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Scott Nicholas Siegel

( He/Him/His )

Associate Professor
International Relations

Email:
snsiegel@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
Location:
Humanities Building, Room 331

At SF State Since:

2014

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 12:00-14:00or by appointment (Zoom)
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 12:00-14:00or by appointment (Zoom)
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Scott Siegel is Associate Professor of International Relations. He currently teaches several Lower Division courses in the Core Curriculum of the International Relations Major. They include: Introduction to International Relations (IR 104), Introduction to International Political Economy (IR 312), and World Politics in Cinema (IR 201/CINE 101). He also teaches upper division courses in European Politics and the Politics of the European Union. At the graduate level, he regularly teach International Political Economy.

Siegel is the advisor to the Model European Union team for SF State. He also  taught courses in international relations at universities around the world, including at the University of Seoul and at Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan.

Prof. Siegel’s research focuses on the party politics of LGBT rights in Europe. His particular focus is on partisan polarization and response to public opinion on LGBT rights and issues.  He also researches the causes and consequences of antisemitism in Europe. A complete list of publications can be found on his CV at the link below.

Siegel is active in many college, university, and professional organizations and regularly presents at workshops and conferences around the world.

 

Yang Xiao-Desai

Yang Xiao Desai

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Foreign Languages & Lit

Email:
yangxiao@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-3122
Location:
HUM 348

At SF State Since:

Office Hours:

Website(s):

At SF State Since:

2014

Bio:

Dr. Yang Xiao-Desai is a professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures. She received her Ph. D. from University of Hawaii at Manoa. Prior to joining San Francisco State University in 2014, she taught in University of South Carolina, University of California, Davis, Middlebury College (Summer Chinese School), and University of Hawaii. 

Her main areas of research are in heritage language development, second language acquisition, and Chinese sociolinguistics. She is interested in social and affective factors of heritage/immigrant language population, such as anxiety, identity, and willingness to communicate. She uses mixed method and learner corpus data to study heritage language development, particularly the development of pragmatic competence. 

In SFSU, she teaches Chinese Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Curriculum and Instruction. Her specialty also includes Chinese language program development, curriculum design, and world language teacher training. 

Experience

Education

University of Hawii at Manoa         Ph.D. Chinese Linguistics and Pedagogy

Chinese University of Hong Kong  Eu Tong Sen Fellow, China Studies

Hunan Normal University, China    M.A., Chinese Linguistics

                                                        B.A., Chinese Language Education

 

Professional Experices

San Francisco State University (2014 - present)

Faculty member, Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership, College of Education (2018 - present)

Associate Professor, Modern Languages & Literatures (2018 - present)

Assistant professor (2014 - 2018)

Associate Director, Chinese Flagship Program (Fall, 2015)

University of London, Birkbeck (2020 Spring)

Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication

University of South Carolina (2012 - 2014)

Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Consulting Faculty, Linguistic Program 

University of California, Davis (2007-2012)

Acting Coordinator of Chinese Language Program (2010-2011)

Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Middlebury College, Summer Chinese School (2006 & 2007)

Instructor, Level 2 Chinese               

University of Hawai'i at Manoa (2003-2006)

Teaching Assistant; Lecturer (fall 2006), Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Research Assistant, National Foreign Language Resource Center (2005)

Xiamen University (2000-2003)

Lecturer, Overseas Education College

Lecturer (2001-2003), Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU)

Graduate Courses

  • CHIN 824 Testing and Assessment in Teaching Chinese as A Foreign Language
  • CHIN 825 Chinese Applied Linguistics and Pedagogy
  • CHIN 837 Materials Development for TCSL
  • MLL 808 Second Language Acquisition
  • MLL 803 Technology and Language Education
  • MLL 751 Curriculum and Instruction

Undergraduate Courses

  • CHIN 525 Chinese Applied Linguistics
  • CHIN 228 Chinese Language and Society
  • CHIN 101 - 303

*Last name changed from Xiao, Yang to Xiao-Desai Yang in 2015

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and book chapters

  • In press         Xiao-Desai, Yang, Wong, Ka. Heritage learner pragmatics – Moving beyond monolingual norms. Applied Pragmatics
  • 2021         Xiao-Desai, Yang. Stance-taking in heritage language writing. The Modern Language Journal, 105(3), 679-696.
  • 2021         Xiao-Desai, Yang. Heritage language education and identity through the lens of multilingualism (多语意识形态下的传承语教育与身份研究). Journal of International Chinese Teaching(4) 15-27 (国际汉语教学研究04, 15～27页)
  • 2020         Zhou, Y., Xiao-Desai, Y., Chen, S., & Curry A. The development of willingness to communicate in L2 Chinese writing – A longitudinal study. In Xiao. F. (Ed.) Second Language Chinese Development: A Longitudinal Perspective. Lexington
  • 2019         Xiao-Desai, Yang. Heritage learner pragmatics. In Taguchi, N. (Ed.) Handbook of SLA and Pragmatics (pp. 462-478). New York: Routledge
  • 2019         Xiao-Desai, Yang. The effects of online writing on heritage language anxiety – a Bayesian analysis. In Li, S. & Yuan, F. (Eds.) Classroom-Based Research on Chinese as a second language (pp.128-151). New York: Routledge
  • 2018        Xiao-Desai, Yang, Wong, K., & Magriney, C. Utilizing social networks in language classes – Language production, interaction, and pedagogical considerations. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, Volume 24, 121-170
  • 2017         Xiao-Desai, Yang. Ethnic identity and heritage language anxiety (民族認同與傳承語焦慮). Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning 《語言戰略研究》 2(3), 38-55
  • 2017         Xiao-Desai, Yang & Wong, Ka. Epistemic stance in heritage language writing – A developmental view. Chinese as a Second Language Research, 6(1), 73–102
  • 2017         Xiao-Desai, Yang & Wong, Ka. Explorations in teaching Chinese as a second language: An Introduction. In Xiao-Desai & Wong. (Eds.) Explorations in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language: A Celebration of the Lifetime Achievements of Tao-chung Yao. Boston, Mass.: Cheng & Tsui.
  • 2015         Xiao-Desai, Yang, Wong, Ka, & Wu, Xiaohui. Technology training in Chinese language teacher education: Content, concept, & context. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 17, 173-218
  • 2014         Xiao, Yang & Wong, Ka. Exploring heritage language anxiety: A study of Chinese heritage language learners. The Modern Language Journal, 98(2), 589-611 DOI: 10.1111/modl.12085
  • 2014         Mathur, MB, Patel, RB, Gould, M, Uyeki, TM, Bhattacharya, J, Xiao, Yang, Gilaspie, Y., Chae, C., & Khazeni, N. (2014) Seasonal patterns in human A (H5N1) virus infection: Analysis of global cases. PLoS ONE 9(9) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106171
  • 2014         Patel, RB, Mathur, MB, Gould, M, Uyeki, TM, Bhattacharya, J, Xiao, Yang, & Khazeni, N. (2014) Demographic and clinical predictors of mortality from highly pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) virus infection: CART analysis of international cases. PLoS ONE 9(3). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091630
  • 2011         Yao, Tao-Chung., Xiao, Yang, Magriney, C., & Wong, Ka. Teaching Chinese through interactive and collaborative online social networks. Journal of Chinese Language Teaching and Research in the U.S., May 2011
  • 2010         Wong, Ka & Xiao, Yang. Diversity and difference: Identity issues of Chinese heritage language learners from dialect backgrounds. Heritage Language Journal, 7(2), 153-187
  • 2003         Xiao, Yang. A cognitive analysis of comparability of antonymous monosyllabic adjectives (反義性狀兼容的認知分析). Overseas Chinese Education (海外華文教育), 2003(1), 24-28
  • 2002         Xiao, Yang. Chinese coordinate adjectives (形容詞聯合短語). In Chu, Z. (Eds.) On Chinese Coordinate Phrases. Changsha, Hunan: Hunan University Press. (儲澤祥 主編《漢語聯合短語研究》，湖南大學出版社).
  • 2001         Xiao, Yang. Guidelines and principles in curriculum design for Chinese language teacher training program – Chinese writing system (漢語研修教材文字部份編寫思路). Overseas Chinese Education (海外華文教育), No.1, 2001, 10-18
  • 2001         Chu, Zexiang, Xiao, Yang, & Zeng, Qingxiang. The markedness of Chinese coordinate phrases (並列短語的標記隱現情況考察). Chinese Linguistics 2001 (4)(《漢語學報》總第4期，2001年下卷)
  • 2000         Chu, Z., Zeng, Q. & Xiao, Yang. 由兩個名詞或名詞短語構成的並列短語NP coordination with two or more nouns, In Sheng X. (Eds.) Essays and Reviews on Linguistics. Changsha, Hunan: Yuelu Publishing House（盛新华主编《語言論叢》，嶽麓書社）
  • 1999         Chu, Zexiang, Xiao, Yang, & Zeng, Qingxiang. The comparability in ‘hen’-structure (通比性的“很”字結構). Chinese Teaching in the World (世界漢語教學), 1999(1) 36-44

Edited Book

  • 2018         Xiao-Desai, Yang & Wong F. Ka. Explorations in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language – Studies in Honor of Professor Tao-chung Yao. Boston, Mass.: Cheng & Tsui.

Book Review

  • 2015         Xiao-Desai, Yang.  [Review of the book Corpus Linguistics and Linguistically Annotated Corpora, by Küebler Sandra & Zinsmeister, Heike]. The Modern Language Journal, 99 801-802. doi: 10.1111/modl.12287

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceeding

  • 2012         Patel RB, Mathur, MB, Gillaspie, Y., Xiao, Yang, & Khazeni, N. Prognostic model of mortality following Human Influenza(A) H5N1. The 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making Oct. 2012 

Invited Talks and workshop

  • 2021       “Practical Ways to Teach Pragmatics in CFL Classrooms: Speech Acts & Beyond”, in Teacher Training Workshop: Pragmatics Instruction in L2 Chinese – speech act and beyond, SFSU, Oct. 2021
  • 2021       “Career Advancement as CSL Professionals” Fifth Virtual Forum, by Chinese Language Teacher Association U.S., March 6, 2021
  • 2020       “Heritage Language Writing – Theoretical Considerations and Pedagogical Practices.” Yale University, Aug. 24, 2020. Invited talk at the Council on East Asian Studies.
  • 2020       “Heritage Language Learners under Globalization – Identity, Anxiety, and Pragmatic Development.” University of London, Birkbeck. Invited talk at the Department of Applied Linguistics & Communication. Mar. 6, 2020
  • 2019       “Standards, Strategies, and Experiences of K-12 Chinese Language Teaching.” San Francisco State University, Fall 2019 Workshop on Chinese Teaching, by SFSU Division of International Education
  • 2018       “Chinese as a heritage language research and teaching.” Invited talk at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, July 19, 2018
  • 2018       “Emotional and Social Factors of Heritage Language Speakers.” Invited talk at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, sponsored by the Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Center, New York, New York. Organizer: Lisa Diamond, Sloan Kettering, Jun 13, 2018
  • 2018       “Technology-enhanced Second Language Learning and Research: Affordances, collaborations, and outcomes”, invited talk at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, April 18, 2018.
  • 2018       “I Feel Therefore I am: Stance and Identity in Heritage Language Writing.” Talk in the invited colloquium, “Globalization and Second Language Pragmatics: Implications for Research and Teaching” American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2018, Chicago, Illinois. Organizer: Naoko Taguchi, Carnegie Mellon University, March 24, 2018
  • 2017       “Epistemic Stance and Identity Positioning of Chinese Heritage Language Learners.” Invited talk by the Chinese Studies Research Group (San Francisco Bay Area), University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA March 4, 2017
  • 2017      “Using Facebook Group to Facilitate Language Production and Interaction.” Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center Symposium, San Francisco, March 9-10, 2017
  • 2017      “Heritage Language Education and Research.” Invited colloquium at “International Forum of Chinese Language Teachers”(“国际汉语教师微信群”学术公众号), Jan. 2017
  • 2016      “edTPA and Teaching Chinese in Secondary Schools.” CLTAC 2016 Fall Workshop Program, San Francisco State University, October 22
  • 2016      “SLA Empirical Research and L2 Classroom Practice.” Part of the Round Table Forum “Reflections on Empirical Studies in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.” (invited expert), 2016 CLTA Second International Symposium on Chinese Teaching and Learning, April 1-3, 2016, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
  • 2016      “Identity, Anxiety, and Online Writing – Heritage Language Research at the Crossroads of Linguistics and SLA”, invited talk at Asian Languages & Literature Colloquium, University of Washington, Seattle. Feb. 16, 2016
  • 2015      “Differentiated Instruction, Technology, and Classroom-based Research.” Invited pedagogy-training workshop for teachers and language coordinators of Project GO (Global Officers), Funded by Defense Language and National Security Education Office, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, May 21-13,
  • 2014      “L2 Online Writing by Learners of Chinese: Task Complexity and Individual Differences.” Invited colloquium (organizer and speaker), 33rd Second Language Research Forum, Columbia, South Carolina, Oct. 23-25,
  • 2014      “Anxieties in Chinese Language Learning.” Invited collaboration to St. Olaf College, North Field, Minnesota, Sept. 26-28,
  • 2014      “SMART Technologies in Chinese Language Classrooms.” Invited talk at Middlebury College (Summer Chinese School), Middlebury, Vermont, July.
  • 2013      “Individual Differences in Heritage Language Acquisition.” Invited talk at the College of International Education, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. Dec.
  • 2013      “Use of Social Networks in Second/heritage Language Teaching and Research.” Invited talk at Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China, Dec.
  • 2013      “Research of Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition: Study designs, methods, and tools.”  Invited talk at the College of International Cultural Exchange, Central China Normal University, Dec.
  • 2013      “Discourse Makers in Chinese Conversational Narrative.” Invited talk at the College of Language and Literature, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, Dec.
  • 2013      “Exploring Heritage Language Identity and Anxiety.”  Invited talk at the College of Language and Literature, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, Dec.
  • 2013      “Individual Differences and Heritage Language Writing, Linguistics Talks.” Invited talk at the Linguistics Program, University of South Carolina, Apr.
  • 2012      “A Learner Corpus of Online Chinese Writing.” Invited presentation at the Digital Humanities Center Open House, University of South Carolina, Nov.

Conference Presentations

  • 2022       “Interculturality in K-12 Chinese language education: Dilemmas and Challenges”, 2022 Chinese Language Teachers Association Annual Conference, April 10; Co-presenters: Drs. Wenhao Diao & Yi Xu.
  • 2022       “Professional challenges and racism: Chinese language teachers in K-12 schools in America”, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2022 Conference, March 21; Co-presenters: Drs. Wenhao Diao & Yi Xu.
  • 2017      “The Development of Epistemic Stance in Heritage Language Blogs”, 15th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Belfast, Northern Ireland, July 16 -21.
  • 2017       “The Development of Epistemic Modality in Heritage Language Writing”, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2017 Conference, Portland, Oregon March 19-21.
  • 2016      “Technology-enhanced Assessments in Learning Chinese as a Second Language.” Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language, CLTA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 18-20.
  • 2016       “Learning Strategies and Cognitive Complexity in Chinese Online Writing Tasks.” American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2016 Conference, Orlando, Florida, April 9-12.
  • 2016       “Individual Differences and Complexity of Chinese Online Writing Tasks.” 2016 CLTA Second International Symposium on Chinese Teaching and Learning, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. April 1-3.
  • 2015       “Individual Differences and Learning with Technology-enhanced Activities.” Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language, CLTA Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, Nov. 20-22.
  • 2015       “Individual Differences, Writing Engagement, and Task Complexity in Chinese Online Writing Tasks.” The Sixth International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT 2015), Leuven, Belgium, Sept. 16-18.
  • 2014       “Technology Enhanced Writing Activities: Design, Practice, & Assessment.” Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 21-23.
  • 2014       “Information Retrieval by L2 Writers: Factors Affecting Computer-assisted Second Language Writing Performance.” American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, Oregon, Mar. 22-25.
  • 2014       “Social Networks and Research in Accelerated Writing Instruction.” Southeast Conference of Association of Asian Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, Jan. 17-19.
  • 2013       “Incorporating Mobile Technology and Social Networks in Chinese Writing Instruction.” CLTA Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, Nov. 21-24.
  • 2013       “Anxiety, Identity, and Writing Activity in Chinese Heritage Language Classroom.” 32nd Second Language Research Forum, Provo, Utah, October 30-Nov. 2.
  • 2012       “Written Learner Corpora - Construction, Analysis, and Pedagogical Application.” CLTA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 15-18.
  • 2012       “Empowering Students’ Interactivity and Proficiency Through Technology-Enhanced Activities.” Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language, Philadelphia, PA, Nov.15-18.
  • 2012       “Developing a Learner Corpus of Online Writing - at the Crossroads of Language Teaching and Linguistics Research.” The Third Annual Chinese Language Education Forum (CLEF), San Francisco, California, Nov. 10-11.
  • 2012       “A Chinese Heritage Learner Corpus of Online Writing.” The Sixth Heritage Language Research Institute, UCLA
  • 2012       “Discourse Markers in Chinese Conversational Narrative.” The 24th North American Conference of Chinese Linguistics, San Francisco, June.
  • 2012       “Developing a Learner Corpus of Online Writing: at the Crossroads of Language Teaching and Linguistics Research.” Chinese Language Teachers Association of California, Spring Conference, San Francisco
  • 2011       “Extensive Online Writing in Chinese Heritage Language Classes - Pedagogical Application and Learner Corpus Research.” Chinese Language Teachers Association of California, Fall Conference, San Francisco, October
  • 2010       “Enhancing Chinese Writing Skill through Blogging: Empirical Research and Application.” Chinese Language Teachers Association Annual Conference, Boston, Nov.
  • 2010       “Teaching Pragmatic Strategies with Film Clips.” Clipping the Curriculum: Integrating Clips into the Foreign Language Classroom, UC Berkeley, June.
  • 2010       “Chinese Heritage Language Writing Anxiety: Research, Application and Impact.” The Fifth UC Language Consortium Conference on Theoretical & Pedagogical Perspectives (in Partnership with the East Coast Language Consortium), UC San Diego, April.
  • 2010       “Diversity and Difference: Identity Issues of Chinese Heritage Language Learners from Dialect Backgrounds.” First International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, UCLA, Feb.
  • 2009       “Development of Chinese Discourse Markers: Diachronic Analysis and Cognitive Account.” 21st North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Rhode Island, June.
  • 2008       “Chinese Heritage Language Writing Anxiety: Empirical Research and Pedagogical Implication.” Chinese Language Teachers Association Annual Conference, Orlando, Nov.
  • 2005       “Decision-Making in Grammar Teaching - Understanding Learners’ Needs.” The 5th International Conference on Language Teacher Education, Minneapolis, May.
  • 2005       “Pragmatic-focused Approach and Material Development – The Teacher’s Perspective.” Chinese Summer Institute – Pragmatics in CFL Classroom, Honolulu, July.
  • 2002       “A Cognitive Analysis of Comparability of Antonymous Monosyllabic Adjectives.” The Seventh International Symposium on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Shanghai, Oct.
Service

SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY  

For organizations and conferences Role/Service Period
Foreign Language Annals Editorial board member 2022-present
Chinese Language Teachers Association – US (CLTA) Board member 2021- present
American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators, and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC) Asian Language Section Head 2019- present
edTPA (Teacher Performance Assessment) Scorer 2019-present
American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Abstract reviewer (BIMH strand, SLA strand) 2016- 2021
Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) SIG in Chinese as a second language research Co-organizer 2016-2021
Chinese Language Teachers Association – US (CLTA) Newsletter editor 2018- 2021
Chinese Language Teachers Association at California (CLTAC)

Newsletter editor

Chair of news and media

 2015-2017
The Third Chinese Language Education Forum (CLEF) Review Committee 2013
The 33rd Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) Faculty Advisor and Colloquium Organizer 2014
The 24th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) Organizing Committee Member, abstract reviewer, and Session Chair 2012
Chinese Language Teachers Association of California (CLTAC) Webmaster 2008-2012
Advanced Placement Chinese Language and Culture (AP Chinese) Reader 2008

 

For academic journals Role/Service Period
Modern Language Journal Manuscript Reviewer 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
Heritage Language Journal Manuscript Reviewer 2020, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012
International Journal of Applied Linguistics Manuscript Reviewer 2019
Chinese as a Second Language Manuscript Reviewer 2019, 2018
Language Learning & Technology Manuscript Reviewer 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013
System Manuscript Reviewer 2017
Linguistics and Language Compass Manuscript Reviewer 2017
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Manuscript Reviewer 2016, 2015,
Journal of Identity, Language, and Education Manuscript Reviewer 2016, 2013
K-12 Chinese Language Teaching Ad-hoc Reviewer 2015-present

 

SERVICE TO CAMPUSES

 Level Role/Service Period
Chinese Program Pathway of Chinese MA with teaching credential 2020-2021
MLL Department Election Committee 2020
College of Education EdD Program – faculty advisor, dissertation chair, dissertation members, and qualification Exam Reader 2020-2021
College of Education Dept. of Elementary Edu - Bilingual teacher candidate interviewer, faculty supervisor 2020-2021
University Academic Senator 2018 - 2020
University Academic Policies Committee (APC) 2018 - 2019
University Integrated Bilingual Education for Social Transformation (I-BEST) 2017 - 2019
University Upper Division Certification Committee 2017 - 2019
University International Training (Shanxi Normal University) Spring 2016
University Scorer, Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) 2015
University Judge, Confucius Institute Chinese Bridge Contest 2015
Department Modern Languages & Literatures Task Force  2017
Department The Committee for the Chair Mid-term Feedback  2016
Department The Ad Hoc Committee for the Election of Acting Chair Fall 2014
Department Faculty Co-advisor, Phi Sigma Iota 2015 - 2016
Program Chinese Program GTA selection and training 2014 - 2017
Program Chinese Program Undergraduate Advisor (M to Z) 2015 - present
Program Associate Director of Chinese Flagship Program  Fall 2015
Program Curriculum Consultant, Chinese Flagship Linkage Program  2015 - 2017

[In Chinese] "California cult wines", The Collections, Sept. 2017 (加州膜拜酒，《藏天下》雜誌)

[In Chinese] “Black brother Obama's tomorrow”, Financial Times Chinese, Nov. 2008 www.ftchinese.com (黑人兄弟奧巴馬的明天, 英国《金融时报》中文网)

[In Chinese] “Trade golden hairpin for wine: How many bottles?” Financial Times Chinese, Nov. 2008 www.ftchinese.com (金釵能沽幾瓶酒, 英国《金融时报》中文网)

[In Chinese] “Presidential Election Syndrome”, Nov. 2008 www.hexun.com  (大選綜合症，《和訊財經新聞》)

[In Chinese] “Dodged Hoover, Doomed by Bush”, Oct. 2008 www.hexun.com (熬過胡佛，躲不過布什《和訊財經新聞》)

Silvan Linn

Silvan Linn

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Associate Professor
School of Design

Email:
silvan@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-7984
Location:
HUM 250

At SF State Since:

2012

Office Hours:

Office Hours (Additional Info): 

Use the SFSU Navigator link below to book advising appointments. Office hours will be held in HUM 250.

 

Website(s):

At SF State Since:

2012

Bio:

Silvan received a BID from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada working on the design of smart assistive medical devices, and later an MSD from Arizona State University studying slow technology and new theories of human-machine interfaces. His research interests include advanced rapid prototyping techniques, local-scale manufacturing and product development, new human-machine interface concepts, smart products and embedded technologies.

Andrea Swei

Andrea Swei

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Professor
Biology, College of Science and Engineering

Email:
aswei@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-1753
Location:
HH 664

At SF State Since:

2013

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 12:00-14:00
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: Closed
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Bio:

B.A. from University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley

Postdoctoral fellow at Cary Instiute of Ecosystem Studies

Ruth Kirschstein postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Francisco

 

Dr. Swei's research is focused on the ecology and pathogenesis of diseases, especially tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease. Her research investigates the ways that habitat disturbance, community interactions, and trophic cascades affect the distribution and prevalence of tick-borne diseases. In addition, recent work examines the functional role of microbial communities in pathogen transmission. Research in the Swei lab focuses on field, laboratory, and metagenomic experiments as well as mathematical modeling to understand the dynamics of emerging infectious diseases.

CV:

Sybil Yang

Sybil Yang

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Associate Professor
Hospitality & Tourism Mgmt

Email:
sybil@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 405-2531
Location:

At SF State Since:

2011

Office Hours:

Website(s):

Bio:

ABOUT

Sybil Yang is an Associate Professor (apologies, the listing in the margin is incorrect) at San Francisco State University, in the Department of Hostpitality & Tourism Management, within the Lam Family College of Business. Her research agenda is focused on evaluating the efficacy of restaurant menu, menu board, and wine label design tactics. On a more theoretical-level, Sybil's research interests are in consumer behavior and behavioral economics. 

 

Sybil’s menu design research has been presented at the National Restaurant Association’s annual restaurant shows (2013 and 2010), and has been reported on and featured in (among others):

  • Science (online),
  • The Wall Street Journal (online),
  • Nation’s Restaurant News, Restaurants & Institutions, and
  • Women’s Health Magazine.

Her design and pricing recommendations have been directly implemented on hundreds of menus across the United States. Apart from her menu design research, Sybil’s current work also explores consumer decision making and how decoys can be used to change consumer behavior.  

 

Prior to her current position at SFSU, Sybil taught menu development at the Culinary Institute of America, was a baker at artisan bread  bakery Arizmendi (Zagat 25) and chef at Wente Vineyards (Zagat 25). Before finding her professional passion for the Food & Beverage Industry, Sybil was a boring investment banker with Salomon Smith Barney's media and telecommunications group, and an analyst for the venture capital firm Skipstone Ventures.

 

EDUCATION

PhD - Consumer Behavior, Cornell University

MBA - Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

MMH - School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University

Bachelor’s of Science - Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley.

 

RESEARCH

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

  • Sybil Yang and Michael Lynn (2014) More Evidence Challenging the Robustness and Usefulness of the Attraction Effect. Journal of Marketing Research: August 2014, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 508-513.

 

  • Yang, S. S. (2012). Eye movements on restaurant menus: A revisitation on gaze motion and consumer scanpaths. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 31(3), 1021-1029.

 

  • Yang, S. S., Kimes, S. E., & Sessarego, M. M. (2009). Menu price presentation influences on consumer purchase behavior in restaurants. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 28(1), 157-160.

 

  • Yang, S. S., Lynn, M., & Wines, S. (2009). Wine List Characteristics Associated with Greater Wine Sales. Cornell Hospitality Reports, 9(11).

 

  • Yang, S. S., Kimes, S. E., & Sessarego, M. M. (2009). $ or Dollars?: Effects of Menu Price Formats on Customer Price Purchases. Cornell Hospitality Reports, 9(8).

 

Textbook Chapters & Modules:

  • F&B Module: Financial Forecasting for Food & Beverage Operations (2016). Sybil Yang, Author. Peter Szende, Series Editor. Prentice Hall.

 

  • F&B Module 5: Menu Design for the Food and Beverage Operation (2013). Sybil Yang, Author. Peter Szende, Series Editor. ISBN-10: 0132802848 • ISBN-13: 9780132802840. Prentice Hall.

 

  • F&B Module 6: Menu Pricing for the Food & Beverage Operation (2013). Sybil Yang, Author. Peter Szende, Series Editor. ISBN-10: 0132802740 • ISBN-13: 9780132802741. Prentice Hall.

 

  • F&B Module 7: Wine & Beverage Menu Design and Pricing (2013). Sybil Yang & Andrew Walls, Authors. Peter Szende, Series Editor. ISBN-10: 0132802716 • ISBN-13: 9780132802710. Prentice Hall.
 
 
 
  • 94th Annual National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show. National Restaurant Association, Chicago, IL. Menu Re-design: How to Fix Your Layout, Copy, Design and Pricing Tactics.

 

  • 91st  Annual National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show. National Restaurant Association, Chicago, IL. Tactics, Tips & Tricks for Developing "New Now" Menus.
 
Courtney Fellion

Courtney Fellion

( She/Her/Hers )

Lecturer
Cinema, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Email:
cfellion@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
Location:

At SF State Since:

2010

Office Hours:

Bio:

Courtney Fellion (she/her) is a lecturer in the School of Cinema. She is a writer, artist, and educator.

Fellion has worked with a variety of arts organizations including Canyon Cinema, the Denver Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Kramlich Collection in San Francisco.  From 2012-2019, she edited the Canyon Cinemazine, an artist-made publication for experimental film that revisits the Canyon Cinema newsletters of the 1960s.  From 2014-2017, she co-organized the HÄXÄN Film Festival for filmmakers exploring psychic and mystic connections through video and film.

Fellion was a participant in Sundance Film Institute’s first annual Art House Project Convergence Conference and has presented papers at the University of Chicago, NYU, Chapman University and the annual Console-ing Passions feminist media conference.

Her research interests include exhibition and distribution formats, zines and print artist ephemera, nostalgia for fictive/virtual places, and the myth of the American West. She is currently researching online and virtual exhibition spaces for experimental media arts. She has been a resident at Signal Culture (NY) and White Leaves Artist Residency (NM).

Since 2012, Fellion has taught classes on film curation at San Francisco State University. She assisted with the launch the Archive Project at SFSU in 2020 to encourage research and access to the SFSU School of Cinema's sixty years of student and alumni film archives.

Alexandra Pappas

Alexandra Pappas

()

Assistant Professor
ClassicsCollege of Liberal and Creative Arts

Email:
apappas@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-1220
Location:

At SF State Since:

2012

Office Hours:

CV: 

About Anagha Kulkarni

Anagha Kulkarni

()

Professor
College of Science and Engineering

Email:
ak@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
Location:

At SF State Since:

2013

Office Hours:

Bio:

Anagha Kulkarni is a Professor of Computer Science at San Francisco State University. Her research training is in natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval (IR), and machine learning (ML); broadly Artificial Intelligence (AI). She applies her training and experience to investigate multidisciplinary problems in the fields of public health, women's health, STEM retention, and medicine. Dr. Kulkarni holds a PhD in Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University, MS in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Duluth, and Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Pune. Dr. Kulkarni’s work has been supported by federal agencies (NSF, NIH), industry partners (Genentech Inc., Diffbot Inc.), and nonprofit organization (Genentech Foundation, SKERI).

Dr. Kulkarni has been a CS educator for over a decade and currently leads the following student, faculty, and professionals training programs that are aimed at increasing retention, diversity and student success: AI-STAARS, BPC-A FLC, PINC, Gen-PINC, gSTAR, and gSTAR Pro.

(May 2024) The Gen-PINC program received a grant renewal award of $2M from Genentech Foundation to continue and expand the impact of this incredible student training program. Read an article about this renewal (and another program renewal).   

 

(May 2024) Gian Baldonado's poster featuring our work on the TACCIT project received 2nd place at the annual CoSE Student Project Showcase. 

 

(December 2023) We received a grant renewal award from Genentech Inc. to continue our work on developing curriculum for professionals in Biotech industry. 

 

(November 2023) The 2023-24 cohort of AI-STAARS Scholars has been selected.  20 Computer Science Freshmen are receiving $190,414 in scholarships through the AI-STAARS program which is supported by the NSF S-STEM initiative. 

 

(October 2023) We received a grant award from Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute to continue our ongoing collaborative work with Dr. Chandna's lab on developing computaitonal solutions for problems related to Higher Visual Function Deficits and Cerebral Visual Impairment. 

 

(June 2023) We have launched a new professional certificate program titled: Data Science and Machine Learning for Biotechnology Professionals, in collaboration with Genentech Inc. and CPaGE. The first cohort of 24 Genentech employees is currently getting reskilled through this program, and poised to graduate in May 2024! 

 

(August 2023) 19 SF State students from bio/biochem majors have embarked on our certificate program titled Data Science and Machine Learning for Biotechnology to earn high-demand computational skills. 

 

(August 2022) We are part of a multi-institutional grant award from NSF that is focussed on developing socially responsive computing curriculum for early CS courses.

 

(June 2022) Our new biotech certificate program in collaboration with Genentech was featured in SFSU News. Several graduates from this program are landing amazing summer internships (Genentech, BioMarin, UCSF). 

 

(May 2022) SFSU News featured an article about our tool, QMOHI: Quantitative Measures of Online Health Information, and its application to a hyper-relevant topic, contraception.  

 

(February 2022) Our tool, QMOHI: Quantitative Measures of Online Health Information, was published in JMIR Formative Research. Our collaborative work that uses QMOHI to study access to contraception information on student health center websites was published recently.  

 

Follow our Gen-PINC students' achievements here.  We are so proud of you, students! 

 

The web-app we have developed for Higher Visual Function Question Inventory is out.  This is a joint work with Chandna Lab at SKERI.  

(* indicates undergraduate and graduate student co-authors.)

  • Gautam, A., Kulkarni, A., Hug, S., Lehr, J., & Yoon, I. (2024). Socially Responsible Computing in an Introductory Course. To appear in SIGCSE 2024.
  • Narins, L.D.*, Scott, A.T.*, Gautam, A., Kulkarni, A., Castanon, M.*, Kao, B.*, Ihorn, S., Siu, Y.T., Mason, J., Blum, A., and and Yoon, I., (2023). Validated Image Caption Rating Dataset. Appears in NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks Track.
  • Shimizu M.* and Kulkarni A. (2023) Quantitative Measures of Online Health Information (QMOHI): Broadening the impact through improved usability, applicability, and effectiveness. Appears in 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). IEEE.
  • Scott, A.T.*, Narins, L.D.*, Kulkarni, A., Castanon, M.*, Kao, B.*, Ihorn, S., Siu, Y.T. and Yoon, I., (2023). Improved Image Caption Rating–Datasets, Game, and Model. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-7).
  • Ihorn, S., Kulkarni, A., & Yoon, I. (2023). Sustaining and expanding student training and support efforts beyond the NSF support period. In ASEE: American Society for Engineering Education, July 25-28, 2023, Baltimore, MD.
  • Gautam, A., Kim, M.,  Ihorn, S., Yoon, I., & Kulkarni, A. (2023) Foundational strategies to support students with diverse backgrounds and interests in early programming. In ASEE: American Society for Engineering Education, July 25-28, 2023, Baltimore, MD.
  • Zimmerman, T., Esquerra, R., Chan, Y.H.M., Kulkarni, A., Adelstein, N., Albright, A., Luo, J., Dean, Z., Ahmed, S., Phillips, M. and Bianco, S., (2023). Teaching Image Processing and Optical Engineering to University Biology Students. The Biophysicist, 4(1), pp.38-57. https://doi.org/10.35459/tbp.2022.000240
  • Kakar V, Kulkarni A, Holschuh C, Smirnova A, Modrek S. (2022) Contraception information on the websites of student health centers in the United States. Contraception. 2022 Jan 25:S0010-7824(22)00011-7.
  • Kulkarni A, Wong M, Belsare T*, Shah R*, Yu Yu D*, Coskun B*, Holschuh C, Kakar V, Modrek S, Smirnova A. (2022) Quantifying the Quality of Web-Based Health Information on Student Health Center Websites Using a Software Tool: Design and Development Study. JMIR Form Res 2022;6(2):e32360
  • Modrek, S., Wong, M., Kulkarni, A., Holschuh, C., & Kakar, V. (2022). Medication abortion: State of information on Student Health Center websites. Journal of American College Health, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2022.2155472
  • Reyes, R.J., Hosmane, N., Ihorn, S., Johnson, M., Kulkarni, A., Nelson, J., Savvides, M., Ta, D., Yoon, I. and Pennings, P.S., (2022). Ten simple rules for designing and running a computing minor for bio/chem students. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(7), p.e1010202. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010202
  • Wong M., Ghahghaei S., Chandna A., Kulkarni A. (2021) Scalable Non- invasive Pediatric Cerebral Visual Impairment Screening with the Higher Visual Function Question Inventory (HVFQI). In Proceedings of ACM-BCB (Poster presentation).
  • Wong M., Laxmeshwar N., Joshi R., Kulkarni A. (2021) Browsing Weighted Interactome Models using GeneDive. In Proceedings of ACM-BCB (Poster presentation).
  • Kulkarni A., Ihorn S., Tate C., Nelson J., Hosmane N., Adelstein N., Pennings P.,  Jacques T., Yoon I. (2021). Peer Mentoring in an Interdisciplinary Computer Science Training Program: Mentor and Student Perspectives and Lessons Learned. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference.
  • Wong M, Previde P*, Cole J*, Thomas B*, Laxmeshwar N*, Mallory E., Lever J., Petkovic D., Altman R., Kulkarni A. (2021)  Search and visualization of gene-drug-disease interactions for pharmacogenomics and precision medicine research using GeneDive. Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
  • Nayak, K.*, Krishna S.*, Kulkarni A. (2020) Using Text Analytics on Reflective Journaling to Identify Cultural Capitals for STEM Students. In the Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference On Machine Learning And Applications.
  • Ihorn, S., Yoon, I., & Kulkarni, A. (2020) Student psychological traits and diversity in computer science education. Poster at the annual meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Portland, OR.
  • Lowell M.* Motamarry S.* and Kulkarni A. (2019) ARtPM: Article Retrieval for Precision Medicine. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 103224.
  • Costa J.* and Kulkarni A. (2018) Leveraging Knowledge Graph for Open-domain Question Answering. In the Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence. December 2018. Santiago, Chile.
  • Kulkarni A., Yoon I., Pennings P., Okada K., and Domingo C. (2018) Promoting Diversity in Computing. In the Proceedings of 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. July 2018. Larnaca, Cyprus.
  • Yoon I., Pennings P., Kulkarni A., Okada K., and Domingo C. (2018) Promoting Inclusivity in Computing (PINC) via Computing Application Minor. In the Proceedings of Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference. April 2018. Arlington, Virginia, USA.
  • Pithyaachariyakul C.* and Kulkarni A. (2018) Automated Question Answering System for Community-based Questions. In the Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Student Abstract and Poster Program. February 2018. New Orleans, USA.
  • Previde P.*, Thomas B.*, Wong M., Mallory E.*, Petkovic D., Altman R., and Kulkarni A. (2018) GeneDive: A Gene Interaction Search and Visualization Tool to Facilitate Precision Medicine. In the Proceedings of Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Vol 23, pp. 590-601. January 2018. Hawaii, USA.
  • Chuang M.* and Kulkarni A. (2017) Improving Shard Selection for Selective Search. In the Proceedings of the Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference. November 2017. Jeju, Korea.
  • Chuang M.* and Kulkarni A. (2017) Balancing Precision and Recall with Selective Search. In the Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Information Management and Big Data. September 2017. Lima, Peru.
  • Pithyaachariyakul C.*, Khvalchik M.*, Kulkarni A. (2017) Automated Question Answering System. In the Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Information Management and Big Data. September 2017. Lima, Peru.
  • Khvalchik M.*, and Kulkarni A. (2017) Open-domain Non-factoid Question Answering. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue. August 2017. Prague, Czechia.
  • Khvalchik M.*, Pithyaachariyakul C.*, and Kulkarni A. (2017) Answering the Hard Questions. In the Proceedings of the Language, Data, and Knowledge. June 2017, Galway, Ireland.
  • Wei W.*, Kulkarni A., Wong M. (2017) PF-Words: Biomedical Literature Based Protein Function Search. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. March 2017, Honolulu, HI, USA.
  • Saylor B.*, Kulkarni A., Martinez N., and Yoon I. (2016) Optimizing Ecological Sustainability by Integrating Intuition and Machine Learning via Gamification. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Sustainability. July 2016, Ithaca, NY, USA.
  • Khvalchik M.* and Kulkarni A. (2016) San Francisco State University at LiveQA Track of TREC 2016. In the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2016). National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication.
  • Chuang M*. and Kulkarni A. (2016) San Francisco State University at Total Recall Track of TREC 2016. In the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2016). National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication.
  • Kulkarni A. and Callan J. (2015) Selective Search: Efficient and Effective Search of Large Textual Collections. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 33(4). ACM. 2015.
  • Kulkarni A. (2015) ShRkC: Shard Rank Cutoff Prediction for Selective Search. In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, pages 337—349, Sept 2015, London, UK.
  • Kulkarni A. (2015) Searching Large Textual Dataset With Limited Computational Resources. In the Proceedings of the Grace Hopper Conference. Oct 2015, Houston, USA.
  • Bhandari A.*, Klinkhammer J.*, and Kulkarni A. (2014) San Francisco State University at TREC 2014: Clinical Decision Support System Track and Microblog Track. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2014). National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication. 2015.
  • Kulkarni A. (2013) Efficient and Effective Large-scale Search. Carnegie Mellon Unversity.
  • Kulkarni A., Tigelaar A., Hiemstra D. and Callan J. (2012) Shard Ranking and Cutoff Estimation for Topically Partitioned Collections: In the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 555—564, Oct 2012, Maui, USA.
  • Kulkarni A., Teevan J., Svore K. and Dumais S. (2012) Creating Temporally Dynamic Web Search Snippets: In the Proceedings of the Poster Session of Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 1045-1046, Aug 2012, Portland, USA.
  • Kulkarni A., Teevan J., Svore K. and Dumais S. (2011) Understanding Temporal Query Dynamics: In the Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, pages 167-176, Feb 2011, Hong Kong.
  • Kulkarni A. and Callan J. (2010) Document Allocation Policies for Selective Searching of Distributed Indexes: In the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 449-458, Oct 2010, Toronto, Canada.
  • Kulkarni A. and Callan J. (2010) Topic-based Index Partitions for Efficient and Effective Selective Search: In the Proceedings of SIGIR 2010 Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Information Retrieval, July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Kulkarni A. and Pedersen T. (2008) Name Discrimination and E-mail Clustering Using Unsupervised Clustering of Similar Concepts: Journal of Intelligent Systems (Special Issue: Recent Advances in Knowledge-Based Systems and Their Applications), 17(1-3), 37-50, 2008.
  • Kulkarni A. and Callan J. (2008) Dictionary Definitions based Homograph Identification using a Generative Hierarchical Model: In the Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 85-88, June 15-20, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
  • Kulkarni A., Heilman M., Callan J. and Eskenazi M. (2008) Word Sense Disambiguation for Vocabulary: In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pages 500-509, June 23-27, 2008, Montreal, Canada.
  • Kulkarni A., Callan J. and Eskenazi M. (2007) Dictionary Definitions: The Likes and the Unlikes: In the Proceedings of the SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, October 1-3, 2007, Farmington, PA, USA.
  • Pedersen T. and Kulkarni A. (2007) Unsupervised Discrimination of Person Names in Web Contexts: In the Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pages 299-310, February 18-24, 2007, Mexico City.
  • Pedersen T. and Kulkarni A. (2007) Discovering Identities in Web Contexts with Unsupervised: In the Proceedings IJCAI-2007 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, January 8, 2007, Hyderabad, India.
  • Kulkarni A. and Pedersen T. (2006) How many different "John Smiths", and who are they?: In the Proceedings of the Student Abstract and Poster Session of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 1885-1886, July 16-20, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Pedersen T. and Kulkarni A. (2006) Automatic Cluster Stopping with Criterion Functions and the Gap Statistics: In the Proceedings of the Demonstration Session of the Human Language Technology Conference and the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistic, pages 276-279, June 6, 2006, New York City.
  • Pedersen T., Kulkarni A., Angheluta R., Kozareva Z. and Solorio T. (2006) Improving Name Discrimination: A Language Salad Approach: In the Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Cross-Language Knowledge Induction, April 3, 2006, Trento, Italy.
  • Pedersen T. and Kulkarni A. (2006) Selecting the "Right" Number of Senses Based on Clustering Criterion Functions: In the Proceedings of the Posters and Demo Program of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 111-114, April 3-7, 2006, Trento, Italy.
  • Pedersen T., Kulkarni A., Angheluta R., Kozareva Z. and Solorio T. (2006) An Unsupervised Language Independent Method of Name Discrimination Using Second Order Co-Occurrence Vectors: In the Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pages 208-222, February 19-25, 2006, Mexico.
  • Kulkarni A. and Pedersen T. (2005) Name Discrimination and Email Clustering using Unsupervised Clustering and Labeling of Similar Contexts: In Proceedings of the Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 703-722, December 20-22, 2005, Pune, India.
  • Pedersen T. and Kulkarni A. (2005) Identifying Similar Words and Contexts in Natural Language with SenseClusters: In AAAI ’05: Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 1694-1695, July 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (Intelligent Systems Demonstration)
  • Kulkarni A. and Pedersen T. (2005) SenseClusters: Unsupervised Clustering and Labeling of Similar Contexts: In Proceedings of the Demonstration and Interactive Poster Session of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 105-108, June 26, 2005, Ann Arbor.
  • Kulkarni A. (2005) Unsupervised Discrimination and Labeling of Ambiguous Names: In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, June 25-30, 2005, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • Pedersen T., Purandare A., and Kulkarni A. (2005) Name Discrimination by Clustering Similar Contexts: In Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pages 226-237, February 13-19, 2005, Mexico.
About Marcela Garcia-Castanon

Marcela Garcia Castanon

()

Instructor
Political Science, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Email:
mgcs@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 405-2403
Location:
HUM 558

At SF State Since:

2013

Office Hours:

Bio:

Marcela García-Castañon is an Associate Professor in  the Department Political Science, the Director of the Bay Area Research Initiative, and the Department of Political Science Undergraduate Advising Coordinator.

Dr. García-Castañon specializes in American politics, Latino politics, immigrant/immigration policy and politics, and methodology. She teaches courses that examine Race and Ethnic Politics, attitudes and socialization, as well as courses in research design and methodology.

Her research agenda analyzes notions of membership and citizenship development within immigrant communities and their connection to political and civic engagement. Her current research examines the political membership process of Mexican immigrant in the United States through familial, educational and pre-migration experiences. She engages theories of civic engagement, identity, and political socialization to establish and formulate a theory of multi-tiered membership to better examine and explain the experiences of immigrants in new nations. Dr. Garcia-Castanon completed her Ph.D. at the University of Washington, focusing her dissertation on new theories of immigrant political socialization. She was a Jacob K. Javits fellow, WISER graduate fellow and Simpson Center Borderlands Fellow during her graduate studies.

Dr. García-Castañon grew up primarily in Arizona, though she was born in Mexico and lived in California for the early part of her childhood. She is the oldest child in her family, and the first to graduate from college in the U.S. She has worked in radio and public relations and held positions as a teaching program coordinator and researcher

CV:

Research interests:

  • Immigrant political behavior;
  • Immigrant family: Parent-child dynamics, spousal dynamics; political engagement; civic engagement; institutional contacts with schools, criminal justice system and media;
  • Mexican immigrants

 

Current projects: 

Previous Courses: 

  • Scientific Inquiry in Political Science (methods)
  • The 2016 Presidential Election
  • American Primaries in 2016
  • Intro to American Politics
  • Elections and Representation
  • Public Opinion
  • Applied Public Opinion Surveys
  • Media and Politics
  • Intro to Political Theory
  • Media, Consumers and You
Dr mello

Zena Mello

()

Professor
Psychology, College of Science and Engineering

Email:
zmello@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-7557
Location:
EP 309

At SF State Since:

2013

Office Hours:

Bio:

Zena R. Mello (she/her) is a first-generation college student and a Professor of Psychology. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognition and Development at the University of California, Berkeley; a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Human Development and Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University; a B.A. in Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and an A.A. at Santa Rosa Junior College. Dr. Mello has been awarded more than 2 million dollars in funding from the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, the American Educational Research Association, and the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. She has been honored with the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Human Development Division of the American Educational Research Association, and she has served on the Executive Councils of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development and the Society for Research on Adolescence. Dr. Mello is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Research on Adolescence, the Journal of Adolescence and the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.

Research:

Dr. Mello's research examines psychological factors that facilitate the health and well-being of adolescents who are marginalized because of racial, ethnic, gender, or social class backgrounds. She uses interdisciplinary perspectives and mixed-methods approaches to investigate two areas. First, she focuses on topics specific to marginalized group membership. In this area, she conducts community-engaged research with high schools to examine adolescents’ experiences with discrimination based on multiple identities, including race/ethnicity, immigration, skin color/tone, gender, and social class. She is particularly interested in how such experiences predict risky behaviors, including tobacco use. This work is based on her prior studies that showed how anticipated barriers to schooling were salient among females and how stereotype threat was prominent among Native American adolescents.

A second line of inquiry contributes toward the theory and measurement of time perspective, as a mechanism to foster resilience. This construct refers to thoughts and feelings about the past, the present, and the future. She has generated scales of time perspective for adolescents and adults that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her work shows how time perspective predicts key developmental outcomes, including academic achievement, substance use, and mental health.

CV:

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Social Media:

LinkedIn/Facebook: Zena Mello

Google Scholar: Zena Mello

My Bibliography: Zena Mello

ResearchGate: Zena R. Mello

Featured on:

The Methodology Center: Methodology Minutes Podcast 

Affiliations:

San Francisco State University Psychology Department: https://psychology.sfsu.edu

Affiliated Research Groups: SOUL Lab

Health Equity Institute https://healthequity.sfsu.edu/our-team

Dr. Mello's Team

Click HERE for the organizational chart

The Mello Lab is located in EP 329.

Students who are interested in joining the Mello Lab should send an email to Dr. Mello at zmello@sfsu.edu that includes a brief statement about career goals, CV/resume, and GPA.

Mello Lab Values
Elevating and promoting lived experiences
  • We celebrate diverse identities, backgrounds, and origins.
  • We support one another to thrive and achieve our dreams.
Fostering Community-engaged scholarship
  • We build meaningful and decades-long partnerships with high schools.
  • We share our knowledge widely with participants, schools, and the broader communities.
Conducting rigorous science that inspires, informs, and impacts
  • We are guided by social justice when completing our research.
  • We focus on topics that are vital to the field and society.

Graduate Research Assistants

Jo Nisa Cabilogan, B.A. She/Her

Abraham Tou Jang Moua, B.A. He/Him

Jeremiah S. Sabale, B.A. He/Him

Dania Smith, B.A. She/Her

Bingyue Tan, B.A. She/Her

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Melissa Quintero 

Jesse Wilson

Chan Nguyen

Jayline Jimenez

Selected Alumni

Vani Kakar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor She/Her

University of Pacific

Manuel Abundis-Morales, Doctoral Student He/Him

University of California, Santa Cruz 

Betsy Centeno, Doctoral Student

University of California, Santa Cruz

Hilary Bridges, M.A., Director

LPC Clinical Director, Kids Crossing

Ilke Bayazitli, Doctoral Student

University of California, Berkeley

Jamie Jaramillo, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist

Chestnut Health Systems 

Laura Finan, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Illinois State University

Selected Alumni (continued)

(Name, former position with Dr. Mello, current position) 

Adam Suri, M.A. He/Him, Graduate Student and Graduate Research Assistant

Alexa L. Davidson, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Executive Director at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center 

Alyssa Youngquist, M.A. Student, Clinical Research Coordinator, University of California, San Francisco

AnnMarie Stiasny, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Graduate Student, Counseling, Northcentral University

Busra Dogru, M.A. She/Her, Graduate Student and Graduate Research Assistant

Chris Garcia, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Daniel Grafil, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Masters Student, School Psychology, San Francisco State University

Dante D. Dixson, Ph.D., Undergraduate Research Assistant, Associate Professor, Michigan State University

Dilrani Bhadare, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Ph.D., Clinical, Alliant University

Erica Walker, Psychology Honors Program Student, M.A. Student, San Francisco State University

Erick Romero, Psychology Honors Program Student, Edgewood Center for Youth

Isaac C. S. Wiggers, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Graduate Student, Industrial/Organization, Seattle Pacific University

Jay Michael Espinoza, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Juan Carlos Argueta Rodriguez, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Julia Moon, M.A., Student & Graduate Research Assistant & Project Coordinator, Clinical Research Coordinator, University of California, San Francisco

Julie Chandler, Doctoral Student, Clinical Psychology, Central Michigan University

Kara Eytcheson, M.A., Student & Graduate Research Assistant

Laura Yitzzel Alcaraz, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Masters in Science, School Psychology, San Francisco State University

Lee H. Hand, Undergraduate Research Assistant, English Instructor, China USA Society English Centers

Liliana Celesia Moore, M.A., Graduate Student, Clinical Research Coordinator, San Francisco VA Medical Center

Max Harrington, M.A., Student & Graduate Research Assistant

Melissa Jazmin Espana, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Patricia L. Monaghan, Graduate Research Assistant, Ph.D., Clinical, Florida Institute of Technology 

Sean Hennigan, M.A. He/They, Graduate Student and Graduate Research Assistant

Tiffany Wong, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Graduate Student, SJSU Research and Experimental Psychology Program

Victoria C. Paoloni, Psychology Honors Program Student, M.A. Student, San Jose State University

 

2026

  • Bingyue Tan has been awarded the SF BUILD AoC Merck Fellowship for the Spring 2026 semester.

2025

  • Manuel Abundis-Morales, has been awarded the Graduate Award for Distinguished Achievement
  • Manuel Abundis-Morales, admitted into the psychology doctoral program at the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan has been awarded the prestigious Sally Casanova Scholarship from the California Pre-Doctoral Program.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan has been awarded the SF BUILD AoC Merck Fellowship for the Spring 2025 semester.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan has been selected to participate in the Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program (MICCHERS) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan has been selected to participate in the UC Irvine's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan has been selected as a mentor to the competitive SF BUILD AoC Peer Mentor/Leaders Program.
  • Dr. Mello's research used to support policies banning commercial tobacco. Albany Endgame Letter.
  • Dr. Mello has joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of Research on Adolescence.

2024

  • Jay Michael Espinoza has completed the Data Science Certification for Psychology majors.
  • Abraham Tou Jang Moua has been awarded the College of Science and Engineering (CoSE)/Gilead Foundation Travel Award.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan has been awarded the College of Science and Engineering (CoSE)/Gilead Foundation Travel Award.
  • Jeremiah S. Sabale has been awarded the College of Science and Engineering (CoSE)/Gilead Foundation Travel Award.
  • Chris Garcia has been awarded the College of Science and Engineering (CoSE)/Gilead Foundation Travel Award.
  • Jay Michael Espinoza has been awarded the College of Science and Engineering (CoSE)/Gilead Foundation Travel Award.
  • Manuel Abundis-Morales has been awarded the Graduate Equity Fellowship for the 2024-2025 school year.
  • Dr. Mello's article was one of the 10 most-cited papers. The paper is titled "Thinking about the past, present, and future: Time perspective and self-esteem in adolescents, young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults" and may be found in the Publications tab.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan has been awarded the Graduate Equity Fellowship for the 2024-2025 school year.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan has been awarded the Robert William Maxwell Scholarship for the 2024-2025 school year.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan has been selected to participate in the Yale School of Medicine, Program to Advance Training in Health and Sciences (PATHS), she has been admitted into the PhD track. The PATHS program is competitive, with only 60 students selected among hundreds of applications received across the U.S.
  • Manuel Abundis-Morales was awarded the Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship.
  • Manuel Abundis-Morales was awarded first place at the College of Science and Engineering (CoSE) Showcase for the poster called "Go back to where you came from:” A Qualitative Investigation of Immigration Discrimination Among Adolescents."
  • Busra Dogru was awarded the Gary A. Lucchese Scholarship in Psychology.
  • Tiffany Wong was honored at the 2024 All-University Undergraduate Honors Convocation.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan has been selected to participate in the 2024 Dream Summer Fellowship at UCLA out of 750 applicants and she will be working as a fellow in the Dream Resource Center to work on their research project about the educational experiences of AAPI undocumented students in California, New York, and Texas.
  • Dr. Mello's Symposium on Time Perspective was accepted for presentation at ISSBD.
  • Dr. Mello was elected to the Board of Directors for the Society of Research on Adolescence.
  • Dr. Mello was Program Co-Chair for the Society for Research on Adolescence 2024 Conference.
  • Tiffany Wong was accepted into all of her Master's programs and will be a graduate student at San Jose State University's Research/Experimental Psychology M.A. program in the fall.

2023

  • Dr. Mello was featured in SFSU Marketing and Communications Link
  • Dr. Mello joins Health Equity Institute as a Faculty Affiliate.
  • Dayanne Liseth Herrera Suarez was awarded the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Immigration, Mental Health, and Tobacco Use Among Adolescents" for $20,000.
  • Tiffany Wong was awarded the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Research Methods for Examining Tobacco Use Among Adolescents" for $20,000.
  • Dr. Mello's research was highlighted in the European Association for Research on Adolescence Newsletter
  • Dr. Mello will Chair a session entitled "The Developmental Significance of Skin Color" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development in Philadelphia, PA on October 13-15, 2023
  • Dr. Mello will present a paper entitled "Wealth and Health: Examining how Classism is Associated with Tobacco Use Among Adolescents" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development in Philadelphia, PA on October 13-15, 2023
  • İlke Bayazıtlı was accepted to the School Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • Daniel Grafil was accepted to the School Psychology M.S. program at San Francisco State University.
  • Dr. Mello's (PI) EAGER proposal, “Developing a New Tool to Measure Discrimination Based on Social Class for Adolescents,” was recommended for funding by the National Science Foundation.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan's poster submission, "Examining the Association Between Perceived Discrimination Based on Immigration and Tobacco Use Among Asian-American Immigrant Adolescents," was accepted to the annual meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence.
  • İlke Bayazıtlı's poster submission, "Time Beyond Personality: Time Perspective, Personality Traits, and Academic Achievement Among Adolescents," was accepted to the annual meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence.
  • Julia Moon's poster submission, "Sexism Shapes Lives: How Perceived Discrimination Based on Gender is Associated With Health Outcomes Among Adolescents," was accepted to the annual meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence.
  • Betsy Centeno's submission, "The Colors of Drugs: The Association Between Colorism and Substance Use Among Latinx Adolescents," was accepted as a constructed paper symposium to the annual meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence.
  • Dr. Mello's submission, "Show Me the Money: Introducing a New Conceptual Model for Examining Perceived Discrimination Based on Social Class Among Adolescents,” was accepted as a constructed paper symposium to the annual meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence that will be held in San Diego in April 2023.

2022

  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the Continue the Dream for Academic Excellence Scholarship.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the College of Science and Engineering/Associated Students Scholarship.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the University Scholarship.
  • Betsy Centeno was awarded the National Latinx Psychological Association (NLPA) Student Travel Award.
  • İlke Bayazıtlı was awarded the Robert W. Maxwell Memorial Scholarship for graduate students in the College of Science and Engineering.
  • İlke Bayazıtlı was awarded the Associated Students Jack Adams Memorial Scholarship.
  • Dr. Mello was awarded the COVID Recovery Administrative Supplement by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Racial and gender discrimination, tobacco use, and time perspective among adolescents" for $100,000.
  • İlke Bayazıtlı was awarded the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Delay discounting and tobacco use among racial/ethnic minority adolescents" for $20,000.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Immigration status and tobacco use among racial/ethnic minority adolescents" for $20,000.
  • Betsy Centeno was selected to participate in the NSF Mentee-Mentor Emerging Scholars Program and awarded the #ConstructingTheOther NSF Emerging Scholar Travel Award.
  • Betsy Centeno was awarded the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement.
  • Dr. Mello was awarded a grant by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Tobacco use and perceived discrimination based on socioeconomic status among adolescents" for $766,734.
  • İlke Bayazıtlı was designated as Student Life Manager in the Summer 2022 session of the Brown University Pre-College Program.
  • Dr. Mello was elected to the Monte Rio Unified District School Board.
  • İlke Bayazıtlı was awarded the Diana T. Y. Chung & Henry W. S. Chung Memorial Scholarship for International Students.
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the Continue the Dream for Academic Excellence Scholarship
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the University Scholarship
  • Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the College of Science and Engineering/Associated Students Scholarship

 

2021

 

2020

  • Dr. Mello was awarded grant by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Racial and gender discrimination, tobacco use, and time perspective among adolescents" for $619,228.
  • Dr. Mello was invited to be Assistant Editor at Journal of Adolescence.
  • Jules Kutner was accepted into the Undergraduate Psychology Honors Program with her project entitled “Racial discrimination and occupational expectations in adolescents.”
  • Erick Romero was accepted into the Undergraduate Psychology Honors Program with his project entitled “Ethnic identity and time perspective in Latinx adolescents.”
  • Jesse Simnegar was accepted into the Undergraduate Psychology Honors Program with his project entitled “Is time money? How is time perspective associated with socioeconomic status in adolescents?”
  • Liliana Moore compiled a list of resources entitled "Black Lives Matter: Resources for Anti-Racism," which was published on the San Francisco State University Institute for Civic and Community Engagement website.
  • Lena Azzouz opened a community housing center in Athens, Greece for homeless refugees. The center, part of Finding Refuge Greece, has become home to refugees from countries all over the world including Syria, Cameroon, Iraq, Somalia, and Afghanistan. https://www.findingrefugegr.com/duniya-2
  • Lena Azzouz launched the LEAD program (Language Education and Development) through Finding Refuge Greece, which connects unemployed, Arabic-speaking refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers in Greece with students from all over the world who are interested in learning Arabic. https://www.findingrefugegr.com/aboutlead

 

2019

  • Dr. Mello guest-edited a special issue entitled Time Perspective from Adolescence through Adulthood for the journal of Research in Human Development.
  • Dr. Mello was invited to join the editorial board for the Journal of Adolescence.
  • Julia Moon was awarded the Robert W. Maxwell Memorial Scholarship for graduate students in the College of Science and Engineering.
  • Dr. Mello gave invited presentation "The psychology of time: How time perspectives are associated with health and human development" at San Diego State University.
  • Julia Moon featured in SF State News: "Five SF State students take the top prizes at CSU Student Research Competition".
  • Lindsey Seril, Jennifer Wahleitner, Jack Chase, and Stephanie Kirkman received the 3rd place award in the Behavioral Science Graduate Division of the College of Science and Engineering Student Research Showcase at San Francisco State University for their poster "He was elected and now we will change the world: A mixed-methods study examining adolescents' reactions to the election of Donald Trump."
  • Julia Moon received the 1st place award in the Behavioral Science Graduate Division of the College of Science and Engineering Student Research Showcase at San Francisco State University for her poster "Time and trepidation: Are adolescents' thoughts and feelings about time related to their anxiety?"
  • Julia Moon received the 1st place award in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Graduate Division of the California State University Student Research Competition at California State University Fullerton for her presentation "Time and trepidation: An examination of thoughts and feelings about the past, present, and future and anxiety among adolescents."
  • Dr. Mello gave invited presentation "A healthy time perspective? How thoughts and feelings about the past, present, and future are associated with psychological well-being and risky behaviors among adolescents" at the Midwestern Psychological Association.
  • Julia Moon received the 1st place award in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Category of the California State University Student Research Competition at San Francisco State University for her presentation "Time and trepidation: An examination of thoughts and feelings about the past, present, and future and anxiety among adolescents."

 

2018 and Prior

  • Podcast: Collecting Data in Schools with Zena R. Mello (2018)
  • Dr. Mello Featured in an article around Time Perspective, profiling her career and research SFSU (2014)

Discrimination Based on Socioeconomic Status and Substance Use Among Adolescents. Dr. Mello (PI) received $465,000 (1R16DA061947) to conduct research that will address three specific aims: To (1) examine how adolescents’ experiences with SES discrimination intersect with discrimination based on race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, (2) determine how SES discrimination is associated with substance use in adolescents, controlling for discrimination based on race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, and (3) investigate how associations between SES discrimination and substance use are moderated by subgroups, including SES, race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. : Dr. Mello (PI) received $249,734 to investigate the relationships between academic achievement and classism among adolescents (Grant Number: 231785, 2023-2025). The proposed research has three objectives: (1) to discover adolescents' school-specific perceived discrimination based on social class, (2) to develop a new scale of perceived discrimination based on social class for adolescents, (3) to validate a new scale of perceived discrimination based on social class for adolescents.

 

EAGER: Developing a New Tool to Measure Discrimination Based on Social Class for Adolescents:. Dr. Mello (PI) received the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates supplement of $15,000 (Grant Number: 2317285).

 

Tobacco Use and Perceived Discrimination Based on Socioeconomic Status Among Adolescents: Dr. Mello (PI) received $766,734 to investigate the relationships between tobacco use and perceived discrimination based on socioeconomic status among adolescents (Grant Number: T32IP4744, 2022-2024). The study has three aims: (1) to identify the dimensions (forms, targets, and sources) of perceived discrimination based on SES that are most important to adolescents, (2) to examine the associations among perceived discrimination based on SES and tobacco use, including multiple tobacco products and co-use with other substances in adolescents, and (3) to determine subgroups of adolescents with distinct patterns of perceived discrimination based on SES and to investigate the associations between subgroups and tobacco use.

 

Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement: Adam Suri (Graduate Research Assistant) and Dr. Mello (PI) was awarded $20,000 from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (Grant Number: T32IP4744, 2024-2025).

 

Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement: Busra Dogru (Graduate Research Assistant) and Dr. Mello (PI) was awarded $20,000 from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (Grant Number: T32IP4744, 2024-2025).

 

Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement:  Manuel Abundis-Morales (Graduate Research Assistant) and Dr. Mello (PI) was awarded $20,000 from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (Grant Number: T32IP4744, 2024-2025).

 

Completed Research Projects

Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement: Dayanne Liseth Herrera Suarez (Graduate Research Assistant) and Dr. Mello (PI) was awarded $20,000 from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (Grant Number: T32IP4744, 2022-2023).   

 

Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement: Tiffany Wong (Undergraduate Research Assistant) and Dr. Mello (PI) was awarded $20,000 from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (Grant Number: T32IP4744, 2022-2023) 

 

Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement: İlke Bayazıtlı (Graduate Research Assistant) and Dr. Mello (PI) was awarded $20,000 from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (Grant Number: T31IP1855, 2022-2023). 

 

Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement: Jo Nisa Cabilogan (Undergraduate Research Assistant) and Dr. Mello (PI) was awarded $20,000 from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (Grant Number: T31IP1855, 2022-2023). 

 

Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement: Betsy Centeno (Graduate Research Assistant) and Dr. Mello (PI) was awarded $20,000 from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (Grant Number: T31IP1855, 2022-2023). 

 

Racial and Gender Discrimination, Tobacco Use, and Time Perspective Among Adolescents: Dr. Mello (PI) received $619,228 to investigate the relationships among (a) tobacco use and co-use, (b) perceived discrimination based on race/ethnicity, immigration status, and gender, and (c) time perspective defined as thoughts and feelings about the past, present, and future (Grant Number: T31IP1855, 2020-2023). The study has three aims: to (1) examine how adolescents’ perceived discrimination is associated with tobacco use, (2) determine how these relationships are moderated by time perspective, and (3) develop a preliminary curriculum based on this research that is informed by the community.

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75. Mello, Z. R., Starr, C. R., Kakar, V., Suri, A., Abundis-Morales, M., & Dogru, B. (2026). Settings Matter: Examining the Association Between Social Class Discrimination in and Out-of-School, Tobacco Use, and Nicotine Vaping Among Adolescents. Youth & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X251406595 PDF

 

74. Sciabica, G. M., Morelli, M., Chirumbolo, A., Franchini, C., Mello, Z. R., Worrell, F. C., Baiocco, R., Speranza, A. M., Fortunato, A., & Andreassi, S. (2025). Tomorrow starts today: Long-term effects of a brief counseling intervention on college students’ time attitudes. Personality and Individual Differences, 248, Article 113482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113482 PDF

 

73. Mello, Z. R., Kakar, V., Hennigan, S. M., Dogru, B., Suri, A., & Abundis-Morales, M. (2025). Class Dismissed: Examining Social Class Discrimination and Academic Achievement Among Adolescents. Journal of Adolescence. doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12523 PDF 

 

72. Mello, Z. R., Eytcheson, K., & Kakar, V. (2025). Sexism and Risky Health Behaviors: Examining the Association between Sources of Gender Discrimination and Tobacco Use Among Adolescent Girls. Youth and Society. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X251336386 PDF 

 

71. Mello, Z. R., Kakar, V., Jaramillo, J., (2025). Examining How Social Class Discrimination is Associated with Combustible Tobacco Use, Nicotine Vaping, and Dual Use Among Adolescents in California. Social Science and Medicine. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117941 PDF 

 

70. Sciabica, G. M., Chirumbolo, A., Morelli, M., Mello, Z. R., Worrell, F. C., Baiocco, R., Franchini, C., Speranza, A. M., Fortunato, A., and Andreassi, S. (2025). The effect of a psychodynamic counseling intervention on university students’ time attitude. Current Psychology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-07604-6 PDF 

 

69. Lonigro, A., Mello, Z. R., Worrell, F. C., Zammuto, M., Bianchi, D., Pompili, S., Tata, D., Longobardi, & E., Laghi, F. (2025). Gender Similarities and Differences in Time Perspective in the Age of COVID-19. The Journal of Genetic Psychology. Doi:  10.1080/00221325.2025.2465791 PDF

 

68. Mello, Z. R. (2024). Don’t Skip Class: A new conceptual model for examining classism among adolescents and families. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 1-17.doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12589 PDF

 

67. Li, X., Lyu, H., & Mello, Z. R. (2024). Another way to measure balanced time perspective: Development of the Time Perspective Inventory. PsyCh Journal, June, 341-511. http://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.725. PDF 

 

66. ^*Centeno, B., *Bayazitli, I., Purnell, S., Bravo, D. Y., & Mello, Z. R. (2023). Colorism Unveiled: Examining How Skin Color Discrimination is Associated With Academic Achievement, Mental Health, and Substance Use Among Latinx Adolescents. Research in Human Development, 20(3-4), 123-140. doi: 10.1080/15427609.2023.2271363.  PDF 

 

65. Mello, Z. R. & Gordon, R. A. (2023). The Future of Colorism Science: Interdisciplinarity, Families, and Intervention. Research in Human Development, 20(3-4), 81-86. doi: 10.1080/15427609.2023.2261373 PDF 

 

64. Moon, J., ^*Centeno, B., De León, J., & Mello, Z. R. (2023). Brief Report: Revealing the Nuance: Examining Approaches for Research with Adolescents who Identify With Multiple Racial/Ethnic Groups. Journal of Adolescence, 95(8), 1764-1773. doi: 10.1002/jad.12242 PDF 

 

63. Sommerfield, E., Mello, Z. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2023). The Hebrew Version of the Adolescent and Adult Time Inventory - Time Attitudes Scales (AATI-TA): A Validation Study. Psychological Reports, 13, 1-8. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-39431-9 PDF  

 

62. Mello, Z. (2023). Bringing Money Into The Fold: A New Conceptual Model for Examining Classism Among Adolescents. European Association for Research on Adolescence Newsletter, May. PDF 

 

61. Moon, J., +Lieber, R., & *Bayazitli, I., Mello, Z. R. (2023). An examination of multidimensional time perspective and mental health outcomes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(6), 1-14. doi:10.3390/ijerph20064688 PDF 

 

60. Mello, Z. (2022). Where is the money? A new conceptual model for examining perceived discrimination based on social class among adolescents. PsychArchives, 1-24. doi :10.23668/psycharchives.8189 PDF 

 

59. Mello, Z. R., Buhl, M., Andretta, J. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2022). Risky behaviors and time attitude profiles among adolescents in the United States and Germany. Discourse: Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research [Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung], 17(3), 310-324 PDF 

 

58. Mello, Z. R., & Moon, J. (2022). Time buffers teasing and lessens tobacco use: The moderating role of time perspective on bullying victimization and tobacco use in adolescents. Behavioural Processes, 200, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104693 PDF

 

57. Coelho, S., de Mendonça, A., Maroco, J., Cardoso, S, Mello, Z. R., & Guerreiro, M. (2022). Time perspective and amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Journal of Neuropsychology, 16(3), 463-480. doi: 10.1111/jnp.12274 PDF 

 

56. Li, Z., Chen, W., Lyu, H., Worrell, F. C., & Mello, Z. R. (2022). Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Scale. Current Psychology, 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s12144-021-02622-6 PDF 

 

55. McKay, M., Worrell, F. C., Perry, P., Chishima, J., Živkovič, U., Mello, Z. R., &, Cole, J. (2022). “Even a broken clock is right twice a day”: The case of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. Personality and Individual Differences, 184(1), 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111157 PDF 

 

54. *Mello, Z. R., Barber, S. J., Vasilenko, S. A., +Chandler, J., & Howell, R. (2021). Thinking about the past, present, and future: Time perspective and self-esteem in adolescents, young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 40(1), 92-111. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12393 PDF 

 

53. Finan, L. J., Linden-Carmichael, A. N., Adams, A. R., *Youngquist, A., Lipperman-Kreda, S., & Mello, Z. R. (2021). Time perspective and substance use: An examination across three adolescent samples. Addiction Research & Theory, 30(2), 112-118. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2021.1948537 PDF 

 

52. *Moon, J., & Mello, Z. R. (2021). Time among the taunted: The moderating effect of time perspective on bullying victimization and self-esteem. Journal of Adolescence, 89, 170-182. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.05.002 PDF 

 

51. Assylkhan, K., *Moon, J., Tate, C., Howell, R., & Mello, Z. R. (2021). Time beyond traits: Time perspective dimensions, personality traits, and substance use in adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences 179, 1-7. Advance online version. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110926 PDF  

 

50. +Chandler, J., & Mello, Z. R. (2021). Negative life events and time perspective among adolescents. Psi Chi Journal, 26 (1), 35-42. doi: 10.24839/2325-7342.JN26.1.35 PDF 

 

49. Zhang, J. W., Howell, R. T., Pooya, R., Shaban-Azad, H., Chai, W. J., Ramis, T., Mello, Z. R., Anderson, C., & Keltner, D. (2021). Awe is associated with creative personality, convergent creativity, and everyday creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. doi: 10.1037/aca0000442

 

48. Przepiorka, A., Blachnio, A., Jankowsk, T., Mello, Z. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2021). The assessment of time attitudes among adolescents and young adults with the Polish Adolescent and Adult Time Inventory – Time Attitude Scale (AATI-TA-Polish). European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 38(5), 370-384. doi: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000671 PDF 

 

47. Vásquez-Echeverría, A., Alvarez-Nuñez, L., Mello, Z. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2020). Time attitude profiles and health-related behaviors: Validation of scores on a Spanish version of the Adolescent and Adult Time Inventory–Time Attitudes (AATI-TA). The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 23, E51. doi: 10.1017/SJP.2020.51

 

46. Yacob, E. T., Melaku, B. M., Worrell, F. C., & Mello, Z. R. (2020). Measuring time perspective in Ethiopian young adults using the Adolescent and Adult Time Inventory (AATI). Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30 (6), 520–528. doi: 10.1080/14330237.2020.1842598 PDF 

 

45. Finan, L. J., *Moon, J., *Kaur, M., Gard, D., & Mello, Z. R. (2020). Trepidation and time: An examination of anxiety and thoughts and feelings about the past, present, and future among adolescents. Applied Developmental Science, 26(2), 238-251. doi:10.1080/10888691.2020.1778476 PDF 

 

44. Perry, J. L., Temple, E. C., Worrell, F. C., Živkovič, U., Mello, Z. R., Musil, B., Cole J. C., & McKay, M. T. (2020). Different version, similar result? A critical analysis of the multiplicity of shortened versions of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. Sage Open, 10(2), 1-15. doi: 10.1177/2158244020923351 PDF 

 

43. Worrell, F. C., Mello, Z. R., Laghi, F., Baiocco, R., & Lonigro, A. (2020). Time perspective constructs in Albanian and Italian adolescents: Exploratory analyses. Psychological Reports, 124(2), 693-719. doi: 10.1177/0033294120913493 PDF 

 

42. Konowalczyk, S., Buhl, M., *Moon, J., & Mello, Z. R. (2019). The past, present, and future all matter: How time perspective is associated with optimism and sensation seeking among young adults. Research in Human Development, 16, 119-134. doi: 10.1080/15427609.2019.1662709 PDF 

 

41. Mello, Z. R. (2019). A construct matures: Time perspective’s multidimensional, developmental, and modifiable qualities. Research in Human Development, 16, 93-102. doi: 10.1080/15427609.2019.1651156 PDF 

 

40. Konowalczyk, S., Rade, F. C. A., & Mello, Z. R. (2019). Time perspective, sports club membership, and physical self-concept among adolescents: A person-centered approach. Journal of Adolescence, 72, 141-151. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2019.02.008 PDF 

 

39. Chishima, Y., Murakami, T., Worrell, F. C., & Mello, Z. R. (2019). The Japanese version of the Adolescent Time Inventory-Time Attitudes (ATI-TA) scale: Internal consistency, structural validity, and convergent validity. Assessment, 26, 181-192. doi: 10.1177/1073191116683800 PDF 

 

38. Mello, Z. R., Oladipo, S. E., +Paoloni, V. C., & Worrell, F. C. (2019). Time perspective and risky behaviors among Nigerian young adults. Journal of Adult Development, 26. 161-171. doi: 10.1007/s10804-018-9304-2 PDF 

 

37. Temple, E., Perry, J. L., Worrell, F. C., Živkovič, U., Mello, Z. R., Musil, B., Cole, J. C., & McKay, M. T. (2019). The Zimbardo time perspective inventory: Time for a new strategy, not more new shortened versions. Time and Society, 28. 1167-1180. doi: 10.1177/0961463X17718102 PDF 

 

36. McKay, M., Worrell, F. C., Živkovič, U., Temple, L., Mello, Z. R., Musil, B., Cole, J., Andretta, J., & Perry, J. (2018). A balanced time perspective: Is it an exercise in empiricism, and does it relate meaningfully to health and well-being outcomes? International Journal of Psychology, 54(6), 775-785. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12530 PDF 

 

35. Dixon, D. D., Worrell, F. C., Keltner, D., & Mello, Z. R. (2018). The magic of hope: Hope mediates the relationship between socioeconomic status and academic achievement. Journal of Educational Research, 111, 507-515. doi: 10.1080/00220671.2017.130291 PDF 

 

34. Konowalczyk, S., Mello, Z. R., Röske, L. A. S., Buhl, M., Heim, R., & Worrell, F. C. (2018). Adolescent and Adult Time Inventory-Time Attitude scales: Validity and contributions to physical activity and self-concept in Spanish adolescents. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 7, 76-90. doi: 10.1037/ipp0000084 PDF 

 

33. Worrell, F. C., Temple, E. C., McKay, M. T., Živkovič, U., Perry, J. L., Mello, Z. R., Musil, B., & Cole J. C. (2018). A theoretical approach to resolving the psychometric problems associated with the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 34(1), 41-51. doi: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000313 PDF 

 

32. Mello, Z. R., +Walker, E. B., *Finan, L. J., +Stiasny, A., +Wiggers, I. C. S., *^McBroom, K. A., & Worrell, F. C. (2017). Time perspective, psychological outcomes, and risky behavior among runaway adolescents. Applied Developmental Science, 22, 233-243. doi: 10.1080/10888691.2016.1276455 PDF 

 

31. Dixon, D. D., Worrell, F. C., & Mello, Z. R. (2017). Profiles of hope: How clusters of hope relate to school variables. Learning and Individual Differences, 59, 55-64. doi: 10.1080/00220671.2017.1302915 PDF 

 

30. Juriševič, M., Worrell, F. C., & Mello, Z. R. (2017). Measuring time attitudes in Slovenia: Psychometric properties of the Adolescent and Adult Time Attitude Scale (AATI-TA). Horizons of Psychology/Psihološka obzorja, 26, 89-97. doi:10.20419/2017.26.472 PDF 

 

29. Şahin-Baltacı, H., Tagay, Ö., Worrell, F. C., & Mello, Z. R. (2017). Psychometric properties of Turkish Adolescent Time Inventory-Time Attitude (ATI-TA) scores. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 6, 47-59. doi: 10.1037/ipp0000066 PDF 

 

28. Prow, R. M., Worrell, F. C., Andretta, J. R., & Mello, Z. R. (2016). Demographic differences in adolescent time attitude profiles: A person-oriented analysis using model-based clustering. Berkeley Review of Education, 6, 79-95. doi: 10.5070/B86110030 PDF 

 

27. Mello, Z. R., Zhang, J. W., Barber, S. J., +Paoloni, V. C., Howell, R. T., & Worrell, F. C. (2016). Psychometric properties of time attitude scores in young, middle, and older adult samples. Personality and Individual Differences, 101, 57-61. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.037 PDF  

 

26. *Kaur, M., & Mello, Z. R. (2016). Positive and negative well-being among adolescents from theological and conventional schools in India. Mental Health, Religion, and Culture, 19(3), 229-239. doi: 10.1080/13674676.2016.1165191 PDF  

 

25. Worrell, F. C., Temple, E., McKay, M. T., Živkovič, U., Perry, J. L., Mello, Z. R., Musil, Z. R., &, Cole, J. C. (2016). A theoretical approach to the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory: Results from America, Australia, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 34, 41-51. doi: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000313 PDF  

 

24. +^Jaramillo, J., Mello, Z. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2015). Ethnic identity, stereotype threat, and perceived discrimination among Native American adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 26(4), 769–775. doi: 10.1111/jora.12228 PDF  

 

23. McKay, M. T., Cole, J. C., Percy, A., Worrell, F. C., &, Mello, Z. R. (2015). Reliability and factorial validity of the Adolescent Time Inventory-Time Attitude Scores (ATI-TA) in Scottish and Northern Irish adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 412-416. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.06.040 PDF 

 

22. McKay, M. T., Dempster, M., & Mello, Z. R. (2015). Does Consideration of Future Consequences moderate the relationship between aggression and alcohol use in adolescents? Results from the United Kingdom. Addiction Research and Theory, 23, 372-379. doi: 10.3109/16066359.2015.1009830 PDF 

 

21. Mello, Z. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2015). The past, the present, and the future: A conceptual model of time perspective in adolescence. In Stolarski M., van Beek W., & Fieulaine, N. (Eds.), Time Perspective Theory: Review, Research and Application. Essays in honor of Philip Zimbardo. Springer International Publishing, 115-129. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07368-2 

 

20. Perry, J. L., McKay, M. T., Worrell, F. C., Živkovič, U., Mello, Z. R., & Musil, B. (2015). Measuring time perspective in adolescents: Can you get the right answer by asking the wrong questions? Personality and Individual Differences, 78, 53-57. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.01.015 PDF  

 

19. McKay, M. T., Worrell, F. C., Temple, E. C., Perry, J., Cole, J. C., &, Mello, Z. R. (2015). Less is not always more: The case of the 36-item short form of The Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. Personality and Individual Differences, 72, 68-71. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.08.018 PDF 

 

18. Andretta, J. R., Worrell, F. C., & Mello, Z. R. (2014). Predicting educational outcomes and psychological well-being in adolescents using time attitude profiles. Psychology in the Schools, 51, 434-451. doi: 10.1002/pits.21762 PDF  

 

17. Mello, Z. R., *Finan, L. J., & Worrell, F. C. (2013). Introducing an instrument to assess time orientation and time relation in adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 36, 551-563. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.03.005 PDF  

 

16. Worrell, F. C., Mello, Z. R., & Buhl, M. (2013). Introducing English and German versions of the Adolescent Time Attitude Scale (ATAS). Assessment, 20, 496-510. doi: 10.1177/1073191110396202 PDF 

 

15. Andretta, J. R., Worrell, F. C., Mello, Z. R., +^Dixson, D. D., & +^Baik, S. H. (2013). Demographic group differences in adolescents’ time attitudes. Journal of Adolescence, 36, 289–301. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2012.11.005 PDF 

 

14. Mello, Z. R., *Anton-Stang, H. M., *Monaghan, P. L., *Roberts, K. J., & Worrell, F. C. (2012). A longitudinal investigation of African American and Hispanic adolescents' educational and occupational expectations and corresponding attainment in adulthood. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 17(4), 266-285. doi: 10.1080/10824669.2012.717029 

 

13. Mello, Z. R., Mallett, R. K., Andretta, J. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2012). Stereotype threat and school belonging in adolescents from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds. Journal of At-Risk Issues, 17, 9-14. PDF 

 

12. +Hand, L. H., *Anton-Stang, H. M., & Mello, Z. R. (2012). An investigation of gender, perceived gender-barriers to a future occupation, and academic achievement among delinquent adolescents. Modern Psychological Science, 17, 19-26.  

 

11. Mallett, R. K., Mello, Z. R., Wagner, D. E., Worrell, F. C., Burrow, R. N., & Andretta, J. R. (2011). Do I belong? It depends on when you ask. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 17, 432-436. doi: 10.1037/a0025455 PDF 

 

10. Meyer, E. L., Schaefer, B. A., Soto, C. M., Simmons, C. S., Anguiano, R., Brett, J., Holman, A., Martin, J. F., Hata, H. K., Roberts, K. J., Mello, Z. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2011). Factor structure of Child Behavior Scale scores in Peruvian preschoolers. Psychology in the Schools, 48, 931-942. doi: 10.1002/pits.20596 PDF  

 

9. Mello, Z. R., +Bhadare, D., Fearn, E. J., Galaviz, M. M., Hartmann, E. S., & Worrell, F. C. (2009). The window, the river, and the novel: Examining adolescents’ conceptions of the past, the present, and the future. Adolescence, 44, 539-556. PDF 

 

8. Mello, Z. R., Worrell, F. C., & Andretta, J. R. (2009). Variation in how frequently adolescents think about the past, the present, and the future in relation to academic achievement. Research on Child and Adolescent Development [Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung], 4, 173-183. PDF  

 

7. Worrell, F. C., & Mello, Z. R. (2009). Convergent and discriminant validity of time attitude scores on the Adolescent Time Perspective Inventory. Research on Child and Adolescent Development [Diskur Kindheits- und Jugendforschung], 4, 185-196. PDF  

 

6. Mello, Z. R. (2009). Racial/ethnic group and socioeconomic status variation in educational and occupational expectations from adolescence to adulthood. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 30, 494-504. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2008.12.029 PDF 

 

5. Mello, Z. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2008). Gender variation in extracurricular activity participation and perceived life chances in Trinidad and Tobago adolescents. Psyche [Psykhe], 2, 91-102. doi: 10.4067/S0718-22282008000200008 PDF  

 

4. Mello, Z. R. (2008). Gender variation in developmental trajectories of educational and occupational expectations and attainment from adolescence to adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1069-1080. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.4.1069 PDF  

 

3. Mello, Z. R., & Swanson, D. P. (2007). Gender differences in African American adolescents' personal, educational, and occupational expectations and perceptions of neighborhood quality. Journal of Black Psychology, 33, 150-168. doi: 10.1177/0095798407299514 PDF  

 

2. Worrell, F. C., & Mello, Z. R. (2007). Reliability and validity of Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory scores in academically talented adolescents. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 67, 487-504. doi: 10.1177/0013164406296985 PDF  

 

1. Mello, Z. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2006). The relationship of time perspective, age, gender, and academic achievement in academically talented adolescents. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 29, 271-289. doi: 10.1177/016235320602900302  PDF 

 

+Indicates Undergraduate Student Mentee; *Indicates Graduate Student Mentee; ^Indicates Underrepresented Minority

"Time perspective is a multidimensional, individual-varying, and age-related construct that is defined as thoughts and feelings about the past, present, and future" (Mello, 2017).

 

The Adolescent and Adult Time Inventory (AATI; Mello & Worrell, 2007) assesses multiple dimensions of time perspective, including time meaning, time frequency, time orientation, time relation, and time attitudes. The AATI has yielded reliable and valid scores in more than a dozen countries (Mello & Worrell, 2017). The authors permit the use of this instrument and would appreciate being informed of its application and corresponding results. Please contact Zena R. Mello (zmello@sfsu.edu) and Frank C. Worrell (frankc@berkeley.edu), if you would like access to the AATI or would like to translate the instrument.

Click HERE for the AATI Map!

Dr. Mello examines topics specific to minority group membership, including stereotype threat and anticipated discrimination in educational and occupational attainment.

 

Gender Workshop Series for High School Students

 

The Principal of a high school with which Dr. Mello has had a long-term collaboration requested a workshop on toxic masculinity for 9-10th grade students. As the Mello Lab, we have created a three-session workshop series that addresses various topics about gender and relationships. The presentations and small group activities below can be viewed, downloaded, and used for educational purposes with attribution.

 

 

Publications

 

7. Moon, J., ^*Centeno, B., De León, J., & Mello, Z. R. (2023). Brief Report: Revealing the Nuance: Examining Approaches for Research with Adolescents who Identify With Multiple Racial/Ethnic Groups. Journal of Adolescence. PDF

 

6. ^*Centeno, B., *Bayazitli, I., Purnell, S., Bravo, D. Y., & Mello, Z. R. (2023). Colorism Unveiled: Examining How Skin Color Discrimination is Associated With Academic Achievement, Mental Health, and Substance Use Among Latinx Adolescents. Research in Human Development. PDF

 

5. Mello, Z. R. & Gordon, R. A. (2023). The Future of Colorism Science: Interdisciplinarity, Families, and Intervention. Research in Human Development. doi: 10.1080/15427609.2023.2261373 PDF

 

4. +^Jaramillo, J., Mello, Z. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2015). Ethnic identity, stereotype threat, and perceived discrimination among Native American adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 26, 769-775. doi:http://dx.doi.org.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/10.1111/jora.12228  PDF

 

3. Mello, Z. R., Mallett, R. K., Andretta, J. R., & Worrell, F. C. (2012). Stereotype threat and school belonging in adolescents from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds. Journal of At-Risk Issues, 17, 9-14. PDF

 

2. +Hand, L. H., Mello, Z. R., & *Anton-Stang, H. M. (2012).  An investigation of gender, perceived gender-barriers to a future occupation, and academic achievement among delinquent adolescents. Modern Psychological Science, 17, 19-26. PDF

 

1. Mallett, R. K., Mello, Z. R., Wagner, D. E., Worrell, F. C., Burrow, R. N., & Andretta, J. R. (2011). Do I belong? It depends on when you ask. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 17, 432-436. doi:https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025455 PDF

 

 

+Undergraduate Student Mentee; *Graduate Student Mentee; ^Underrepresented Minority

Greetings,

In order for me to write an effective letter, I will need the following information. Please submit these materials including this checklist to zmello@sfsu.edu at least two weeks before the deadline.  Best of luck with obtaining your career dreams!

Dr. Mello

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