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Volume 52, Number 2   August 23, 2004         

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New tenure-track faculty 2004-05

College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Maria Abalakina, assistant professor of psychology. Will teach courses in introduction to research psychology and social conflict and resolution. Ph.D. in psychology from Moscow State University. Most recent position: assistant professor of psychology, New Mexico State University. Research interests: authoritarianism and intergroup perceptions in the context of intercultural communication, social psychology, and social conflict and its resolution.

Christopher Chekuri, assistant professor of history. Will teach courses in world history and South Asia and Southeast Asian history. Ph.D. in history from University of Wisconsin, Madison (expected December 2004). Most recent position: visiting instructor, Hamilton College. Research interests: empires of the Indo-Islamic world, family and colonial modernity in 19th century India, alternative modernities and cultures of globalization, pre-coloniality and pre-modernity in South and Southeast Asia, Telugu literary criticism, and Asian diasporas.

Brett Coleman, assistant professor of economics. Will teach courses in introduction to microeconomic analysis and economic development. Ph.D. in development economics from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: microfinance specialist, Asian Development Bank. Research interests: Asian microfinancing in Vietnam and Laos.

Dawn Mabalon, assistant professor of history. Will teach courses in history of Asian Americans, Asian American women, U.S. history since reconstruction, and American ethnic and race relations to 1890. Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. Most recent positions: visiting lecturer, San Francisco State University, and lecturer, Stanford University. Research interests: 20th century U.S. history, California and the West, Asian American history/studies, Philippine and Filipina/o American history, gender community and family history, immigration, youth cultures, urban history, and cultural and historic preservation in ethnic communities.

Rita M. Melendez, assistant professor of human sexuality studies. Will teach courses in sex, power and politics, and research methods. Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. Most recent position: postdoctoral research fellow, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Columbia University. Research interests: quantitative and qualitative methods in researching HIV issues as they relate to gender, gender-specified HIV/STD prevention programs, intimate partner violence, structural concerns of transgendered people, and women's understanding of their bodies as affected by their adherence to a work ethic.

Laurie L. Meschke, assistant professor of child and adolescent development. Will teach courses in action research methodology and field experience. Ph.D. in human development and family studies, Pennsylvania State University. Most recent position: president and research consultant, Good Reason Consulting. Research interests: adolescent health and sexuality, program development and evaluation, multivariate and longitudinal methodology, ecological model of development, adolescent substance abuse and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Michael Musheno, director and professor of criminal justice. Will teach courses in policing and society. Ph.D. in political science from The American University. Most recent position: research professor, Center for Urban Inquiry, Arizona State University. Research interests: criminal justice and public policy, law and society, and conflict and its management.

Mai Nguyen, assistant professor of urban studies. Will teach courses in urban planning and the city. Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from University of California, Irvine. Most recent position: instructor, University of California, Irvine, and Pennsylvania State University. Research interests: affordable housing, urban growth management, urban sociology and urban sprawl.

Amy Elizabeth Smith, assistant professor of psychology. Will teach courses in psychology and law. Ph.D. in psychology from University of California, Santa Cruz. Most recent position: associate attorney, Long Aldridge & Norman. Research interests: psychology and law, including issues surrounding legal processes and juror decision making, death penalty and prison conditions.

College of Business
Alice C. Lee
, assistant professor of finance. Will teach courses in financial management and bank management. Ph.D. in insurance and risk management from University of Pennsylvania. Most recent position: general partner, Amkey Ventures, and director, Center for Pacific Basin Business Research. Areas of expertise include: finance, research, quantitative analyses, strategic thinking, business process development, client and vendor relations, e-commerce, operations, and programming.

Donglin Li, assistant professor of finance. Will teach courses in business finance and financial management. Ph.D. in accounting from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: financial analyst, Moody's KMV. Research interests: financial statement analysis, analyst forecasts and recommendations, conservative accounting, and bankruptcy prediction.

College of Creative Arts
Jerry Barnaby
, assistant professor of broadcast and electronic communication arts. Will teach courses in television and video production. M.A. in communication technology and policy from University of Texas, Austin. Most recent position: director of educational telecommunications, Western Kentucky University. Research interests: educational uses of television and television production techniques.

College of Education
Rosa Casarez-Levison
, assistant professor of secondary education. Will teach courses in secondary education. Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University. Most recent positions: coordinator of field services and lecturer in secondary education. Research interests: educational psychology and teacher preparation, traumatic stress and criminal victimization (esp. child abuse), and organizational psychology.

Lauren Lunsford, assistant professor of special education. Will teach courses in mild/moderate disabilities. Ph.D. in special education from Vanderbilt University. Most recent position: project manager for a grant on improving the reintegration of students with disabilities. Research interests: behavior disorders, learning disabilities, classroom management and functional assessment.

Alise Paillard, assistant professor of special education. Will teach courses in early childhood special education. Ph.D. in special education from the University of Oregon. Most recent position: research associate and instructor at the University of Oregon. Research interests: all aspects of child development and early childhood intervention programs.

Stanley Pogrow, professor of administration and interdisciplinary studies. Will teach courses in the joint doctorate program in urban leadership in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D. in educational administration from Stanford University. Most recent positions: professor of teaching and teacher education, University of Arizona, and William Allen Endowed Chair and distinguished visiting professor in instructional leadership, Seattle University. Research interests: developing and disseminating reforms for helping leaders improve the performance of schools with significant percentages of educationally disadvantaged students and researching the effects of reform on such schools.

College of Ethnic Studies
Antwi A. Akom
, assistant professor of black studies. Will teach courses in black studies, urban black sociology, black culture and comparative race and ethnicity. Ph.D. in sociology from University of Pennsylvania. Most recent position: research fellow, Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: urban ethnography, urban sociology, race and ethnicity, sociology of culture and religion, qualitative research methods, and sociology of education stratification and policy.

Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade, assistant professor of raza studies, and administration and interdisciplinary studies. Will teach courses in race, class and educational inequity in America, sociology of urban education, and social foundations and cultural diversity in education. Ph.D. in social and cultural studies in education from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent positions: postdoctoral fellow and director of urban teacher development at the Institute for Democracy, Education and Access, and lecturer, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles. Research interests: sociology of education, urban schooling, urban teacher recruitment, development and retention, English education, critical pedagogy, critical media literacy, youth and popular culture studies and philosophy of education.

Jason M. Ferreira, assistant professor of ethnic studies (effective 2005-06). Will teach courses in comparative ethnic social movements, comparative ethnic history and Latino/a history. Ph.D. in comparative ethnic studies, University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: University of California president’s postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz. Research interests: comparative social movements; ethnic studies; 20th century Latino/a history, culture, and politics; 20th century African American history, culture and politics; interethnic/racial relations; racial politics; and theories of race, class, ethnicity and identity formation.

Shawn A. Ginwright, associate professor of black studies. Will teach courses in introduction to black social sciences, black studies, African American education, race, class and gender through film, black social movements, and introduction to African American studies. Ph.D. in education from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: assistant professor of sociology/ethnic studies, Santa Clara University. Research interests: youth and social justice, African American sociology and social movements, and education and African American children and youth.

Mercedes Rubio, assistant professor of raza studies (spring 2005). Will teach courses in health disparities among Latinos/as, Latino sociology and social-psychology of la raza. Ph.D. in sociology from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Most recent position: director of the minority affairs program, American Sociological Association. Research interests: race and ethnic relations, immigration, health disparities, research methods, Latino/a health, social stratification and pan-Latino issues and identity.

College of Health and Human Services
Jane deLeon
, assistant professor of nursing. Will teach courses in medical-surgical nursing and nursing theory. Ph.D. in family health care nursing from University of California, San Francisco. Most recent position: assistant recruiter, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. Research interests: risk factors for cardiovascular disease and adherence to treatment for hypertension.

Jose Ramon Fernandez-Peña, associate professor of health education. Will teach courses in multicultural aspects of health and AIDS. M.D. from the School of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Most recent position: co-director, Community Health Works of San Francisco's Welcome Back Initiative. Research interests: community health and diversifying the health care and public health workforce.

Shinmi Kim, assistant professor of nursing. Will teach courses in psychiatric nursing, nursing theory and nursing fundamentals. Ph.D. in gerontological nursing from Catholic University, Seoul. Most recent position: assistant professor of nursing, Catholic University, Seoul. Research interests: sleep and the elderly.

Sylvia Fox Puglisi, assistant professor of nursing. Will teach courses in nursing research and psychiatric nursing. Ph.D. in nursing, University of California, San Francisco. Most recent position: instructor, School of Nursing, Cal State University, Dominguez Hills. Research interest is psychiatric nursing.

Patricia Van Velsor, assistant professor of counseling. Will teach courses in counseling. Ph.D. in guidance and counseling from University of Toledo. Most recent position: associate professor of counseling, Southwest Missouri State University. Research interests: school counseling specialization, theories of counseling, group counseling, working with anger and expressive art therapy.

College of Humanities
Laura García-Moreno
, assistant professor of humanities. Will teach courses in Latin American literature and culture, as well as the literature and culture of the Americas. Ph.D. in comparative literatures from Cornell University. Most recent full-time position: assistant professor of English and comparative literature, University of California, Irvine. Research interests: postmodern subjectivity and identity, the relationship between memory and narrative, and cultural resistance to political atrocities.

Sarah Hackenburg, assistant professor of English. Will teach courses in Victorian literature, literary theory, and literature and gender. Ph.D. in English and American literature from Stanford University. Most recent position: instructor at Stanford University. Research interests: 19th and early 20th century British and American literature, popular and visual culture, urban and consumer culture, and gender and identity studies.

Bérénice Le Marchand, assistant professor of French. Will teach language courses as well as courses in French and Francophone literature and culture. Ph.D. in French from Vanderbilt University. Most recent position: teaching fellow, Vanderbilt University. Research interests: medieval and early modern French literature; the relationship between literature and material culture; and the dynamics of mirroring, the gaze, and the construction of identity in the early modern period.

Kitty Millet, assistant professor of Jewish studies. Will teach courses in contemporary, modern, and traditional Jewish literature and culture. Ph.D. in cultural studies and comparative literature from University of Minnesota. Most recent position: lecturer, departments of Comparative and World Literature, Classics, Jewish Studies and English, SFSU. Research interests: the resistance of Holocaust literatures to normative aesthetic categories, the concept of "bearing witness" in post-1945 Europe and the Americas, and the diversity of Jewish experience across geographical locations and over time.

David Olsher, assistant professor of English. Will teach graduate TESOL courses in second language acquisition, pedagogical grammar, and theory of teaching listening/speaking skills. Ph.D. in applied linguistics from University of California, Los Angeles. Most recent position: visiting assistant professor, Bowling Green State University. Research interests: conversational analysis of classroom discourse, group-work interaction among novice-level language learners, and uses of instructional technology for language education.

Parama Roy, associate professor of women studies. Will teach courses in gender and sexuality, diaspora and transnational feminism, postcolonial studies, and 19th century British literature. Ph.D. in English from University of Rochester. Most recent position: associate professor, University of California, Riverside. Research interests: colonial and postcolonial subject formation, identification and resistance; the intersections of food, consumption, language, ethics and politics in South Asia; and Gandhi as an exemplar of modern formations of masculine identity.

Melissa Sanchez, assistant professor of English. Will teach courses in Shakespeare, 16th and 17th century literature, literature and gender, and literature and politics. Ph.D. in English with emphasis in feminist theory from University of California, Irvine. Most recent position: faculty fellow, University of California, Irvine. Research interests: the erotic and political ambivalence of the romance genre in the early modern period, the dynamics of reader responses to literary texts, and classical and medieval influences on Renaissance thought and culture.

David Smith, assistant professor of classics. Will teach beginning through advanced Greek and Latin, classical literature and culture, and classical archaeology. Ph.D. in classics from Stanford University. Most recent position: assistant professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Research interests: ethnicity and identity in the ancient Mediterranean world, with a particular emphasis on Sicily, and intersections of poetry and historiography in classical studies.

David Wilkins, assistant professor of speech and communication studies. Will teach courses in language and social interaction, nonverbal communication, and discourse analysis. Ph.D. in linguistics from Australian National University, Canberra. Most recent position: scientific researcher, Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, Veteran's Affairs Northern California Health Care System. Research interests: ethno-semantic studies of gesture and diagramming practices, and pragmatic studies of discourse interactions that involve the use of augmentative and alternative means of communication.

College of Science and Engineering
Matthias Beck, assistant professor of mathematics. Will teach undergraduate and graduate classes in discrete and computational geometry and analytical number theory. Ph.D. in mathematics from Temple University. Most recent position: member, Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany. Research interests are in discrete and computational geometry and analytical number theory.

Katharyn Boyer, assistant professor of biology at the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies. Will teach courses in wetland ecology and restoration. Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Most recent position: postdoctoral fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Research interests: species interactions in wetland ecosystems and methods for wetland restoration.

Adelbert Cheng, assistant professor of engineering. Will teach courses in engineering experimentation and mechanics of fluids. Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: assistant professor of mechanical engineering, California State University, Sacramento. Research focuses on use of alternative fuels in compression-ignition engines.

Diana Chu, assistant professor of biology. Will teach courses in molecular genetics and cell biology. Ph.D. in molecular biology from University of California, Los Angeles. Most recent position: postdoctoral fellow in molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley. Research interest is in understanding mechanisms of male fertility using the nematode C. elegans.

Tomoko Komada, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry (joint appointment with Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies). Will teach courses in analytical and environmental chemistry and marine biogeochemistry. Ph.D. in Oceanography from Rutgers University. Most recent position: postdoctoral fellow in earth system science, University of California, Irvine. Research interests focus on the input of organic caron to the oceans from the continents by riverine transport.

Rahul Singh, assistant professor of computer science. Will lead the computer science program in computing for life sciences and teach courses in multimedia. Ph.D. in computer vision and vision-based robotics from University of Minnesota. Most recent position: faculty member, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Research interests: bioinformatics, computational drug discovery, multimedia information modeling and management, and computer vision and its applications.

Jay Storz, assistant professor of biology. Will teach courses in ecology and evolutionary genetics. Ph.D. in biology from Boston University. Most recent position: postdoctoral fellow, University of Arizona. Research interests: evolutionary ecology and evolutionary genetics.

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