Erin Brigham, director of the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition
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Faculty in the News
Professor Lindsay M. Harris, School of Law
Associate Professor
Education 109
Belinda Hernandez Arriaga is a Faculty Coordinator for the Masters In Counseling MFT program at USF's South Bay location. Belinda has a doctorate in Education, and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eighteen years experience working in community mental health, with a specialization in child trauma and Latino Mental Health. Belinda has extensive experience in county mental health where she worked in Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall mental health and San Mateo County Pre to Three High Risk…
Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship, Professor, Founding Director of the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic, and Dean's Circle Scholar
Kendrick Hall 308
Adjunct Professor
Filip Kovacevic is an adjunct professor in the Departments of Politics and Global Studies. Born in Kotor, Montenegro, Prof. Kovacevic has lectured and taught across Europe, the Balkans, the former USSR, and the U.S., including two years at Smolny College, the first liberal arts college in Russia, operating under the auspices of St. Petersburg State University. He received fellowships from the Open Society Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Hoover Institution Library…
Professor and Chair of the Justice for Animals Program
Kendrick 312
Professor
Malloy Hall 305
Dr. Courtney Masterson teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on topics including diversity and inclusion; work and well-being; research methods; and community-engaged learning. As a teacher, she strives to create an engaging learning environment that enables students to cultivate knowledge and develop personally and professionally. This includes providing students opportunities to partner in meaningful ways with the University’s surrounding community.
Courtney is also an active…
Professor
Masonic Hall 216
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 also served as Research Director for PPIC as well as the Director of Resource Equity and…
Faculty Emeritus
Education 215
Judith (Judy) Pace is Professor of Teacher Education in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. Her scholarship examines classroom teaching and curriculum and its relationship to diversity, democracy, and sociopolitical contexts. She has a Fulbright Global Scholar award for 2023-2024 to teach and conduct research at university-based teacher education programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and South Africa.
Dr. Pace has published four books, numerous research and practitioner…
Professor
101 Howard St., Suite 430
Expertise: Sports Economics,
Sports Finance,
Sports Valuation,
Sports Antitrust
Dr. Rascher has taught sports economics and finance, business research methods, and master's project. As President of SportsEconomics, his clients have included organizations involved in the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, NCAA, NASCAR, MLS, PGA, WTA, media, sporting goods and apparel, professional boxing, mixed martial arts, minor league baseball, NHRA, AHL, Formula 1, Indy Car racing, American Le Mans racing, Premier League Football, NASL, women’s professional soccer, professional cycling & swimming,…
Assistant Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall G43
Expertise: Social psychology,
Teaching and learning psychology,
Anti-racism,
Building close relationships
Dr. Zachary Reese is a social psychologist with expertise in close relationships. His research team, the Love and Communication Lab, examines how people build and maintain meaningful relationships with others.
Outside of the lab, Dr. Reese is passionate about advancing initiatives related to Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI). He is an organizer and principal investigator for USF's Moment to Movement: Anti-Racist Pedagogy Fellows Program, a program which won the USF Collective…