Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Gleeson 4th Floor
Expertise: Online instruction,
Visual media design,
Technical writing
Sabrina L. Nelson is a writer, filmmaker, photographer, graphic artist, educator, and entrepreneur. Sabrina teaches Writing for Science, Writing for Psychology, Public Speaking, Writing for Advertising, and Business and Technical Writing at USF, and English Composition and Multimedia Arts at Berkeley City College. She taught film editing at Academy of Art University for eighteen years, and has taught graphic design, film editing, and film festival producing at Berkeley City College for nine…
Assistant Professor and Supervising Attorney
Charlie Nelson Keever is an Assistant Professor & Supervising Attorney in the USF Racial Justice Clinic where she leads the clinic’s wrongful conviction litigation and post-conviction policy work. Charlie graduated from Loyola Law School in 2018 with a concentration in Public Interest Law. During law school, Charlie worked as a judicial extern to the Honorable Audrey B. Collins of the Second District Court of Appeal and served as editor-in-chief of the Loyola of Los Angeles International and…
Assistant Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 117
Expertise: Remote sensing and photogrammetry,
Geographic information systems (GIS),
Geomorphology,
Geospatial analysis,
Drones/uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAV)
Paul is from southern California and earned his PhD from the University of Calgary after completing an MA in Geography from Cal State University - Long Beach (CSULB). His research is at the intersection of modern digital geospatial technologies and geologic mapping, aimed at the assessment, documentation, and application of complete geospatial workflows to analyze and better understand fundamental environmental, geologic, and geomorphologic challenges. His current focus implements drone-based…
Assistant Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 134
Expertise: Ignatian spirituality
Joseph Nguyen, S.J. is an assistant professor of systematic theology and Christian spirituality. He is a Jesuit priest of the U.S. West Province of the Society of Jesus. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of San Francisco in 2020, he taught courses in Catholic Christian foundations, Christian spirituality, and Ignatian spirituality at Gonzaga University. His research focuses on Christian spirituality with an emphasis on Ignatian spirituality.
Professor Nguyen received a doctorate in…
Herbst Foundation Professor of Law
Kendrick Hall 319
Expertise: Constitutional Law - Individual Rights and Structure ,
Poverty Law and Economic Justice ,
Sexuality Law - LGBTQ+ Rights and Reproductive Justice ,
Equality and Liberty ,
Comparative Social and Economic Rights
Professor Julie Nice joined the USF Law faculty in 2009 as the Herbst Foundation Professor of Law. She was featured as one of the nation's top-25 law teachers in the evidence-based study What the Best Law Teachers Do (Schwartz, Hess & Sparrow, Harvard University Press 2013). As of 2022, she has received 15 awards for law teaching, including being voted six times as the Distinguished Professor of the Year at USF Law. Nice previously served as the Delaney Professor of Law at the University of…
Associate Professor
Masonic 213
Megan Nicely is an artist/scholar whose teaching and research integrate theory and practice. Her scholarship brings together experimental choreography, critical dance and performance studies theory, philosophy, cultural studies, and physical practices including modern/contemporary dance, Japanese butoh, yoga, and other somatic approaches. Her group Megan Nicely/Dance has performed on both US coasts, in the UK, and in Europe, and her writing has appeared in TDR: The Drama Review, Performance…