Bio:

Anoshua Chaudhuri is a Professor and the current Chair of the Department of Economics in the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University. She received a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Washington, Seattle and a MA in Economics from Delhi School of Economics. Dr. Chaudhuri’s research has been at the intersection of health, development and family economics with a focus on evaluating impacts of policies and programs on community and household health outcomes. She has published her research in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as Economic Development and Cultural Change, Social Science and Medicine, Health Policy, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Children and Youth Services Review and Journal of Cross-cultural Gerontology. She has also written economic impact reports for several local government and non-government agencies. She has received several competitive research awards, has research collaborations with colleagues domestically and internationally, in economics and inter-related disciplines and holds leadership positions in economics associations and conference steering committees. At San Francisco State University, she teaches courses on Health Economics Research, Economics of Gender and Microeconomics. Dr. Chaudhuri serves as a Board member and Vice-Chair of SF State’s University Corporation and also volunteers as a Board member of a non-profit mental health agency, Richmond Area Multi-services or Rams.

Bio:

Nicole F. Watts is a professor in the Dept of Political Science. She teaches comparative politics, nonfiction writing, social movements, nationalism, and the politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Her research interests include protest and dissent, state-society relations, and Kurdish Studies, particularly in Iraq and Turkey. She's also an Irish set dancer, ex-newspaper reporter, dog agility trainer/competitor, hiker, and plodding but committed runner. 

Watts is the author and editor of two scholarly books and many chapters and articles. Her debut work of narrative nonfiction, Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan, was published by New York University Press in January 2025  (https://nyupress.org/9781479823062/republic-of-dreams/). Based on more than 10 years of research and field work, it marries the recent political history of Kurdish Iraq with the extraordinary coming-of-age story of a boy named Peshawa, taking readers deep inside ordinary people’s efforts to rebuild their community and bring democracy to Iraqi Kurdistan after genocide and war. In late January 2025 she did a book launch and "thank you" tour in Iraqi Kurdistan. See one of her favorite interviews here (Diwaxan Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZHpT3ZW25E&t=28s)

Other publications include a 2021 chapter, “Street Protest and Opposition in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq,” in The Cambridge History of the Kurds, “Re-Claiming Halabja,” in The Kurdish Question Revisited (2017) and “The Spring in Sulaimani: Kurdish Protest and Political Identities,” in Political Identities and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East (2016). She was also an occasional contributor to the Washington Post/Monkey Cage.

Watts co-edited (with Elise Massicard) Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party (Routledge 2012), and her book Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey was published by the University of Washington Press in 2010. The Turkish edition, Sandıkla Meydan Okumak: Tűrkiye’de Kűrtlerin Siyasi Yolculuğu (translated by Bilgesu Sűmer) was published in 2014 by Iletişim Publishing in Istanbul. Her work has appeared in a number of other refereed journals, including the International Journal of Middle East Studies; New Perspectives on Turkey; and Ethnopolitics.

She has an MFA in Creative Writing from SF State (2022), a PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle (2001), an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London (1992), and an undergrad history degree from the Univ of Washington (1989).

Website:

https://www.nicolefwatts.com/ 

Education: 

• Ph.D. in Political Science, Stanford University
• M.A. in Political Science, Stanford University
• B.A.S.  Emphasis on Latin American Studies, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. 

Research Interests:

Latinos as political actors;  Latinos as transnational political actors; Immigration and Migrant Rights; Citizenship/Transnational Citizenship; Mexican Politics;  Transnational Motherhood and Domestic Service.

Courses Taught:

• LTNS 670 (cross-listed with the Department of Political Science as PLSI 408)  Mexican Politics and Society
• LTNS 660  Latina/o Politics
• LTNS 470  Immigration of Latinas/os to the US.
• LTNS 445  Gendered Borders:  Latinas and Globalization (cross-listed as WGS 445)
• LTNS 215 Introduction to Latina/Latino Studies.
• ETHS 820  Advanced Research Seminar in Ethnic Studies (formerly ETHS 880)
• RAZA 410  Latina Women Seminar
• RAZA 315  Raza in California:  Public Policy Issues in Health, Education and Housing.

Community Involvement:

CSU Council of Ethnic Studies Steering Committee

Honors or Awards Received:

• 2020 Grant to develop High Quality Online Teaching and Learning, CEETL, San Francisco State University
• 2010 – Present Elected representative on the Steering Committee of the California State University Council on Ethnic Studies (CSUCES) representing 600+ Ethnic Studies faculty members in the CSU.
• 2017 Research Associate with Dr. Sam Naidu of Rhodes University in South Africa on a Mellon Foundation funded project “Intersecting Diasporas:  A Comparative Study of Literature of the African, Latin American and South Asian Diasporas.”
• 2014 Selected to participate in the NEH Summer Institute  “Pictorial Histories and Myth-Histories:   ‘Graphic Novels’ of the Mixtecs and Aztecs”  in Mexico  June/July 2014
• 2008-2011 Principal Investigator for a grant from the US Dept. of Education and Headstart for a Pilot Program for Teacher Training in the Latina/Latino Studies Department, SFSU.  $1,200,000.
• 2005 Teaching Award for Community Service Learning, SFSU
• 2002/03 Outstanding Teacher Award for Innovation, SFSU

Campus Service:

• Retention, Tenure and Promotion Committee for LTNS
• Hiring Committee for LTNS
• Upper Division GE  Committee (campus-wide)
• Willie Brown Fellowship Selection Committee
• Faculty Advisor for  Alpha Pi Sigma Sorority, Inc.
• Faculty Advisor for Delta Tau Chapter of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc.

Selected Publications:

• The Latino Voter Guide. El Tecolote.  http://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-state-students-analyze-how-propositions-would-affect-latino-community/  (2004 – 2020)
• Mexican Migrants and the Vocabulary of Transnationalism.  Scrutiny2, https://www.tandfonline.co/loi/rscr20  Taylor and Francis.   (2019)
• Elvira Arellano. Raul Grijalva. Maria Hinojosa. Kenneth Salazar.  Four entries in  Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti, Editor. Latinos in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of Latinos as Voters, Candidates, and Office Holders [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO, 2019. http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440853470  (2018)
• Latinas and Domestic Service.  In  Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO)  Oxford University Press.  Oxford, UK (2016)
• Translation and Transnationalization of Domestic Service.  In Tranlocaties/Translocalidades:  Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas.  Editors  Sonia E. Alvarez, Claudia de Lima Costa, Verónica Feliú, Rebecca Hester, Norma Klahn, Millie Thayer.  Durham, NC:  Duke University Press. (2014)
• The Best of Care: Latinas as Transnational Mothers and Caregivers. In Techno/futuros:  Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies.  Editors Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin Laó-Montes. Lanham, MD:  Lexington Books.  pp 191-212. (2007)
• Elizabeth (Betita) Martínez   In Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States  Eds. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. Gonzalez  Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2005)
• Testimony Across Cyberspace.  In  Claire Joysmith and Clara Lomas, eds., One Wound for Another / Una Herida Por Otra. Mexico DF:  Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.  (2005)
• Editor of Coyolxauhuqui Remembered:  A Journal of Latina Voices 2005  Raza Studies Department,  San Francisco State University.  (2005)
• Watching Over Greater Mexico:  Recent Mexican Initiatives on Migration and the Alambristas of the New Millennium. In Nick Cull and David Carrasco, Eds., Alambristas and the US-Mexico Border.  Albuquerque, NM:  University of New Mexico Press.  pp 103-124.  Albuquerque, NM:  University of New Mexico Press. (2004)
• Editor of Coyolxauhuqui Remembered:  A Journal of Latina Voices 2003  Raza Studies Department,  San Francisco State University.  (2003)
• Latino Immigration and Citizenship.  (Co-authored with Christine Sierra, Louis DiSipio and Micheal Jones-Correa)  Political Science Journal.  September, 2000.
• Calendario de la Raza  2000:  Art and Politics.  (Editor/Co-author) Rohnert Park, CA: Pomegranate Press. (1999)
• Cross-Border Talk:  Transnational Perspectives on Labor, Race and Sexuality.  In Ella Habiba Shohat, ed. Talking Visions:  Multicultural Feminism om a Transnational Age.  Cambridge,  MA:  The MIT Press.  (1998)
• Calendario de la Raza 1999:  Images of the Mujer.  (Editor)  Rohnert Park,  CA:  Pomegranate Press.  1998.
• Editor of  Coyolxauhuqui Remembered:  La Raza Women’s Journal 1996  La Raza Studies Department,   San Francisco State University.  (1996)
• Gendered Unions:  The Rise and Demise of the Mexican Garment Workers Union, 1985-1995.  CLRC News, a newsletter of the Chicano/Latino Research Center. No. 5 Fall/Winter 1994/95.  UC Santa Cruz.
• A Review of Barbara Kingsolver's Holding the Line:  Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike.  Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 34, No. 2, Summer, 1992.
• Promoting Multicultural Dissertation Research in a Eurocentric University.  American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 34 No. 2, pp. 181-187.   November/December  1990.
• Women and Independent Unionism in the Garment Industry.  In Ann Craig and Joe Foweraker, eds.,  Popular Movements and Political Change in Mexico.  Boulder, CO.:  Lynne Rienner Publishers.   1990.
• "The Women's Movement and the Left in Mexico:  The Presidential Campaign of Doña Rosario Ibarra de Piedra,"  in Teresa Cordova et al., eds.,  Chicana Voices:  Intersections of Race, Class and Gender.   Austin, TX.:  CMAS Publications, University of Texas.  1986.

Bio:

Todd Roehrman is the Director of the School of Theatre & Dance at SF State and Interim Chair of the Department of Design and Industry.   During his tenure as Chair of Theatre Arts from 2010-11, he successfully led the department through NAST (National Association of Schools of Theatre) accreditation process, and in 2012, He stepped into the role of Associate Dean in the newly configured College of Liberal & Creative Arts and served through 2015 AY.

Earning his BFA in Theatre from the University of Arizona (1987), he went on to earn his M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts (1990). As a professional costume designer and member of United Scenic Artists local 829 for which he served as a trustee on the Western Regional Board, he has designed costumes professionally for the past 25 years for theatre and dance companies on the West Coast from Seattle to San Diego as well as film and major industrials. He has collaborated with award winning directors, designers and actors at leading regional theatres. Throughout his career, Mr. Roehrman has been honored for his work with several prestigious critics awards. He served on the faculty of Pepperdine University as resident costume designer and at UCLA in the Department of World Arts & Cultures. Roehrman joined the faculty of the Theatre Arts Department at SF State in 1996 as professor of costume design teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. Additionally, he operates a private atelier in San Francisco creating custom costumes for theatre, film, industrials and private clients.

Bio:

Dr. Daphne Stannard received her BSN at Vanderbilt University and her Masters and PhD in Nursing from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF).  She has over 25 years of clinical experience in critical care and perianesthesia nursing, serving in a variety of roles, including as a direct care nurse in adult ICUs and adult and pediatric PACUs, as well as the Perianesthesia Clinical Nurse Specialist at the UCSF Medical Center.  Daphne also served as the Chief Nurse Researcher and founding Director of the Institute for Nursing Excellence at UCSF Medical Center from 2012-2019.  Concurrently, Daphne served as the Director of the UCSF JBI Centre for Evidence Synthesis & Implementation:  A Joanna Briggs Institute Center of Excellence. 

Daphne joined the academic ranks as an Assistant Professor in the San Francisco State University School of Nursing upon completion of her PhD in 1997.  She was promoted to Associate Professor and tenured, when she returned to UCSF Medical Center to resume clinical practice.  Daphne retired from UCSF in 2019 and returned to SFSU School of Nursing, where she currently works as a tenured Associate Professor teaching Medical-Surgical/Critical Care Nursing and EBP.  Her research program focuses on EBP and clinical practice issues and her research expertise is in qualitative research methodologies, implementation science, and synthesis science. 

As a clinical scholar, Daphne demonstrates her research expertise through the 25 completed or in-progress research studies as both a principal investigator or co-investigator or as part of a larger research team.  Eleven of the studies received external funding for a total of over $2 million dollars.  Additionally, Daphne has assumed a major role in teaching and supervising clinical implementation projects using the JBI approach, as well as creating two stand-alone evidence based practice (EBP) programs, which, when taken together, have resulted in over 100 quality improvement projects led by direct care nurses.

Throughout her career, Daphne has been very involved in professional organizations, including the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN), Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), to name a few.  She is currently a Member of the Standards & Guidelines and Clinical Inquiry Committees for ASPAN.  Daphne is a member of the Qualitative, Implementation, and Textual Synthesis Methods Groups and the Convenor of the Surgical Services Node for JBI.  

Bio:

Dr. Merrigan (a.k.a., Geri) holds a PhD in Speech Communication from the University of Washington and a Master of Science in Speech Communication from the University of North Texas. Her undergraduate degrees are in Broadcasting and Elementary Education.

Geri was the Chair of the Communication Studies Department at SF State from 2002-2011 and served as the COMM 150 Course Coordinator from 2020-2023.

She teaches Organizational Communication, Communication and Aging, and Communication and Empowerment in Organizations in the Communication Studies Department. She previously taught Quantitative Research Methods, Conflict Resolution, Writing Organizational Communication, Communication Training & Development, Senior Seminar, and Communication and Human Interaction in Communication Studies, and Communication Techniques & Strategies for Educational Leaders for SF State’s Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership.

The 4th edition of her book, Communication Research Methods (with Carole Huston, Oxford University Press) was published in January 2019.

Hiking in the open spaces of the Peninsula and learning to play the clarinet are some of Geri’s favorite extracurricular activities.

Office Hours (Additional Info):

Dr. Merrigan teaches only in fall semesters and will advise students during office hours on a drop-in basis (first come, first served). COMM majors & minors may also seek advising during the Department's Open Advising Hours (See https://communicationstudies.sfsu.edu/advising).

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Counseling Resources for Multicultural and Social Justice 

• Advocacy Competencies (American Counseling Association) https://www.counseling.org/docs/default-source/competencies/aca-advocacy-competencies.pdf?sfvrsn=d177522c_4
• Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies https://www.counseling.org/docs/default-source/competencies/multicultural-and-social-justice-counseling-competencies.pdf?sfvrsn=20
• Taking Action Against Racism (Society for Counseling Psychology) http://www.div17.org/TAAR/
• Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology http://www.psysr.org/jsacp/

Counseling Organizations

• American Counseling Association  www.counseling.org
• California Coalition for Counselor Licensure  http://www.caccl.org/
• Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development  http://www.amcdaca.org
• Counselors for Social Justice  http://counselorsforsocialjustice.com/
• Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology  http://www.psysr.org/jsacp/

Career Counseling Organizations

• National Career Development Association http://ncda.org/
• National Employment Counseling Association www.employmentcounseling.org
• San Francisco State University Career Center http://www.sfsu.edu/~career/