Faculty

Tel:(415) 422-4612
erborbon@usfca.edu

Edith Borbon

Adjunct Professor and Language Liaison

Professor Borbon earned her BA in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her MS in Education, with a specialization in Intercultural Communication, is from the University of Pennsylvania.  Prof Borbon teaches Tagalog (Filipino) and is involved with developing the program and the collection. She is also active as a healthcare and social services interpreter, and has translated documents for city and county agencies.

Tel:(415) 422-2940
delrosario@usfca.edu

Claudine Del Rosario

Adjunct Professor

Prof del Rosario holds a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University.  Claudine del Rosario teaches "Philippine History: Early Times to 1900", "Philippine History: 1900 to Present", "Filipino Culture and Society"  and "Knowledge Activism".  She also works at the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development where she provides grants to community-based organizations.  Through her work at the Mayor's Office, she is able to create service learning opportunities for USF students in the South of Market, a historic Filipino cultural hub in San Francisco.

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ifduller@usfca.edu

Irene Duller

Adjunct Professor

Irene Faye Duller has both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Asian American Studies with foci in Pinays, Critical Artistry and Decolonization. A community-based political organizer for over 10 years in LA and SF with League of Filipino Students, Babae-USA, and the International League of Peoples Struggles. A performance-lit artist (Bindlestiff/ 8th wonder/ Rhapsodistas), Irene teaches Filipino American Cultural Production and History at USF and Asian American Pop Culture at SFSU.

Tel:(415) 422-4960
vfrancisco@usfca.edu

Valerie Francisco

Assistant Professor

Valerie Francisco is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at City University of New York, The Graduate Center. Francisco's academic interests include transnationalism and diaspora with a special interest on the Philippine migration, family, gender and labor, and globalization. Her dissertation research is with Filipino migrant women working as domestic workers in New York City and their families in the Philippines. In journals like The Philippine Sociological Review and International Review of Qualitative Research, Francisco writes about how families are changing under neoliberal immigration policies and what types of political subjectivities emerge from those conditions. In the 2011-2012 academic year, Francisco is teaching and completing her dissertation as the Dissertation Writing Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of San Francisco.

Tel:(415) 422-5483
gonzalez@usfca.edu

Jay Gonzalez

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) 422-2773
merino@usfca.edu

Angelo Merino

Adjunct Professor

Angelo Merino received his Bachelors Degree in Economics from San Sebastian College in Manila, Philippines, and a Masters in Sport and Fitness Management from the University of San Francisco. He is currently an Adjunct Professor for the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program teaching YPSP 222: Philippine Boxing and Culture, YPSP 333: Boxing and Social Justice (upcoming Fall 2011). He is also the Head Boxing Coach for USF and is internationally certified and recognized by Amateur Boxing of Philippines.

Tel:(415) 422-6415
mtmiller2@usfca.edu

Mark Miller

Assistant Professor

Mark T. Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. His focus is systematic theology, particularly anthropology, soteriology, political theology, Trinity, and Christology. Additionally, Professor Miller teaches in Catholic Studies, Philippine Studies, and the Saint Ignatius Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Boston College and came to USF in 2008.

Tel:
bjreyes@usfca.edu

Barbara Reyes

Adjunct Professor

Barbara Jane Reyes received her BA in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley and her MFA from San Francisco State University.  She was born in Manila, the Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prof Reyes teaches "Filipino American and Philippine Lit".

Tel:(415) 422-6112
erodriguez4@usfca.edu

Evelyn Rodriguez

Associate Professor

Professor Rodriguez graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from UC San Diego as a Sociology major/Ethnic Studies minor; and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley's Sociology program. She has taught Sociological Methods, Asian and Pacific Islanders in U.S. Society, People of Mixed Descent, U.S. Immigration and Settlement, and Community Organizing.

Tel:
jkwofford@hotmail.com

Jenifer Wofford

Adjunct Professor

Jenifer Wofford received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her Master of Fine Arts from UC Berkeley. In addition to teaching in Philippine Studies, she has also taught studio arts courses at USF, California College of the Arts, UC Berkeley and Diablo Valley College. She is also a professional visual artist, curator, graphic designer and illustrator who works both nationally and internationally.