Dr. Golden earned her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah, emphasizing communication theory, communication research methods, interpersonal communication & aging, and education/pedagogy. Her research has emphasized dementia caregiving, grandchildren as caregivers, and communication in the context of death and dying.
Hello, I have been teaching courses at San Francisco State University since my graduate program here in 2010. I completed my M.A. degree with the department of communication studies and have been teaching COMM 150: Fundamentals of Oral Communication, COMM 502GW: Interpersonal Communication, and COMM 661: Quantitative Methods as a lecturer since Fall 2013.
A San Francisco State Alum, Nick Chivers received his M.A. in Communication Studies focusing on critical theory, pedagogy, & gender and sexual identities. He is an adjunct faculty member at SFSU as well as Ohlone Community College, where he is a regular featured speaker in their Colloquium Series focusing on the social construction of gender & sexual identities and relationships of power & privilege therein. Nick is also part of the Metro Academies program at San Francisco State. When not engaging in communication studies, he enjoys ska music and running half marathons.
Education
Ph.D., Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
M.S., Geology, Western Washington University
B.S., Earth Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
Specialties
hydrology, GIS, environmental modeling, resource management, watershed biogeochemistry, environmental science, and ecohydrology.
Deborah Cohler received her PhD in English Literature from Brown University and BA from Wesleyan University in Women’s Studies and English. She is the author of Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth Century Britain (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) as well as recent journal articles on early twentieth century eugenics, transnational feminist pedagogies, and the cultural politics of the War on Terror.
