and specializes in the fiction and other prose genres of 18th and 19th century China and Japan.

Tel:415-422-4498

Yaniv Stopnitzky

Assistant Professor

Dr. Yaniv Stopnitzky received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His areas of specialization include environmental and development economics, with a focus on applied microeconometrics.

Tel:(415) 422-5058
awibben@usfca.edu

Annick Wibben

Associate Professor

Annick T.R. Wibben received her Ph.D. in International Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK and teaches for the Politics Department and the International Studies program at USF. In her research, she specializes in (critical) security studies, international theory, and feminist international relations. Her most recent book, Feminist Security Studies: A Narrative Approach, was published in 2011.

Tel:415-422-4734
jzarobell@usfca.edu

John Zarobell

Assistant Professor

John Zarobell is Assistant Professor of International Studies and Program Chair of European Studies at the University of San Francisco. Formerly, he held the positions of assistant curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and associate curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 

Tel:(415) 422-6193
dzartner@usfca.edu

Dana Zartner

Assistant Professor

Tel:(415) 422-6981
zunes@usfca.edu

Stephen Zunes

Professor

Stephen Zunes has been at USF since 1995, teaching courses on the politics of Middle East and other regions, nonviolence, conflict resolution, U.S. foreign policy, and globalization for the Politics department, the International Studies major, and the Peace & Justice Studies minor, as well as the Middle Eastern Studies minor, for which he serves as program director.