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| Volume 54, Number 3 August 28, 2006 |
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| New tenure-track faculty 2006-07 College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Hector Carrillo, assistant professor of human sexuality studies. Will begin to teach courses in spring 2007. D.P.H. in public health from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: assistant professor at University of California, San Francisco. Research interests: sexuality and public health policy; Latino, Mexican and Latin American sexualities; sexuality and gender in cross-cultural contexts; HIV risk; HIV prevention; sexual health; Mexican and Latino populations; Latino/a culture and ethnicity in the U.S.; immigration; globalization; social and cultural theory; public health institutions and methods; and grassroots organizing and community-based organizations. Kate Hellenga, assistant professor of psychology. Will teach courses in clinical methods: assessment of intelligence and perceptual motor functioning. Ph.D. in psychology from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Most recent position: adjunct assistant professor of psychology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests: relationships between stressful life events, quality of life for residents of a state mental hospital, and adolescent parenting. Laura Lisy-Wagner, assistant professor of history. Will teach courses in the history of Western Civilization and the reformation. Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. Most recent position: lecturer at Harvard University. Research interests: religion and superstition in Reformation Europe, music and religious identity in counter-reformation Augsburg, and the Turks in texts from early modern Czech travelers. Kathleen McAfee, assistant professor of international relations. Will teach courses in international political economy and modernization and Third World countries. Ph.D. in geography from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: visiting Canada research chair in sustainability at Simon Fraser University. Research interests: biodiversity and the contradictions of green development. Jae Paik, assistant professor of psychology. Will teach courses in cognitive development: language, thinking and perception. Ph.D. in developmental psychology and cognitive science from Indiana University. Most recent position: assistant professor at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Research interests: conceptual development, comparison process and analogical reasoning, cross-cultural differences in cognitive development, educational implications of cognitive and language development, language acquisition and cognition, mathematical development and educational implications, and development of symbolic representations. Lizbet Simmons, assistant professor of criminal justice studies. Will begin to teach courses in spring 2007. Ph.D. in social and cultural studies in education from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: lecturer at University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: social networks in the bilingual urban classroom, architecture of urban school security, racism and the black youth gang, and community policing and the politics of control. Christina Stahlkopf, assistant professor of criminal justice studies. Will teach courses in ethics in criminal justice. Ph.D. candidate in sociology from Oxford University. Most recent position: criminology tutor at Oxford University. Research interests: the "new" youth justice system in the United Kingdom, youth offending and restorative justice, and implementing reform in youth justice. Lisa Takeyama, assistant professor of economics. Will teach courses in introduction to microeconomic analysis. Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. Most recent position: lecturer at SF State. Research interests: industrial organization, econometrics and public finance. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, assistant professor of political science. Will teach courses in political theory and problems in political theory. Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Santa Barbara. Most recent position: president's postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Diego. Research interests: political theory, comparative politics, African American studies, feminist epistemology, South African history, foreign policy and development studies, critical race theory, critical race feminisms, and democratization and transnationalism. Megan Williams, assistant professor of history. Will teach courses in late antiquity, the early Middle Ages, and church history to 800. Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University. Most recent position: assistant professor at the University of Montana, Missoula. Research interests: the late Roman Empire, intellectual history, historiography, history of Christianity. College of Business Amy (Chun-Chia) Chang, assistant professor of accounting. Ph.D. in accounting from the C.T Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. Will teach courses in financial accounting and managerial accounting. Most recent position: instructor of accounting at University of Houston. Research interests: financial reporting with specific emphasis on issues relating to quality of financial reports, earnings management, earnings quality; corporate governance and its impact on financial reporting; and issues in corporate finance such as dividend policy, information content of dividend changes. Mehmet Ergul, assistant professor of hospitality management. Ph.D. in hospitality administration from the College of Human Sciences, Texas Tech University. Will teach courses in restaurant and catering management, introduction to hotel management, and introduction to restaurant and institutional food service management. Most recent position: lab instructor at the College of Human Sciences, Texas Tech University. Research interests: food service management, sensory evaluation, experimental foods, hospitality management, principles of marketing, marketing management and hospitality marketing. Bo Hu, assistant professor of hospitality management. Ph.D. in hospitality and tourism management from the College of Consumer and Family Science, Purdue University. Will teach courses in revenue and cost control for hotels, selected topics in hotel administration and property management in hotel operations. Most recent position: assistant professor in the School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration, Oklahoma State University. Research interests: hotel management, careers and career training in hospitality, tourist behavior and markets, labor productivity in the hospitality industry, and Asia tourism. Long Jiang, assistant professor of management. Ph.D. in strategic management from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. Will teach courses in strategy and strategic management. Most recent position: research assistant and lecturer at University of Maryland, College Park. Research interests: top management team decision making, corporate governance and organizational innovation. Mark Landis, assistant professor of accounting. Ph.D. from the School of Accountancy, University of Missouri, Columbia. Will teach courses in managerial accounting and accounting information systems (AIS). Most recent position: interim plant controller of Square D Co.; instructor of AIS-related courses at University of Missouri, Columbia. Research interests: judgment and decision making (behavioral). Peter Melhus, assistant professor of management. Ph.D. in city and regional planning, University of California at Berkeley. Will teach courses in the social, political, ethical and legal environment of business. Most recent position: lecturer in the Urban and Regional Planning Department, San Jose State University; principal at E3 Consulting Services. Research interests: institutionalized incentives for corporate social and environmental responsibility and the relationship of corporations to their external constituents. Antoaneta P. Petkova, assistant professor of management. Ph.D. in strategic management from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. Will teach courses in strategic management and entrepreneurship. Most recent position: instructor in strategic management at University of Maryland, College Park. Research interests: intangible firm assets, such as reputation, knowledge, human capital and social capital. Lihua Wang, assistant professor of international business. Ph.D. in management from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Will teach courses in international business. Most recent position: assistant professor in the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. Research interests: interorganizational relationships, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions and organizational architecture. College of Creative Arts Raquel Coelho, assistant professor of cinema. Will teach courses in animation. M.F.A. in computer art from School of Visual Arts. Most recent position: senior animator at Tippett Studios. Creative work includes writing and illustrating children's books as well as animation. Victor De La Rosa, assistant professor of art. Will teach courses in fiber arts/new practices. M.F.A. in textiles from Rhode Island School of Design. Most recent position: adjunct professor at Rhode Island School of Design. Research interests: technology as the new craft. Jeff Jacoby, assistant professor of broadcast and electronic communication arts. Will teach courses in sound production for electronic media. M.F.A. in sound and video art from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Most recent position: adjunct faculty member in media production at Quinnipiac University. Hun-Yul Lee, assistant professor of broadcast and electronic communication arts. Will teach courses in television and video production. Ph.D. in communication studies from University of Iowa. Most recent position: teaching assistant at University of Iowa. Research interests: issues relating to Korean new media and television. Grace Provenzano, assistant professor of broadcast and electronic communication arts. Will teach courses in television and video documentary production. M.A. in mass communication and political journalism from Arizona State University. Most recent position: associate professor of journalism at San Jose State University. Research interests: journalistic privilege and political sociology. Weimin Zhang, assistant professor of cinema. Will teach courses in digital media. M.A. in multimedia design from Ohio University. Most recent position: assistant professor of film and video production at Hong Kong Baptist University. Research and creative interests: film/digital production and multimedia design. College of Education Sosan Courey, assistant professor of special education. Will teach courses in mild and moderate disabilities. Ph.D. in special education, high incidence learning disabilities, from Vanderbilt University. Most recent position: third-grade teacher at Saint Cecilia Elementary School in San Francisco. Research interests: teaching math problem solving and designing teaching and assessment materials for math learners. Laura Epstein, assistant professor of special education. Will teach course in speech-language pathology. Ph.D. in speech and hearing sciences from University of California, Santa Barbara. Most recent position: lecture in communicative disorders and speech communications at SF State. Research interests: the study of clinical process and context in speech-language pathology, literacy and language acquisition, and bilingual language acquisition and methods of differentiating normal from disordered language. Yanan Fan, assistant professor of secondary education. Will teach courses in second language development/Mandarin. Ph.D. in teacher education and secondary literacy from Michigan State University. Research interests: learning English as a second language and resources in mainstream English classrooms. College of Ethnic Studies Belinda Reyes, assistant professor of Raza studies. Will teach Raza immigration to the United States and socio-perspectives of Raza. Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: assistant professor and part of the founding faculty at University of California, Merced. Research interests: immigration law and policy, urban economics, and social and economic progress of racial and ethnic minorities. College of Health and Human Services Julie Kay Charlson, assistant professor of consumer and family studies. Will teach interior design-related courses that include color and design, housing for people with special needs, and housing, structure and its component parts. Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies from Colorado State University. Most recent position: AEC Program Director and instructor for architectural document sets using computer-aided design and sustainable designs at Front Range Community College. Research interests: architectural computer-aided design, green building, health care interiors and kitchen/bath design and the study of distance education for interior design. Julie Chronister, assistant professor of counseling. Will teach courses in rehabilitation counseling, assessment in counseling and advanced counseling process. Ph.D. in rehabilitation psychology from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Most recent position: assistant professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. Research interests: caregiving, social support and rehabilitation training. Rashmi Gupta, assistant professor of social work. Will teach courses in social case work and social group work in the individuals, families and groups. Ph.D. in social work from University of Texas, Arlington. Most recent positions: assistant professor of social work at the School of Social Work, Hunter College, and adjunct faculty at Tarrant County College, West Campus. Research interests: aging, death and dying; health care; caregiver needs; mental health assessment; and treatment for immigrant populations. Jocelyn Hermoso, assistant professor of social work. Will teach courses in social work research and policy, social work practice with groups, organizations and communities, international social development, and diversity and social justice. Ph.D. in social work from Catholic University of America. Most recent position: adjunct instructor at the Catholic University of America and the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. Research interests: building social capital and strengthening civil society through community organizing. Julie Law, assistant professor of child and adolescent development. Will teach courses in action research methods in child and adolescent development (CAD) and professional roles/career in CAD. Ph.D. in human development and family studies from Ohio State University. Most recent position: director of the Center for Child and Family Studies and adjunct faculty at University of California, Davis. Research interests: domestic violence policy in the United States, child abuse and its effects on development, dating and violence, and cognitive development in preschoolers. Alan Orsi, assistant professor of nursing. Will teach courses in undergraduate pharmacology, graduate practical in critical care nursing and also coordinate the satellite program of the Sequoia Hospital/ SF State BSN program at Cañada College. Ph.D. in nursing from University of Pennsylvania. Most recent position: associate professor at the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of San Diego. Research interests: colorectal cancer and psychosocial oncology. Asuncion Suren, assistant professor of recreation and leisure studies. Will teach courses in recreation and leisure services, nonprofit administration, designing and managing resources in nonprofit agencies, programming in leisure services and internship supervision. Suren will serve as director of the American Humanics program. Ed.D in higher education and leisure studies from Temple University. Most recent position: lead evaluator and trainer at Prevention Partnership in Chicago, Ill. Gus Vouchilas, assistant professor of consumer and family studies. Will teach interior design related courses that include heritage of interior design and housing, computer-aided drafting for interior design, and the materials of interior design. Ed.D in organization and leadership from University of San Francisco. Most recent position: lecturer in the Consumer and Family Studies/Diatetics Department at SF State. Research interests: organization and leadership, transformational leadership, office design, and leadership perceptions as they related to complexity levels found in workspace artwork. Sharonda P. Wallace, assistant professor of dietetics. Will serve as director of clinical dietetics, supervising dietetics internships and will teach nutrition assessment for older adults as well as courses related to dietetics at the graduate and undergraduate level. Ph.D. in nutrition from Pennsylvania State University. Most recent position: vice president of nutrition communications at PMK Associates Inc., a public relations and marketing firm. Research interests: the integration of nutrigenomic science into the field of dietetics, gastric bypass surgery as a treatment for obesity -- measurements of health- and nutrition-related outcomes postoperatively. Jun Wang, assistant professor of holistic healing studies. Will teach courses in Chinese perspectives on holistic healing. Ph.D. in medical anthropology from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Most recent position: lecturer at the Program of Integrative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Research interests: Chinese medicine in the present and the past and the history and culture of East Asian medicines. College of Humanities Sarita Cannon, assistant professor of English. Will teach courses in modern American literature. Ph.D. in English from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: postdoctoral research fellow in American Indian studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests: ethnic American literature, African American studies, Native American studies, autobiography and feminist theory. Hsiu-huei Lin Domizio, assistant professor of Chinese. Will teach courses in intermediate Chinese language, 20th century Chinese literature, Chinese linguistics and teaching Chinese as a second language. Ed.D. in applied linguistics from Columbia University. Most recent position: assistant professor, National Taiwan Normal University. Research interests: the investigation of L2 learners' pragmatic competence and their use of communication strategies with reference to cross-cultural differences and the testing and assessment in teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language. Camille Dungy, associate professor of creative writing. Will teach M.F.A. Poetry Workshop, Advanced Poetry Workshop, Craft of Poetry, Community Projects in Literature and seminars on contemporary African American poetry. M.F.A. in creative writing from University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Most recent position: associate professor of English at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Research interests: contemporary poetry, African American poetry, musical structure and the poetics of song, and cultural studies. Jon Funabiki, professor of journalism. Will teach various journalism classes and establish a new center in the Journalism Department that will focus on the fast-changing developments in community, ethnic and independent media. B.A. in journalism from SF State. Most recent position: deputy director of media, arts and culture at the Ford Foundation. Research interests: community, ethnic and independent media; news media ethics and diversity; media and philanthropy; and global media and freedom of expression issues. Mindi Golden, assistant professor of communication studies. Will teach courses in interpersonal communication. Ph.D. in communication from University of Utah. Most recent position: lecturer at San Jose State University and University of San Francisco. Research interests: communication and social support among Alzheimer caregivers. Paul Hoover, professor of creative writing. Will teach M.F.A. poetry workshops and a variety of graduate seminars on poetry. M.A. in English and creative writing from University of Illinois. Most recent position: visiting professor of creating writing at SF State. Research interests: post-modernism, contemporary American poetry, German romanticism, ancient Vietnamese poet Nguyen Trai, and interdisciplinary African American arts. Julietta Hua, assistant professor of women studies. Will teach courses in feminist methodology, gender and the law, and gender and immigration. Ph.D. in ethnic studies from University of California, San Diego. Most recent position: lecturer of ethnic studies at University of California, San Diego. Research interests: human rights, global feminism, Asian American studies, and gender and law. Paul Morris, assistant professor of English in composition. Will teach undergraduate courses in composition and graduate courses in composition theory and English education. Ph.D. in English studies from Illinois State University. Most recent position: graduate teaching assistant at Illinois State University. Research interests: English education with an emphasis on literacy learning and critical literacy, composition and rhetoric, and British literature and historical contexts. Kasturi Ray, assistant professor of women studies. Will teach courses in feminist theory, history and culture. Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Most recent position: assistant professor of global studies at Sarah Lawrence College. Research interests: women and work, globalization, immigration, and diaspora studies. Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, assistant professor of humanities. Will teach courses in classical South Asian culture, modern South Asian culture, comparative form and culture, Delhi-cultural biography of a city, South Asian religions, and Gandhi. Ph.D. in South Asian languages and civilization from University of Chicago. Most recent position: post-doctoral fellow at the South Asian Language Resource Center, University of Chicago and lecturer at University of Chicago. Research interests: South Asian traditions of dissent, India's intellectual and literary history, and South Asian social history. Justin Tiwald, assistant professor of philosophy. Will teach courses in Chinese and Indian philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, and moral psychology. Ph.D. in social thought from University of Chicago. Most recent position: graduate student at University of Chicago. Research interests: classical Confucianism and Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, virtue ethics, and contemporary political philosophy. Leah Wingard, assistant professor of communication studies. Will teach courses in language and social interaction. Ph.D. in applied linguistics and teaching English as a second language from University of California, Los Angeles. Most recent position: graduate student fellow at the Center on the Everyday Lives of Families, University of California, Los Angeles. Research interests: discourse analysis, family communication and child socialization. Laura Yim, assistant professor of English in literature. Will teach courses in early modern British and American literature. Ph.D. in English and American literature from Brandeis University. Most recent position: lecturer at Boston University. Research interests: Renaissance literature and culture, post-colonial literature and theory, and indigenous American law and politics. J. Paul Leonard Library Ya Wang, associate librarian. Will provide coordination of electronic collections services as well as library liaison, collection development and instruction services in the sciences. M.L.I.S. in library studies from McGill University in Montreal. Most recent position: information systems librarian at State University of New York, New Paltz. Research interests: Web usability studies, effective interface designs for accessing multiple information resources and the management of digital collections. John Wenzler, senior assistant librarian. Will provide coordination of electronic collections services as well as library liaison, collection development and instruction services in the social sciences and humanities. M.L.I.S. in library studies from San Jose State University; PhD. in American history from University of Rochester. Most recent position: systems librarian at Innovative Interfaces Incorporated. Research interests: the economics of information and the economic consequences of the digital revolution for scholars and librarians. College of Science and Engineering Kazunori Okada, assistant professor of computer science. Will teach courses in general computing and in biomedical imaging and artificial intelligence. Ph.D. in computer science from University of Southern California. Most recent position: research scientist at Siemens Corporate Research. Research interests: face recognition systems, lung tumor segmentation and detection in chest CT scans. Alexandra Piryatinska, assistant professor of mathematics. Will teach courses in theoretical and applied statistics and biostatistics. Ph.D. in statistics from Case Western Reserve University; Ph.D. in mathematics from Kiev State University (Ukraine). Most recent position: postdoctoral research associate at California Institute of Technology. Research interests: linear and nonlinear time series analysis, multivariate time series analysis, spectral and cross-spectral analysis, long memory processes; change point detection, random fields, spectral analysis; application of random fields to oceanography; inference for levy processes, parametric estimation problems; data modeling for large data sets; and models of anomalous diffusion. Christopher Smith, assistant professor of biology. Will teach bioinformatics courses. Ph.D. in biochemistry and cell biology from University of California, San Francisco. Most recent position: bioinformatics scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Research interests: informatics approaches to the understanding of repeated DNA sequences in the Drosophila and human genomes. Kwok-Siong Teh, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Will teach materials of engineering, micro electro-mechanical systems, advanced materials and mechanical design courses. Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: design and mechanical behavior of nano- and composite materials for microelectromechanical systems and biometarials. Hui Yang, assistant professor of computer science. Will teach courses in algorithms and data mining. Ph.D. in computer science from Ohio State University. Research interests: data mining, with a current focus of mining spatial and spatio-temporal data, including applying data mining techniques to analyze scientific data to bioinformatics, computational molecular dynamics, and computational fluid dynamics. Andrew Zink, assistant professor of biology. Will teach introductory biology, animal behavior, and behavioral ecology courses. Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University. Most recent position: postdoctoral fellow in entomology at University of California, Davis. Research interests: mathematical models of social evolution with field experiments on insects such as treehoppers and solitary wasps. |
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