Experts Guide

Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 202
Ellen Thompson has been teaching lower division writing courses at USF—RHET 99, 110, and 120—since 2000. She has also taught upper-division and graduate-level expository writing, creative writing, critical thinking, college-level reading, and fire service courses. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing, an MA in English: Creative Writing, and graduate certificates to teach post-secondary reading and composition from San Francisco State. She has a BA in Social Science from Humboldt State, a…
Adjunct Professor
Dr. Julia Thompson has a passion for integrating the soul’s work into the engineering design process and technology. She is driven to help students, and people in general, look at technology as a pathway toward healing of earth and unjust social structure. Julia did her undergrad in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley and her PhD in engineering education at Purdue. Her research interests focus on how engineering design practices impact the relationships that engineering programs create with the…
Term Professor
Harney Science Center 219-D
Professor Brian Thornton is interested in the molecular control of cell division in eukaryotes. His past research has focused on cell division in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, through the application of genetic, biochemical, and cell techniques to study the role of the Anaphase Promoting Complex in the cell cycle.
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 313 and 332
Allison Thorson is a Professor of Communication Studies, Chair of the Department of Communication Studies, Director of the Interdisciplinary Committee on Children and Youth, and Director of the Child and Youth Studies Minor at University of San Francisco. Her research focuses on how individuals and families communicatively manage and maintain individual/relational well-being in the context of — often deemed taboo — unexpected, hurtful, or non-normative events (e.g., family communication…
Professor
Malloy Hall 204
Expertise: Relative Thinking, Brandjacking, Banner Ads, Consumer Irritation
Sweta Chaturvedi Thota’s work is motivated by the ever-increasing complexity of, and the need to understand, consumers’ psychological and emotional responses to various issues such as pricing, consumer search, and advertising effects. Her research has appeared in several leading national and international journals, including Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Advertising, International Journal of Advertising, and Journal of Consumer Marketing. Professor Thota motivates students to…
Adjunct Professor
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Andean Philosophy, Comparative Theology, Latinxs Studies
Cecilia Titizano earned an MS in international and agricultural development from UC Davis and an MTS in theological studies from the Franciscan School of Theology. A native of Bolivia. Titizano holds a PhD in philosophical theology from Graduate Theological Union. Titizano is a constructive comparative theologian. She specializes in Indigenous thought and Christian theology with an emphasis on Trinitarian pneumatology and feminist and liberationist theologies. Her transdisciplinary research…
Adjunct Professor
Faculty Emeritus