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Professor
Cowell Hall, 202
Expertise: Neuroscience,
Biomedical Informatics, physiological signal processing, AI,
Neurodevelopmental disorders
William J. Bosl is a neuroscientist and data scientist at the University of San Francisco. He is a Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Professions and member of the Data Institute, where he leads the Healthcare AI Initiative and directs the Clinical Neuroinformatics & AI Laboratory. He teaches and develops AI algorithms for clinical biomarker discovery with researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he holds an Affiliate Research Faculty position. Before beginning research in…
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 381
Expertise: Literary studies,
Francophone studies,
African studies
Karen Bouwer, born and raised in South Africa, is Professor of French and African Studies and is also affiliated with the Honors College. After dedicating the first years of her career to questions of gender in twentieth century French poetry, she turned her attention to African literature and film. Her abiding interest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo culminated in the publication of her book Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba (Palgrave Macmillan,…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 202
James Warren Boyd received his BA, History from UCLA and his advanced degrees (MA English: Literature, M. A. Communication Studies: Performance Studies, Graduate Certificates in College Composition and Reading) from SFSU. His first experience in college instruction was as a Peace Corps Volunteer on faculty at the Teacher Training College (NKJO) in Radom, Poland. His goals as an instructor for RHET 103 and 130/131 at USF are to guide students' growth as scholars, writers, and public speakers…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Adolescent immunizations ,
Delivery of care in multilingual communities,
Global health
Lynda "fell" into nursing because of her love of travel and interest in global health. Through summer internships, first with Crossroads Africa and then in Harlan, Kentucky, she got a taste of serving communities with rich histories and cultures. She found her calling.
Early in her career, she worked for the International Rescue Committee in Thailand with Cambodian refugees. Later, at the San Francisco Unified School District she directed projects in adolescent immunizations, which led to…
Faculty Emeritus
Former president, AWP. The Brenda Ueland Prose Prize and the Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Prize. Author of three short story collections: The End of the Class War (1999), finalist for the 2000 Western States Book Award, Curled in the Bed of Love (2003), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and The Mechanics of Falling (2009), winner of the Northern California Book Award for Fiction; a biography: Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA…
Associate Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 274
Professor Rachel Brahinsky teaches in the Urban and Public Affairs graduate program, the undergraduate Urban Studies program, and the Politics Department. She earned a PhD in geography from UC Berkeley, where she focused on the human and social geography of cities, with an emphasis on the politics of race and place. Her research and teaching center around the challenges of race and inequality in the context of rapidly changing American cities, with a longtime focus on the San Francisco Bay Area.…
Adjunct Professor
Priti Brahma joined USF in fall 2022 as Adjunct Faculty in Environmental Sciences. Priti has been teaching Environmental Science, Engineering, Math and Computer Science classes since 1996 at UCLA, Cal State LA, American University, Cabrillo College and Napa Valley College. In between, Priti spent 8 years at NOAA fostering research and educational ties between NOAA and Minority Serving Institution partners and mentored graduate and undergraduate students studying the NOAA Sciences. Helping…
Faculty Emeritus
Expertise: Affirmative Action and Diversity,
Human Rights,
Legal Education
Jeffrey S. Brand joined the faculty at USF School of Law in 1986 and was the 17th dean of the USF School of Law from 1999-2013. Brand received his AB from UC Berkeley in 1966 and his JD from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1969. His scholarly and professional work has focused on human rights, global justice, constitutional law, and various civil procedure and evidence issues, including recovering statutory attorney's fees in civil rights actions. As a teacher, Brand received the USF School of Law…
Adjunct Professor
Thomas J. Brandi has tried cases to verdict in 18 jurisdictions and has obtained numerous jury verdicts ranging from $1 million to $1 billion. A lawyer for more than 35 years, in 1993 Brandi started his own firm, The Brandi Law Firm, representing plaintiffs in serious injury and mass tort cases. He was Consumer Attorneys of California Trial Lawyer of the year in 2004 (also nominated in 2002 and 2012), a five–time nominee for Trial Lawyer of the Year for the San Francisco Trial Lawyers…