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Associate Professor
Expertise: Urban and Suburban Studies,
Immigrants and the Built Environment ,
Asian American Communities and Cultures ,
Conservatism in the U.S.,
Oral History
James Zarsadiaz is an award-winning historian of the United States. He is Chair and Associate Professor of History. He previously served as the Director of the Maria Elena G. Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program (YPSP) from 2015 to 2025. Prof. Zarsadiaz specializes in urban and suburban history, Asian American history, cultural history, and political history. He was twice elected to the board of the Association for Asian American Studies; was previously a fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's…
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 272 POLS (Annex)
Expertise: Middle Eastern & North African Politics,
Peace Studies,
U.S. Foreign Policy,
Social Movements
Stephen Zunes has been at the University of San Francisco since 1995, teaching courses on the politics of the Middle East and other regions, nonviolence, conflict resolution, U.S. foreign policy, globalization, and the politics of war and peace. In 2004, he founded USF's Middle Eastern Studies Program and currently serves as Program Director. In 2025, he was named as USF's inaugural Daniel Greenberg Fellow in Interfaith Nonviolence.
A prominent specialist on U.S. Middle East policy, Professor…