Faculty

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ehfuentes@usfca.edu

Emma Fuentes

Assistant Professor, International and Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise: Bilingual education; immigrants and schooling; Latino school experience; community organizing for school change; school and community partnerships; school reform; parental involvement; social and cultural theory; participatory action research.

Tel:(415) 422-5971
jaaquino@usfca.edu

Jorge Aquino

Assistant Professor

Jorge Aquino is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. His specialties include Latin American theology and religious history, liberation theology, race theory and faith-based social movements. Additionally, Professor Aquino chairs the Chican@/Latin@ Studies minor. He is currently finishing a book on the Christian roots of racism in the history of the Americas. Dr. Aquino earned his Ph.D. from The Graduate Theological Union and came to USF in 2005.

Tel:(415) 422-6894
organistap@usfca.edu

Pamela Balls Organista

Professor

Pamela Balls Organista, has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and serves as the Chair of Psychology and the Director of Ethnic Studies at the University of San Francisco. Her areas of research include health issues in underserved populations, Ethnic minority psychology, Community-Based Research, and preventive Interventions.

Tel:(415) 422-5297
sdelatorre@usfca.edu

Sergio De La Torre

Assistant Professor

Sergio De La Torre's project work has focused on issues regarding immigration, tourism, surveillance technologies, and transnational identities.

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florese@usfca.edu

Elena Flores

Professor, Counseling Psychology

Research interests and areas of expertise: Latino adolescent sexuality; family functioning and adolescent health risk behaviors; Latino mental health; multicultural psychology and counseling.

Tel:(415) 422-6046
ejfriedman@usfca.edu

Elisabeth Jay Friedman

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:415-422-2071
varea@usfca.edu

Roberto Gutierrez Varea

Associate Professor, Theater

Roberto G. Gutierrez Varea  is the Director of the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas (CELASA). He received his M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego. His areas of interest include theater and war, Latino theater, theater and social justice.

Tel:(415) 422-6951
kahodoyan@usfca.edu

Karina Hodoyán

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, received her PhD from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Stanford University. Her areas of focus include Mexican, Border and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies, with an interest in Feminist and Urban Studies.

Tel:(415) 422-5141
kaisers@usfca.edu

Susana Kaiser

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. Office hours are Thursdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m., 4:30-5:30 p.m. and by appointment.

Tel:(415) 422-2209
katz@usfca.edu

Susan Katz

Professor, International and Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise: Human rights education; bilingual and intercultural education of marginalized populations in the U.S. and worldwide; link between critical pedagogy and academic literacy; examination of youth violence and its link to schooling; action research methodologies.

Tel:(415) 422-5413
egkatz@usfca.edu

Elizabeth Katz

Professor

Professor Katz is Ph.D from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research areas of specialization are development economics, women in development, agricultural economics, and history of economic thought. Dr. Katz's recent research has focused on the relationship between gender, intra-household bargaining and development in Latin America.

Tel:(415) 422-5061
kiddd@usfca.edu

Dorothy Kidd

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. On sabbatical 2011-12.

Tel:(415) 422-6135
langechurion@usfca.edu

Pedro Lange-Churión

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati, specializing in Latin American Contemporary Narrative and Critical Theory. His academic areas of specialization include Latin American Literature and Culture, Film Studies, Urban Studies, Comparative Literature and Critical Theory; particularly Psychoanalytic theory.

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, 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.

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:415-422-2199
marin@usfca.edu

Gerardo Marín

Professor

Gerardo Marin, PhD, is a Professor of Latin American Studies and Psychology, is Associate Provost at the University of San Francisco, and is an APA Fellow.

Tel:415 422 5763
cbmillspaugh@usfca.edu

Cassandra Millspaugh

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, received her B.A in Spanish from San Francisco State University. After spending a year working in Zacatecas, Mexico, she returned to the Bay Area and finished her M.A. in Linguistics from San Francisco State University. Prof. Millspaugh has been teaching Spanish at the University of San Francisco since 2002.

Tel:(415) 422-6082
moreno@usfca.edu

Julio Moreno

Associate Professor

Dr. Julio Moreno is an experienced educator, presenter, and commentator. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas at the University of San Francisco.

Tel:(415) 422-6251
novakp@usfca.edu

Peter Novak

Vice Provost for Student Life, Professor, Theater

Peter J. Novak received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His areas of interest include acting, american multicultural drama; speech; Shakespeare; theater of the deaf; dramatic literature; theater and social justice; and children's theater.

Tel:(415) 422-4378
kbolds@usfca.edu

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) 422-6641
jperez6@usfca.edu

John Pérez

Associate Professor

John Pérez, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist. He received his degree from Yale University and currently teaches research design. His research focuses primarily on the ways people use religious or spiritual resources (e.g., prayer, meditation, support from religious community) to cope with chronic illness and stressful life events.

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lperezgualdron@usfca.edu

Leyla Pérez-Gualdrón

Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology

Research interests and areas of expertise: Social justice orientation and academic/civic engagement in urban youth; school relational and language climate; bilingualism; racial identity.

Tel:415-422-4368
fmrivera@usfca.edu

Francesca Rivera

Coordinator, Music Program, Assistant Professor, Music

Received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College; M.A. in ethnomusicology from UC Berkeley; doctoral candidate for ethnomusicology at UC Berkeley completing her dissertation about Panamanian traditional folk music called "Mucho mas que un canal: Musical Emblems of the Panamanian Nation".

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:(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) 422-6720
schafferm@usfca.edu

Martha E. Schaffer

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. in Romance Philology from the University of California at Berkeley. Her current research centers on medieval Iberian texts and manuscripts, in particular the 13th century Cantigas de Santa Maria.

Tel:(415) 422-2224
kschell@usfca.edu

Karyn Schell

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, received her Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics from the University of Washington. She also serves as the Chair for Spanish. Her areas of interest include Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy, and Theoretical Linguistics.

Tel:415 422 2849
aesmith@usfca.edu

Andrea Smith

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in Romance Linguistics and Literature. She teaches Brazilian Portuguese language. Her areas of interest are contemporary culture, film and literature, with attention to social and environmental justice issues.

Tel:(415) 422-6422
stanfieldm@usfca.edu

Michael Stanfield

Associate Professor

Michael Edward Stanfield grew up in San Diego along the U.S./Mexican border, a location that left him optimistic and curious about the other side. He completed his B.A. at UC Berkeley, an M.A. at San Diego State University, and Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico. History has always been his passion and Muse, Latin America and the United States the foci of most of his investigations.

Tel:(415) 422-6043
urrutia@usfca.edu

Ana Urrutia

Associate Professor

Associate Professor and Department Co-Chair, earned her B.A. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish Literature at Stanford University (1996). Prof. Urrutia-Jordana has taught at the University of San Francisco since 1996 and has been a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.

Tel:(415) 422-6789
mrvargas@usfca.edu

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.

Tel:(415) 422-6087
slwachtel@usfca.edu

Seth Wachtel

Assistant Professor

Seth Wachtel is the Director of the Architecture and Community Design Program in the Department of Art and Architecture and is Co-Director of the Garden Project Living-Learning Community at the University of San Francisco.