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Faculty Emeritus
Harney Science Center 448
Expertise: The integration of ideas across disciplines in natural science, biochemistry
John Griffin Cobley is a professor of chemistry. He received his bachelor's and PhD from the University of Bristol; was a postdoc fellow at UCSF and University of Dundee, Scotland. His field of interest is: the integration of ideas across disciplines in natural science, biochemistry. He is currently working on a project involving molecular genetics of chromatic adaptation in the Cyanobacterium, Fremyella diplosiphon.
Professor Cobley received the University Distinguished Research Award in…
Associate Professor
Cowell Hall, 2nd Floor
Dr. Cathy Coleman’s professional career and her passion for nursing and education includes decades of experience across multiple clinical settings and organizations as a nurse, consultant, and volunteer. Most of her career focused on oncology; she specialized in comprehensive breast center development and quality/performance improvement, spending years as a consultant for clients that include a medical device startup. After ten years with a CMS-funded Quality Improvement Organization in San…
Adjunct Professor
Jerry Coleman retired July 1, 2014, after 35 years as an assistant district attorney in the City and County of San Francisco. His most recent position was as chief of the Brady, Appellate, and Training Division, which he held since 2011. In that post he supervised all SFDA’s appellate litigation, trained the entire office, and developed advocacy programs for all trial lawyers and new hires, and managed the Trial Integrity Unit, which handled all prosecution discovery and defense notice…
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 236
Kathleen Coll is a cultural anthropologist whose research and teaching focuses on immigration politics and policies, cultural citizenship, and grassroots community organizing in the U.S., with special emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area. Her books include Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American Politics (Stanford University Press, 2010) an ethnography of Mujeres Unidas y Activas and immigrant women’s activism in San Francisco, a co-authored book Disputing Citizenship (Policy…
Associate Professor
Malloy Hall, Room 208
Assistant Professor Fernando Comiran brings to USF both an enthusiasm for accounting and a philosophy that attempts to integrate real-world application and leading-edge research in the classroom. His research areas of interest include Earnings Management, Accounting Fraud, Voluntary Disclosure, Financial Statement Analysis, and Security Valuation.
Currently, Professor Comiran is focusing his research on individual investor behavior and company incentives to better understand how disclosure…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Digital marketing,
Corporate communications,
Giving and receiving feedback,
Search engine optimization,
Creative writing
Cameron Conaway, adjunct professor in the Professional Communication program, is an author, former investigative journalist, and corporate communications leader whose work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, NPR, Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Washington Post, World Economic Forum, Newsweek, Forbes, and The Guardian, among other publications.
With an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona and an executive MBA from the University of San Francisco, Professor Conaway…
Faculty Emeritus
Kimberly Rae Connor is the author of Conversions and Visions in the Writings of African American Women (Tennessee, 1994) and Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition (Illinois, 2000). She has written extensively on African American religious life and cultural production and multicultural and Ignatian pedagogy. Connor has also been active as an editor for Oxford University Press and in service to the American Academy of Religion.
Although trained in the humanities,…
Associate Professor
Cowell Hall 326
Expertise: Adult critical care nursing,
Adult medical surgical nursing
Debra Conroy-McCue is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions. With over 40 years of adult critical care bedside nursing experience, her passion for education has been a constant thread throughout her professional career. She joined the University in 2004 and has continued to live her personal vision: To inspire and teach fellow nurses, nursing students, patients, families, and communities to care for self and others: mind, body, and…