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August 26/September 3, 2002

Introducing the new 2002-03 tenure track faculty ...

College of Behavioral and Social Sciences College of Business College of Creative Arts College of Education
College of Ethnic Studies College of Health and Human Services College of Humanities College of Science and Engineering
J. Paul Leonard Library

Counseling and Psychological Services


College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Maziar Behrooz, assistant professor of history. Will teach courses in the history of the Muslim world and world history. Ph.D. in history from University of California, Los Angeles. Most recent position: assistant professor of history at Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts. Research interests include the history of the Middle East, 20th century Iranian history, and the early 19th century political reformer Abbas Mirza.

Jeffrey Bury, assistant professor of geography and human environmental studies. Will teach courses in human and social geography, world regional geography, Latin America, and environment and development. Ph.D in geography from University of Colorado, Boulder. Most recent position: instructor at University of Colorado. Research interests include political ecology, development and Latin American studies.

Jeff Cookston, assistant professor of developmental psychology. Will teach child development courses in social, emotional and personality development, cognition, research methods and statistics. Ph.D. in human development and education from University of Texas. Most recent position: teaching assistant at University of Texas. Research interests include social and emotional development in childhood and adolescence and intraparental conflict, co-parenting processes, and child psychopathology.

Barbara Cosens, assistant professor of environmental studies. Will teach courses in environmental studies and, environmental law and policy. J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of Law. Most recent position: visiting professor of environmental law and environmental law clinical at Hastings College of Law. Research interests include the use of settlement to resolve water allocation problems and watershed management in basins with multiple jurisdictions.

Philip J. Dreyfus, assistant professor of history. Will teach courses in California history, the history of the American West, and environmental history. Ph.D. from Graduate School of the City University of New York. Most recent position: lecturer in the history department at SFSU. Research interests include labor history, environmental history of cities in the American West, and United States-Native American land wars.

Trevor R. Getz, assistant professor of history. Will teach courses in the history of Africa, European imperialism and world history. Ph.D. in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. Most recent position: assistant professor of history at the University of New Orleans. Research interests include the history of Ghana during British colonial rule, slavery emancipation and reform in 19th century Senegal and the Gold Coast, and the history of cultural diffusion in the Atlantic world.

Sujian Guo, assistant professor of political science. Will teach courses in comparative politics, the politics of China and political transitions in East and Southeast Asia. Ph.D in political science from University of Tennessee. Most recent position: visiting assistant professor at Southern Methodist University. Research interests include comparative politics, international relations, communist and post-communist studies, democratic transition, China/Asian politics, and the political economy of East and Southeast Asia.

James Martel, assistant professor of political science. Will teach courses in introduction to political theory, the classical tradition of political theory and the development of American political thought. Ph.D in political science from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: lecturer at University of California, Berkeley. Research interests include American and European political theory, American politics, literary studies and criticism, gender studies, and political economy.

Francis Neely, assistant professor of political science. Will teach courses in scientific American politics, inquiry into political science, and politics and women in the United States. Ph.D in political science from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Most recent position: survey methodologist/ survey manager at University of California, Berkeley. Research interests include minorities and women in politics, political attitudes and media influence, and political identities and party identity.

Andrew Oliphant, assistant professor of geography and human environmental studies. Will teach courses in physical geography, climatology and field methods. Ph.D in geography from University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Most recent position: post- doctoral fellow and instructor at Indiana University. Research interests include atmosphere/surface interaction, boundary layer airflow and pollution transport, applied meteorology, climate change, and watershed hydrology.

Jeffrey Snipes, assistant professor of criminal justice. Will teach courses in criminal profiling and extremism as a crime. Ph.D in criminal justice from State University of New York at Albany and J.D. from Stanford University Law School. Most recent position: Rockefeller legal fellow in nonprofit law at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York. Research interests include community control of police, community policing, and police productivity.

Carol Stevenson, assistant professor of child and adolescent studies. Will teach courses in careers in child and adolescent development, and child and adolescent development internship seminar. J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of Law. Most recent position: director of the San Francisco Starting Points Initiative. Research interests include policy issues related to child care and early childhood development.

Niels F. Teunis, assistant professor of human sexuality studies. Will teach courses in sexuality studies, qualitative methods, theory and research. Ph.D in anthropology from Northwestern University. Most recent position: lecturer in anthropology and human sexuality studies at SFSU. Research interests include cross-cultural sexuality and gender, racism in sexual communities, and same-sex sexuality in West Africa and the United States.

Pauline Velez, assistant professor of social-organizational psychology. Will teach courses in social psychology, organizational psychology, statistics, and research methods. Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology and social psychology from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: guest lecturer at University of California, Berkeley. Research interests include social-organizational psychology in studying the strategic analyses of employee exit-survey data to identify the determinants of turnover.

James A. Wiley, professor of sociology and director of the Public Research Institute. Ph.D. in sociology with specialization in demography from Vanderbilt University. Most recent position: vice president for research and evaluation at the Public Health Institute in Berkeley. Research interests include public health and substance abuse, survey methodology, statistical and mathematical methods for the social sciences, and substance abuse.

Eva Sheppard Wolf, assistant professor of history. Will teach courses on the United States early national period, American and new world slavery, and American political history. Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. Most recent position: assistant professor of history at Hobart and William Smith College in New York. Research interests include slavery and emancipation in Virginia in the late Colonial and early Federal periods, free African Americans in early American history, and race relations in the first generations after the American Revolution.

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College of Business

Ramesh Bollapragada, assistant professor of business analysis. Will teach courses in operations management. Ph.D. in management of manufacturing and automation from Carnegie Mellon University. Most recent position: senior consultant at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. Research interests include telecommunication network planning and optimization, decision support models, and application of optimization methodology to supply chain and inventory management with an emphasis on e-commerce.

Prakash Chathoth, assistant professor of hospitality management. Will teach courses in hotel management. Ph.D. in hospitality and tourism management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. Most recent position: instructor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Research interests include strategy and performance in the lodging industry.

Susan C. Cholette, assistant professor of business analysis. Will teach courses in operations management and operations analysis. Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University. Most recent position: project manager at NONSTOP Solutions. Research interests include project management methodologies, application of operations research to demand and supply chain problems, and using model construction to illustrate energy-economic interactions.

Bruce A. Heiman, assistant professor of management. Will teach courses in strategic management. Ph.D. in business and public policy from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: adjunct professor at SFSU. Research interests include transaction cost economics, inner-firm collaboration, ethical behavior in multi-national firms and social network analysis.

Mahmood Hussain, assistant professor of marketing. Will teach courses in marketing research and marketing management. Ph.D. in economics from University of Colorado, Boulder. Most recent position: assistant professor at University of Colorado, Boulder. Research interests include marketing decision support, consumer behavior on the Internet, marketing and consumer behavior in developing economies, social marketing, and development economics (child labor, international trade and economic growth).

Subin Im, assistant professor of marketing. Will teach courses in marketing. Ph.D. in marketing from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Most recent position: assistant professor at University of Washington. Research interests include new product strategy in high- technology environments, organizational learning, and cross-functional teams.

Yi-Kuan Lee, assistant professor of international business. Will teach courses in international business and multicultural relations. PhD. in marketing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lally School of Management and Technology. Most recent position: visiting assistant professor at Michigan State University. Research interests include high-technology marketing, new product management, international product launch, innovation adoption, marketing knowledge management, strategic alliance, and global branding.

George Li, assistant professor of finance. Will teach courses in financial management. Ph.D. in finance expected from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: summer research associate at the Cornerstone Co. Research interests include theoretical and empirical asset pricing, real options and its application, and risk management and international finance.

Michael Meeks, assistant professor of management. Will teach courses in management and entrepreneurship. Ph.D. in strategic management and entrepreneurship expected from University of Colorado, Boulder. Most recent position: lecturer at University of Colorado, Boulder. Research interests include information management/systems and entrepreneurship, research methods on entrepreneurship, and comparison of the thought processes and behaviors of entrepreneurs versus managers.

Lik Mui, assistant professor of information systems. Will teach courses in information systems. Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science expected from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Most recent position: lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests include artificial intelligence, computer modeling of trust and reputation, image processing, and distributed systems.

Özgür Özlük, assistant professor of business analysis. Will teach courses in operations management. Ph.D. in operations research from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Most recent position: senior model analyst at Manugistics Inc. Research interests include business applications of operations research, integer programming, combinatorial optimization, and revenue management.

Bruce Paton, assistant professor of management. Will teach courses in the business environment. Ph.D. in environmental studies from University of California, Santa Cruz. Most recent position: researcher at the Silicon Valley Center for Innovation and Sustainability. Research interests include corporate social responsibility, sustainable industry, voluntary environmental initiative, and the evolution of institutions for environmental protection.

Narender K. Ramarapu, assistant professor of information systems. Will teach courses in distributed data processing. Ph.D. in management information systems from University of Memphis. Most recent position: president and co-founder of NetCAE Inc. Research interests include human-computer interaction, human information processing, Hypertext/Hypermedia, executive information systems, and technology's impact on cooperative work groups.

Tom Thomas, assistant professor of management. Will teach courses in the business environment. Ph.D. in business administration from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: market research manager at Consilient Inc. Research interests include sustainable economic development and corporate governance.

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College of Creative Arts

Robert Busan, assistant professor of music. Will teach courses in instrumental music and conduct the University Wind Ensemble. M.M. in wind conducting from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Most recent position: conducting assistant at University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign. Creative work includes founding, directing and touring with elementary, high school and college-level wind ensembles in Australia.

Jeff Downing, assistant professor of art. Will teach courses in ceramics. M.F.A. in ceramics from SFSU. Most recent position: lecturer of art at SFSU. Downing has exhibited extensively throughout California as well as nationally and internationally.

Martha Gorzycki, assistant professor of cinema. Will teach courses in animation. M.F.A. in animation from SFSU. Most recent position: lecturer of cinema at SFSU. Research interests include Native American and Native Mexican cultures.

Wendell Hanna, assistant professor of music. Will teach courses in music education and bassoon. Ph.D. in music education from University of Oregon. Most recent position: instructor of music education and bassoon at Willamette University. Research interests include music therapy and musical play for special-needs children.

Sandra Kelch, assistant professor of design and industry. Will teach courses in graphic design. M.F.A. in graphic design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Most recent position: lecturer of design and industry at SFSU. Creative work includes both commercial and community service design work.

Joseph McBride, assistant professor of cinema. Will teach courses in cinema studies. Doctoral equivalency from SFSU. Most recent position: adjunct professor of film at New College of California. Research interests include biographical, historical, economic and political topics in the film industry, ranging from the silent era to the present day.

Roger Woodward, professor of music. Will serve as director of the School of Music and Dance and teach courses in piano. D.M.A. in piano from University of Sydney. Most recent position: chair of music, University of New England, New South Wales, Australia. His extensive and illustrious international career as a pianist includes 90 albums and videos of concertos, chamber and contemporary music and performances in 45 countries covering five continents.

David Xiques, assistant professor of music. Will teach courses in voice and musicianship and conduct the University Chorus. M.M. in music education with Kodaly emphasis from Holy Names College. Most recent position: lecturer of music at SFSU. He is also a professional singer and assistant conductor for the San Francisco Symphony Chorus.

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College of Education

Cheri Araki, assistant professor of administration and interdisciplinary studies. Will teach courses in educational research methods, evaluation and data analysis. Ph.D. in education from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: adjunct associate faculty at SFSU. Research interests include research methodologies, measurement, qualitative and quantitative data analysis and program evaluation.

Nathan Avani, professor/department chair of secondary education. Will be responsible for the departmental academic program, students, faculty and administration. Ph.D. in educational psychology from Michigan State University. Most recent position: professor and chair in middle and high school education at City University of New York/Lehman College. Research interests include small school reform.

Debra Luna, assistant professor of elementary education: bilingual crosscultural education, Spanish emphasis. Will teach courses in the multiple subject credential program. Ed.D. in international and multicultural education from University of San Francisco. Most recent position: adjunct professor in the teacher education program at University of San Francisco. Research interests include bilingual education and second language education pedagogy.

Nancy Robinson, assistant professor of special education: communicative disorders. Will teach courses in speech-language pathology. Ph.D. in special education from University of Washington. Most recent position: associate professor in the speech pathology and audiology program at California State University, Chico. Research interests include early speech and language acquisition, diversity, alternative/augmentative communication and phonological disorders.

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College of Ethnic Studies

Melissa Nelson, assistant professor of American Indian studies. Will teach courses in American Indians and United States law, perspectives of native California Indians, American Indian women and American Indian oral literature. Ph.D in cultural ecology from University of California, Davis. Most recent position: executive director of the Cultural Conservancy. Research interests include Native American ecology and indigenous environmental issues, California Indian history and contemporary culture, oral history (languages, songs and stories), and native sovereignty in North America and the Pacific.

Russell Jeung, assistant professor of Asian American studies. Will teach courses on Chinese American personality and community change/development. Ph.D in sociology from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: lecturer at Foothill College. Research interests include Asian Pacific Islanders and religion, social movements and urban sociology.

Nhung Mai Le, assistant professor of Asian American studies. Will teach courses on Vietnamese in America, Asian American women and Asians in America. Ph.D in public health from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: lecturer at SFSU. Research interests include transitional issues of Vietnamese women and children in the United States.

Amy Sueyoshi, assistant professor of ethnic studies. Will teach courses on race and sexual migration. Ph.D in history from UCLA. Most recent position: teaching assistant/fellow at University of California, Los Angeles in history, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies and Asian American Studies. Research interests include race, gender, sexuality and immigration.

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College of Health and Human Services

Ramon Castellblanch, assistant professor of health education. Will teach courses in public health policy and health administration and management. Ph.D. in health policy from Johns Hopkins University. Most recent position: assistant professor and director of undergraduate health management and political action director at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, D.C. Research interests include health-care reform.

Harvey "Skip" Davis, assistant professor of nursing. Will teach courses in psychiatric mental health nursing theory and clinicals. Ph.D. in nursing science from University of California, San Francisco. Most recent position: administrative house supervisor for Kaiser Permanente's Geary Campus. Research interests include family health care nursing and substance abuse treatment.

Nathalie Mizelle, assistant professor of counseling. Will teach courses in counseling practicum and internship and a seminar class on rehabilitation counseling. Ph.D. in rehabilitation psychology from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Most recent position: associate instruction specialist with the PEOPLE program at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Research interests include multicultural issues in rehabilitation, utilization of the construct resilience with individuals with disabilities, school to work transition issues, substance use/abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome and rehabilitation technology.

Graciela Orozco, assistant professor of counseling. Will teach courses in supervision and consultation in counseling, structural elements for school counseling and counseling internship. Ed.D in educational psychology from University of the Pacific. Most recent position: consultant and researcher for California Tomorrow in Oakland. Research interests include multicultural and bilingual school counseling, acculturation, facilitating effective ESL instruction and designing effective mental health intervention and prevention services for minority children.

Chris Simpson, assistant professor of counseling. Will teach courses in the counseling process, counseling practicum and internship and professional issues in school counseling. Ph.D. in philosophy-counseling from University of North Texas. Most recent position: adult and adolescent counselor at University of North Texas. Research interests include group counseling, counseling therapies, play therapy/child counseling, parent training, school counseling and counselor training.

Mary Ann van Dam, assistant professor of nursing. Will teach courses in nursing ethics and pediatric nursing. Ph.D. in nursing from University of California, San Francisco. Most recent position: clinical pediatric faculty member at SFSU and clinical pediatric nurse at University of California, San Francisco. Research interests include lesbian health research.

Julianna van Olphen, assistant professor of health education. Will teach courses in program planning for community change and community health education. Ph.D. in public health from University of Michigan. Most recent position: assistant professor at Hunter College in the School of Health Sciences. Research interests include community-based research, community development, eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities, HIV/AIDS and STD prevention, human sexual behavior, women's health and participatory action research.

Wendy Qingwen Xu, assistant professor of social work. Will teach courses in social work urban organizing and citizen action and the history and philosophy of social welfare. Ph.D. in social work from University of Denver. Most recent position: adjunct assistant professor in psychology, sociology and social work at City University of New York, Staten Island. Research interests include law and social work, U.S. comparative social policy, welfare reform social development and community practice.

Miu Chung Yan, assistant professor of social work. Will teach courses in social work practice methods, and ethnic social concepts and principles. Ph.D. in social work from University of Toronto. Most recent position: project associate for the China-Canada collaborative project on the development of social work education at University of Toronto and China Civil Affairs College in China. Yan's research interests include adult education training and multicultural and diversity social work issues.

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College of Humanities

Carel Bertram, assistant professor of humanities. Will teach courses in Islamic arts and culture. Ph.D. in art history from UCLA. Most recent position: lecturer of Islamic art and architecture at the Center for Middle East Studies at University of Texas at Austin. Research interests include Islamic art and architecture; Ottoman arts and domestic architecture in Turkey, Egypt, Syria, and the Balkans; and modern Turkish literature as a source for art history.

Nona Caspers, assistant professor of creative writing. Will teach the undergraduate literary magazine class and graduate classes in the short story and the novel. M.F.A. in creative writing from SFSU. Most recent position: lecturer of creative writing at SFSU and journal editor in health psychology at University of California, San Francisco. Her novel "The Blessed" was published in 1991, and she is working on a film script, collection of letters in vignette and poem form titled "Dear Elaine," and a novel titled "This is My Life, Sort Of."

Deborah Cohler, assistant professor of women studies. Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Will teach introduction to women studies, theories of female sexuality and feminist theories. Most recent position: lecturer of women's studies at University of California, Berkeley. Research interests include World War I representations of gender and sexual identities and the role of nationalism in inter-war fiction by women.

Andrew DeVigal, assistant professor of journalism. Will teach courses in online storytelling and design, photojournalism, and interactive and informational graphics. B.A. in computer sciences from SFSU. Most recent position: principal of DeVigal Design. He co-wrote the book "Web Designer's Guide to Typography" and participated in the recent Stanford-Poynter Project, which researched how readers use online news.

Marc Dollinger, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair of Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility/professor of Jewish studies. Will teach courses in Jewish social responsibility and Jewish thought and culture. Ph.D. in history from UCLA. Most recent position: associate professor of history at Pasadena City College. Research interests include Jews and American politics, American Jewish life and American Jews in the struggle for racial equality.

Stacy Doris, assistant professor of creative writing. Will teach courses in undergraduate and graduate poetry writing, craft of poetry, poetics of indeterminacy and translation workshop. M.F.A. in creative writing from University of Iowa. Most recent position: instructor at Academy of American Poets. Doris recently published a book of poetry, "Conference," and has also published many books of French translations.

Judy Koenig, assistant professor of speech and communication studies. Will teach courses in interpersonal communication, family communication and quantitative methodology. Ph.D. in interpersonal and relational communication from University of Washington. Most recent position: graduate candidate and instructor at University of Washington. Research interests include storytelling, family communication and understanding interpersonal communication through film and literature.

Volker M. Langbehn, assistant professor of German. Will teach courses in German language and literature. Ph.D. in German literature from University of Minnesota. Most recent position: visiting assistant professor of German at Iowa State University. Research interests include German literature from the 18th century to the present, theory of literature, history of aesthetic theory, popular narratives and cultural criticism.

Edward Luby, assistant professor of museum studies. Will teach courses in museum governance, museum administration, museum fund-raising and cultural property law. Ph.D. in anthropology from Stony Brook University, New York. Most recent position: associate director of the Berkeley Natural History Museums. Research interests include artifacts of Native Americans from Northern California.

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College of Science and Engineering

Teaster Baird, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry. Will teach biochemistry lecture and laboratory courses. Ph.D. in protein biochemistry from Duke University. Most recent position: visiting postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Francisco. Research interests include biotechnology.

Todor Cooklev, assistant professor of engineering. Will teach wireless communication and electromagnetics courses. Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology. Most recent position: Aware Inc. Research interests include wireless communication systems, digital signal processing algorithms and standards and protocols for communications.

Edward Lank, assistant professor of computer science. Will teach courses in analysis of algorithm and human computer interaction. Ph.D. in computer science from Queen's University in Canada. Most recent position: research scholar at Xerox PARC. Research interests include human computer interaction, pen computing and interactive diagram recognition.

Arno Puder, assistant professor of computer science. Will teach courses in introduction to computer programming and advanced operating systems. Ph.D. in computer science from University of Frankfurt in Germany. Most recent position: AT&T Labs Research. Research interests include conformance testing, middleware systems and embedded systems.

Britta Lyn Swanson, assistant professor of biology. Will teach microbiology courses. Ph.D. in medical microbiology from Texas Tech University. Most recent position: postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Francisco. Research interests include the molecular mechanisms by which bacterium cause infections in immuno-compromised patients.

J. Albert Uy, assistant professor of biology. Will teach evolution, behavior and ornithology courses. Ph.D. in biology from University of Maryland. Most recent position: postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Santa Barbara. Research interests include understanding how changes in mating behaviors lead to the formation of new species.

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J. Paul Leonard Library

Lisa C. Wallis, senior assistant librarian. Will be subject liaison to biology, health education, kinesiology, nursing and physical therapy. M.S. in library and information science and M.S.P.H. in community health education from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

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Counseling and Psychological Services

Derethia DuVal, clinical counselor in Counseling and Psychological Services. Will provide personal counseling to students, faculty and staff. Most recent position: clinical counselor with Counseling and Psychological Services in a temporary position. M.S. in counseling from SFSU; credentials in substance abuse, critical incident stress debriefing and sexual assault response; and a license in marriage, family and child counseling.

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