Faculty
Tel:(415) 422-4376
albartlett@usfca.edu
Assistant Professor
Anne Bartlett received her Ph.D. from the
Sociology Department at the University of Chicago. She is a
director of the Darfur Reconciliation and Development Organization
(www.drdoafrica.org). Bartlett has
worked on Darfur related issues for many years. Bartlett was the
chair of the United Nations hearing on the Darfur crisis, UN
commission on Human Rights, 60th Session, Geneva, Switzerland,
April 2004. Bartlett has published extensively on the Darfur crisis
and has given numerous talks on the subject worldwide. Bartlett is
also the Director of the Master's Program in International
Studies at USF.
Tel:(415) 422-6349
eliasr@usfca.edu
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) 422-6046
ejfriedman@usfca.edu
Associate Professor
Elisabeth Jay Friedman was awarded her BA by Barnard College
(1988) and her MA/PhD by Stanford University (1997). She is the
author of Unfinished Transitions:
Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in
Venezuela, 1936-1996 (Penn State Press, 2000), and the
co-author of Sovereignty,
Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN
World Conferences (SUNY Press, 2005).
Tel:415.422.4365
gjgmelch@usfca.edu
Professor
Dr. Gmelch
is Professor of Anthropology at the University of San Francisco. He
is a cultural anthropologist who studies tourism, sport, migration,
and environmental anthropology with most of his fieldwork
concentrated in Ireland, the Caribbean, and Alaska. He is the
author of eleven books and has also written widely for general
audiences.
Tel:(415) 422-5483
gonzalez@usfca.edu
Associate Professor
Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III has a B.A. in History and Political
Science from De La Salle University (Manila), a Master of Public
Administration from the University of the Philippines, and a Ph.D.
from the University of Utah. He teaches Filipino American and
Philippine studies, Asian studies, as well as international
politics and public policy courses for the Yuchengco Philippine
Studies Program, the Politics Department, the Asian Studies
Program, and the Asian American Studies Program. Dr. Gonzalez is
the author of numerous publications and has served the city of San
Francisco as Commissioner for Immigrant Rights.
Tel:(415) 422-2378
ajhahntapper@usfca.edu
Assistant Professor
Aaron J. Hahn Tapper is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of
San Francisco. His interdisciplinary interests are American Jews,
American Muslims, comparative religions, history of religions, the
interplay between politics and religion and the Israel-Palestine
Conflict. Additionally, Professor Hahn Tapper recently co-edited
the volume Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions,
and Complexities. He is the Director and Chair of the SWIG Program
in Jewish Studies and Social Justice. Dr. Hahn Tapper earned his
Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara and came to USF
in 2007.
Tel:(415) 422-5141
kaisers@usfca.edu
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) 422-4371
wanjiru@usfca.edu
Assistant Professor
Dr. Kamau-Rutenberg holds varied research and teaching interests
that include politics of gender, global philanthropy, international
development, ethnic politics, transitions to democracy, and the
role of communication technology in social action. She has
published articles on women's movements in Africa as well
as on the impact of U.S. anti-terror legislation on anti-terror
legislation in Kenya. Dr Kamau-Rutenberg is the founder and
executive director of Akili Dada, an
international non-profit organization working to ensure that the
next generation of Kenyan women leaders includes women from
disadvantaged economic backgrounds.
Tel:
kathleen@kathleenjanus.com
Adjunct Professor
Kathleen Kelly Janus focuses on advancing human rights and
elevating the status of women around the world. An attorney, she
has spearheaded numerous social justice initiatives. Ms. Janus is a
co-founder of Spark, a non-profit focused on building a community
of young, global citizens promoting gender equality. From 2007 to
2011, Ms. Janus helped launch and direct Stanford Law
School's international human rights clinics in Namibia and
South Africa, supervising Stanford students on fieldwork projects
related to HIV/AIDS, water rights and rural women's
issues. Ms. Janus lectures widely on these topics and has taught
courses at the University of San Francisco Masters of Arts
International Studies Program, Stanford Law School and Santa Clara
Law School. Ms. Janus is also the Pro Bono Manager at Covington and
Burling, LLP, responsible for connecting the firm's
attorney's with underserved California communities and Bay
Area legal services organizations. A graduate of Berkeley Law
School, Ms. Janus also graduated with highest honors from U.C.
Berkeley with degrees in Political Science and Spanish.
Tel:(415) 422-5061
kiddd@usfca.edu
Professor
Dorothy Kidd received her Ph.D. in Communication from Simon
Fraser University. She has published in the area of political
economy of media, media and social change and community media. She
has also worked extensively in community radio production. Spring
2013 office hours are Wednesdays, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. or by
appointment.
Tel:(415) 422-6969
gkuperus@usfca.edu
Assistant Professor and Co-Chair of Environmental Studies
Gerard Kuperus main research interests are philosophy of nature
and environmental philosophy as well as the history of philosophy,
in particular Kant and Nineteenth Century philosophy. He teaches in
the Philosophy Department, Environmental Studies, and the MA
program in International Studies.
Tel:(415) 422-6914
cloperena@usfca.edu
Assistant Professor
Christopher Loperena received his Ph.D. from the African
Diaspora Program in Social Anthropology at the University of Texas
at Austin. He holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies
from the University of Texas- Austin and a B.A. in International
Studies from the University of Chicago.
Tel:(415) 422-5184
lorentzen@usfca.edu
Professor
Lois Lorentzen is a Professor in the Department of Theology
and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. Her areas
of specialization include religion and immigration, social ethics,
environmental ethics, and gender and violence. Additionally, Lois
has published or edited numerous books including, Religion on the
Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Faith, Politics and Identity in New
Migrant Communities. She has served as Associate Dean for the
College of Arts and Sciences, Director of the Center for Latino/a
Studies in the Americas, and Chair of the Department of
Theology/Religious Studies. Professor Lorentzen received a Ph.D.
from the School of Religion at the University of Southern
California and came to USF in 1991.
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Adjunct Professor
Professor Roberts is a human rights attorney with 25 years
experience in cases involving refugees, women, and survivors of
torture.She teaches Human Rights and International Law at the
University of San Francisco, and Refugee and Asylum Law and Policy
at Golden Gate University School of Law.
Tel:(415) 422-5624
santos@usfca.edu
Associate Professor
Cecília MacDowell Santos received her Ph.D. in Sociology from
the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches courses on
gender and development, globalization, sociology of law, and
Brazilian culture and society. Her research focuses on legal
mobilization within and across national borders, violence, memory,
and women's and human rights. She is interested in
investigating how legal mobilization relates to politics and shapes
the recognition of violence and subjects of rights on the basis of
gender, race, class, and/or sexual orientation. This was examined
in her book, Women's
Police Stations: Gender, Violence, and Justice in São Paulo,
and guides her current projects on transnational legal mobilization
and human rights in Brazil and in Portugal.
Tel:(415) 422-5058
awibben@usfca.edu
Associate Professor
Annick T.R. Wibben received her Ph.D. in International
Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK and teaches
for the Politics Department and the International Studies program
at USF.
In her research, she specializes in (critical) security studies,
international theory, and feminist international relations. Her
most recent book, Feminist
Security Studies: A Narrative Approach, was published in
2011.
Tel:(415) 422-5485
smzavestoski@usfca.edu
Associate Professor
Stephen Zavestoski teaches courses in the area of
Environmental Sociology. Dr. Zavestoski's research areas
include environmental sociology, social movements, and sociology of
health and illness. His current research focuses on the strategies
that disease sufferers take to demonstrate that their conditions
are caused by environmental contamination. This work also looks at
how citizens engage in the scientific process and policymaking in
order to shape research and policy agendas.
Tel:(415) 422-4643
rziegler@usfca.edu
Adjunct Professor
Rue Ziegler received her M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Social
Anthropology from Cambridge University in the UK. Before
coming to USF she taught at Cambridge and at Makerere University in
Kampala, Uganda. Her previous training and professional experience
is in architecture and urban studies. At USF Ziegler teaches the
Anthropology of Food and Anthropology and Global Health. In
addition to teaching, she manages a research firm specializing in
the history of land use in northern California.
Tel:(415) 422-6981
zunes@usfca.edu
Professor
Stephen Zunes has been at USF since 1995, teaching courses on
the politics of Middle East and other regions, nonviolence,
conflict resolution, U.S. foreign policy, and globalization for the
Politics department, the International Studies major, and the Peace
& Justice Studies minor, as well as the Middle Eastern Studies
minor, for which he serves as program director.
