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Adjunct Professor
Koren Stevenson is an adjunct professor at USF Law. Her professional experiences have included work as a federal regulator, a New York City prosecutor, solo practitioner, and corporate counsel. Ms. Stevenson received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown she served as President of the Black Law Students Association and received the Dean’s Certificate of Service for her commitment to the law center community. She lives in the East Bay with her family and is…
Assistant Professor
Harney Science Center 357
Michael Stevenson obtained a BS in biochemistry from the University of Washington and a PhD in chemistry from Dartmouth College. After graduate school, he first completed postdoctoral work at Ohio State University before going on to his second postdoctoral appointment at University of California, Davis.  The Stevenson Group at USF studies the interplay between antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and metals. Students in the group learn peptide biochemistry, coordination chemistry, spectroscopy, and…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Architectural history, Suburban history, California architecture, culture, and geography
Alec Stewart is an architectural and urban historian with an interest in the ways that globalization, mobility, consumer cultures, racialization, and grassroots placemaking shape the built environment. His writing has addressed the revitalization of aging strip malls by immigrant entrepreneurs, cultures of public transportation, and swap meets as nodes of transnational urbanism in the late-twentieth century. He is currently writing his first book, "Meet Me at the Swap Meet: The Production and…
Assistant Professor
Malloy Hall 315
Expertise: Critical theory, Qualitative methods, Diversity & inclusion
Oscar Jerome Stewart is an Assistant Professor of Management in USF’s School of Management. Professor Stewart considers himself a critical management scholar and is concerned with power within organizations and power of organizations, and how to create more equitable and cooperative power structures that bind members together in a beneficent mutuality. Currently, he is working on projects on corporate misconduct, discrimination in higher education, and critical business pedagogy. Outside of his…
Faculty Emeritus
John Stillwell was born in Melbourne, Australia, and taught at Monash University from 1970 until 2001, before moving to USF in 2002. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994, and his mathematical writing has been honored with the Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America in 2005 and the book award of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities in 2009. Among his best-known books are Mathematics and Its History (3rd edition,…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Writing, Theater, Hip-Hop, Latino Cultural Aesthetics, Immigration
Paul S. Flores is a San Francisco artist of Mexican and Cuban-American descent who has built a national reputation for interview-based theater and bilingual spoken word. He integrates indigenous and Latino healing practices to tell the stories of real people impacted by immigration and systemic inequalities. Flores appeared on Season 3 and 4 of HBO’s Def Poetry. He is the author of the plays We Have Iré, which premiered in 2019 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; PLACAS: The Most Dangerous…
Associate Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 120
Expertise: Permaculture, Community creation, Nature immersion practices
Melinda Stone is an interdisciplinary artist who has been engaging in community-based projects for most of her life.
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Black student experience, Academic writing, Coaching and mentoring
Heather M. Streets comes from a family of scholars and is the sixth to earn a doctorate, which she completed at the University of San Francisco (USF). Using a term she coined called the collegiate Black space, her research focused on how Black students who attend historically White universities use online spaces for support, knowledge production, and organizing for activism. Heather’s scholarship centers her ongoing interest in deepening and expanding conversations about anti-Blackness in higher…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Psychopharmacology and the biological bases of behavior, Diagnosis and empirically-supported treatments, Polyamory and other forms of consensual nonmonogamy, Chronic depression and suicidality
MacKenzie Stuart is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with adults, couples, partners, and families in addition to teaching in several counseling psychology programs. MacKenzie specializes in nontraditional relationship structures, including polyamory and other forms of consensual nonmonogamy, as well as chronic depression and suicidality. Her other clinical interests include psychosis, psychopharmacology and drugs, LGBTQIA2-S and GNC/non-binary communities, kink and BDSM…
Faculty Emeritus
Kalmanovitz Hall 161
David J. Stump is a professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco. A native Californian, he was educated at the University of California and Northwestern University. He is co-editor, with Peter Galison, of The Disunity of Science, and is author of journal articles on Poincaré, Duhem, the history and philosophy of mathematics, and general philosophy of science. His research is centered on late 19th and early 20th century philosophy and science and the exchange between the two,…