Experts Guide
Production Manager
Expertise: Lightning Design,
Sound Design,
Ensemble Generated Creation,
Play Writing
Beth Hersh is a designer and play write who has worked extensively in dance and theater in the Bay Area.
Associate Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 149
Aysha Hidayatullah is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and she teaches undergraduate courses on gender, sexuality, race, ethics, and religious studies in Islamic traditions. She began teaching at USF in 2008, after receiving her MA and PhD in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her BA in Women's Studies and English from Emory University.
She is the author of Feminist Edges of the Qur'an (Oxford University Press, 2014),…
Faculty Emeritus
Expertise: African American Literature
Patricia Liggins Hill earned her PhD in English from Stanford. She is the general editor of the groundbreaking anthology, Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition. She has also published articles on Etheridge Knight and Francis Watkins Harper. She teaches African American Literature and curates student involvement in the African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco.
Term Assistant Professor
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience,
Human motor learning,
Science communication,
Pedagogy
Sarah Hillenbrand earned her PhD in neuroscience at UC Berkeley, using functional magnetic resonance imaging to study human motor learning. She taught courses in neuroscience, general scientific method, science writing, and storytelling at Stanford University in the Thinking Matters program. She later developed and taught courses in science communication in Stanford's Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Before coming to USF, she developed and taught courses on psychology, social justice, media…
Adjunct Professor
Nate Hinerman, PhD, LMFT is a philosopher and a psychotherapist and teaches in the School of Nursing and Health Professions and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. He serves as Chair of the San Francisco Bay Area Network for End-of-Life Care, and he is an active member of the USF Faculty-Association PTFA Policy Board. He also maintains a psychotherapy practice, helping clients transition amidst loss.
His research is interdisciplinary, and…
Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship, Professor, Founding Director of the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic, and Dean's Circle Scholar
Kendrick Hall 308
Expertise: Asian American Legal History,
Immigration Law and Policy,
Migration Theory,
Public Interest Lawyering,
Race, Racism and U.S Law,
Racial Justice,
Affirmative Action and Diversity,
Rules of Evidence,
Modern Policing
Throughout his career, Professor Bill Ong Hing pursued social justice through a combination of community work, litigation, and scholarship. He is the author of numerous academic and practice-oriented publications on immigration policy and race relations, including Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System (Beacon Press 2023), American Presidents, Deportation and Human Rights Violations (Cambridge Univ. Press 2019); Ethical Borders—NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican…