Born in San Francisco, and raised locally in Marin County, California, Joshua Horowitz earned a Ph.D. in History at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in September 2014, a M.A. in Humanities, 2008, an M.S. in Education, 2003, and a Teaching Credential in Social Sciences, 2000, from Dominican University of California. Currently, he is a Lecturer in History at San Francisco State University.
Desde el verano de 2015, tengo el honor de trabajar en la SFSU, donde en la actualidad soy profesora asociada. Anteriormente fui profesora visitante en la University of Washington en Seattle durante dos años. Mi formación académica tuvo lugar, sin embargo, en Alemania. Me doctoré en la Universidad de Hamburgo con una tesis sobre la memoria colectiva de la Guerra Civil Española en la narrativa contemporánea. Como resultado, en 2004 publiqué el libro La encrucijada de la memoria en la Editorial Tranvia, que tuvo una segunda edición en 2012.
Ph.D., Statistics, Michigan State University, 2015
Dual Ph.D., Quantitative Biology, Michigan State University, 2015
M.S., Applied Mathematics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2010
B.S., Applied Mathematics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2007
Sara Marinelli grew up in Italy, where she received a B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures (English and Russian) from the University of Naples, "L'Orientale," and a PhD in Literatures in English from the University of Rome, "La Sapienza." After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at UC Santa Cruz, in 2007, Sara decided to make the Bay Area her home. Here, she began to write fiction, and, in 2013, she completed an MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
I study how organelle size is sensed and controlled by the cell by using the budding yeast vacuole as a model system. The vacuole is a highly dynamic organelle which shows a size scaling relationship with the cell, i.e. larger cells have larger vacuoles. I am interested in how the cell maintains the vacuole at the appropriate size, and how this control impacts function.
Tanya Augsburg is a humanities-trained, interdisciplinary feminist performance scholar, educator, arts writer, and curator who can be occasionally persuaded to perform. She teaches at San Francisco State University, where she is Professor in the School of Liberal Studies in the areas of the Creative Arts and Humanities.
I am interested in indigenous environmental politics, the political economy of the mining and oil industries, and environmental history in the Americas. I conduct research on these issues in Ecuador and Guyana, working closely with local communities and organizations. These field studies also involve several partnerships with Bay Area non-profit organizations. My current work examines the collision of extractive projects in South America, forest conservation, indigenous land and protected areas, and climate change.
Karen Grove received her BS in Geology from the University of Maryland in 1983, where she completed an undergraduate thesis in structural geology. In 1989 she received her PhD in Geology from Stanford University, where she studied Late Cretaceous sedimentation and tectonics in west-central California. After beginning her faculty position in the Department of Geosciences (now Earth & Climate Sciences) at San Francisco State University, Karen studied more recent sediments in active fault zones, focusing on the tectonic evolution of Point Reyes and other parts of the Bay Area.
