Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 202
Expertise: Fiction Writing,
Developmental Editing,
Copy Editing,
Workshop Facilitation
Due to his background in fiction writing, and his publication experience with poetry, Christopher DeLorenzo brings a passion for the written word to his academic writing classes. His classes focus on group work, which is a strength of his after over two decades of experience as a trained workshop facilitator. He encourages dialogue and open discussions about complex current issues during class sessions.
Professor DeLorenzo does not only help his students achieve course goals, but also helps…
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 280
Brian Komei Dempster is a professor of rhetoric and language and a faculty member in Asian Pacific American Studies at the University of San Francisco (USF), where he also serves as Co-Director for the Center for Research, Artistic, and Scholarly Excellence and Director of Administration for the Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies. He has been at USF since 2001 and received the Distinguished Teaching Award (along with Ronald Sundstrom) in 2010 and the Dean's Scholar Award for 2022-2023.
At…
Adjunct Professor
Yuanyuan Deng is a lecturer at UC Berkeley, Department of Economics. She is an applied microeconomist with broad empirical interests focusing on Health Economics, Public Economics, and Labor Economics. Her research has been supported by the Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC) and the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College.
Yuanyuan received her PhD in Economics from the State University of New York-Stony Brook in 2016. Before joining UC Berkeley, she held…
Professor Emeritus
Kalmanovitz Hall 155
Raymond Dennehy was born in San Francisco in 1934. While serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the heavy cruiser, USS Rochester (CA 124) as a radarman, principally in the South China Sea, from 1954–58, he decided on a university education and while at the university decided on graduate studies in philosophy. Among his teachers were Karl Popper, Anton Pegis, C.B. MacPherson, and Edward Synan. His areas of teaching and research interest are metaphysics, epistemology, and social ethics. Dennehy is…
Adjunct Professor
Harney Science Center G24
Expertise: Geographic information systems,
Spatial data science,
Cartography,
Data visualization,
Education
Cam is a cartographer, spatial data scientist, and educator. In various roles, Cam has applied GIS in the public, private, non-profit, and academic sectors. He currently works in map production and leads international GIS training programs for the World Health Organization. Cam sits on the board of BayGeo, where he organizes and instructs educational workshops.
Cam enjoys using cartography to transform data into visual stories. He has published maps about a variety of topics including housing…
Associate Professor
Masonic 223
Expertise: Ancient and Medieval Art, Architecture, and Theology,
Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies
Nathan S. Dennis is Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at USF. He specializes in late antique and medieval art and theology, particularly of the Mediterranean and Middle East, including the material and visual traditions of Western Christian, Byzantine, Jewish, and Islamic cultures.
Professor Dennis has published a number of articles and book chapters on the art, architecture, archaeology, and theology of early Christianity, especially baptisteries and the ritual of baptism.…
Faculty Emeritus
Expertise: Popular Culture and Law
Research Professor of Law and the Humanities John Denvir received his JD degree from New York University School of Law where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. He received his LLM from Harvard Law School where he was a CLEPR Fellow. He was a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow with California Rural Legal Assistance where he worked to secure decent health care for farmworkers. Before becoming a research professor, he taught constitutional law at the University of San Francisco School of Law for more than 30…
Adjunct Professor
Since 1993, Mr. Dergosits has taught patent law as an adjunct professor of patent law at the University of San Francisco School of Law. In 2005, he was honored as the Distinguished Adjunct Professor of the Year. He frequently speaks and authors publications on intellectual property topics. Mr. Dergosits possesses more than 25 years of legal experience and focuses on handling trials, trial preparation, and counseling (including litigation avoidance) regarding patent matters. He founded Dergosits…
Professor
Harney Science Center 270
Jennifer A. Dever is Professor in the Department of Biology. She received her PhD from Texas Tech University. Professor Dever studies the genetics of threatened and/or endangered populations of vertebrates, including crocodiles and foothill yellow-legged frogs. She employs molecular markers to assess the genetic structure of these populations, with the goal of species conservation. Several graduate and undergraduate students are collaborating with Professor Dever on this research.
Watch her NPR…
Professor
Harney Science Center 122C
Stephen Devlin is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Master’s in Data Science program (MSDS). He has also served as department chair and director of the undergraduate data science program. Stephen has a bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College in New York, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Maryland. He was a C.L.E. Moore Instructor at MIT before moving to the University of San Francisco. His research interests include both pure and applied…