Faculty

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Carolyn Brown

Associate Professor

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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) 422-6335
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Rose Marie Deist

Professor

Professor, received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is professor of Classics and medieval French, as well as director of the Classical Studies Program. Her special comparative interests are Virgil, classical epic, and medieval French courtly romance.

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Robert Elias

Professor

Robert Elias has taught in the Politics Department at USF since 1989. He founded the USF Legal Studies and the Peace & Justice Studies programs. He coordinates the Legal Studies, Criminal Justice Studies, and the 4+3 Law programs, teaches in the Honors Humanities and BA/MA in International Studies programs, and is the Editor of Peace Review: An International Journal of Social Justice.

Tel:(415) 422-6454
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Alan Heineman

Professor

Alan Heineman (BA Stanford, 1966, MA and PhD. Brandeis, 1974) joined the English Dept. in 1970. He focuses on 19th-21st Century U.S. literature, especially fiction. A former editor of the now-defunct S.F. Review of Books, he has published scholarly articles and reviews on modern writers such as DeLillo, Didion, and Hawkes. He also teaches in the Honors Program in Humanities, and has been its Director since 1990. From 1966 to the early 1980's he published scores of articles and reviews on jazz, blues and rock. A founding officer of the USF Faculty Assn. (AFT Local 4269) in 1975, he served as President from 1988-2005.

Tel:(415) 422-5612
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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).

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Elliot Neaman

Professor

Elliot Neaman received his B.A. from the University of British Columbia, his M.A. from Freie Universitat Berlin, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include European intellectual history, especially late modern (nineteenth and twentieth centuries); German conservatism and rightwing politics; The Holocaust; European foreign policy and transatlantic relations.

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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) 422-5116
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Jeffrey Paris

Associate Professor and Department Chair

Jeffrey Paris joined the USF faculty in 2001, and has taught over twenty different course in topics ranging from Existential and Postmodern Philosophy to Imprisonment to Science Fiction. He also teaches Introduction toPhilosophy and Ethics to inmate-students at San Quentin Prison as a volunteer in the Prison University Project.

Tel:(415) 422-4184
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Dean Rader

Associate Professor

Dean Rader has published widely in the fields of poetry, literary studies, American Indian studies, and visual/popular culture. He co-edited Speak To Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry (2003), and his pop culture reader, The World Is A Text, is going into its fourth edition. In 2011, his book Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film From Alcatraz to the NMAI will be published by the University of Texas Press.  Most recently, he is the recipient of the 2009 Sow's Ear Poetry Prize for his poem "Hesiod in Oklahoma, 1934" and the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize for his first book of poems, Works & Days. He teaches in the writing emphasis, the literature emphasis, and in the Honors Program in the Humanities.

Tel:(415) 422-6153
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David Stump

Professor

David J. Stump joined the department in 1992. His research and teaching interests focus on the late 19th and early 20th century and include the philosophy of science, logic, pragmatism and the development of analytic philosophy.  He has taught in all of these areas and also an interdisciplinary course in the Honors Program in the Humanities on science and society.

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Jacqueline Taylor

Associate Professor

Jacqueline Taylor's research interests include Hume's moral and social philosophy, contemporary metaethics, feminist ethics, aesthetics, and moral psychology. She is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hume (2nd edition, 2009). She teaches courses in early modern philosophy, the Enlightenment, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion, ethics, and feminist theory.

Tel:(415) 422-6789
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Manuel Vargas

Professor of Philosophy

Vargas received his Joint-Ph.D. in Philosophy and Humanities from Stanford University and his A.B. from U.C. Davis.Research areas include free will, moral responsibility, and moral psychology.Courses: Ethics; Mind, Freedom, Knowledge; 20th Century Intellectual History; Philosophy of Action; and Latin American Philosophy.Website here.Course info here.

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Brian Weiner

Associate Professor

Brian Weiner received his B.A. from Princeton University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in political theory (from the ancients to contemporary theory), American political theory, and public law. He teaches courses in the areas of political theory, law, and American politics.