Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 131
Expertise: Religion and ecology,
Ecotheology,
Ecofeminism,
Ecopsychology,
Outdoor education
Kimberly Carfore is an adjunct professor of environmental studies and theology and religious studies. Her research interests include gendered experiences of divinity and embodied theology, nature spiritualities, ancestral skills, and wilderness experience.
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 103
Novella Carpenter is the author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and The Essential Urban Farmer. She attended UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied with Michael Pollan. She lives in Oakland where she runs GhostTown Farm, a 1/10 of an acre homestead with an orchard, honey bees, chickens, and lots of vegetables.
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Time warping & curve registration,
Multivariate functional data,
Statistical consulting,
Communication through statistics
Cody Carroll is an assistant professor with joint appointments in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Master's in Data Science program (MSDS). He holds a PhD and MS in Statistics from the University of California, Davis and a BS in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. His methodological research interests focus on functional and longitudinal data, particularly in the context of human growth and aging, and his interdisciplinary work has spanned a wide range of…
Adjunct Professor
Professor Carroll is president of the Law Offices of Carroll & Scully, Inc., San Francisco, representing unions and workers for some 55 years. The firm also represents trustees of Taft-Hartley trusts for pension, health, apprenticeship, and other types of plans providing employee benefits.
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Medical Surgical,
Orthopedic,
ICU,
Emergency Department
Professor Carter has been a nurse for over 20 years. She enjoys taking care of America's Veterans in her primary work but her passion is teaching. It brings her a renewed satisfaction in being able to share her wide range of expertise to the new generation of nurses. While providing a structured teaching environment, she strives to provide an nurturing learning environment. Her students learning is her top priority.
Professor of Economics
McLaren 105
Expertise: Behavioral and experimental economics
Alessandra Cassar is a professor of economics at the University of San Francisco. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Economic Science Association and a former co-director of LEEPS Lab (Learning and Experimental Economics Projects of Santa Cruz) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her MA in Economics from Bocconi University, Milan, in 1996, and her PhD in International Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2001.
Cassar is passionate…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Health Communication,
Women and Children's Health
Professor Candace Cassidy has been a registered nurse for over 20 years. Prior to nursing, Professor Cassidy worked in research and analytical chemistry. While having her first child, she was mesmerized by the competent and caring staff when she was hospitalized. She went to nursing school and became committed to promoting excellence in nursing care. This passion has left an impact on the many students and nursing hires she has trained.
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 103
Xandra Maria Castleton, MFA, is a screenwriter and independent film and television producer whose scripts have served as the basis for award-winning documentary, television and narrative film projects. Her films have premiered at festivals such as Sundance, Tribeca, AFI and Rotterdam, and her feature dramatic comedy, Full Grown Men, was the winner of the 2007 Sundance Channel Audience Award prior to a critically successful theatrical release by Emerging Pictures. Full Grown Men starred Judah…