Faculty

Tel:(415) 422-6055
sburgess@usfca.edu

Sarah Burgess

Assistant Professor

Sarah Burgess (M.A./Ph.D. Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and the Director of Gender and Sexualities Studies. She works at the intersection of rhetorical theory, political theory, philosophy, legal theory, and gender and sexualities studies to better understand the conditions and possibilities of justice for minority or oppressed populations. 

Tel:(415) 422-2289
medelaure@usfca.edu

Marilyn DeLaure

Assistant Professor

Marilyn (Bordwell) DeLaure teaches courses in rhetoric, criticism, and social movements.  Her research investigates how people effect social change, focusing especially on embodied performance.  She has published essays on dance, civil rights rhetoric, and environmental activism.

Tel:(415) 422-5367
edoohan@usfca.edu

Eve-Anne Doohan

Associate Professor

Professor Doohan teaches courses in interpersonal, nonverbal, and family communication. She also co-advises Lambda Pi Eta, the Communication Studies honor society. She writes a blog for the department at http://blogs.usfca.edu/coms/, and maintains the department Twitter and Facebook profiles.

Tel:(415) 422-6061
eyho@usfca.edu

Evelyn Ho

Associate Professor

Professor Ho teaches courses in communication and culture, health communication and Asian American studies.

Tel:(415) 422-5543
mjacquemet@usfca.edu

Marco Jacquemet

Associate Professor

Professor Jacquemet teaches courses in communication and culture, intercultural communication, and justice and social change. His scholarship focuses on the communicative mutations produced by the circulation of migrants and media idioms in the Mediterranean area. He is currently writing a book based on this research, called Transidioma: Language and Power in the Age of Globalization, to be published by Blackwell in 2012. He is also active in Italian media activist networks.

Tel:(415) 422-5703
athorson@usfca.edu

Allison Thorson

Assistant Professor

Professor Thorson's research focuses on interpersonal and family communication with an emphasis in how individuals and families communicatively manage and maintain well-being in the aftermath of hurtful and unexpected events as well as in everyday conversations.

Tel:(415) 422-6448
whaleyb@usfca.edu

Bryan Whaley

Professor