Erin Brigham, director of the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition
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Professor Lindsay M. Harris, School of Law
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 256
Expertise: Criminology,
Legal studies,
Gender and sexuality,
Social justice and inequalities (Race, class, gender, and gender identities)
Kimberly Richman received a BA at Pitzer College and an MA and a PhD in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at UC Irvine, where she also completed a graduate emphasis in feminist studies. She currently teaches Criminology; Sociology of Law; Deviance and Social Control; Senior Thesis Workshop; Capstone in Sociology; Social Problems; Social Justice Internship; and Law School 101. She also frequently collaborates with the USF School of Law's Racial Justice Clinic.
Professor Richman's…
Professor
Malloy Hall, Room 401
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…
Professor
Professor James Lance Taylor is from Glen Cove, Long Island. He is author of the book Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama, which earned 2012 "Outstanding Academic Title" - Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Ranked top 2 percent of 25,000 books submitted and top 8 percent of 7,300 actually accepted for review by the American Library Association). Rated “Best of the Best.” The hardback version sold out in the U.S. and the paperback version was…
Faculty Emeritus
Expertise: Employment Law,
Employment Discrimination Law,
Work/Family Law
Professor Michelle Travis is a Dean’s Circle Scholar and Co-Director of USF's Work Law and Justice Program. She specializes in employment law with a focus on disability discrimination, sex discrimination, and work/family balance. Her interdisciplinary scholarship uses social cognition and sociology research to reveal how antidiscrimination law could be used to eliminate structural, organizational, and cognitive biases in the workplace. She regularly speaks on these topics around the country,…
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…