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Faculty Profiles



Full-time Faculty

Tel:(415) 422-4906
cary@usfca.edu

Stephen Cary

Assistant Professor, International and Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
TESL/TEFL theory and practice; language teaching via storytelling, graphic novels, and digital media; critical literacy and project-based learning; teacher mentoring/coaching; language maintenance, shift, and recovery; bilingual, multicultural, and social justice education.

Tel:(415) 422-5078
ehfuentes@usfca.edu

Emma Fuentes

Assistant Professor, International and Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Urban Education; educational experiences of Latino students; immigration and education; bilingual education; unequal opportunity and access within US public schools; community organizing for school change; school and community partnerships; equity-minded school reform; cultural citizenship; race and identity; social and cultural theory; qualitative approaches to research (participatory action research, critical ethnography).

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

Susan Roberta 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) 422-2073
skoirala@usfca.edu

Shabnam Koirala-Azad

Associate Professor, International and Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Globalization and transnationalism; immigration and education; global citizenship; social and cultural theory; international comparative education; gender, education and social change; qualitative approaches to research.

Tel:(415) 422-6041
taylorb@usfca.edu

Betty Taylor

Professor, International and Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Emotional intelligence, cultural competency, resiliency, and social learning research approaches to learning; global and multicultural education, higher education administration, management and leadership; women and mentoring, diverse populations and schooling; strategic planning and data-driven decision-making; on-line learning and instruction.

Adjunct Faculty

Tel: n/a
collinsd@usfca.edu

Denis E. Collins

Adjunct Faculty

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Social and philosophical foundations of education; the educational philosophy of Paulo Freire; educational issues of the third-world or oppressed populations; international education.

Tel:
ocdixon@usfca.edu

Onllwyn C. Dixon

Adjunct Faculty

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Critical pedagogy; decolonizing methodologies; human rights education; women of color in higher education; postcolonial feminist theories; social constructions of race, class and gender; academic program management and evaluation.

Tel:
sediquepopal@yahoo.com

M. Sedique Popal

Adjunct Faculty

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Teaching cognitive and social theories of linguistics.

Tel:
jvreza@comcast.net

Jackie V. Reza

Adjunct Faculty

Research interests and areas of expertise:
International and multicultural education.