Experts Guide

Associate Professor Tatiana Fedyk is an experienced financial analyst and consultant who, before teaching at USF, held teaching positions at the University of California at Berkeley and Arizona State University. Her research interests include R&D investments, real earnings management, financial management tools, accounting value relevance, and underlying volatility. In her teaching, Dr. Fedyk combines her entrepreneurial consulting experience with her technical and business education to…

Anthony D. (Tony) Fels, Professor Emeritus of History, is a social and religious historian of the United States. At USF he taught US history, historical methods, US religious history, US racial and ethnic history, Native American history, American Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age. He chaired the History Department in 1997-2000 and 2003-2006, retiring from teaching in 2018. His book on the Salem witch hunt came out in 2018, and he has recently returned to the subject…

Brent (Rick) Ferm is a core faculty member and licensed psychologist in the USF Clinical Psychology PsyD program. He was a clinical psychologist for the Veterans Affairs, Northern California Health Care System for 20 years, including providing training in psychodynamic treatment approaches for clinical psychology interns. Additionally, he was on the medical faculty at the UC Davis School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, providing psychotherapy training to psychiatry residents. He is a…

Alice Fiddian-Green (she, her, hers) is an Assistant Professor of Public Health in the School of Nursing and Health Professions. Alice is a community-engaged researcher that uses public health storytelling methods (digital storytelling, 'zines, and photovoice) to research the social and structural determinants of substance use and treatment. Her current focus is on opioid use and treatment among pregnant people and adolescents. Her goal is to use storytelling methods to counter harmful…

Cecilia Fierro is a Deputy Public Defender at the Contra Costa Public Defender's office. She handles felony cases from arraignment through trial and has completed over 45 jury trials to verdict. In the office, Ms. Fierro serves on the board of the Racial Justice and Diversity Committee as well as the Defender Association Union board.  Outside the office, Ms. Fierro serves on the board of directors for If/When/How, a national reproductive justice non-profit. Ms. Fierro is an alumna of Boston…

Ronald Filler has taught several law courses related to the financial services industry at four different U.S. law schools over the past 45+ years. He currently serves, and has previously served, on several industry boards and advisory committees throughout his career.  Currently, he is a Public Representative on the Board of Directors of the National Futures Association, the derivatives industry self regulatory organization (since 2010). He has published extensively on a variety of topics…

Italian-born guitarist and musicologist Giacomo Fiore has premiered more than two dozen new works for justly tuned, electric, and classical guitars, and released eight recordings for Cold Blue, Pinna, Spectropol, Paper Garden Records, and his own label. As a scholar, his research focuses on U.S. experimental music, intonation, and performance. He has published articles in Music Theory Spectrum, JSAM, and TEMPO, and writes regularly for Classical Guitar and SFCV. He lectures on historical topics…