Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Cowell Hall, G025
Robert Jackson has a diverse professional background ranging in scale from small single-family homes, to mixed-use commercial and residential towers to large scale urban design. Project Type Experience Includes: Transit Oriented Development, High Rise, Adaptive Re-use, Affordable Housing, Senior Housing, Luxury Housing, Urban Design, Office, Entertainment (Theater), Urban Revitalization, and Schools. He specializes in architectural computer drafting with a strong background in 3D modeling and…
Adjunct Faculty
Robin Jackson, MSN, MA, RN,OCN, CNL has over 35 years of professional clinical experience that includes ambulatory infusion nursing, post-anesthesia recovery nursing, emergency nursing, and hospital supervisor. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing at the University of San Francisco where she is a member of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. She also earned a Master’s in Education and obtained a teaching credential from the University of California Santa…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Capital punishment,
Criminal law
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Sam Jacobs is a criminal defense attorney. She litigated capital postconviction writs of habeas corpus for fifteen years in Louisiana and California, most recently as Supervising Counsel at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center.
Sam is currently an adjunct lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law and USF School of Law. She continues to consult on capital cases, and where her research and work focus on how racially biased language and discursive practices impact the outcomes in criminal trials.
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Brynna Jacobson teaches as part-time faculty in the Department of Sociology at the University of San Francisco. Her recent book examines the evolution of notions of normalcy, legitimacy, and imperative around the contested field of geoengineering through critical discourse analysis of relevant science policy reports, news media journalism, and congressional hearings. Outside academia, Professor Jacobson also has experience consulting, editing, and working in the non-profit sector in the fields of environmental conservation as well as international development, including having run a fellowship program for university students to get hands-on field experience in microfinance in Guatemala and Mexico.
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 356
Marco Jacquemet teaches courses in communication and culture, intercultural communication, geographies of communication, and justice and social change. His scholarship focuses on the communicative mutations produced by the circulation of migrants and media idioms in the Mediterranean area. His more recent book project is called Transidioma: Language and Power in the 21st Century. He is also present in Italian media activist networks, where he investigates the link between media and power.
Adjunct Professor
Kendrick Hall 304
Expertise: Governance,
Corporate law,
Intellectual property
Seth Jaffe is Adjunct Professor of Law at Berkeley Law and at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Through May of 2023, Seth Jaffe was Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Levi Strauss & Co., leading the global legal department in its support of businesses operating in over 110 countries. He was responsible for all aspects of legal, ethics and compliance, global security and resilience, including enterprise risk management, and governance matters. Seth acted as…
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 274
Elisabeth Jay Friedman was awarded her BA by Barnard College (1988) and her MA/PhD by Stanford University (1997). She is the author of Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996 (Penn State Press, 2000), the co-author of Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences (SUNY Press, 2005) and the author of Interpreting the Internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America (University…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Fiction,
Creative nonfiction,
Visual culture
Miah Jeffra is the author of four books, most recently The Violence Almanac (finalist for several awards, including the Grace Paley and St. Lawrence Book Prizes) and the novel American Gospel, winner of the Clark-Gross Award, and is co-editor of the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart. His work can be seen in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, DIAGRAM, storySouth, and many others. Miah is the co-founder of the Whiting Award-winning queer and trans literary…
Assistant Professor
Daniel Jerison studies probability theory. He is interested in the properties of random objects, such as random planar maps and abelian sand piles, and in the convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms.