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) 422-2912
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, Professor, 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
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Lilian Dube

Associate Professor

Lilian Dube is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco where she teaches courses in feminist theology and the interaction of African theology, religion, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. She received her D.Th. from Stellenbosch University and came to USF in 2006. Dube will be a visiting professor at UTS, Columbia University, fall 2012

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

James Hanvey

Lo Schiavo Chair in Catholic Social Thought

James Hanvey specializes in systematic theology and Catholic Social Thought and Ignatian Spirituality. He received his doctorate from Oxford University on the Hegelian metaphysics of Trinitarian Theology and has taught systematic theology at Heythrop College, University of London. 

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. Spring 2013 office hours are Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. and 4:45-5:45 p.m. and by appointment.

Tel:(415) 422-6817
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, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of New Testament and Chair of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. (STD) in New Testament Exegesis from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium (2003).As a biblical theologian trained primarily in historical-critical methodology, Pizzuto seeks to demonstrate the relationship between New Testament exegesis and Christian theology as they impact some of the most pressing and controversial issues in our Church and society today. Pizzuto has published and presented internationally in the areas of New Testament christology, same-gender marriage, climate change, interreligious dialogue, and contemplative Christian spirituality. Likewise, he has introduced courses into USF's curriculum that incorporate the study of scripture in light of the Christian contemplative tradition and its relevance for contemporary theological concerns. In 2011, Pizzuto was appointed to the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches, where he is engaged in exploring ecumenical relations among Christian churches in the United States. He has appeared as a theological consultant on the National Geographic channel and served as a panelist on NPR. In July 2006, Professor Pizzuto was ordained to the priesthood in the Celtic Christian Church in which he has founded and ministers to a Christian contemplative community, New Skellig, in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to his teaching, Professor Pizzuto offers workshops, retreats and lectures on Christian contemplative practice, biblical spirituality, Cosmic christology, gay/lesbian spirituality and Celtic Christianity.

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

Michael Stanfield

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.