Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Masonic 203
Expertise: Guitar,
Violin
Mike Fiorentino is a Bay Area guitarist and violinist since moving from the east coast in 1999, and performs with Dear Liza and Viv. He has shared the stage with Merle Saunders, Blues Traveler, The Spin Doctors, Camper Van Beethoven, and John Hiatt. In addition to teaching music and rock ensemble to Woodside students, he teaches at the Blue Bear School of Music and is on the music board at the University of San Francisco. Most memorable musical experience: Playing "Imagine" on the guitar for His…
Faculty Emeritus
Hartmut Fischer received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Fischer has a number of areas of specialization: international trade, international finance and development economics. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the European Union. Research interests include economic problems faced by countries in transition from socialist market economies, country risk analysis, issues of governance, the process of convergence vs. divergence between poor and rich…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 248
Expertise: epistemology,
philosophy of logic,
meta-ethics
Jennifer Fisher received her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2003. Her research interests include questions of normativity (broadly considered). She is currently working on a philosophical memoir that touches on issues of identity, obligation, and the debate between reason and emotion, as well as a series of non-fiction essays exploring memory and family.
She has recently started offering introduction to philosophy CEL courses that combine classrooms with…
Associate Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 275
Expertise: Empire/Post-colonialism,
Religion and politics,
History, memory and politics,
Turkey/Middle East,
EU/Europe
Nora Fisher Onar is Associate Professor and Chair of International Studies at the University of San Francisco.
Her research interests include international relations theory, diplomacy, comparative politics / area studies (Turkey/Middle East; Europe; Eurasia), political ideologies, gender, and history/memory. She is also increasingly interested in the impact of technological change on international affairs.
She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford and holds master’s and…
Associate Professor of Legal Writing
Zief Library 014
Expertise: Legal research and writing,
Moot court,
Immigration law,
Healthcare law
Elizabeth Fishman is an Associate Professor who teaches in the Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis program. Before joining USF, she was a professor at Golden Gate University Law School, where she taught Legal Writing & Research, Appellate Advocacy, and coached moot court. At GGU, Professor Fishman also directed the Upper Division Writing Program, including the Appellate Advocacy program and the Moot Court program.
Prior to her teaching career, she was Corporate Counsel at Genentech,…
Faculty Emeritus
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Criminal Law,
Evidence
Hon. Eric R. Fleming is a San Francisco Superior Court judge and was the chief trial attorney of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. He also managed the homicide and gang units during his tenure with the District Attorney's office.