Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Stephen Murphy is the associate director of the Alameda County Family Justice Center in Oakland. The center provides wrap-around services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, elder abuse, and child abuse.
Prior to his work with the Family Justice Center, Stephen was the founder and managing partner of Murphy, Vu, Thongsamouth and Chatterjee, LLP. Murphy, Vu, Thongsamouth & Chatterjee is a community-based boutique law firm offering high quality legal representation…
Assistant Professor
Dr. Murrieta earned her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from Oregon State University. Her research and professional interests include advocacy and counseling undocumented students, first-generation students, multicultural counseling, as well as school counselor education. Professor Murrieta is credentialed as a school counselor in California and Nevada, with over 10 years of school counseling experience.
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Psychoanalytic theory,
Individual therapy,
Relationship therapy,
Immigration and acculturation,
Perfectionism
Mariya is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco. She is a graduate of the Smith School for Social Work, the Postgraduate Fellowship Program at Access Institute for Psychological Services, and the Supervision Study Program at The Psychotherapy Institute. Her training experience has included work in school-based and community mental health settings with children, adolescents, and adults.
Her interests in the field of psychotherapy…
Adjunct Professor
Malloy Hall
Expertise: Marketing Intelligence,
International Marketing,
Principles of Marketing,
Consumer Behavior
Dr. Nadeem believes in an entrepreneurial mindset and preparing leaders to contribute lasting value to all types of organizations, in all sectors & wherever there are opportunities to make a positive difference for business and society. Professor Nadeem brings not only the academic distinction but also his training, expertise & commitment that demonstrates a passion for community engagement.
Dr. Nadeem's research has won several awards including Best Research Paper Award in Social…
Associate Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 158
Vijaya Nagarajan is an associate professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies. In addition to teaching at the University of San Francisco, she has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University.
Vijaya's academic interests weave among the fields of Hinduism, Environment, Gender, Ritual, and the Commons. She received her PhD in South Asian Language and Literatures from UC Berkeley. Vijaya has received…
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 382
Noriko Nagata, 永田憲子 is Director of the Japanese Studies Program in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She teaches Japanese language, linguistics, and culture.
Professor Nagata received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, jointly directed by the Laboratory for Computational Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University. Her general area of research includes natural language processing, Japanese linguistics, second language acquisition, and computer assisted language…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Design history,
Architectural history
Randy Nakamura is a writer, designer, teacher, and researcher. He has an MFA in graphic design from CalArts and in 2020 completed a Ph.D in architecture from UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. As a researcher and curator he has contributed to the 2013 Pacific Standard Time exhibition Everything Loose Will Land for the MAK Center and Getty Foundation focusing on the art and architecture of Los Angeles in the 1970s. His writing has been published in a+u, Design Observer, Emigre, Task, Modes of…
Adjunct Professor
Nithya is a first generation licensed clinical psychologist. She is passionate about de-colonizing and de-stigmatizing mental health and raise awareness on mental health in under-served communities. Nithya has worked in community mental health settings and integrated hospital settings in the past. Nithya provides therapy in English, Tamil and Hindi.
Faculty Emeritus
Kalmanovitz Hall 358
Kathryn Nasstrom teaches in the U.S. field and specializes in civil rights history, women’s history, oral history, and memory & narrative studies. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993 and has been at USF since 1994.
She is the author of Everybody's Grandmother and Nobody's Fool: Frances Freeborn Pauley and the Struggle for Social Justice (Cornell University Press, 2000), and she has published in the Journal of American History and the Oral…