Experts Guide

Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Geography and the environment, Religion and spirituality , Alleluia and the Pakaraima Mountains
Daniel Cooper was born and raised in Nicasio in West Marin, California. His research is composed of two primary streams that often overlap and converge. The first branch is top-down focused on global perspectives. The second thread is ethnogeographic, derived from participatory bottom-up approaches to document and analyze traditional knowledge among the Akawaio, Makushi, Arekuna, and Alleluia in the Guiana Highlands of South America. Additional interests include North American social movements,…
Faculty Emeritus
Expertise: Clinical Systems Management, Cardiovascular Intensive Care, Adult Health, Professional Development
Dr. Elizabeth Cooper is an experienced clinical systems management expert. Her work focused on quality and safety education for nursing. Dr. Cooper has also contributed to the nursing education by submitting for publication a number of her research projects and investigations. Dr. Cooper received her master’s in nursing and doctor in nurse practitioner degrees at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Copper’s research interests are in the areas of nursing education, assessment surveys, patient…
Associate Professor
Harney Science Center 126E
Expertise: Exercise Psychology
Stephanie Cooper, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology. She has taught a variety of courses within the field, including Exercise & Sport Psychology, Lifetime Fitness & Wellness, Measurement & Statistics, and Principles of Strength & Conditioning. Her research examines the psychological antecedents and consequences of exercise. She is primarily interested in the efficacy of exercise as a means to enhance mental and physical well-being. Dr. Cooper is an…
Assistant Professor
Masonic 205
Expertise: Directing, Theatre of the oppressed, Autoethnography, Ethnodrama, Theatre history
Dr. Xiomara Cornejo (she/her/ella) is a Salvadoran American theatre director, award-winning playwright, award-winning dramaturg, award-winning designer, and award-winning educator from Compton, California. Some of her most recent theatre credits include Cebollas (DCPA), every.single.one (Studio Four), Alma (Colorado New Play Summit), and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (MOLAA). Her professional work includes theatre for social change, community organizing, directing, design, and…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Value-based communications, Public policy and leadership, Climate change solutions
Alex Cornell du Houx served on the Energy Utilities and Technology and Legal and Veterans Affairs committees, sponsoring 14 successful pieces of legislation and co-sponsoring 98 successful bills. He won the REED award for the best national Public Affairs Campaign for his work co-founding Operation Free, a coalition of lawmakers and veterans promoting energy security. Cornell du Houx participated in and led State Department delegations to Southeast Asia to foster government-to-government…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Sustainable urban mobility, Autonomous vehicles, User engagement in innovation processes, Human-centric design, Material and environmental sciences
Henriette Cornet is an expert in sustainable urban mobility and autonomous vehicles. From 2020 to 2023, she led the thematic area of automated mobility at the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and supervised the European project SHOW, with a budget of 30 million euros. For three years, she also led a team of designers specializing in autonomous mobility at the TUMCREATE research institute in Singapore. After obtaining her PhD from the Technical University of Munich in 2012,…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 202
Shelwyn Corrigan has a Master's in Linguistics, a Master's in Digital Media & Learning, and certification in Multimedia Studies. She has worked in digital design since 1994. In addition, she has taught ESL and EFL in Europe, South America and at universities in California and New York. Her interests are in teaching pronunciation, academic oral skills and the integration of new media in the classroom. She is a media consultant and web designer, and has taught at the University of San…
Adjunct Professor
Gleeson Library 4th Floor
Prof. Cortes-Bodero was born, raised, and mainly educated in the country of Mexico. She received a BA in Spanish from Escuela Normal Superior de Jalisco, and a BA in Business Administration from the University of Valle Atemajac. After spending a few years teaching Spanish in Mexico, she moved to California where she attended Long Beach State University and received a MA in Spanish with an emphasis in Latin American Literature. She has been teaching Spanish at USF since 2001.
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 388
Adjunct Professor, received her PhD in Francophone studies from the Department of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Paris - La Sorbonne. She received the College of Arts and Sciences Service Award in 2008 and the Innovation in Teaching with Technology in 2015.