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| New tenure-track faculty 2007-08 College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Jennifer Blecha, assistant professor of geography. Will teach courses in agriculture and sustainable development. Ph.D. in geography from University of Minnesota. Most recent position: graduate instructor at University of Minnesota. Research interests: cities, the environment, green design and sustainable cities, feminist geography and "views from below" of urban history and form, social nature and animal geographies, urban and sustainable agriculture, local food systems and food security, community and alternative economies. Leonhard Blesius, assistant professor of geography. Will teach courses in remote sensing and the physical environment. Ph.D. in geosciences from University of Iowa. Most recent position: postdoctoral researcher at University of Iowa. Research interests: Leonardo: a satellite based methodology for landslide susceptibility mapping incorporating geotechnical slope stability parameters. Graeme Boushey, assistant professor of political science. Will teach courses in California politics, public policy and quantitative methods. Ph.D. candidate in political sciences from University of Washington. Most recent position: research assistant at Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington. Research interests: public policy, federalism and state politics, decision-making theory. Martin Carcieri, assistant professor of political science. Will teach courses in public policy. Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Santa Barbara. Most recent position: assistant professor at Western Kentucky University. Research interests: democracy and education in classical Athens, the American founding, American politics. Kirill Chernomaz, assistant professor of economics. Will teach courses in experimental economics. Ph.D. candidate in economics from Ohio State University. Most recent position: research assistant at Ohio State University. Research interests: experimental and behavioral economics, applied game theory, industrial organization, agent-based computational economics. Ashok Das, assistant professor of urban studies. Will teach courses in urban social policy. Ph.D. candidate in urban planning from University of California, Los Angeles. Most recent position: instructor at University of California, Los Angeles. Research interests: slum upgrading and urban basic services; participation and empowerment; micro-finance; social capital, historic preservation, and environmental issues. Courtney Donovan, assistant professor of geography. Will teach courses in gender, space and the environment. Ph.D. candidate in geography from University of Washington. Most recent position: research assistant at University of Washington. Research interests: pregnancy and identity in the Banlieu: postcolonial women in Paris, France. Jessica Elkind, assistant professor of history. Will teach courses in U.S. foreign relations. Ph.D. in history from University of California, Los Angeles. Most recent position: lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles. Research interests: American nation-building programs in South Vietnam, 1955-1965. Theodore Feinberg, associate professor of psychology. Will teach courses in school psychology. Ed.D. in counseling and personnel services from University of New York, Albany. Most recent position: assistant executive director at National Association of School Psychologists. Research interests: school psychology. Glenn Fieldman, assistant professor of environmental studies. Will teach courses in environmental policy and politics. Ph.D. in international studies from University of Denver. Most recent position: lecturer at San Francisco State University. Research interests: trade, the environment, and the North/South divide. Ryan
Howell, assistant professor of psychology. Will teach courses in
quantitative psychology. Ph.D. in philosophy from University of California,
Riverside. Most recent position: assistant professor at Allen LeBlanc, professor of sociology. Will teach courses in sociology of health and health equity. Ph.D. in sociology from Pennsylvania State University. Most recent position: senior research associate at MDRC, a social policy research organization. Research interests: analysis of social psychological outcomes and youth with disabilities. Benjamin
Martin, assistant professor of history. Will teach courses
in recent European history. Ph.D. in history from Columbia University.
Most recent position: postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universitat, Alexis Martinez, assistant professor of sociology. Will teach courses in medical sociology. Ph.D. in sociology from University of California, San Francisco. Most recent position: postdoctoral researcher at University of California, San Francisco. Research interests: medical sociology and public health, criminalization of drug use, social structural factors, urban environments and HIV/AIDS. Natalie Masuoka, assistant professor of political science. Will teach courses in American politics and urban politics. Ph.D. candidate in political science from University of California, Irvine. Most recent position: instructor at University of California, Irvine. Research interests: multiracialism and the trajectory of minority politics in the U.S. Mahmood Monshipouri, assistant professor of international relations. Will teach courses in Middle East relations. Ph.D. in political science from University of Georgia. Most recent position: adjunct professor at California State University, San Marcos. Research interests: identity, cultural politics, and social change in the Muslim world; state-society relations in the Muslim world; politics and religion in the Muslim world; human rights and democratization; international political economy; globalization; middle eastern politics; ethics and international affairs; transition to democracy; European politics; foreign policy/global security; politics of developing countries. Ezequiel Morsella, assistant professor of psychology. Will teach courses in social cognitive neuroscience. Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University. Most recent position: postdoctoral associate at Yale University. Research interests: conscious and nonconscious mechanisms in action production, including simple actions, speech production, social action, and language use (communication cognition). M. Jasper Rubin, assistant professor of urban studies. Will teach courses in city and regional planning. Ph.D. in urban geography from University of Maryland. Most recent position: citywide policy and analysis planner at City and County of San Francisco Planning Department. Research interests: planning, regulation, and the transformation of San Francisco's waterfront, 1950 to the present. Clare Sears, assistant professor of sociology. Will teach courses in criminology. Ph.D. in sociology from University of California, Santa Cruz. Most recent position: visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: criminology, law and society, deviance and social control, sex and gender, sexuality, sociological methods. Enchuan Shao, assistant professor of economics. Will teach courses in macroeconomics. Ph.D. candidate in economics from University of Iowa. Most recent position: instructor at University of Iowa. Research interests: macroeconomics, monetary economics, asset pricing, and labor economics. Amy Skonieczny, assistant professor of international relations. Will teach courses in U.S. foreign policy. Ph.D. candidate in political science from University of Minnesota. Most recent position: visiting instructor at Macalester College. Research interests: international relations theory; U.S. foreign policy analysis; global political economy; U.S. trade politics; domestic sources of international policy; development politics; international economic institutions; identity and foreign policy; language and the construction of meaning in world affairs; mass action and trade politics; and qualitative methods. Cynthia Wilczak, assistant professor of anthropology. Will teach courses in biological anthropology. Ph.D. in physical anthropology from Cornell University. Most recent position: adjunct professor at University of Maryland, College Park. Research interests: skeletal markers of occupational stress, bioarchaeology of Native American populations, paleopathology and sexual dimorphism and osteological indicators of sex. Eric Zeemering, assistant professor of public administration. Will teach courses in urban and local government administration. Ph.D. candidate in political science from Indiana University, Bloomington. Most recent position: graduate fellow at Indiana University. Research interests: federalism and intergovernmental relations; local politics and government; state politics and government; public policy; elections; representation; public management; qualitative research methods; and survey research methods.
Ian Sinapuelas, assistant professor. Will teach courses in marketing. Ph.D. in marketing from Purdue University. Previous teaching positions: M.B.A.-level marketing management at the German International Graduate School of Management and Administration in Hanover, Germany; business courses at Purdue. Research interests: marketing strategy, feature competition, product imitation, and new product development. Veronika Papyrina, assistant professor. Will teach courses in marketing. Ph.D. in business administration with specialization in marketing from the R. Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Previous teaching positions: marketing for administrative and commercial studies at Kings College University of Western Ontario in Canada and at the High Institute of Management in Moscow, where she taught social and political environment of business. Denise Kleinrichert, assistant professor of management. Will teach business ethics. Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of South Florida, with areas of specialization in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and applied ethics. Previous positions: technical recruiter for Convergent Technologies, IT recruiter for PF1 Professional Services, assistant vice president and vice president at First Florida Bank. Eric Lamm, assistant professor of management. Will teach organizational behavior. Ph.D. in management with an area of specialization in organizational change from Boston College. Teaching and research interests: cross-cultural communications, international business, and organizational behavior. Sylvia Flatt, associate professor of management. Will teach organizational behavior. Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkley. Previous positions: associate professor at the University of San Francisco, director of human resources and the Organization Development Program (HROD). Has also taught in the SF State EMBA program. David Martin, assistant professor. Will teach hospitality management. Ph.D. from Auburn University. Most recent positions: research assistant in hotel and restaurant management at Auburn University and administrative staff at Ritz-Carleton hotels. Research and teaching interests: hotel operations, event and special event management, and customer satisfaction. Shuming Liu, assistant professor. Will teach finance. Ph.D. in finance from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin where she taught undergraduate investment management, MBA financial strategies and investment theory and practice courses. Research and teaching interests: corporate finance, empirical asset pricing, and market microstructure. Deniz
Kebabci, assistant professor. Will teach finance. Ph.D. from University
California, San Diego. Most recent position: Mary Berglund fellow at
UCSD. Teaching experience and interests: economics, econometrics, and
financial accounting. College of Creative Arts Gwen Allen, assistant professor of art. Will teach courses in art history. Ph.D. in art history from Stanford University. Most recent position: assistant professor at Maine College of Art. Research interests: the art magazine in the age of new media. Marie Drennan, assistant professor of Broadcast and Electronic Communications Arts (BECA). Will teach writing for the electronic media. M.A. in Radio Television (2001) and M.A. in Creative Writing (2003) both from San Francisco State University. Most recent position: lecturer in BECA Department at SF State. Research interests: science fiction/fantasy writing. Nicole Mitchell, assistant professor of theatre arts. Will be teaching production management. M.F.A. in theatre from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Most recent position: tour management for American Family Theater. Kimberly Schwartz, assistant professor of theatre arts. Will teach courses as technical director. M.F.A. in theatre from the California Institute of the Arts. Most recent position: associate professor and associate dean of the Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film at Purchase College in New York.
Sunggye Honga, assistant professor, special education. Will teach courses in visual impairments. Ph.D. in special education, visual handicaps from the University of Arizona. Most recent position: assistant professor, special education, University of Northern Iowa. Research interests: Braille instruction, independent living skills, and instructional technology. Larry Horvath, assistant professor of secondary education. Will teach courses in science education. Ph.D. in science education from the University of California, Davis. Most recent position: instructor/associate supervisor in science teacher education at the University of California, Davis. Research interests: pre-service teachers using inquiry-based science during performance assessments for California teachers evaluations. Mina
Kim, assistant professor of elementary education. Will teach courses
in early childhood education. Ph.D. in curriculum studies and early childhood
education from Indiana University. Most recent position: assistant professor,
College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, Teacher Education
Division at the University of Cincinnati. Research interest: education
of young children (0 -5 years). College of Ethnic Studies Kevin Washington, assistant professor of Africana studies. Will teach courses in black child development, psychology, and field placement. Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Texas A&M University. Previous faculty positions at Rollins College, Trinity University, and Howard University. Research and interests: the health implications of the Maafa (deep and broad based cross-generational cultural trauma, in this case African enslavement), African philosophy and psychology, the cultural context of psychological "dis-ease" and health. Dawn-Elissa Fischer, assistant professor of Africana studies, January 2008. Ph.D. candidate in anthropology from University of Florida. Previously taught courses in cultural anthropology; political protest; hip-hop and cultural studies; and language and culture. Researcher and design and education manager with the Hip-hop Archive, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. Research interests: transnational studies of hip-hop (Africa, Japan, Europe, and the U.S.), particularly the relationship between hip-hop, race, and politics. Valerie Soe, assistant professor of Asian American studies. Will teach courses in Asian American community arts, mass media, and culture. M.F.A. in video and photography art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previous position: lecturer in Asian American studies and cinema at SF State and other faculty positions at University of California, Davis, California State University-East Bay, University of California, Santa Cruz, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. Research and creative interests: Asian American culture in experimental film, video and art, and feminist reframing of photography and video. Wesley Uenten, assistant professor of Asian American studies. Will teach courses in Asian American history, Japanese culture and art. Ph.D. in ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior position: lecturer in Asian American studies at SF State and UC Berkeley. Research interests: studies of the Okinawan identity formation in the diaspora; Japanese American internment from an Okinawan perspective; Okinawan experience in mainland Japan; Okinawan music and art. Katynka Martinez, assistant professor of Raza studies. Will teach courses in Raza cinema, media, and journalism. Ph.D., University of California, San Diego. Prior positions: postdoctoral fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California and teaching positions at California State University, Los Angeles and University of California, San Diego. Research interests: "Latin explosion" in media audiences; marketing of Latino panethnicity; multilingualism in media. College of Health and Human Services Soyeon Park, assistant professor of child and adolescent development. Will teach courses in child and adolescent development in the CAD program. Ph.D. in child development from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. Most recent positions: lecturer and senior research associate in the Human Ecology Research Institute, both at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Research interests: cultural influences on children's social/cognitive development, multiculturalism, and early childhood teacher education. Mark
Gorelick, assistant professor in kinesiology. Will teach courses
in exercise physiology and exercise testing and prescription. Ph.D. in
biomedical science from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Most
recent position: senior research fellow at the Schulthess Clinic, Switzerland.
Research interests: the structure and function of human skeletal muscle
and evidence-based practice in exercise science and rehabilitation. Anastasia Fisher, associate professor in nursing. Will teach courses in psychiatric/mental health nursing theory and practicum. Doctorate in nursing science, University California, San Francisco. Most recent position: associate professor, University of San Diego. Research interests: health of vulnerable populations, psychiatric nursing work, nurses’ clinical and ethical practice, access to health care, and health-care justice for incarcerated women. College of Humanities Cristina L. Azocar, assistant professor of journalism. Will teach courses in diversity in journalism and careers in journalism. Ph.D. in communication from the University of Michigan. Most recent and current position: director of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism and lecturer in journalism at SF State. Research interests: the intersection of race and journalistic practice. Nan Alamilla Boyd, associate professor and chair of women studies. Will teach courses in feminist and queer theory, gender and sexuality, and women of color and social activism in the U.S. Ph.D. in history from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: chair of women's and gender studies department at Sonoma State University. Research interests: the history of sexuality, gay and lesbian politics, urban tourism, the commodification of race and sex in four San Francisco neighborhoods. Paola Cortés-Rocca, assistant professor of Spanish. Will teach courses in Spanish American literature and the Spanish language. Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University. Most recent position: Mellon fellow at the University of Southern California. Research interests: nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American literatures, modern literary and aesthetic theory, photography, and film criticism and psychoanalysis. Yun Shun Susie Chung, associate professor of museum studies. Will teach courses in the interpretation of museums and heritage organizations, visitor studies, audience development, public relations and marketing, and volunteer management. Ph.D. in Archaeological Heritage and Museums, from the University of Cambridge, England. Most recent position: assistant professor of heritage management, Center for the Advanced Student of Museum Science and Heritage Management, Museum of Texas Tech University. Research interests: heritage planning, heritage tourism, history and philosophy of heritage management, museology, and material culture. Seth Jacobowitz, assistant professor of humanities. Will teach courses in classical and modern Japanese culture, contemporary culture, comparative modernism, and media theory. Ph.D. in Japanese from Cornell University. Most recent position: postdoctoral fellow, East Asian Studies, Harvard University. Research interests: Japanese popular culture, comparative modernisms, media theory. Casey
Keck, assistant professor of English in Teaching English to Speakers
of Other Languages (TESOL). Will teach undergraduate courses in pedagogical
grammar and composition, and graduate courses in TESOL theory. Ph.D.
in applied linguistics from Northern Arizona University. Most recent
position: teaching assistant at Northern Arizona University. Research
interests: academic literacy, corpus linguistics, pedagogical grammar. Emily Merriman, assistant professor of English in literature. Will teach courses in modern poetry. Ph.D. in religion and literature from Boston University. Most recent positions: instructor at Boston University and lecturer at Babson College. Research interests: twentieth-century British and American literature, nineteenth-century British and American poetry, the history of poetry, world religions. Jennifer Mylander, assistant professor of English in literature. Will teach courses in early modern British and American literature. Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Most recent position: lecturer at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests: Shakespeare, Milton, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, early American literature, the birth of the English novel. Fermin Adrian Rodriguez, assistant professor of Spanish. Will teach courses in literary criticism and the Spanish language. Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton University. Most recent position: assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Buenos Aires. Research interests: nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American literature, modern literary and aesthetic theory, psychoanalysis, modern philosophy, and Latin American cultural studies. Christina Sabee, assistant professor of communication studies. Will teach courses in quantitative methods in communication research, group decision-making, interpersonal communication, and family communication. Ph.D. in communication studies from Northwestern University. Most recent position: assistant professor of communication studies, San Jose State University. Research interests: conflict resolution, communication and health care, Internet health research and its role in doctor-patient communication. Gitanjali Shahani, assistant professor of English in literature. Will teach courses in early modern British and American literature. Ph.D. in English from Emory University. Most recent position: instructor at Emory University. Research interests: early modern literature and culture, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean drama, travel writing, early modern ethnography, and postcolonial studies. Tomoko Takeda, assistant professor of Japanese. Will teach courses in teaching Japanese, materials development, and Japanese language. Ph.D. in East Asian languages and literatures with an emphasis on Japanese linguistics and pedagogy from the University of Oregon. Most recent position: assistant professor of Japanese at Grinnell College. Research interests: discourse analysis, grammar, second language acquisition, and pedagogy. Jennifer
Trainor, associate professor of English in composition. Will
teach courses in composition theory and research. Ph.D. in language,
literature and culture from the University of California, Berkeley. Most
recent position: assistant professor at Santa Clara University. Research
interests: composition, rhetoric, race, and multicultural literacy education. College of Science and Engineering David Bao, chair and professor of mathematics. Will teach courses in probability and statistics, mathematical finance, partial differential equations, and differential geometry. Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: professor of mathematics in the Honors College at the University of Houston. Research interest: Finsler geometry. Joseph Barranco, assistant professor of astronomy. Will teach astrophysics, astronomy, and general physics courses. Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: NSF astronomy and astrophysics postdoctoral fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Research interests: observational and computational astrophysics, including astrophysical fluid dynamics, accretion disks, and star and planet formation. Karen Crow, assistant professor of biology. Will teach courses in ichthyology and molecular evolution. Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Most recent position: postdoctoral associate in ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University. Research interests: the molecular ecology of fishes and the effects of gene duplication in the evolution of ray-finned fishes and vertebrates. Petra Dekens, assistant professor of geosciences. Will teach courses in coastal and marine geology and paleo-oceanography. Ph.D. in paleo-oceanography from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Research interest: paleo-oceanography. Jose de la Torre, assistant professor of biology. Will teach courses in general microbiology, microbial ecology/environmental microbiology, and genomics in fall 2008. Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from University of California, San Francisco. Most recent position: research associate in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Research interests: physiology, ecology and evolution of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria of the subkingdom Archaea, and their role in carbon and nitrogen cycling in marine and hydrothermal environments. Bettina Engelbrecht, assistant professor of plant physiological ecology. Will teach plant physiological ecology and ecology courses in fall 2008. Ph.D. in botany from University of Darmstadt, Germany. Most recent positions: research scientist, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany and research associate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. Research interests: mechanisms underlying plant species distributions, and thus community composition and diversity. Anton Guliaev, assistant professor of chemistry/biochemistry. Will teach courses in general physical chemistry and biochemistry. Ph.D. in chemistry from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Most recent position: scientist in the Life Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Research interest: using computational approaches to study DNA repair and replication. Hao Jiang, assistant professor of electrical engineering. Will teach courses in analog and digital electronics. Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego. Most recent position: senior staff design scientist, Broadcom Corporation. Research interest: the design of efficient power amplifiers for use in wireless applications. Ravinder Sehgal, assistant professor of biology. Will teach courses in emerging infectious diseases and parasitology. Ph.D. in cell biology from University of California, San Francisco. Most recent position: adjunct professor in biology at SF State. Research interest: the impact of environmental change on infectious disease in birds. Vance Vredenburg, assistant professor of biology. Will teach courses in ecology, vertebrate natural history, herpetology, and amphibian conservation courses. Ph.D. in integrative biology from the University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: postdoctoral scholar as a vertebrate ecologist at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: amphibian ecology, evolution and conservation focusing on understanding the effects of an emerging amphibian pathogen that threatens species worldwide. Andrew Zink, assistant professor of biology. Will teach courses in introductory biology and animal behavior. Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University. Most recent position: USDA postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Davis. Research interest: the evolution of social behavior, combining mathematical modeling with field experiments on insects.
J. Acacio de Barros, assistant professor of liberal studies. Will teach essential concepts of physics and chemistry. Ph.D. in physics from the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics, Rio de Janeiro. Most recent position: research at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. Research interests: biophysics of cognitive processes, the foundations of quantum mechanics and physics education. Tendai Chitewere, assistant professor of liberal studies. Will teach social science. Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Binghamton University. Most recent position: lecturer, child and adolescent development program. Research interests: U.S. environmentalism, the consumption of "green" commodities as a means to effect environmental change, "green" or natural capitalism as a response to current environmental crisis. Logan Hennessy, assistant professor of liberal studies. Will teach social science. Ph.D. in environmental science, policy and management from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: lecturer at UC Berkeley and University of California Santa Cruz. Research interests: indigenous environmental politics, political economy of extractive industries and environmental history in the Americas. Matthew Luskey, assistant professor of liberal studies. Will teach fundamentals of literary analysis. Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon. Most recent position: Director of the Puget Sound Writing Project and lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle. Research interests: modernism and the "little" magazines of the 1920s.
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