Faculty

ADVISORY BOARD

Mike Duffy, Lane Center

David Batstone, Theology and Religious Studies

Jennifer Turpin, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Tel:(415) 422-4376
albartlett@usfca.edu

Anne Bartlett

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

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) 422-2378
ajhahntapper@usfca.edu

Aaron Hahn Tapper

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) 422-5184
lorentzen@usfca.edu

Lois Lorentzen

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, 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 and the forthcoming three volume series Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States: Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration. 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.

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) 422-5837
nagarajan@usfca.edu

Vijaya Nagarajan

Associate Professor

Professor Vijaya Nagarajan teaches courses on Hinduism, Religion and Environment, Spiritual Autobiography, and Community Internships. Her scholarship has centered on the multivalent meanings in the kolam, a women's ritual art in southern India. She is currently working on her book, Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual and Art in southern India---The Kolam (Oxford University Press). Her other research projects include: On the Languages of the Commons; Tree Temples, Mangroves and Temple Forests; and Twins and Hinduism in the California Diaspora. She has been active in the American Academy of Religion and in the environmental movement in India and the United States.

Tel:(415) 422-5116
paris@usfca.edu

Jeffrey Paris

Associate Professor and Department Chair

Jeffrey Paris joined the USF faculty in 2001, and has taught over twenty different courses in topics ranging from Existential and Postmodern Philosophy to Imprisonment to Science Fiction.

Tel:(415) 422-5624
santos@usfca.edu

Cecília Santos

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

Annick Wibben

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) 422-6981
zunes@usfca.edu

Stephen Zunes

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.