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G Museum Studies

Faculty

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Paloma Añoveros

Adjunct Faculty

Paloma Añoveros is an Arts Management consultant specializing in strategic planning and management in Museum Collections and Exhibitions at the national and international levels, in both non-profit and for-profit environments. She has been associated with USF's Art + Architecture Department as guest lecturer since 2009 and as an adjunct professor since 2012. 

Tel:(415) 422-5167
pjbirnbaum@usfca.edu

Paula Birnbaum

Associate Professor

Paula Birnbaum is Associate Professor and Program Director of Art History/Arts Management in the Department of Art + Architecture. She will serve as Academic Director of the new Master of Arts Program in Museum Studies at USF beginning in August of 2013. Paula is a specialist in modern and contemporary art and holds a doctorate in Art History from Bryn Mawr College.

Tel:(415) 422-5610
lucast@usfca.edu

Thomas Lucas

University Professor

Fr. Thomas Lucas S.J., Professor of Art+Architecture and director of USF's Thacher Gallery, received his doctorate in Theology and the Arts at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, in 1992.

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) 422-6032
sdmckee@usfca.edu

Stuart McKee

Associate Professor

Stuart McKee is an Associate Professor of Design at the University of San Francisco. As an environmental graphic designer, Stuart has designed exhibition typography for institutions such as the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, and the United States Pavilion at the 1992 World's Fair in Seville, Spain.

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Marjorie Schwarzer

Adjunct Faculty

Marjorie Schwarzer has been advising on the curriculum and development of USF's program, and has been a popular guest lecturer at USF since 2003. She served as professor and chair of the Department of Museum Studies at John F. Kennedy University from 1997 to 2011. Marjorie has held leadership positions in museums - including the Boston Children's Museum, Chicago Children's Museum and Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry -- since completing her MBA in nonprofit management from UC, Berkeley in 1983.

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Karren Shorofsky

Adjunct Faculty

Karren Shorofsky is an attorney and art historian who has spent most of her career focused on legal issues related to the arts, emerging technology and museums and other non-profit institutions.  She holds a B.A. in Art History from Brown University, a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.A. in Art History from San Francisco State University.  Her master's thesis explored law's role in the creation and evaluation of contemporary art.

Tel:(415) 422-5178
simmons@usfca.edu

Glori Simmons

Adjunct Faculty

Glori Simmons, Associate Director of the Mary and Carter Thacher Gallery at USF, has coordinated well over fifty exhibitions in the gallery since it opened in 1999. Working with faculty and students, she seeks ways to make the gallery a laboratory for learning across the disciplines and within the community. 

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Mandy Smith

Adjunct Faculty

Mandy Smith received her M.A. degree in Museum Studies from J.F.K. University and has been focused on new media, programs and initiatives with museums for over 15 years. She became involved with museum technology while researching handheld devices as interpretive tools in 2000 and worked nearly 10 years at Antenna Audio, the leading provider in audio and visual tour productions in the world. 

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.