Experts Guide
Faculty Emeritus
Expertise: Art Law,
Dispute Resolution
Professor Emerita Virginia Kelsh served the USF School of Law as law librarian from 1983 to 2005. She envisioned, programmed, and served as the law school's project manager for the construction of the Dorraine Zief Law Library. She was instrumental in introducing a technology infrastructure into both the USF law library and the law school and chaired the law school’s technology advisory group between 1997 and 2000. Kelsh co-taught one of the first ADR courses at USF with Professor Emeritus C.…
Faculty Emeritus
Born in Miami, AZ, Father Kendall spent his childhood and adolescent years in Phoenix. Upon graduation from the Jesuit High School in Phoenix in 1957, he entered the Society of Jesus at Los Gatos, CA. His course of studies was the usual one for Jesuits. After ordination in 1970 his Superiors sent him to Rome to do graduate studies.
In 1973 Father Kendall completed a licentiate in Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and in 1975 he concluded his Roman years with a doctorate in…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Design, web and print design,
Fine Art, sculpture, drawing, painting, collage
Kathryn Kenworth is an artist and designer whose work explores systems of consumer culture and their impact on concepts of value. She uses everyday materials in her pieces to uncover commercial strategies and investigate ideas of community, ecology, and themes of re-use.
Her practice includes drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, installation and social practice projects. She also works as a graphic & interior designer. Currently she is developing a book of photographs taken while she was…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Migration and diversity,
Social policy,
Multiculturalism and social cohesion
Narine Kerelian received her PhD in social sciences from the University of Hong Kong in 2018. Her research interests lie at the intersection of (im)migration and social policy, with particular interest in diversity and social cohesion.
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Architecture,
Architectural practice,
Painting and drawing
David Kesler is the principal of David Kesler Architect. Recent accomplishments as of 2024 are a 43,000 SF factory in Hayward California, an 8-unit apartment building on Mission Street in San Francisco, and a 100,000 SF 80 room hotel in San Jose. David is also a podcaster interviewing thought leaders from around the world with architecture as a lens to international culture and the arts.
Associate Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 278
Expertise: American Indian politics,
California Indian politics
Kouslaa Kessler-Mata (yak tityu tityu Chumash and Yokut) has taught at USF since 2007. She completed her BA in American Studies, with a minor in American Indian Studies, at San Francisco State University, and her PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. She is a graduate of the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers program at Phillips Academy and the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs in San Francisco. Her book, American Indians and the Trouble with Sovereignty (Cambridge…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 202
Ron Key has been an adjunct professor at USF since 2006. He earned a BA in English and an MA in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin as well as a Certification for English Language Teaching to Adults from St. Giles (a Cambridge University-associated EFL school) in San Francisco. He has been an editor and writer for a cable television network as well as the Brown University School of Psychiatry; he has likewise been an editor for UC's Continuing Education of the Bar and the Rand…
Assistant Professor
McLaren 125
Professor Khachiyan studies the populations most exposed to aggregate industrial transitions, such as climate adaptation and automation. He uses data science methods, unconventional data sources, and leading methods in causal identification to inform current policy issues within these topics. Arman teaches in both the Undergraduate and Master's Economics programs on topics including microeconomic principles, applied econometrics, and spatial economics.
Beyond academia, Arman has worked in the…
Associate Professor
Laleh Khadivi is the author of The Kurdish Trilogy which includes The Age of Orphans (2009), The Walking (2013), and A Good Country (2017).
Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, VQR, and The Sun.
She has worked as a documentary filmmaker since 2000 and her films have been screened in festivals and on various cable networks.
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall G56
Saera Khan's research explores the social cognitive processes involved in the reliance of stereotypes for judgment and the consequences of these prejudicial judgments for stigmatized groups. She also studies the role of identity and culture in the formation of moral judgments. She teaches Psychology Practicum, Social Psychology, and Advanced Research Methods. Her complete CV can be accessed through the link located on this page.