Experts Guide
Emerita Faculty
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Intellectual property law,
Intellectual property litigation,
Torts,
Legal ethics,
Sociology and history of the legal profession
William Gallagher is Professor and Director of the IP Law Center at the Golden Gate University School of Law, where he teaches courses on intellectual property law, intellectual property litigation, torts, and legal ethics.
Professor Gallagher is the author of articles on intellectual property law and professional ethics, which have appeared in such journals as the Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal, Santa Clara Law review, Pepperdine Law review, Law and Social Inquiry,…
Professor of Sociology
Kalmanovitz Hall 259
Joshua Gamson has been teaching at USF for more than 20 years, having previously taught at Yale University. His research and teaching focus on the sociology of culture, with an emphasis on contemporary Western commercial culture and mass media; social movements, especially on cultural aspects of contemporary movements; on participant-observation methodology and techniques, particularly as applied in urban settings; and on the history, theory, and sociology of sexuality. The author of four books,…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall G55
Expertise: Psychology of gender,
Psychology of sexuality,
Clinical psychology,
Abnormal and criminal psychology
Professor Kate Gapinski received a PhD in clinical psychology from Yale University, where her research focused on eating disorders and social perceptions of weight. She also worked in a lab dedicated to gender research for several years. After completing postdoctoral work in behavioral medicine at Stanford University, she became a founding partner in an evidence-based clinical psychology practice in San Francisco, where she currently treats individuals and couples. In addition, she has…
Associate Professor
Cowell Hall 201
Expertise: Mental health and health disparities among BIPOC communities,
Latinx Mental Health,
Community based research methods,
Social determinants of health,
Women's sexual risk and health
Dr. Dellanira Garcia, a licensed clinical psychologist, obtained her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Washington. She was awarded a National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institutes of Mental Health to examine social capital and mental illness among women of Mexican descent. Dr. Garcia's research focuses on socio-cultural contextual factors impacting ethnic minority mental health and sexual risk behaviors, with an emphasis in Latino populations. Her…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Teaching Multilingual Learners (TESOL/ESL),
Community College Education,
K-12 Education,
Field Project / Thesis Guidance
Dr. Luz Navarrette García is a part-time professor in the Department of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco. She has been a proud part of the IME familia since starting her doctoral studies in 2008. A full-time community college ESL professor at Santa Rosa Junior College, Dr. García is happy to share her expertise with students in the MA TESOL program.
Assistant Professor
Kalmatovitz Hall 249
Expertise: Poetry,
Inclusion of Alternative Discourses in the composition classroom,
Rhetoric of Central American diasporic communities,
Inclusive Linguistic Justice,
Autoethnographic research methods
Dr. Melisa Garcia is a poet and interdisciplinary scholar. Her research interests include: linguistic justice, the use of alternative discourses, and decolonial spaces that create the inclusion of BIPOC community discourses. She also researches the damaging rhetoric that shapes the Central American diaspora in the U.S. through the use of autoethnography, constellation identities, and decolonial imaginaries. Through her research, teaching, and community work, Dr. Garcia aims to bring stories…