Mariana Leal Ferreira

Mariana Leal Ferreira

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Instructor
Liberal Studies Program, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Email:
marianaf@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 405-2467
Location:

At SF State Since:

2003

Office Hours:

Bio:

Mariana K. Leal Ferreira (Ph.D. UC Berkeley--UC San Francisco, joint degree in 1996) is a medical anthropologist from Brazil using Critical Theory, including Theater and Pedagogy of the Oppressed, to protect the human rights of Indigenous Peoples and other minorities in North and South America. Her most recent books include Mapping Time, Space and the Body. Indigenous Knowledge and Mathematical Thinking in Brazil (Sense Publishers 2015, see www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/new-directions-in-mathematic...), and Acting for Indigenous Rights. Theatre to Change the World (UMN 2013, see www.indig.umn.edu). Dr. Ferreira is currently Professor of Medical Anthropology and Associate Director of the School of Humanities and Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, California, in the United States of America.

 

Websites:

Professor of Medical Anthropology; Associate Director, School of Humanities and Liberal Studies

 

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Ilona Vandergriff

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Professor
Foreign Languages & Lit, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Email:
vdgriff@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-1106
Location:
HUM 460

At SF State Since:

1996

Office Hours:

Bio:

Ilona Vandergriff is Professor of German (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley). She received her B.A. equivalent in German and English from the Free University of Berlin and her M.A. in German from San Francisco State University. Currently, she is serving as undergraduate (for undergrads whose last names begin with M-Z) adviser. Prof. Vandergriff teaches courses in language, linguistics, applied linguistics, and culture.

Dr. Vandergriff's main research interest is in foreign language use and development, in particular, in technology-mediated environments. She is the author or co-author of more than two dozen articles in a wide range of publications, including Teaching German/Die Unterrichtspraxis, Journal of Pragmatics, Language Learning and Technology and HUMOR. International Journal of Humor Research.  A finalist for the 2019 American Association of Applied Linguistics AAAL Book Award, her book Second-language Discourse in the Digital World. Linguistic and social practices in and beyond the networked classroom (2016) illustrates an innovative, practice-driven approach to technology in second-language (L2) learning that begins with what L2 users do when they connect with others online. She is currently working on a new book on standards-based approach to social media in the World Languages classroom.

Professor Vandergriff also works as a translator specializing in handwritten documents.

 

Websites

The German Program at San Francisco State

 

Recent selected publications

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2022) “#multilingualself: Hashtagging as a resource for performing identity.” In L. Klimanova (ed.). Identity, Multilingualism and CALL - Responding to New Global Realities. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 76–103. 

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2021) “Linguistic norms and L2 participation in social media: A case study.” Critical Multilingualism Studies 9(1), 1–22. ISSN 2325–2871.

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2016). Second-language discourse in the digital world. Linguistic and social practices in and beyond the networked classroom. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (2019 Finalist for the American Association of Applied Linguistics AAAL First Book Award)

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2015) “Exercising learner agency in forum interactions on a professionally-moderated language learning networking site." In: E. Dixon & M. Thomas (eds.). Researching language learner interaction online: From social media to MOOCs. Chapter 10, no page numbers 

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2014) "A pragmatic investigation of emoticon use in nonnative speaker/native speaker text chat." Language@Internet, 11, article 4. (urn:nbn:de:0009-7-39846) 

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2013) "'My major is English, belive it or not:)' – Participant orientations in NS-NNS text chat." CALICO Journal 30(3), 393–409.

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2013). "Emotive communication online: A contextual analysis of computer-mediated communication (CMC) cues." Journal of Pragmatics 51, 1–12. 

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2012). “Taking a stance on stance: Metastancing as legitimation.”Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines 6(1). 53–75. 

Vandergriff, Ilona & Fuchs, Carolin. (2010). “How to laugh online - Humor support in synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC)” HUMOR. International Journal of Humor Research 25(4). 437–458.

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2010). “Staging dialogue – Commenting wenn ‘if’-constructions in German persuasive discourse” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 15(2). 163-202. 

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2010). “Humor and play in CMC.” In: Rotimi Taiwo (ed.). Handbook of research on discourse behavior and digital communication: Language structures and social interaction. IGI Global Publishing. Chapter 15. 

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2009). “Conditionals and mental space set-up: Evidence from German word order.” In: A. Bergs and G. Diewald (eds.). Contexts and constructions (Constructional Approaches to Language CAL), (pp. 193-212). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Vandergriff, Ilona & Fuchs, Carolin. (2009). “Does CMC promote language play? Exploring humor in two modalities.” CALICO Journal 27(1). 26-47. 

Vandergriff, Ilona, Mueller, Kimberly & Barry, David. (2008). “Authentic models and usage norms: Gender marking in first-year German textbooks.” Teaching German/Die Unterrichtspraxis 41(2). 144-150. 

Vandergriff, Ilona.  (2006). “’weil der schmeckt so gut’ – The learner as linguist.”Teaching German/Die Unterrichtspraxis 38(1). 61-73. 

Vandergriff, Ilona. (2006). "Negotiating Common Ground in Computer-Mediated Versus Face-to-Face Discussions.” Language Learning and Technology 10(1). 110-138. 

Wilfred Denetclaw

Wilfred Denetclaw

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Associate Professor
Biology, College of Science and Engineering

Email:
denetclw@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-1784
Location:
HH 704

At SF State Since:

2000

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John W Calloway

John Calloway

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Lecturer
Music and Dance, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Email:
jcallow@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
Location:
CA 161

At SF State Since:

1999

Office Hours:

Bio:

Ed.D - International and Multicultural Education, University of San Francisco
MA - Music Education, San Francisco State University
BA - Music, City University of New York
 
Dr. John Calloway is a nationally recognized multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger who has maintained  a dual career in education for over 30 years. He is also a community activist and a long time social justice and cultural advocate, having served as an SF Arts Commissioner from 2008-2013, as the  Entertainment coordinator for Carnaval San Francisco since 2014,  and currently is on the advisory board for Living Jazz of Oakland, CA. 
 
In the LTNS studies department, John has taught LTNS 425, Popular and Traditional Music of the Latino Diaspora and LTNS 380, Afro Latina/o Diasporas. In the School of Music of SFSU, he has taught music theory, Latino and World music courses, music curriculum and education classes, and has been the director of the University’s Afro-Cuban Ensemble since 1999. As a music director elsewhere, John has taught at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, JazzCampWest, the Monterey Jazz Festival Summer Camp, La Escuela Nacional de Arte in Habana, Cuba, and currently directs the Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco.
 
John’s research areas include equity and social justice in the arts. He was the multicultural representative for the Bay Area Section of the California Music Education Association form 2009 -2015 and wrote numerous articles on equity and culturally responsive curriculum for their Tempo magazine during his tenure. Dr. Calloway has been recognized by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Jazz Hero Award in 2012, and by the California Music Educators Association with the Ernest R. Yee Illuminating Culture Award in 2015.  
 
Known for his prolific work in jazz, Latin American and other World music styles, John has performed and toured with such internationally known jazz musicians as Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Musselwhite, Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Max Roach and Pete Escovedo In the SF Bay Area, with Jesus Diaz, Mark Levine, John Santos and Marcus Shelby. As an arranger and composer, he has written for several GRAMMY nominated recording projects as well as for films, including the HBO movie “Hemingway & Gelhorn.” John has several recording projects of his own. His latest CD “Asere Ko,” was released in 2016, which is in addition to his two previous recordings “The Code” (2007) and “Diaspora” (2001). Most recently, John wrote and produced the musical “El Son de La Mission,” about the cultural and political history of San Francisco’s Latino district and was a recipient of a 2019 EMMY award as a composer/performer for the commercial “No Hay Nada Mas SF."
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Valerie Soe

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Instructor
Asian-American Studies, College of Ethnic Studies

Email:
vsoe@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-1480
Location:
EP 108

At SF State Since:

1994

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Steve Savage

Steve Savage

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Lecturer
Humanities Department, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Email:
ssavage@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
Location:
HUM 416

At SF State Since:

2005

Office Hours:

Bio:

Steve Savage balances his work as an educator, author and recordist. Savage is an active producer and recording engineer and has been the primary engineer on 7 records that received Grammy nominations. Savage holds a Ph.D. in cultural musicology.  His book Bytes & Backbeats: Repurposing Music in the Digital Age from The University of Michigan Press uses personal recording ethnologies to reflect and comment on the evolution of musical genre and the cultural impact of sound reproduction technologies.

 

Website:

Steve Savage

 

Wei Ming Dariotis

Wei Ming Dariotis

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Emeritus Faculty/Instructional Faculty
Asian-American Studies, College of Ethnic Studies

Email:
dariotis@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
Location:
EP 414

At SF State Since:

1999

Office Hours:

Bio:

Wei Ming Dariotis is Faculty Director of the SFSU Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL), professor of Asian American Studies, and affiliate faculty of the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program at San Francisco State University. 

She holds a PhD in English Literature from UCSB, and her research interests include race, gender, and science fiction; Asian American literature and poetry; critical mixed race cultural and literary studies; pedagogy studies; and educational leadership.

Her co-edited volume, Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in Academia, was published by Rutgers (2019).

She co-edited and co-curated, with Laura Kina, War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, two art exhibits and a book of the same name (UW Press, 2013). With Laura Kina and Camilla Fojas, she co-coordinated the Inaugural Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, at DePaul University, 2010, and co-authored the definition of critical mixed race studies. 

She serves on the editorial board of Asian American Literatures: Discourses and Pedagogies, for which she guest edited a special issue on mixed heritage Asian American literature and co-edited a special issue on the 45th anniversarry of the publication of the seminal Asian American literature anthology, Aiiieeeee! 

At SFSU she has served as president of the campus chapter of the California Faculty Association, in multiple roles on the Academic Senate Executive Council, and in other leadership capacities.

In the community she serves as a member of the Advisory Board of Eth-Noh-Tec, and is a past board member of the Asian American Theater Company. She is also a co-organizer of the Quesada Neighborfest, hosts and teaches writing activism for GirlFly in the Gardens, and is an avid gardener and Bayview neighbor.

Melissa K Nelson

Melissa Nelson

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Associate Professor
American Indian Studies, College of Ethnic Studies

Email:
mknelson@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
4153386422
Location:
EP 106

At SF State Since:

2002

Office Hours:

Bio:

Melissa K. Nelson, Ph.D. is an ecologist, writer, editor, media-maker and native scholar-activist. She is Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. Her work is dedicated to indigenous rights and revitalization, Native science and biocultural diversity, ecological ethics and sustainability, and the renewal and celebration of community health and cultural arts.

Dr. Nelson is a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University and president of the Cultural Conservancy, an indigenous rights organization, which she has directed since 1993. Dr. Nelson received her B.A. degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, both in the field of Ecology with an emphasis in Ecophilosophy and Native American Environmental Studies respectively.

Her first edited anthology Original Instructions – Indigenous Teachings For A Sustainable Future (2008), features three of her essays and focuses on the persistence of Traditional Ecological Knowledge by contemporary native communities. She publishes regularly in academic and popular journals and books. In 2005 Dr. Nelson was the co-producer of the award-winning documentary film, The Salt Song Trail: Bringing Creation Back Together and has co-produced several other documentary short films. In 2006 – 2007 Melissa was a Visiting Scholar at the American Indian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2010 – 2011 she served as the Anne Ray Resident Scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. Nelson currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Facitiating Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Network, the Guiding Committee of the Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Learning Fund and the board of directors of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and the Sogorea Te Land Trust. 

Dr. Nelson is a Switzer Fellow (1996) and Environmental Leadership Award recipient and has received awards for teaching, experiential education, documentary filmmaking, and environmental stewardship. She has presented her work throughout North America and in Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the Philippines, Australia, Peru, and New Zealand. 

 

Websites:

Professor of American Indian Studies, President of the Cultural Conservancy, LinkedIn, Academia.edu, Earthdiver site

 

Courses Taught

Spring 2017

  • AIS 410: Perspectives of Native California Indians
  • AIS 535: American Indian Film 

2002 – 2016, AIS, SFSU

  • AIS 160: Survey of Native California Indians
  • AIS 162: American Indian Oral Literature
  • AIS 310: American Indian Religion and Philosophy
  • AIS 410: Perspectives of Native California Indians
  • AIS 420: American Indian Women
  • AIS 450: American Indian Science
  • AIS 520: American Indian Ecology & Environmental Studies
  • AIS 680: American Indian Senior Seminar
  • AIS 694: Community Service Learning
  • AIS 701: American Indian Graduate Seminar

 

Spring 2007, American Indian Studies, UCLA

  • Revitalizing Indigenous Voices: American Indian Oral Tradition and Multimedia

 

1999 – 2000, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco

  • Ecological Psychology Graduate Course
  • Ecopsychology and Environmental Justice Summer Course, co-taught with Allen Kanner, Ph.D. 

 

Publications

 

  • Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Edited Books

2017. Getting Dirty: the Ecoeroticism of Women n Native Oral Literatures. For Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Edited by Joanne Barker. Duke University Press. 

2016. Linking Ancestral Seeds and Waters to the Indigenous Places we Inhabit. Co-authored with Nicola Wagenberg. For Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices, edited by Jeanine Canty. New York, NY: Routledge Press. 

2016. “Indigenous Ecological Traditions in North America.” For Handbook of Religion and Ecology. Edited by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker. New York, NY: Routledge Press. ​

2015. Indigenous Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Persistence in Place. In The Indigenous World of North America. Edited by Robert Warrior. Routledge.

2013. Protecting the Sanctity of Native Foods. Is Sustainability Possible? State of the World 2013. Edited by Erik Assadourian and Thomas Prugh. Washington: Island Press.

2013. The Hydromythology of the Anishinaabeg: Will Mishipizhu Survive Climate Change or is he creating it? In Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories, edited by Jill Doerfler, Niigonwedom James Sinclair and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark. East Landing: Michigan State University Press.

2011. [Reprint]. Becoming Metis. The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. Edited by Alison Deming and Lauret Savoy. Milkweed Editions.

2009. Indigenous Religions – North America. In The Encyclopedia of Sustainability, VI: The Spirit of Sustainability. Edited by Willis Jenkins. Berkshire Publishing, Great Barrier, MA.

2008. Rivers of Memory, Lakes of Survival: Native American Water Traditions and the Anishinaabeg Nation. In Deep Blue: Critical Reflections on Nature Religion and Water. Edited by Sylvie Shaw & Andrew Francis. Equinox Publishing, London, England. 

2006. Oral Tradition, Identity, and Inter-generational Healing Through the Southern Paiute Salt Songs. In Cultural Representation and Contestation in Native America. Edited by Andrew Jolivette. Berkeley: AltaMira Press.

2001. Contemporary Native American Responses to Environmental Threats in Indian Country. Co-authored with Dr. Tirso Gonzales. In Indigenous Traditions and Ecology –  The Interbeing of Comology and Community. Edited by John Grim, Center for the Study    of World Religions, Harvard University Press.

2001. Constructing a Confluence: Water Stories and the Restoration of an Urban Watershed. In Writing on Water.  Edited by David Rothenberg and Marta Ulvaeus, MIT Press.

1999. [Reprint] Becoming Métis. In At Home on the Earth - Becoming Native to our Place. Edited by David       Landis Barnhill, University of California Press.

 

  • Peer-reviewed Journals

2011. The Future of Native Studies: A Modest Manifesto. The American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 35:1 (2011).

2008. More Than One Mask: The Context of NAGPRA for Museums and Tribes. Co-authored with Edward M. Luby. The American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 32:4 (2008) 85 – 105.

2006. Ravens, Storms, and the Ecological Indian at the National Museum of the American Indian. Wicaso Sa Review, 21, no. 2. 

2002. Introduction: Indigenous Language Revitalization. Nelson, Melissa, executive editor, ReVision Journal, Washington, D.C., Fall, 2002, Volume 25, Number 2, 3 - 4.

2002. Moyla Tuupanga: The Moon Is in the Sky: An interview with L. Frank Manriquez. Nelson, Melissa. ReVision Journal, Washington, D.C., Fall, 2002, Volume 25, No. 2, 39 – 48.

2002. Storyscapes: Living Songs in Native Lands. Co-authored with Philip Klasky. ReVision Journal, Washington, D.C., Fall, 2002, Volume 25, Number 2, 11 – 18

1998. A Psychological Impact Report for the Environmental Movement. ReVision, Spring. Vol. 20(4): 37-43.

1995. San Francisco Bay Area Coalition Forms Bonds Between Native Americans and Non-Native Restorationists. Co-authored with Emily Schwalen. Restoration and Management Notes 12(2): 243-244.

1993. Our Modern Challenge: Exploring Alternatives Through Dialogue and Ecological Responsibility. The Trumpeter - Journal of Ecosophy 10 (2): 57-59.

1991. An Exploration of Intuition: Its Relationship to the Deep Ecology Movement & Ecosophy. The Trumpeter - Journal  of Ecosophy 9 (2): 83-84.

 

  • Popular Magazines​

2015. “Return to the Native: Inside the Indigenous Movement of Resistance and Restoration,” Earth Island Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3. I served as guest editor for this special issue and co-authored one article, “Revitalizing Native Foodways,” with Kaylena Bray.  

2013. “Wild and Cultivated Foods and Communities: A Collaboration.” Co-authored Wendy Johnson. Whole Communities Journal, Fayston: Vermont. Center For Whole Communities. 

2011. Red and Green: The Merging of the Indigenous and Environmental Movements and the Renewal of Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Green Fire Times, August 2011.

2010. Cutting-edge Brower Center Honors Ohlone Ancestors in Blessing Ceremony. News From Native California, Vol. 23 (3), Spring.

2005. The Salt Song Trail. Co-authored with Philip M. Klasky. News From Native California, Vol. 18(4), Summer.

2004.  Health and Ecology of Indigenous California Foods and the Bay Nut. The Snail. Slow Foods USA Newsletter, May 2004.

2001. Storyscape: the power of song in the protection of native lands. Co-authored with Philip Klasky. Orion Afield, Autumn, Vol. 5(4), 22-25.

1998. To Help Us Be Human: An Interview with Malidoma Somé. Orion Magazine, Vol. 17(3), Summer: 13-16.

1997. Becoming Métis. Orion Magazine, Vol. 16(2), Spring: 62-64.

1995. Guidelines for Biodiversity Collections: A look at the issues. Abya Yala News  8 (2): 19-20.

1993. Book Reviews for David Rothenberg’s Is it Painful to Think? and Wisdom in the   Open Air: The Norwegian Roots of Deep Ecology. Orion Magazine, 12(4), Autumn.

 

  • Community Newsletters

2004. NAGPRA In Context: Report on a Workshop for Native American Tribes & Museums. Co-authored with Edward M. Luby. Roots & Shoots. California Indian Basketweavers Association, Newsletter #43, Summer/Fall 2004.

1994. Reclaiming an Indigenous Mind. The Ecopsychology Newsletter, Issue 2, Fall.

1998. Original Stakeholders of the Presidio: The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. Presidio of San Francisco Environmental Newsletter, U.S. Department of Army, July, Volume 13.

 

  • Online Journals 

2015. A Kaleidoscope of Hope: Indigenous Knowledge Helping Mend the Nature-Culture Divide. The Interfaith Observor. http://theinterfaithobserver.org/all-about-tio/

 

  • Edited Reports

1995. Ecopsychology in Theory and Practice. In Fideler, D. (ed.). Alexandria  - Journal of the Western Cosmological Traditions. Grand Rapids: MI: Phranes Press. 

Julia Miyaoka

Julia Miyaoka

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Professor
Decision Sciences, College of Business

Email:
jmiyaoka@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-7022
Location:
BUS 205B

At SF State Since:

2003

Office Hours:

Bio:

Julia Miyaoka teaches undergraduate and MBA courses in operations management, forecasting, and management science in the College of Business at San Francisco State University. Julia earned her Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering and Master’s degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University, and her Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Her research interests are in supply chain management and forecasting.

 

 

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Sanjit Sengupta

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Professor
Marketing, College of Business

Email:
sengupta@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 817-4366
Location:
BUS 334

At SF State Since:

1996

Office Hours:

Bio:

Sanjit Sengupta (Ph.D. 1990, University of California, Berkeley), professor of marketing, teaches courses in marketing management, strategic marketing, and high-tech marketing.

He has also taught at the University of Maryland, College Park and in many executive development programs in the USA, India, Finland and South Korea.

His research interests include new product development and technological innovation, strategic alliances, sales management, and international marketing. His research has been published in many journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Product Innovation Management.

His book, Marketing of High-Technology Products and Innovations, Third Edition, co-authored with Jakki Mohr and Stan Slater, has been published by Pearson Prentice Hall in 2010.

Prior to his academic career, Professor Sengupta worked in sales and marketing for Hindustan Computers Limited and CMC Limited in Bombay, India.

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