Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Steven H. Tulsky, Principal of the Benemetrics Consulting Group, is an advisor to nonprofit organizations in the areas of financial management, planning, analysis, strategy, and operations. His career has encompassed over 40 years of experience as a financial professional. Prior to focusing on the nonprofit sector and teaching, he held positions as Chief Financial Officer, Director of Finance, Treasurer, and Assistant Treasurer of large, medium, and small public and private firms.
For over…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Principles of Microeconomics/Macroeconomics,
Mathematics (Algebra - Calculus),
First-Generation Student Curriculum Development & Implementation
Timothy Tung was born and raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico. His interest in working with and fostering first-generation students stems from multiple personal and professional experiences. These experiences include teaching for Upward Bound and SEO Scholars and writing curriculum focused on supporting first-generation students.
At the University of San Francisco, Timothy joined the following Faculty Learning Community: “Supporting First-Generation College Students in Classrooms, Across Schools…
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 283
Expertise: Sociology,
Gender Studies,
Peace and Conflict Studies,
Higher Education Studies
Jennifer Turpin joined USF's faculty in 1991 after receiving a doctorate in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She has received USF's Distinguished Teaching Award and the College Service Award, as well as an honorary doctorate from USF in 2015. She founded USF's Women's Studies program and served as chair of the sociology department before spending 17 years in the university administration, as provost (2010-2015); dean (2003-2010); and associate dean (1997-2003).
Her research…
Professor
Harney Science Center 231
Expertise: Cancer biology,
Endocrinology,
Cell and molecular biology
Professor Tzagarakis-Foster's research has focused on Nuclear Hormone Receptors, a large family of eukaryotic transcription factors that play key roles in a diverse array of physiological and developmental processes. During her graduate studies, she studied an oncogenic form of Thyroid Hormone receptor and its role in transcriptional regulation. As a postdoctoral fellow, Prof. Tzagarakis-Foster studied Estrogen Receptors and their role in breast cancer. At USF, she studies the orphan…
Director, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History; Associate Professor
Lone Mountain 283
M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J. is the Director and Associate Professor at the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History. He is also Fellow of East Asian Studies at Campion Hall, at the University of Oxford. He teaches courses in both early modern Japanese and global history, including topics in East Asian and European thought. His main research and teaching interests include topics in Japanese samurai history, the era of European maritime empires and expansion into Asia (15th-18th…
Program Coordinator
Education 023
Expertise: Marriage & Family Therapy (MFT) licensure,
Professional Clinical Counseling (PCC) licensure,
Collaborative counseling
Professor Uhler has over two decades of experience in community mental health. Her experience includes managing an adolescent alcohol and drug treatment program, overseeing after-school programs for at-risk youth, and facilitating groups on racial identity and the immigrant experience. She specialized in providing support for victims of crime, specifically child abuse and domestic violence.
Professor Uhler is the program coordinator for the Marriage & Family Therapy (MFT) program in the…
Adjunct Professor
Masonic 228
Expertise: Copywriting,
Creative writing,
Storytelling
As an education major at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Dave made an unexpected pivot to theatre. While earning his degree, he acted as both a professional and a student on KC stages—earning a Drama Desk award nomination. After moving to Prague to teach and perform, he took up playwriting. Upon returning to the USA, he performed in several midwestern productions before moving to Los Angeles. There he penned nearly a hundred short plays for multiple theater companies, published two…
Adjunct Professor
Professor Umanzor teaches the courses Health Education and Curriculum and Instruction for Single Subject Science in the School of Education.
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Information retrieval,
Human computer interaction
Kelsey Urgo earned her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before beginning her PhD program, she worked as a web developer at several institutions including Wake Forest University and the Renaissance Computing Institute. Her research involves information retrieval and human-computer interaction. The intersection of these fields, interactive information retrieval, is concerned with both search environment development and human search behaviors and cognition. Her current work…