Cristina L Ruotolo
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rofessor/Chair
Humanities Department, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Bio:
I'm a professor in the Humanities program (now part of the School of Humanities and Liberal Studies, of which I am currently Director), where I teach undergraduate and graduate courses focusing on American culture, music and society; literary and musical modernisms; literary and cultural theory. I recently spent 18 months in Ghana, teaching American literature and studying West African literature and culture. I am currently developing courses that are comparative not only in bringing American and W. African content together, but also in creating online spaces for interactions between students at SF State and at the University of Ghana.
My scholarly work has focused on music's place in American cultures and imaginations. In a series of articles and then my first book, Sounding Real: Musicality and American Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, I explored a pivotal moment in American music (with the rise of Tin Pan Alley, ragtime, "Indianist" composers, and American divas) as it was registered by and in American fiction. I am currently working on a new book (tentively called Democratizing Music: Émigré European Modernists and American Musical Literacy) that traces the efforts of a group of avant-garde émigré musicians to inform and reform American musical literacy in the decade immediately following their arrival in the 1930s.
My interest in music stems from my lifelong practice as a violinist and chamber musician. I have a Masters in Music Performance from the New England Conservatory and worked professionally in various orchestsras before, in part because of repetitive injuries to my hand, deciding to switch gears and head back to school. I received my Ph.D. from Yale in English Literature in 1997, and have been teaching at SF State ever since.
Carel Bertram
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Associate Professor
Humanities Department, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Bio:
My training is in Islamic Art History, so the classes that I have designed at SFSU focus on the visual and the cultural in Islamic cultures (art, architecture, cities, literature.) I bring my ways of studying the visual and cultural world and my interest in Islamic cultures to all my classes; I also add a study of space and place to the study of other ways that we represent ourselves in the world. My special interest is in the late Ottoman period and the early Turkish Republic, and on memory of places and historical consciousness, especially consciousness of history when remembering a home lost to time or exile. My book, Imagining the Turkish House [ http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/berima] uses my background in the Ottoman-Turkish world and the all the ammunition of the Humanities to investigate how houses live in our imaginations and our hearts. My current work, on Armenians from the diaspora who travel to Anatolia in search of the houses of their lost histories, is also on a Turkish world, and on the way that home is preserved as an image that does meaningful work. I thrive on what I learn from my studies and from my students.
Lily Chen
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Professor
Biology, College of Science and Engineering
Bio:
Dr. Lily Chen received a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the State University of New York School of Medicine in Buffalo in 1991. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA (1991-1993). From 1993-1995, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Chen was an Assistant Professor and faculty member of the Graduate College at the University of Vermont in Burlington-VT before joined the SF State as a faculty member in the Center for Biomedical Laboratory Science (CBLS) in 1998.
Dr. Chen served as the Coordinator of the Master's in Biomedical Laboratory Science degree program (2006-2011). She is currently a Professor in Biology and Director of San Francisco State's Professional Science Master’s program (Master of Science in Biomedical Science, Concentrations in Biotechnology and Stem Cell Science). She was the principal investigator of the National Science Foundation Science Master's program (2010-2013) and an Academic Senate representive from College of Science and Engineering (2012-2014). Dr. Chen teaches undergraduate microbiology courses and master's curriculum in biotechnology and stem cell science. Her research focuses on microbial gene regulation, pathogenesis and drug resistant mechanisms as well as public health outreach and science education.
Sheldon Gen
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Instructor
Public Affairs and Civic Eng, School of PACE
Carlos B Cordova Ed D
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Professor
Latino/Latina Studies, College of Ethnic Studies
Bio:
Retired from San Francisco State University in the Spring of 2021. Former Department Chair and Professor Emeritus of Latina/Latino Studies (formerly Raza Studies), College of Ethnic Studies. San Francisco State University. Courses taught: Acculturation Issues of La Raza; Art History of La Raza; Central Americans in the U.S.; Community Organizing; Immigration Issues and La Raza; Indigenismo: Indigenous Culture and Personality; Caribbean Cultures; Latinos in the U.S.: Religion and Spirituality.
Lead researcher/ historian/ team leader. Responsible for the research and writing of the San Francisco Latino Context Statement: Nuestra Historia: Documenting the Chicano, Latino, and Indígena Contributions to the Development of San Francisco. A project funded to the San Francisco Latino Historical Society and San Francisco Heritage by the City of San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Fund Committee, this citywide historic context statement will document Latino history as it pertains to the physical and cultural landscape of San Francisco and will offer recommendations on how best to preserve and maintain architectural, cultural, and historical resources important to Latino communities.
Oral history research team leader in charge of training 16 high school and college students on conducting oral history interviews with merchants, old-time residents and community leaders on 24th Street in San Francisco. The students used their smartphones to record the interviews and were organized into teams of 3 interviewers. The research leader was in charge of writing a narrative based on personal experiences, interview findings and other existing historical records that resulted in the publication: Calle 24 Cuentos del Barrio- A Self-Guided Tour of 24th Street in San Francisco.
Specialties: Latino Cultural Studies- migration, demographics, and adaptation of Latino immigration to the US. Emphasis on Central Americans in the U.S. Author of "The Salvadoran Americans- the new Americans" Greenwood Press 2005.
Traditional Medical systems in Latin America, shamanism, spirituality and religion. Extensive research on Mayan spirituality and shamanism in Guatemala and Afro-Cuban spirituality in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Esther Chan
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English Language & Literature, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Michael Hammer
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Professor
Foreign Languages & Lit, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Scott Patterson
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Professor
Broadcast Communication Arts, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Erik Rosegard
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Professor
College of Health and Social Sciences
Judi E Strebel
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Faculty
Marketing, College of Business
Bio:
Judi Strebel is a Professor of Marketing in the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University. She teaches marketing principles, services marketing and marketing research. Her research is focused on retailing examining consumer shopping habits, management strategy in the service industry and public health issues exploring how marketing can influence consumer’s health decisions.