
Sherry Keith
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Emeritus
History, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Sugie K Goen Salter
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She/Her/Hers
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Professor
English Language & Literature, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Bio:
Dr. Goen-Salter received her Ph.D. in Language, Literacy and Culture from Stanford University. She joined the SFSU English department in 1997 as an assistant professor in the area of Composition Studies and served for several years as director of SFSU's undergraduate wriitng program. Professor Goen-Salter's research interests include developmental education and basic writing, literacy studies (specifically the integration of reading and writing), the learning needs of non-mainstream students and writing assessment and placement. She teaches graduate courses in theory and pedagogy and research methods in Composition Studies. Professor Goen-Salter has published articles on topics related to Generation 1.5 learners and on reading/writing integration, and she currently sits on the Executive Board of the Conference on Basic Writing. She currently serves as Chair of the English Department.

Dennis Edm Desjardin
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Emeritus
Biology, College of Science and Engineering
Bio:
BS, Biology: Concentration in Botany, San Francisco State University, 1983
MA, Ecology and Systematic Biology, San Francisco State University, 1985
PhD, Botany: Mycology, University of Tennessee, 1989
Dr. Desjardin's area of research is in the evolution, systematics, ecology and distribution of fungi, primarily mushroom-forming Basidiomycota, including bioluminescent fungi. Current fieldwork projects are in the Hawaiian Islands, Micronesia (Pohnpei and Kosrae), Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, west african islands of São Tome and Principe, Madagascar, Brazil, and western United States. Research publications are available on the website www.researchgate.net/profile/Dennis_Desjardin?ev=hdr_xprf
His latest book, California Mushrooms: The Comprehensive Identification Guide, co-authored by Mike Wood and Fred Stevens, will be available in Nov. 2014 from Timber Press.

Natalia Tkachov
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Lecturer
Foreign Languages & Lit, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Eva Sheppard Wolf
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Professor
History, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Bio:
After publishing two books concerning slavery, manumission, and race in Virginia, I am shifting my focus northward to Americans’ ideas about free labor in the 18th and 19th centuries. My interest remains in the intersection between thought and action—in this case between ideas about labor and the increasing prevalence of wage labor (as opposed to bound labor such as slavery, servitude, and apprenticeship) in the northern region of the United States. Why, when labor had in the 1600s been seen as appropriate only for the lowly‐‐something difficult, filthy, and best avoided—did it come by the 1800s to be seen as something good, manly, and noble? I’m convinced that the answer has to do with both race and gender and that it helps explain why Americans today think working hard is such a good thing.
As a teacher, I also think that hard work is good, but I believe in weekends and breaks! I am passionately committed to helping students improve their writing and their critical thinking skills in all my classes. I am grateful to be able to work with the interesting and diverse group of students at SF State, where I have been teaching since 2002.
Education
- Ph.D. Harvard University, 2000
- B.A. UC Berkeley, 1992
Courses Recently Taught
Undergraduate:
- 120: U.S. to 1877
- 300: Seminar in Historical Analysis
- 422: The American Revolution
- 464: Race and Ethnic Relations
- 473: Unfree Labor in Early America
- 696: Proseminar, North versus South in the United States before the Civil War
Graduate:
- 700: History as a Field of Knowledge
- 780: Transition to Capitalism in the U.S. (reading seminar)
- 780: Ideology of the American Revolution (research seminar)
Research Interests
- Free-Labor Thought and Capitalism in the Early National U.S.
- Manumission and Free Blacks in Virginia
- Slavery
- American Revolution
Books:
- Almost Free: A Story About Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia. University of Georgia Press, 2012.
- Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner’s Rebellion. LSU Press, 2006.
Book Chapters:
- “Early Free-Labor Thought and the Contest over Slavery in the Early Republic,” in Matthew Mason and John Craig Hammond, eds., Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Freedom and Bondage in the New American Nation. University of Virginia Press, 2011.
- “Natural Politics: Thomas Jefferson, Elections, and the People,” in John B. Boles and Randal L. Hall, eds., Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours. University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Selected Professional Service
- J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship Committee, American Historical Association, 2010-2012.
- Editorial Board Memeber, Journal of Southern History, 2017-2019
Selected Community Service
- Phi Beta Kappa SF State chapter Secretary, 2013-present.
- Seminar Leader for Teaching American History grant seminars, various times 2006-2012.
Television and Radio Appearances
- Genealogy Roadshow, PBS, Episode 3, Oct. 7, 2013. See the bit on Benjamin Franklin at http://genealogyroadshow.org/episodes/san-francisco.
- Finding Your Roots, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS May 13, 2012. See starting at 34:24 at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/video/john-legend-and-wanda-s...
- Who Do You Think You Are? with Blair Underwood, NBC, Feb. 24, 2012.
- “Here and Now,” WBUR, “Decades Before The Civil War, Virginia's Legislature Voted On Whether To End Slavery,” aired June 24, 2019.

Eric J Routman
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Professor
Biology, College of Science and Engineering
Bio:
Ph.D. Washington University 1990
Selected publications:
Thompson, M.E., B.J. Halstead, G.D. Wylie, M. Amarello, J.J. Smith, M.L. Casazza, and E.J. Routman. 2013. Effects of prescribed fire on Coluber constrictor mormon in coastal San Mateo County, California. Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 8:602-615.
Micheletti, S. E. Parra, and E.J. Routman. 2012. Adaptive color polymorphism and unusually high local genetic diversity in the side-blotched lizard, Uta stansburiana. PLoS ONE 7(10): e47694. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047694.
Wu, J., A.C. Go, M. Samson, T. Cintra, S. Mirsoian, T.F. Wu, M.M. Jow, E. J. Routman, and Diana S. Chu. 2012. PP1 phosphatases regulate multiple stages of sperm development and motility in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 190:143–157.
Halstead, B.J., G.D. Wylie, M. Amarello, J.J.Smith, M.Thompson, E.J. Routman,and M.L. Casazza. 2011. Abundance and survival of the San Francisco gartersnake in coastal San Mateo County, California. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. 2:41-48.
Tonione, M., and E.J. Routman. 2011. Microsatellite analysis supports mitochondrial phylogeography of the hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis). Genetica. 139:209–219.
Schinske, J.N., G. Bernardi, D.K. Jacobs, and E.J. Routman. 2010. Phylogeography of the diamond turbot (Hyposopsetta guttulata) across the Baja Peninsula. Marine Biology. 157:123-134. [published online in 2009: DOI 10.1007/s00227-009-1302-2]
Sabatino, S.J. and E.J. Routman. 2009. Phylogeography and conservation genetics of the hellbender salamander (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis). Conservation Genetics 10:1235-1246. [published online in 2008: DOI:10.1007/s10592-008-9655-5.]
Di Candia, M.R. and E.J. Routman. 2007. Cytonuclear discordance across a leopard frog contact zone. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 45:564-575.
Kenney-Hunt, J.P., T.T. Vaughn, L.S. Pletscher, A. Peripato, E. Routman, K. Cothran, D. Durand, E. Norgard, C. Perel, J.M. Cheverud. 2006. Quantitative trait loci for body size components in mice. Mammalian Genome. 17:526-537.
Paquin, M. M., G.D. Wylie, and E.J. Routman. 2006. Population structure of the giant gartersnake, Thamnophis gigas. Conservation Genetics. 7:25-36.
Wolf J.B., L.J. Leamy, E.J. Routman, and J.M. Cheverud. 2005. Epistatic pleiotropy and the genetic architecture of covariation within early- and late-developing skull trait complexes in mice. Genetics: 171:683-694.
Leamy, L.J., M.S. Workman, E.J. Routman, and J.M. Cheverud. 2005. An epistatic genetic basis for fluctuating asymmetry of tooth size and shape in mice. Heredity. 94:316-325.
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Karen Coopman
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She/Her/Hers
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Lecturer Faculty
English Language & Literature, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Ping Hsiao
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Emeritus
Finance, College of Business

Gail C Dawson
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Associate Dean of the College Liberal & Creative Arts
Art, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Bio:
Highest Degree

Kitty Millet
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Professor
Jewish Studies, College of Liberal and Creative Arts