Faculty

Tel:(415) 422-5971
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Jorge Aquino

Assistant Professor

Jorge Aquino is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. His specialties include Latin American theology and religious history, liberation theology, race theory and faith-based social movements. Additionally, Professor Aquino chairs the Chican@/Latin@ Studies minor. He is currently finishing a book on the Christian roots of racism in the history of the Americas. Dr. Aquino earned his Ph.D. from The Graduate Theological Union and came to USF in 2005.

Tel:(415) 422-5726
blacksk@usfca.edu

Stephen Black

Adjunct Professor

Stephen Black is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. His interest is in the intersection between classical Greco-Roman culture, philosophy, and religion, and their influence on the emergence and development of Christianity in the Later Roman Empire. Dr. Black is currently translating the homilies of John Chrysostom, a late fourth century bishop of Constantinople. He received a Ph.D. from The Graduate Theological Union in History with an emphasis in Late Antiquity and came to USF in 2001.

Tel:(415) 422-5299
embrigham@usfca.edu

Erin Brigham

Adjunct Professor

Erin Brigham is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. Her area of specialization is Catholic studies and Social Thought. Additionally, she is the faculty coordinator of research in the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought. Dr. Brigham received a Ph.D. from The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley and came to USF in 2008.

Tel:(415) 422-6726
claussenm@usfca.edu

Martin Claussen

Professor, Saint Ignatius Institute, Department Chair, History

Martin A. Claussen received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His areas of interest include Ancient and Medieval Europe.

Tel:(415) 422-5031
ldube@usfca.edu

Lilian Dube

Assistant Professor

Lilian Dube is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. Her focus is feminist theology in the Third World and HIV/AIDS theology. Additionally, Professor Dube is the current Chair of the African Studies Program, an Academic Associate Research Fellow in the Research Institute for Theology and Religion at the University of South Africa, and serves as the African Association for the Study of Religion Representative for North America. She received her D.Th. from Stellenbosch University and came to USF in 2006.

Tel:(415) 422-5141
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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. Office hours are Thursdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m., 4:30-5:30 p.m. and by appointment.

Tel:(415) 422-6817
kendalld@usfca.edu

Daniel Kendall

Professor

Daniel Kendall, S.J., is a Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. His interests are Scripture and Christology. In addition to his numerous publications, he is the Book Review Editor for Theological Studies. Fr. Kendall received his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome) and came to USF in 1979.

Tel:(415) 422-6415
mtmiller2@usfca.edu

Mark Miller

Assistant Professor

Mark T. Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. His focus is systematic theology, particularly anthropology, soteriology, political theology, Trinity, and Christology. Additionally, Professor Miller teaches in Catholic Studies, Philippine Studies, and the Saint Ignatius Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Boston College and came to USF in 2008.

Tel:(415) 422-5837
nagarajan@usfca.edu

Vijaya Nagarajan

Associate Professor

Professor Vijaya Nagarajan teaches courses on Hinduism, Religion and Environment, Spiritual Autobiography, and Community Internships. Her scholarship has centered on the multivalent meanings in the kolam, a women's ritual art in southern India. She is currently working on her book, Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual and Art in southern India---The Kolam (Oxford University Press). Her other research projects include: On the Languages of the Commons; Tree Temples, Mangroves and Temple Forests; and Twins and Hinduism in the California Diaspora. She has been active in the American Academy of Religion and in the environmental movement in India and the United States.

Tel:(415) 422-5299
vapizzuto@usfca.edu

Vincent Pizzuto

Associate Professor

Vincent Pizzuto is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. His areas of specialization include New Testament theology and historical-critical methodology, christology, Christian mysticism, gay/lesbian spirituality and Celtic Christianity. Additionally, he has published several books and articles and is currently working on a manuscript which examines the independent Catholic Church. He is the Director of the Catholic Studies Minor. Professor Pizzuto earned his Ph.D. from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and came to USF in 2003.

Tel:(415) 422-6422
stanfieldm@usfca.edu

Michael Stanfield

Associate Professor

Michael Edward Stanfield grew up in San Diego along the U.S./Mexican border, a location that left him optimistic and curious about the other side. He completed his B.A. at UC Berkeley, an M.A. at San Diego State University, and Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico. History has always been his passion and Muse, Latin America and the United States the foci of most of his investigations.

Tel:(415) 422-5555
jstormes@usfca.edu

James Stormes

Associate Professor

James R. Stormes, S.J. is an Associate Visiting Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. His area of specialization is Catholic Social Thought, particularly Economic Justice. Additionally, Fr. Stormes holds the LoSchiavo Chair in Catholic Studies and Social Thought in the Joan and Ralph Lane Center here at USF. Fr. Stormes received a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and came to USF in 2009.