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HONORS COLLEGE
Faculty & Staff
Leadership Team
Faculty Director
Professor Evelyn Y. Ho
eyho@usfca.edu
Evelyn Y. Ho is a professor of communication studies, Asian Pacific American studies, and critical diversity studies. Beginning with an understanding that communication is a cultural activity and that health care systems and beliefs are profoundly cultural, Professor Ho's teaching and research focus broadly on the intersections of health, culture, and communication, with a specific focus on the use and cultural meanings of acupuncture and Chinese medicine in underserved communities. She has led and participated in grant-funded research projects examining Chinese American dietary practices, health beliefs, and communication preferences and patient education that integrates Chinese medicine and biomedicine. You can find that work at INCguide.org.
Program Director
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Monica Doblado
(415) 422-2427
mmdoblado@usfca.edu
Monica Doblado graduated from USF’s Theology and Religious Studies Department in 2013. Shortly after graduation, she was hired as the department's program assistant. As a staff member, she has participated in a number of important campus initiatives such as the "Islam at U.S. Jesuit Colleges and Universities" Conference, the Campus Climate Working Group, and the Racial Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Dialogue Series. In May 2017, she earned her M.A. in Catholic Educational Leadership from the School of Education. Her graduate studies focused on how mission and identity inform everything from curriculum development to hiring practices in Jesuit Catholic higher education.
Program Assistant
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Sky Berry-Weiss
(415) 422-5314
sdberryweiss@usfca.edu
Originally from Hawai'i, Sky (He/They) moved to San Francisco 5 years ago to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of San Francisco. During his studies, he worked for Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Center for International Policy, and various on-campus jobs, including being a part of the first cohort of Honors College Ambassadors and the first Resident Assistant for the Erasmus LLC. After graduation, he took over for the previous Aquatics Director in the Recreational Sports Department, managing a staff of 70 and overseeing four revenue-generating programs for the university. In the Summer of 2023, he made the transition from the Student Life Division to the College of Arts and Sciences, returning to his alma mater as the Program Assistant for the Honors College and Saint Ignatius Institute. Sky is currently a candidate for a Master of Science in Energy Systems Management and is slated to graduate with the class of 2025 from USF.
Faculty Chairs
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Professor Kimberleigh Cox
kccox@usfca.edu
Kimberleigh Cox DNP is a dually board-certified adult nurse practitioner and adult psychiatric nurse practitioner, and certified public health nurse. Her specialty interests and NP work are in psychiatric mental health, addiction medicine, behavioral and community health of vulnerable populations, advocacy, and psychiatric consultation. She brings her clinical experience, interests, and enthusiasm for community and mental health to her teaching, service, clinical work, and volunteerism. Her focus is on integrating community and mental health in her courses to reflect real-world practice. Her passion is to educate future health care professionals to be well prepared to work with all persons and populations, in any setting, to improve access and care for those with mental health and population-health needs and reduce health disparities.
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Professor Liat Burdugo
lberdugo@usfca.edu
Liat Berdugo is an artist and writer whose work investigates embodiment, labor, and militarization in relation to capitalism, technological utopianism, and the Middle East. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), MoMA PS1 (New York), Transmediale (Berlin), V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), and The Wrong Biennale (online), among others. Her writing appears in Rhizome, Temporary Art Review, Real Life, Places, and The Institute for Network Cultures, among others, and her latest book, The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East, Bloomsbury in 2021. Professor Berdugo is one-half of the art collective Anxious to Make, and is the co-founder and co-curator of the Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly new media art series.
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Professor Eve-Anne Doohan
edoohan@usfca.edu
Eve-Anne Doohan joined the faculty at USF in 2004. She studies the communication of married couples, with a particular interest in relational history narratives and their connection to marital and individual outcomes. She is also interested in beliefs people have about marriage. Her current research focuses on how married couples make the decision to have children. Her work has been published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Communication, and the Western Journal of Communication, among others. She is the faculty adviser to the USF Chapter of the National Communication Association honor society, Lambda Pi Eta.
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Professor Dean Rader
rader@usfca.edu
Professor Rader has authored or co-authored eleven books. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014) was named a “Best Poetry Book” by The Barnes & Noble Review. Recent poems have appeared in The New York Times, Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Best of the Net, and many others.
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Professor Brandon Brown
brownb@usfca.edu
Brandon R. Brown pursued doctoral training in superconductivity, with postdoctoral work in science communication. Once at USF, he shifted his research focus to sensory biophysics. He and his collaborators and students explored the electric sense of sharks, skates, and rays. Brandon served as associate dean for sciences, during which time the university completed planning stages for the Lo Schiavo Center for Science and Innovation, for which he helped fundraising efforts. He currently writes about science for broader audiences, including various columns, essays, and three books: Planck (2015, Oxford), and The Apollo Chronicles (2019, Oxford), and Sharing Our Science (2023, MIT). See his author page for more information.
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Professor Marcelo Camperi
camperi@usfca.edu
Marcelo F. Camperi is the former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He studied physics at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, in Argentina. He received his PhD from Boston University in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, working in topological field theory and some phenomenology of elementary particles. Upon graduating, he became interested in the study of the brain from a physicists' point of view. Other interests also include computational physics, mathematical physics, and in computers in education. Marcelo is Professor of Physics and Astronomy and was chair of the department from 2000 to 2007. For the past nine years, he has served in the Dean’s Office of Arts and Sciences, first as an Associate Dean for Sciences from 2008 to 2010 and now as the Dean of the College.
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Professor Evelyn Rodriguez
erodriguez4@usfca.edu
Evelyn I. Rodriguez is a second-generation Pinay, who was born in Honolulu, raised in San Diego, and is now a Professor for the University of San Francisco's Department of Sociology. She also is a faculty member in Critical Diversity Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Maria Elena Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from UC San Diego as a Sociology major/Ethnic Studies minor; and received her MA and PhD from UC Berkeley's Sociology program. She has taught Asian and Pacific Islanders in U.S. Society, People of Mixed Descent, U.S. Immigration and Settlement, and Community Organizing, as well as Research Methods, Thesis Workshop, and for the USF Honors College.
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Professor Ryan Langan
rjlangan@usfca.edu
Assistant Professor Ryan Langan’s research area lies in branding and corporate social responsibility with a focus on understanding how consumers perceive and respond to firms who engage in corporate philanthropy. His current projects explore the potential for corporate giving to elicit feelings of gratitude on the part of consumers. Langan’s research has been published in the Journal of Brand Management, Journal of Business Research and the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy. He is also co-editor and author of the “Handbook of Research on Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility.”