Faculty

Tel:415 422 2864
shhoelscher@usfca.edu

Susanne Hoelscher

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, is the MCL German Studies Coordinator. She received her Ph.D. in German Studies from the University of California, Davis, with an emphasis on issues of national and gender identities in post-wall Berlin literature and film. She has been teaching courses in German language and literature at USF since 2004, and has been pursuing research in both fields. She earned an M.A. in German Studies from San Francisco State University, and completed the Erste Staatsexamen at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany, majoring in Education with a focus on German Studies and History.    

Tel:(415) 422-5612
chlusheck@usfca.edu

Catherine Lusheck

Assistant Professor

Kate Lusheck specializes in early modern European art and teaches art history and arts management courses at USF. She received her PhD in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley (2000).

Tel:415-422-6420
prlutomski@usfca.edu

Pawel Lutomski

Adjunct Professor

Pawel (Pavo) Lutomski was born in Poland and studied at the University in Wroclaw until March 1981, when he had to leave communist Poland for political reasons. He lived then in Berlin, Germany, and later in Sweden, and finally came to the U.S. in 1985, as a political refugee. He received his Ph.D. in German Studies (with emphasis on political and social theory) at Stanford. Because of his broader interests in international relations (and their legal aspects), as well as in comparative constitutional law, he also decided to acquire a legal education. In 1997, he received a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Tel:(415) 422-4379
kdmcbride@usfca.edu

Keally McBride

Associate Professor

Dr. Keally McBride joined the Politics department in Fall 2007. She received her graduate degrees at University of California at Berkeley with a focus in political theory, and is happy to be back in the Bay Area after teaching at Cornell University, Tulane, Temple, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Tel:415 422 5765
mjmotyka@usfca.edu

Matthew Motyka

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, is the French language coordinator. He has a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley. He earned an M.A. in Philosophy of Religion from Heythrop College of the University of London, and a M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology at GTU, Berkeley.

Tel:(415) 422-6411
neamane@usfca.edu

Elliot Neaman

Professor

Elliot Neaman received a B.A. in sociology from the University of British Columbia in 1979, an M.A. in history and philosophy from the Freie Universität in Berlin in 1985 and his Ph.D. in history from Berkeley in 1992. His areas of specialization are Modern Germany, The Holocaust, Late Modern Intellectual History, post 1945 Global History, European Diplomatic & Economic History, and theory and methodology of the historical sciences. 

Tel:(415) 422-4378
kbolds@usfca.edu

Katrina Olds

Assistant Professor, History

Katrina Olds is a specialist in early modern Spanish history. Her research interests include Counter-Reformation visions of history and hagiography, the history of the book, and religious and intellectual exchange in Spain and the Americas. 

Tel:(415) 422-6043
urrutia@usfca.edu

Ana Urrutia-Jordana

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, earned her B.A. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish Literature at Stanford University (1996). Prof. Urrutia-Jordana has taught at the University of San Francisco since 1996 and has been a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.

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.