Experts Guide
Assistant Professor
Term Instructor
Kalmanovitz Hall 231
Philip Choong teaches across the areas of rhetoric, which he defines for his students as "communication that seeks action for the common good." At USF he has taught courses in public speaking and a first-year seminar in new media and composition; at other institutions, he has taught courses pairing rhetoric with detective stories, game studies, science fiction, and podcasting. His research focuses on the historical hows and whys of rhetorical education to better equip students and teachers for…
Associate Professor and Co-Director of ABES
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Jonathan previously served at Golden Gate University School of Law as the Director of Bar Exam Services and the Director of Graduate Law Programs. He was a former grader for a national bar company and has tutored students and attorneys for over 16 years to pass the California bar exam. He has worked with associates and partners from top 25 law firms and Fortune 500 companies to successfully pass the bar exam.
Jonathan worked as a staff aide to Congressman Tom Lantos (SF/San Mateo) and served in…
Adjunct Professor
Jaime Chua is a Senior Director, Public Sector Development, at The Asia Foundation. His role includes designing and evaluating economic development and governance reform programs in East Asia and South Asia. His recent research and field work relate to the microeconomic foundations of regulatory reform in Indonesia; the local political dynamics of community-based development in conflict areas in the Philippines; and local governance reform in Cambodia. He received his Doctorate (2010) from Case…
Adjunct Professor
Pressed for a short job description, Mel might say she's a midwife of makers. She has also been called an engineer (of the electrical, computer, and software varieties), community manager, writer, teacher (primarily at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty-development levels). Mel loves to write, teach, draw research comics, dance, move, and make things. Her quest is to make a world where makers make themselves, and she's particularly intrigued with the space between how hackers learn and how…
Associate Professor
Harney Science Center 107A
Jennifer Chubb's general research area is logic and computability theory, in particular computable structure theory. She is also studying quantum computing & quantum logic.
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall G61
Expertise: Acculturation,
Bicultural efficacy in health management,
Immigrant health disparities,
Asian American psychology,
Multicultural psychology,
Ethnic minority mental health,
Family psychology
Kevin M. Chun, PhD, is professor of psychology and co-founding faculty member of USF’s Asian American Studies and Critical Diversity Studies programs. Professor Chun uses community-based research methods to study acculturation effects on Asian American immigrant health and psychosocial adjustment. His research program aims to improve acculturation theory and measures, and develop health interventions that reduce immigrant families’ acculturation stress.
Prof. Chun was co-principal investigator…
