Faculty
Program Director
Patrick Murphy is the Faculty Director for the Urban and Public Affairs program. Patrick is particularly interested in public budgets and tax policy, with an eye toward fairness and sustainability. As a policy researcher, he has led a number of different applied projects for organizations such as the RAND Corporation, the University of Washington, and the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). He currently serves as the Director of Resource Equity and Public Finance for The Opportunity...
- PhD and MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MPA, University of Texas-Austin
- BA, University of Notre Dame
Full-Time Faculty
Dr. Callahan is a Professor at the University of San Francisco, with a joint appointment from the USF School of Management and the USF School of Nursing and Health Professions.
Callahan is Co-Director of the USF Master of Public Health Program in Sacramento and the Director of the Health Services Administration concentration in the Master of Public Administration in the School of Management. His health and human services consulting contracts have been in the states of California, Washington...
- Doctorate in Public Administration (DPA), University of Southern California, LA, CA. Dissertation: The Politics of Structural Choice: Cooperation in Political Environments
- Master of Public...
- Leadership Practices
- Strategic Planning
Richard Greggory Johnson III is a tenured Full Professor for the University of San Francisco, College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Johnson’s research centers on social equity within the fields of public policy, management, higher education and Human Resources Management. He has been teaching in higher education for almost twenty years and is widely published with several peer-reviewed books and over two dozen peer-reviewed journal articles.
Professor Johnson holds graduate degrees from...
- Doctorate in Public Policy & Administration, Golden Gate University, Edward S. Ageno School of Business
- M.A, Social and Public Policy, Georgetown University
- MS, Public Services Management, DePaul...
Anthony Patino is a renowned expert in entertainment, advertising, and promotion, consumer behavior, public policy and marketing analytics. He holds degrees in marketing, business administration, planning and social policy from Duke University, Harvard University, and Temple University. His widely-published research takes him to conferences all over the U.S.
During his career in entertainment, Patino worked in marketing, sales and research at leading entertainment firms like Sony Picture...
- PhD, Business Administration, Marketing, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006
- MBA, Marketing, Duke University, North Carolina, 1991
- MA, Administration, Planning and Social Policy...
William (Billy) Riggs, Ph.D., AICP, LEED AP is a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Management and the Director of the Autonomous Vehicles and the City Initiative. He has worked in venture capital and management consulting and been an advisor to multiple companies and start-ups on technology, engineering, smart mobility and urban development. His experience also extends to academic administration, curriculum design, and finance having held academic appointments in city...
- Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2011
- Master of Urban Planning, Economics and Spatial Analysis, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2003
- Bachelor of Arts...
Richard D. Waters is an associate professor in the School of Management, where he teaches strategic communication and communication management courses. His primary research interests are fundraising, stakeholder loyalty and relationship cultivation, and the use of new technologies in organizational communication efforts.
He serves on the editorial review boards at Public Relations Review, Journal of Public Relations Research, Journal of Public and Nonprofit Sector Management, Journal of...
- PhD, Mass Communications, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2007
- MS, Public Relations, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2000
- ABJ, Public Relations (Minor in Political Science), University...
- Public relations and strategic communication
Part-Time Faculty
Vipul has been a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for the past 20 years. During that time, he has led multiple departments including business development, sales, and products. His teams have engaged clients on strategy, change management, operations, and metric achievement using technology and business process improvement. He values developing close relationships with clients in order to drive real and lasting change.
Vipul has been responsible for creating over $4B+ in trackable...
- University of Virginia (UVa), BS in Commerce, 1994
- Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, MBA, 1999
- Entrepreneurship
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Natural language processing
- Startups
- Healthcare
Faculty Emeritus
Professor Larry Brewster is an educator, author, and professional consultant with areas of specialization that include public policy, organizational systems and development, social psychology, management theories and practice. Dr. Brewster is the co-author of A Primer of California Politics and The Public Agenda: Issues in American Politics.
With unparalleled commitment to his students and fellow faculty, Dr. Brewster has served in high-tier administrative appointments as Dean, Associate Dean...
- PhD, University of Southern California, 1975
- MPA, Coursework completed, University of Southern California, 1976
- MA, California State University at Fullerton, 1969
- AB, California State University...
- Public Policy
- Organizational Systems and Development
- Social Psychology
- Management Theories and Practice
Catherine Horiuchi, Associate Professor and Program Director of the Master of Public Administration program, employs her extensive multi-disciplinary expertise in organizational theory, public administration and analysis, quantitative methods, statistics, and emerging technologies—with the continuing aim of serving her students in her role as educator.
Dr. Horiuchi is the former Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of Management, where she led the recruitment, development...
- DPA, Public Administration, University of Southern California, 2001
- Graduate Studies in Linguistics and Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, 1982–84
- MA, Linguistics, University...
- Organizational theory
- Public administration and analysis
- Quantitative methods
- Statistics
- Emerging technologies