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Denise Kleinrichert

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Professor
Management, College of Business

Email:
Phone Number:
Location:
BUS 321

At SF State Since:

2007

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 13:00-14:00BUS 344
Wednesday: 13:00-14:00BUS 344
Thursday: 10:00-11:00Online
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Bio

Denise Kleinrichert, PhD, Professor, College of Business. Dr. K has been with the College of Business since Fall 2007. She is a fulltime faculty member of the Management Dept., teaching ethics (business and AI management), corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.  She is also the General Business majors/minors faculty Coordinator. She previously served as the Interim Associate Dean, LFCoB from Aug. 2018 - 2020. She also previously served as Director of the Center for Ethical and Sustainable Business (CESB). This Center integrates ethics and sustainable business teaching and service to community and the university, as well as research. She also served as Chair of the College of Business' annual Business Ethics Week from 2007 - 2017, co-developed the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Certificate, the Business Certificate in Ethics & Compliance, the MBA Emphasis in Ethics & Compliance, and was founder of the Ethics & Compliance Workshop series. Denise chaired, organized and facilitated CESB’s five Summer High School Student Sustainability Camps (2011-17). Prior to her academic career, she was a corporate executive in risk management and employee benefits in the property and casualty insurance, banking and healthcare industries for ten years. Her PhD is in Philosophy (Ethics), with interdisciplinary studies and coursework in the College of Business at University of South Florida. Her dissertation, Responsibility and Practice in Notions of Corporate Social Responsibility was awarded in 2007. She also holds two Master's degrees (MA and MLA) from the University of South Florida, and a BA in Economics from Indiana University.

She has focused her academic career in the areas of business ethics and compliance, corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, and women social entrepreneurs. She teaches two undergraduate courses: Seminar on Business & Society and Ethics at Work. She also teaches MBA seminar courses: Ethics and Compliance; Political, Social, Legal Environment of Business; and Business Ehtics, Society & Sustainability. Her research publications include numerous peer reviewed journal articles and two book chapters on topics in ethics, risk and corporate boards, CSR, sustainability, and social entrepreneurs.  Her Master's degree thesis: Winifred Carney: Socialism and Women in Irish Textile Trade Unions in Belfast, was the foundation for her book chapter, "Labour and Suffrage: Spinning Threads in Belfast," in  Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens (2007; 2018). She is also the author of Republican Internment and the Prison Ship, Argenta (2001), the first complete historical account of the 1922-24 internment in Northern Ireland.

Her PhD studies were inclusive of coursework in both the College of Business and the Philosophy Department at the University of South Florida, including: Social Ethical Legal Systems, Contemporary Ethical Theory, Organizational Design/Structure, Politics/Control in Organizations, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Work & Gender, Development Ethics. She defended her dissertation, Responsibility and Practice in Notions of Corporate Social Responsibility and was awarded a PhD in Philosophy (Ethics) from the University of South Florida by a committee of faculty advisors from the College of Business and Philosophy Department. 

Education: 
  • B.A. in Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • M.A. in Social & Political Thought, University of South Florida, Tampa
  • M.A. in Philosophy: Concentration in Ethics, University of South Florida, Tampa
  • Ph.D. in Philosophy: Concentration in Ethics, University of South Florida, Tampa
Research Interests: 
  • Business Ethics
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Corporate Governance and Risk
  • Ethics of AI
  • Sustainable Business Practice
  • Women and Social Entrepreneurship
Professional Associations:
  • Aspen Institute
  • International Association for Business & Society (IABS)
  • Society for Business Ethics
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Minu Kumar

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Professor
MarketingCollege of Business

Phone Number:
(415) 405-2852
Location:
SCI 327

At SF State Since:

2007

Office Hours:

Bio:

Minu Kumar is a Professor of Marketing at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and is the Founder-Director of the Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RI&E) Research InitiativesHe also serves as the Co-editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Product Innovation Management (ABS 4, A* ABDC Journal with two year impact factor of 10.5). He earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, a Masters in Business Administration (Concentration in Pharmaceutical Marketing, 2002) and a Ph.D. in Marketing. His primary scholarly interest lies in the area of Innovation, New Product Design & Development, and Entrepreneurship.

Professor Kumar has published in journals such as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management among others. He has won several awards such as the Best Overall Conference Paper award at the Summer AMA conference (2011) and the University President’s Award for Research. His work has directly helped the university raise several millions of dollars for I&E programs (See news article: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SFSU-says-25M-crypto-gift-is...). He has also worked for or consulted with firms such as Barilla, SAP, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals (Now Daiichi Sankyo), Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals (Now Merck), Medtronic, Glaxo Smithkline, among others on product design & development, sales, and marketing projects.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2913-2325

Selected Publications and Grants

Ongoing Research and Selected Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

Acur, Nuran, Jarryd Daymond, Carlos Carbajal, and Minu Kumar (Ongoing Special Issue expected to be published in 2027) "Responsible Innovation for Emerging Technology: Navigating Ethics, Society, Diplomacy, and Sustainability," Research-Technology Management. Click this Link for more details about submission.

 

Kumar Minu,  Ian Sinapuelas, Phillip Macnaghten, and Chenwei Li (Editing Special Issue that is expected to be published in 2026) “Responsible New Product Development and Innovation Management.” Journal of Product Innovation Management. See this Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/15405885/JPIM_RI_Specia...

 

Nickel KristinaUlrich R. Orth, and Minu Kumar (2025), "Consumer response to visual harmony: when is a gender difference not a gender difference?" Journal of Marketing Communications, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527266.2025.2455661. Second piece from Kristina Nickel's dissertation project.

 

Spanjol, Jelena, Charles H. Noble, Markus Baer, Marcel LAM Bogers, Jonathan Bohlmann, Ricarda B. Bouncken, Ludwig Bstieler, Luigi De Luca, Rosanna Garcia, Gerda Gemser, Dhruv Grewal, Martin Hoegl, Sabine Kuester, Minu Kumar, Ruby Lee, Dominik Mahr, Cheryl Nakata, Andrea Ordanini,  Aric Rindfleisch, Victor Seidel, Alina Sorescu, Roberto Verganti, and Martin Wetzels (2024), "Fueling innovation management research: Future directions and five forward‐looking paths." Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol 41 (September), p.893-948. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12754

 

Nickel Kristina, Ulrich R. Orth, and Minu Kumar (2020). Designing for the genders: The role of visual harmony. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 37(4), 697-713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijresmar.2020.02.006. First piece from Kristina Nickel's Dissertation.

 

Ho-Dac, N.N., Kumar, M. & Slotegraaf, R.J (2020). Using product development information to spur the adoption of continuous improvement products. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. 48(November), 1156–1173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-020-00730-6

 

Luchs Michael and Minu Kumar  (2017) "Yes, but this one looks better/works better: When might consumers choose superior sustainability despite a trade-off with other valued product attributes?" Journal of Business Ethics. 140(3), 567-584. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2695-0

 

Kumar Minu and Charles H. Noble (2016) "Beyond form and function: why do consumers value product design?" Journal of Business Research, 69(2), 613-620. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.05.017

  • This project was funded by Marketing Science Institute through their competitive grants
  • An earlier version of this paper won the prestigious Overall Best Paper Award at the 2010 Summer AMA conference.

 

Kumar Minu, Janell Townsend and Douglas W. Vorhies (2015) “Enhancing relationships with brands using product design" Journal of Product Innovation Management. 32(5), 716-730. DOI: 10.1111/jpim.12245

  • Press coverage in: Miami Herald, Phys.org, CTV news, Redorbit.com, Hindustan Times, and Express.be

 

Kumar, Minu and Nitika Garg, (2010) "Aesthetic principles and cognitive emotion appraisals: How much of the beauty lies in the eye of the beholder?" Journal of Consumer Psychology, Volume 20 (Issue 4), 485-494.

 

Noble Charles H. and Minu Kumar (2010) "Exploring the appeal of product design: A grounded, value-based model of key design elements and relationships," Journal of Product Innovation Management. 27:640–657.

 

SELECTED RECENT PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS

Townsend Janell, Minu Kumar, and Sungha Jang, “... products … cues received,” Accepted for the 2024 Winter American Marketing Association Conference ( St. Petes Beach, FL)

 

 Kumar, Minu (2023) "Don't let pesky side effects like nausea, death, or dizziness get in the way of living your best life. Try our medication today!" American Marketing Association Summer Conference, San Francisco, California

 

Ian Sinapuelas and Minu Kumar (2023) "Reactions to Covid-19: The Mediating Role of Innovation Strategy in New Product Development" American Marketing Association Summer Conference, San Francisco, California

 

Pietro Micheli, Minu Kumar, Neil Goldberg, and Jatinder Singh (2023) "... Design..." 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Boston, Massachusetts.

 

Kumar, Minu (2022) “A comparison of the histories of the development of incremental and radical innovations: A view from Pharma-Biotech” The 29th International Product Development Management Conference, Hamburg, Germany. 

 

SELECTED GRANTS

 

2020 MUFG grant for Innovation and Entrepreneurship ($35,000).

2018 Innovation and Entrepreneurship grant ($25 Million): Co-authored with business development group at SF State a proposal that was used in-part to fundraise $25 Million for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and other programs. See: News article

2018 Grant from Barilla for the Sugar Network project ($66,000): Program director role

Sugar Network (https://sugar-network.org/) is a global innovation network of academic institutions collaborating with companies to solve challenging, real-world problems using the Design-Thinking methodology. This network was born out of Stanford university’s ME310 program (http://expe.stanford.edu/index.php/Main/SUGAR). Each academic year, dozens of participating companies provide product development challenges to students from different universities from different countries who then collaborate to develop design solutions to meet the challenge. This year, a multidisciplinary group of faculty from SF State will work with a group of four SF State students to help them collaborate with a team of students from University of Bologna on a product development challenge provided by the company Barilla (https://www.barilla.com/en-us).

2018 IRA Grant ($13,500): This grant helped set up a new set of 3D printers and help hire a CAD coach to help coach my classes

Fall 2017: ORSP DRC Grant ($8,000)

Spring 2017: College of Business Research Discipline-Based Research Grant ($2000)

Fall 2015: ORSP DRC Grant ($7500)

Fall 2015: PDMA grant for develop Social Media for JPIM (7.500)

Fall 2011: ORSP grant ($7500)

2007: MSI research grant for the dissertation project ($6000)

2007: Summer research Grant (University of Mississippi) ($4000)

 

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

 

Lam Family College of Business (LFCoB) Exemplary Award for Research: 2016, and 2020

LFCoB Research Productivity Award: 2020

Selected to represent LFCoB for the SF State Provost's Arts & Lecture Series: 2019

Best Conference paper at the 2016 Product Development Management Association Conference. The paper “Gender Based Design of New Products: What Matters More Biological Gender or Gender Identity?” was selected as the Best Paper from over 100 submissions for the conference from all around the world.

SFSU President’s award for research (Leave for research Fall 2012)

Overall Best Conference paper at the 2010 Annual Summer American Marketing Association conference. The paper “Consumer Value of Design and its Measure” was selected as the Best Overall Paper from the over 600 submissions for the conference from all around the world.


 

Service to the Discipline

Editorial experience

 

Journal of Product Innovation Management

  • Co-editor-in-chief (2025-2028)
  • Special Issue editor: Responsible Innovation with Ian Sinapuelas, Phil Macnaghten, and Chenwei Li. May 31st 2024 submission date. See Special Issue Call for Papers here.
  • Associate Editor JPIM (2022-2024)
    • Decisions on 12-15 Manuscripts per year
    • Represented JPIM in a Meet The Editors session at the PICMET conference in Portland, Oregon in August 2022.
      • Session had editors of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Technology Forecasting and Organizational Change representing
      • 40+ attendees in the session
    • Manager Reviewer Development Program (RDP) (2022-Present): Engaged reviewers and good reviews form the lifeblood of a good peer-reviewed journal. I worked with the JPIM EiC’s to design, develop, deploy, and administer JPIM’s first RDP. See 2023-2024 Call for Participants here. Reviewing for well-known peer-reviewed journals provides several benefits including developing as a scholar (e.g., improving critical thinking, increasing domain knowledge, improving research execution capabilities, improving research explication capabilities, improving knowledge about responding to reviewers of your their research, improving knowledge about the journal’s editorial stance etc.), career benefits, personal fulfillment among others. The JPIM RDP is intended to help early-career reviewers learn about the full peer-review process and train them to provide high quality reviews.
      • Process: Mentees first attend one synchronous online training workshop about how to write good reviews and how to write better manuscripts
      • Over the period of year they are assigned two mentors (ERB member) and four manuscripts to review
      • Multiple workshops are held to provide mentees feedback on the reviews, see other reviews, see the reports from Associate Editors, and Editor’s decision letters. In this way mentees see behind the scenes of how journal decisions are made by JPIM editorial staff,
      • at the end of the program, the trainees receive a course completion certificate that can help in their job search, and
      • at the discretion of the editors and the program manager, they are added to the JPIM reviewer pool and a select few are provided a pathway to be added into the ERB.
      • Program outcome: in AY 2022-2023, 20 Assistant professors, Post Docs, and Ph.D. students underwent the one-year multi-faceted program where participants worked with six mentors.

 

Conference co-chairing and track chair

 

 

  • 2013-2014: Conference Co-Chair (with Barry Bayus of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) of the Product Development Management Association’s 2013 Academic Research Forum: responsibilities included, Editorial job of reviewing, finding and assigning reviewers and making acceptance and rejection decisions on almost 70 submitted manuscripts, setting the conference agenda and running the conference.
  • Track Co-chair (with Subin Im) for “New Product Development, Product Management and Entrepreneurship” track for the 2011 summer AMA conference: Editorial job of reviewing, finding and assigning reviewers and making acceptance and rejection decisions on over 40 submitted manuscripts,

 

Other Service to discipline

 

  • Scientific Committee Member Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (2023-)
  • The 30th International Product Development Management Conference 2023 (in Lecco, Italy) Jury member for best papers (Tom Hustad and Krister Karlsson Best paper Awards)
  • Organized annual Responsible Innovation Conference at SF State (With Chenwei Li and Ian Sinapuelas): lead the organization of the Inaugural RI&E Research Conference on April 21st and 22nd 2023
    • One of the originators of RI, Phil Macnaghten, was Keynote Speaker
    • Rippleworks CEO Doug Galen was featured in a fireside chat with Geoff Desa on the topic of responsible entrepreneurship and social innovation
    • Founder- directors of RI and practitioners of RI at Meta and Google in panel discussions
    • Invited Guest Speakers: 13, Number of registrants: 95, 90+ In-person attendances over the two days
  • Lead the organization of a JPIM Paper Development Workshop at SF State (With Chenwei Li and Ian Sinapuelas) on April 22, 2023
    • worked with the editors of Journal of Product Innovation Management and developed a CfP.
    • Secured facility and managed all logistical needs
    • Garnered nine high-quality scholarly papers from across the United States and internationally.
    • During the highly intensive full day in-person PDW participants were given intensive training to develop their paper into a JPIM submission. Three participants were from Lam Family College of Business and the others were from the following institutions: Aarhus University, Babson College, San Diego State University, University of North Dakota, Auckland University of Technology, and the University of Burgundy. It was a mixture of Professors (full, associates, and un tenured),
  • Reviewing conference papers and research proposals for Product Development Management Association (PDMA) (2011- present, two or three papers a year)
  • PDMA Academic Committee Member (2022-)
  • Academic Vice President Product Development Management Association (PDMA) 2019-2022 (Pro Bono Three year term):  As the VP of Academics, I was responsible for all the academic activities of PDMA (Chairing the Academic committee, PDMA’s annual conference and the JPIM Research ForumPDMA Doctoral ConsortiumPDMA Dissertation Proposal Competition, designing and implementing new academic initiatives such as the PDMA Research Competition). PDMA also publishes the Journal of Product Innovation Management.  This VP maintains a dotted line connection with the Co-Editors in Chief of JPIM. JPIM Research Forum along with the PDMA annual conference (over 300-person conference) brings together over 150 of the leading scholars in Innovation and Innovation Management with 150-200 practitioners of innovation, innovation management, and product development from the industry. The PDMA Doctoral consortium enhance the development of doctoral students who are conducting dissertation research in the domain of innovation and new product development. Students who are accepted into the Consortium will be honored as Doctoral Student Fellows and have a unique opportunity to network and meet and discuss ideas with leading innovation scholars and corporate executives in a collaborative, open, and sociable setting. The aim of the PDMA Dissertation Proposal Competition is to foster rigorous academic research on innovation and new product/service development and encourage close ties between the academic and corporate worlds.
  • PDMA doctoral consortium Faculty Fellow
    • University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 2019
    • University of Tennessee Knoxville 2022
  • 2015-2022: Editorial Board member for Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM)
    • Reviewing articles for the journal (3/4 articles per year)
    • Attending editorial board meetings regularly
    • Reviewing articles and recommending winners for various journal awards (Tom Hustad award, Abbie Griffin award among others)
  • 2015- 2016 Social Media Manager for Journal of Product Innovation Management
    • JPIM provided $7500 to buy out a course to do this work. Based on this work JPIM has a large online following on multiple platforms (e.g., Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter etc.)
    • During this time, the Social media presence of the JPIM was second only to Journal of Academy of Marketing Science
  • Reviewing conference papers and research proposals for (2011-present, two or three papers a years)
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer for Journals: Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Ethics, European Journal of Marketing, among others.
  • Reviewing manuscripts for conferences: American Marketing Association Conference, JPIM Research Forum, Association for Consumer Research, International Product Development Management Conference, Academy of Marketing Science Conference, Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Conference, among others.
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Mojan Norouzi

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Lecturer
College of Science and Engineering

Phone Number:
Location:
Science and Engineering Ctr 337

At SF State Since:

2009

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: Closed
Friday: 14:30-15:30
Saturday: Closed

Bio

M.S. Electrical Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA, 2010
B.S. Electrical Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA, 2009

Mojan Norouzi received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA in 2009
and the M.S. Embedded Electrical and Computer Systems, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA in 2010.
He is currently a part time lecturer of electrical engineering in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University and a full time reliability engineer at SanDisk Inc.
His research topic is “DESIGN OF ON CHIP TEMPERATURE MONITORING IN 90NM CMOS”.

 

 

 

 

Engr 206

Engr 301

Microelectronics Laboratory Engr 301

 

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Fang yu Chou

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Professor
Nursing, College of Health and Social Sciences

Phone Number:
(415) 338-6853
Location:
BH 358

At SF State Since:

2005

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 10:00-12:00
Thursday: Closed
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Bio

Ph.D., RN, FNP-BC, CNE

Professor

Dr. Fang-yu Chou has been in nursing education since 1997 and received her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco, in 2002. She also completed a T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Center for Symptom Management at UCSF (2002-2005).  In addition, Dr. Chou served as the PD/PI for the HRSA Advanced Nursing Education Traineeship from 2006 to 2012 and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar. Dr. Chou's teaching interests include adult chronic illness management, cultural issues in cancer care, nursing research and evidence-based practice, quantitative methodology, and health outcome measurement. She has taught various courses in the School of Nursing, including Research and Evidence-Based Practice, e-Technology and Nursing Education Principles, Health Systems Management, Graduate Practicum, and Pathophysiology.   Dr. Chou has also mentored numerous graduate students' culminating experience projects and clinical practicums.  She currently serves as Assistant Director for Graduate Programs of the School of Nursing. 

Dr. Chou's scholarship interests include self-management, quality of care, and cross-cultural care in adult patients experiencing complex and stigmatized chronic conditions in the community, specifically cancer patients.  She has a scholarly interest in applying consumer health technology to culturally diverse patients.  Dr. Chou has been active in campus services, including the Academic Senate, and served in leadership roles for professional organizations, including the Sigma Theta Tau International, Oncology Nursing Society, and Association of California Nurse Leaders, and served as the reviewer for various professional journals and grants. She is also a faculty fellow of the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL) of S.F. State. 

Personal interests include art, music, science fiction, futuristic things, and being a happy working mother of two wonderful children.

C.V. is available upon request

 

Websites:

Linkedin

CSU Fresca

 

Courses

NURS 703 Education, Informatics, and eTechnology in Advanced Nursing Practice

NURS 702 Health Systems Management 

NURS 721 Program Planning and Financial Management in Nursing Practice 

NURS 819 Graduate Nursing Practicum I: Adult/Gerontology 

NURS 820 Graduate Nursing Practicum II: Adult/Gerontology

​NURS 895 Applied Research in Nursing

Professional Services

Current-

Campus

*At-Large Member, Executive Committee, Academic Senate, SFSU

*Chair, Distinguished Faculty and Staff Award Committee

Professional Associations: 

*Co-Chair, Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Committee, Association of California Nurse Leaders

*Chapter Vice President, Greater San Francisco Chapter, Association of California Nurse Leaders

*Counselor, Nu Psi Chapter, Sigma Nursing International 

Past Experience-

2023-2024

*Chair, Academic Policies Committee, Academic Senate, SFSU

2021-2023

*International Governance Committee (elected member), Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 

2014-2023

*Treasurer, Nu Psi Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society

2012-2014

*Chapter President, Nu Psi Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society 

Projects

Research Projects

Ongoing

-Perception of the benefits and challenges of utilizing travel nurses.

Completed 

-Central obesity and breast cancer prevention for Chinese American Women. 

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Robert Keith Collins

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Associate Professor
American Indian StudiesCollege of Ethnic Studies

Email:
Phone Number:
(415) 338-2013
Location:
DTC

At SF State Since:

2006

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 11:00-12:00Email for Appointment
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 11:00-12:00Email for Appointment
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Bio:

Robert Keith Collins, PhD, a four-field trained anthropologist, is Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. He holds a BA in Anthropology, a BA in Native American Studies, and a minor in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Collins also holds an MA and PhD in Anthropology from UCLA. Using a person-centered ethnographic approach, his research explores American Indian cultural changes, American Indians and museum anthropology, and African and Native American interactions in North, Central, and South America. His recent academic efforts include, but are not limited to, being a co-curator on the Smithsonian's traveling banner exhibit "IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas," an edited volume with Routledge (2023) on "Studying African-Native Americans: Problems, Perspectives, and Prospects," an edited volume with Cognella Press (2017) on "African and Native American Contact in the U.S.: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives", an edited volume for the American Indian Culture and Research Journal at UCLA (2013) on "Reducing Barriers to Native American Student Success."  

 

 

Betty Parent Scholarship

Betty Parent Achievement Award 

2024-2025

Deadline: 2/17/25 at 11:59p.m.

 

            When Dr. Betty Parent, PhD became the first full professor in American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, she established a precedent of excellence in teaching, research, and community service that many American Indians seek to emulate. The Betty Parent Achievement Award was created in her name, and with her permission, to recognize Dr. Parent’s achievement and on-going inspiration.  The Award will honor outstanding students making similar strides in their academic progress and service to American Indian communities. 

                 

             The Betty Parent Achievement Award seeks to assist outstanding undergraduate students financially with book purchase and/or course related material funds to continue their academic endeavors. This award is a maximum of $500.00 per year, and it is renewable annually through re-application. Receipts must be kept. In order to be eligible, SF State students must:

 

  • Be currently enrolled as a full-time student at San Francisco State University.
  • Be an American Indian Studies major, minor, graduate student with an American Indian Studies emphasis, or other major committed to working with and/or in an American Indian tribal community, nation, and/or organization.
  • Maintain an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher.

 

A complete application packet should consist of:

 

  • A completed Betty Parent Achievement Award application (see link below).
  • A copy of the student’s most recent transcripts.  Official and unofficial transcripts will be accepted.
  • One letter of recommendation confirming the student’s intellectual and community engagement.

Applications can be obtained using the following Academic Works link: https://sfsu.academicworks.com/donors/bettyparent

For more information, please email Professor Collins at rkc@sfsu.edu. 

 

Previous Awardees!

2023-24 Ms. Malachi Perkins

2022-23 Dr. Jacob Adams, EdD

2022-23 Ms. Cathleen Manuel, MA

2016-17 Mr. Nureldin Maslu

2014-15 Ms. Amanda Jean Whitecrane

2014-15 Mr. Jesse Dumont

2013-14 Ms. Kim Ngoc Nguyen

2012-13 Mr. Edher Zamudio

2010-11 Mr. Leighton Felson

2010-11 Ms. Cassandra Freeman

Courses Taught

Courses Spring  2025

AIS 699: Independent Study: American Indian Science

ETHS 898: Masters Thesis

Courses Fall  2024

AIS 230: Urban Indians

AIS 699: Independent Study: American Indian Science

Courses Offered Summer 2024

AIS 150: American Indian History in the U.S. (Online)

Courses Offered Spring 2024

AIS 701: American Indian Studies Graduate Seminar

AIS 699: Independent Study: American Indian Science

Courses Offered Winter 2024

AIS 150: American Indian History in the U.S. (Online)

Courses Offered Fall 2023

AIS 230: Urban Indians (Online)

AIS 350 Black Indians in the Americas

Courses Offered Summer 2023

AIS 470: American Indian Ethnicity: Problems in Identity (Online)

Courses Offered Spring 2023

AIS 470: American Indian Ethnicity: Problmems in Identity (Online)

Courses Offered Winter 2023

AIS 150: American Indian History in the U.S. (Online)

Courses Offered Fall 2022

AIS 350/AFRS 350/LTNS 355: Black Indians in the Americas (Online).

Courses Offered Summer 2022

AIS 150: American Indian History in the United States (Online).

Courses Offered Fall/Spring 2021-2022

N/A

Courses Offered Fall/Spring 2020-2021

N/A

Courses Offered Winter 2021

AIS 150: American Indian History in the United States (Online).

Courses Offered Summer 2020

AIS 150: American Indian History in the United States (Online).

AIS 470: American Indian Ethnicity: Problems in Identity (Online).

Courses Offered Spring 2020

AIS 150: American Indian History in the United States (Online).

Courses Offered Winter 2020

AIS 150: American Indian History in the United States (Online).

Courses Offered Fall 2019

AIS 150: American Indian History in the United States (Online).

AIS 350/AFRS 350/LTNS 355: Black Indians in the Americas (Online).

 

Previously Offered Courses

Undergraduate: Lower Division

AIS 150: American Indian History in the United States.

AIS 162: American Indian Oral Literature

 

Undergraduate: Upper Division

AIS 300: American Indian Research Methods.

AIS 320: American Indian Music.

AIS 350/AFRS 350/LTNS 355: Black Indians in the Americas.

AIS 470: American Indian Ethnicity: Problems in Identity.

AIS 500: American Indian Languages and Cultural Systems.

AIS 694: Community Service Learning 

AIS 699/LTNS 699: Ancient South America

AIS 699: Choctaw Langauge

AIS 699: Navajo Language

AIS 699: The American Indian Pow-Wow 

Graduate Seminars 

AIS 701: American Indian Studies Graduate Seminar

ETHS 820: Advanced Research Seminar - M.A. Thesis Writing 

 

Guest Lectures

Keynotes, Invited Lectures, and Seminars

 

"Furthering CHSS Shared Governance Culture" (An invited guest lecture given to (CHSS) at George Mason University, Fiarfax, Virginia. October 30, 2024.)

“Intersectionality and Ethnography” (An invited conference lecture given at the conference, “Rethinking Space,” Bard College, New York. October 13, 2023).

“Person-Centered Ethnography as Oral History Project Conceptualization: Indexing Inconsistencies Between Private Lived Realities and Public Racial Expectations” (A virtual roundtable given at the Advanced Oral History Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. August, 2023).

“Indigenous Economies and New World Culture Change” (An invited virtual keynote given at the 6th Annual Search for Indigenous America Conference. 2023, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. February 27-28, 2023).

“Using Person-Centered Ethnography in Oral History Project Conceptualization: Indexing the Inconsistencies Between Identification and Recognition” (A roundtable given at the Advanced Oral History Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. August 10, 2022).

“The Relevance of Juneteenth to African-Native Americans"(An invited lecture given at the inaugural CSU Juneteenth Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, June 16, 2022).

“Kinship and Slavery: Shared Kinship Systems of Enslaved Africans and Native Americans."(An invited lecture given at the Colloquium Americanum at the Institute for Ethnology at Goethe University at Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany, sponsored by the Institute for Ethnology, June 9, 2022).

“Using Person-Centered Ethnography in Oral History Project Conceptualization" (A roundtable given at the Advanced Oral History Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. August 11, 2021).

"Authors in Conversation: I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E. Roberts in Conversation with Professor Robert Keith Collins" (A discussion with Dr. Alaina E. Roberts (University of Pittsburgh) at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD): Smithsonian Affiliate. San Francisco, CA. May 11, 2021). 

"Afro-Native Identities" (A discussion with Unresevered. April 23, 2021).

“Person-Centered Ethnography and Oral History Project Conceptualization” (A roundtable given at the Advanced Oral History Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. August 11, 2020).

“Red and Black on Turtle Island: Community Dialogue on AfroNative Identities and Solidarities” (An invited guest lecture with Professor Emeritus Dr. John Brown Childs given virtually at U.C. Santa Cruz. April 29, 2020). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d52T58vMw-M.

“The Relevance of Person-Centered Ethnography to Oral History Project Conceptualization” (A roundtable given at the Advanced Oral History Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. August 6, 2019).

“Indigenous Economies and New World Culture Change” (An invited keynote given at the American Indian Workshops 2019, Poznan, Poland. July 10, 2019).

“Displaying Native American Cultural Impact in the U.S.: Cultural Diffusion in a Smithsonian Exhibit. A invited keynote lecture given at the, Frankfurt, Germany, sponsored by the Institute for Ethnology, June 18, 2019).

“Person-Centered Ethnography as Oral History Project Conceptualization” (A roundtable given at the Advanced Oral History Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. August 7, 2018).

"The Relevance of American Indians Studies to the African Diaspora," an invited Mellon Seminar at the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery of the Schomburg Center.  New York, NY. July 2, 2018). 

“Using Person-Centered Ethnography as Project Conceptualization Resource” (A roundtable given at the Advanced Oral History Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. August 16, 2017).

"American Indians Studies and Studying the African Diaspora," an invited Mellon Seminar at the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery of the Schomburg Center.  New York, NY. July 1, 2017). 

"Galvanized in Defense of Liberty: African Americans and Native Americans in World War I." (An invited lecture given at the History Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA. May 4, 2017).

“Person-Centered Ethnography as Oral History Project Conceptualization” (A roundtable given at the Advanced Oral History Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. August 16, 2016).

"Black Indians Lives of the Past and Present: A Dialogue." (A discussion with Dr. Tiya Miles (University of Michigan) at the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery of the Schomburg Center.  New York, NY. April 21, 2016).  (Note: Please click on the title to view the dialogue.)

“Memories of Enslaved American Indians: A Case Study of WPA Slave Narratives.” (An invited lecture given at San Diego State University, San Diego, California, sponsored by the departments of American Indian Studies and Africana Studies for Native American History Month, November 23, 2015).

“Displaying Native American Cultural Impact in the U.S.: Cultural Diffusion in a Smithsonian Exhibit. An invited lecture given at the Colloquium Americanum at the Institute for Ethnology at Goethe University at Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany, sponsored by the Institute for Ethnology, June 18, 2015).

“Person-Centered Ethnography: A Discussion of Anthropology to Oral History Project Conceptualization” (A roundtable given at the Advanced Oral History Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. August 11, 2015).

“The IndiVisible Legacy of Jack Forbes in Native American Studies: An Introduction.” (An invited keynote to introduce the hosting of “IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas” at the University of California, at Davis, Davis, California, sponsored by the departments of Native American and Indigenous Studies and African and African American Studies, November 14, 2014). 

“The Dynamics of African Cultural Change in Native America: Evidence of Transculturalization in a Smithsonian Exhibit.” (An invited lecture series given at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, sponsored by the departments of African American & Diasporic Studies and American Studies, October 1-3, 2014).

“Person-Centered Ethnography: A Discussion of Relevance to the Life Cycle of the Interview” (A workshop panel presentation given at the Advanced Oral History Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. August 2014).

“Displaying What Is a Black Indian: Evidence of Native American Transculturalization of Africans in a Smithsonian Exhibit” (A guest lecture given at the University of Graz, Austria sponsored by the Center for Inter-American Studies (C.IAS), University of Graz. Graz, Austria, May 28, 2014).

“Open Access Publications and Research In Relation to Native American/First Nations Studies.” (An NWO sponsored panel chaired at the American Indian Workshop at Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, May 25, 2014).

 

Conference Panels and Paper Presentations

 

"Trancending the Shackles of Savagery and Servitude Through Sports: Hampton Institute Football Team of 1900." (A paper presented on the panel Sports and Residential/Boarding Schools (Chair: Janice Forsyth) at the American Indian Workshop. University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April, 17, 2024).

“Unsettling Museum Exhibits: International Prospects for Paradigm Shifts in Native Community Collaborations.” (A panel co-chaired with Markus Lindner, PhD, Goethe University, Frankfurt, at the American Indian Workshop, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic, April, 17, 2024).

“Anti-Blackness and the Law in the Making of Jim Crow” (A panel chaired, at the Rights and Wrongs: A Constitution and Citizenship Day Conference at San Francisco State University, September 18-19, 2023.  

“Unsettling Museum Exhibits: International Prospects for Paradigm Shifts in Native Community Collaborations.” (A panel co-chaired with Alaka Wali, PhD, Curator Emeritus of North American Anthropology, Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois  at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Seattle, Washington, November, 2022).

“Blood and Eugenics as Indian Removal: Perspectives on Current Problems in African-Native American Research”  (A roundtable chaired at the American Indian Workshop on “Norther Perspectives, Native Americans in World War II and Current Research at the University of Luxembourg, June 1-4, 2022.

“Native North Americans and Museums: International Perspectives and Collaborative Prospects” (A roundtable co-chaired with Markus Lindner, PhD, Goethe University, at the American Indian Workshop on “Norther Perspectives, Native Americans in World War II and Current Research at the University of Luxembourg, June 1-4, 2022.

“Native Americans and Museums: International Perspectives and Collaborative Prospects.” (A roundtable discussion chaired at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Baltimore, MD, November 19, 2021).

“The Impact of American Indians on European Cultures: Evidence from the Anthropological Record” (A paper presented on a panel titled “From Homelands to Empires and Everywhere in Between: North American Indigenous Border Crossings, Cultural Exchanges, and Contemporary Considerations” at the conference “Indigenous Mobilities: Travelers through the Heart(s) of Empire,” Paris, France, June, 17, 2021).

“Native Americans and Museums: International Perspectives and Collaborative Prospects” (A roundtable chaired at the virtual conference of the American Indian Workshop on “Indigenous Shapes of Water & Current Research” at Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Munchen, November 25, 2020).

“Changing Climate, Shifting Terrains: Indigenizing Museums” (A roundtable discussion at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Vancouver, BC, November 21, 2019).

“Narratives of Valor: American Indians and World War I” (A paper presented on a panel entitled “Remebering the Past” at the American Indian Workshop at the University of Ghent, Belgium, April, 2018).

“Arrows of Racism: From Past to Present” (A panel chaired at the American Indian Workshop at the University of Ghent, Belgium, April, 2018).

“Displaying Collaboration: Reproducing the Anthropology of African and Native American Relations in a Smithsonian Exhibit.” (An invited paper presented on a panel titled “Legacies of Race and Space” at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington, DC, November, 2017).

“Afro-Indigenous Relations Across the Americas, 1492-present.” (A panel chaired at the American Historical Association, Denver, CO, January, 2017). 

“Discovering WPA Slave Narratives as Evidence of Shared African and Native American Enslavement” (An invited paper presented on a panel titled “The Art of Identity: (Re) Constructing Blackness in Music, Film, TV, and the Internet” at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, December, 2016).

“Cherokee Humor and U.S. Common Sense: The Impact of Will Rogers.” (A paper presented on a panel entitled “Staging Humor” at the American Indian Workshop at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, May, 2016).

“Art and Humor” (A panel chaired at the American Indian Workshop at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, May, 2016).

“Native Knowledge and Self-Representation.” (A panel chaired at the American Indian Workshop at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, March, 2015).

“Motive, Native Knowledge, and African-Native American Self-Understanding: Life History Evidence from a Smithsonian Exhibit.” (A paper presented at the American Indian Workshop at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, March, 2015).

“Displaying Collaboration: Reproducing the Anthropology of African and Native American Relations in a Smithsonian Exhibit.” (An invited paper presented on a panel titled “Legacies of Race and Space” at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington, DC, December 2014).

“Displaying Tranculturalization in the Americas” Inter-American Ethnographic Evidence From A Smithsonian Exhibit” (An invited paper presented at the International Association for Inter-American Studies Conference, Lima, Peru, August 2014).

“The Directive Force of Narrative in an Urban Garifuna Community: Ethno-linguistic Evidence from a Smithsonian Exhibit.” (A paper presented at the American Indian Workshop at Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, May 2014).


 

Publications

Publications

The following is a selected list of recent peer-reviewed publications:

Blogs

 

Collins, Robert Keith and Monica Rickert. “The Relevance of Native America to Black History.” Field Museum. February 15, 2021. https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/relevance-native-america-black-history.

 

Book Chapters 

 

Collins, Robert Keith. "Local Knowledge in Museum Exhibits; The Relevance of Native America to Black History." In The Future is Indigneous: Stories from the new Native North American Hall at the Field Museum, edited by Alaka Wali and Tom Skwerski. Bar Publishing. 2024. Pp. 4-10.

Collins, Robert Keith. "Native Knowledge and Changing Museum Paradigms." In The Future is Indigneous: Stories from the new Native North American Hall at the Field Museum, edited by Alaka Wali and Tom Skwerski. Bar Publishing. 2024. Pp. 152-158.

Collins, Robert Keith. “Intersectionality and Ethnography" In Research Handbook on Intersectionality, edited by Mary Romero and Reshawna Chapple, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2023. Pp. 204-222.

Collins, Robert Keith. “How Did Black Folks Become Indians? What Lived Experiences Say About Belonging, Culture, and Racial Mixture in Native America.” In The Complexities of Race: Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America, edited by Charmaine Wijeyesinghe, New York: NYU Press. 2021.

Collins, Robert Keith. “A Different Kind of Blackness: The Questions of Obama’s Blackness and Intra-racial Variation Among African Americans.” In Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority, edited by Andrew J. Jolivette, 169-190. Chicago: The Policy Press, 2012.  

Collins, Robert Keith. “What is a Black Indian? Misplaced Expectations and Lived Realities.” In IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas, edited by Gabrielle Tayac, 183-195. Washington, DC: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, 2009.

Collins, Robert Keith. “Katimih o Sa Chata Kiyou? (Why Am I Not Choctaw?): Race in the Lived Experiences of Two Black Choctaw Mixed Bloods.” In Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, edited by Sharon P. Holland and Tiya Miles, 260-272. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. 

 

Books/ Edited Volumes

 

Collins, Robert Keith, ed. Studying African- Native Americans: Problems, Perspectives, and Prospects. (London: Routledge), 2023.

Collins, Robert Keith, ed. African and Native American Contact in the U.S.: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. (San Diego: Cognella Press) 2017.

Collins, Robert Keith. Memories of Kin that Race Can't Erase: Kinship, Memory, and Self Among African-Choctaw Mixed Bloods (University of North Carolina Press) In progress.

Collins, Robert Keith. African-Native Americans: Racial Expectations and Red-Black Lived Realities (University of Minnesota Press). In progress.

Collins, Robert Keith, ed. Native American Populations and Colonial Diseases. (San Diego: Cognella Press) In progress.

Collins, Robert Keith, ed. Native American Populations and Colonial Diseases. (San Diego: Cognella Press) In progress.

 

Educational Videos

 

Collins, Robert Keith. “Baptiste Garnier and the Indian Wars." Released 2023. Producer Daniel Leonard Bernardi. San Francisco, CA: Veterans Documentary Corps, El Dorado Films. 2023.

Collins, Robert Keith. “Buffalo Soldiers, George Jordan and the Indian Wars.” Released 2017. Producer Daniel Leonard Bernardi. San Francisco, CA: Veterans Documentary Corps, El Dorado Films. 2023.

Collins, Robert Keith. “The Sioux: From Red Cloud to Wounded Knee." Released 2023. Producer Daniel Leonard Bernardi. San Francisco, CA: Veterans Documentary Corps, El Dorado Films. 2023.

Collins, Robert Keith. “Comanche Empire.” Released 2019. Producer World History Project. Seattle, WA. 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLalxylPU0.

Collins, Robert Keith. “Indigeneity and Globalization.” Released 2019. Producer World History Project. Seattle, WA. 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocMeSz-_Ks.

Collins, Robert Keith. “Buffalo Soldiers, Victorio, and Manifest Destiny.” Released 2017. Producer Daniel Leonard Bernardi. San Francisco, CA: Veterans Documentary Corps, El Dorado Films. 2017.

 

Encyclopedia Entries 

 

Collins, Robert Keith. “Black Indians” In Encyclopedia of African American Culture: From Dashikis to Yoruba, Gerald R. Early, ed.  Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press. Pp. 115-121. 2020. 

Collins, Robert Keith “Garifuna: A Spotlight Entry.” In Encyclopedia of African American Culture: From Dashikis to Yoruba, Gerald R. Early, ed.  Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press. Pp. x-x. 2020.

 

Guest Edited Journals 

 

Collins, Robert Keith. "Reducing Barrier to Native American Student Success: Challenges and Best Practices." A Special Edition of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37.3, 2013.

 

Journal Articles

 

Collins, Robert Keith. Using Person-Centered Ethnography to Explore African and Native American Intersections in the Unites States. In Sage Research Methods. Sage Publications. 2024.

Collins, Robert Keith and Alaka Wali. "Decolonizing Museums: Toward a Paradigm Shift" Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol 52. 2023.

Collins, Robert Keith. “Toward an Inter-American Study of African Transculturalization in Native America." In Colonialism, Coloniality, and Decolonization in the Americas. Josef Raab and Alexia Schemien, eds. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier/Bilingual Press, Tempe, AZ: (2021): 91-102. ​

Collins, Robert Keith. “How Africans Met Native Americans During Slavery.” Contexts, Summer (2020): 16-21.  

Collins, Robert Keith. “Toward an Inter-American Ethnography of Garifuna Cultural Change. In Inter-American Studies/Estudios Interamericanos series, with the title Inter-American Flows: Transnational Imaginaries and Impacts. Josef Raab and Alexia Schemien, eds. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier/Bilingual Press, Tempe, AZ: WVT, 2018.  

Collins, Robert Keith. “Commodified Culture as Ethnicity Maintenance: Garifuna Cultural Survival in 21st Century Los Angeles.” In Selling Ethnicity and Race: Consumerism and Represenation in Twenty-First Century America, edited by Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, Frank Uzbeck, Anne Grob, and Maria Lippold, x-x. Trier: WVT, 2015. 

Collins, Robert Keith, “Reducing Barriers to American Indian Student Success” In Reducing Barrier to Native American Student Success: Challenges and Best Practices. A Special Edition of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37.3 (2013):ix-xvi.

Collins, Robert Keith, “Using Captions to Reduce Barriers to American Indian Student Success” In Reducing Barrier to Native American Student Success: Challenges and Best Practices. A Special Edition of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37.2 (2013):75-86.

Research

Projects

 

Advancing and Expanding Ethnic Studies in the California State University (CSU), Project Manager (1.5 million for CSU team effort generously supported by the Mellon Foundation).

Advisory Committe, Native North American Hall. The Field Museum, Chicago, Il. 2018-2022 and 2022- present.

The Demography of African Slavery in Native America.  2020 - present.

Unsettling Anthropological Museum Exhibits: International and National Prospects for Paradigm Shifts in Native American Community Collaboration. 2018-present.

Studying African-Native American Contact in U.S. History: Challenges and Best Practices. 2006-present.

IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas : Current Smithsonian Traveling Banner Exhibit. 2009- 2016.

IndiVisible Exhibit Curatorial Advisory Team. National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian. Washington, DC. 2007-2016.

Understandings of Afro-Native Selves and Self-Determination (e.g., Garifuna and Muskogee Creek Association). Fieldwork in Southern California, 2008. Funded by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of African American History and Culture and conducted for the creation of the Smithsonian’s traveling banner exhibit “Indivisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas”, this was a comparative study of how race, racism, and racial admixture affects individual and collective understandings of self in people of blended cultural and/or racial African and Native American ancestry.

Intracultural Variation and Choctaw Understandings of Self. Dissertation fieldwork in Southeastern Oklahoma and Northeastern Texas, 2000-2002. Comparative study of how race and racial admixture affect individual and collective Choctaw understandings of self.

Resisting Racial Identities: Black Choctaw Lived Experiences. Pre-Dissertation Research in Southeastern Oklahoma and Northeastern Texas, 1998-2000. Investigated the lived experiences of Choctaws of African American admixture through person-centered life history interviews.

Understanding Intra-racial and Intra-cultural Variation: Urban Black Choctaws. M.A. research in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA 1995-1997. Examined the lived experiences of Choctaws of African American admixture and how they cope with inconsistencies between what they represent to themselves and others.

 

Captions Study (2006-present)

Relevant Links and Resources

Accommodating Difference and Disabilities. An Introductory Packet by the UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools.

Addressing Barriers to Learning: Closing the Gap in Policy and Practice. A Summit Report by the UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools.

Building The Legacy of IDEAD 2004. (Video Clips)

Individuals With Disabilities Improvement Act of 2004.

Least Intervention Needed: Towards Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs: An Introductory Packet by the UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools.

National Institute for Literacy. “Learning Disabilities Fact”.

National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

Revisiting Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities. A Center Newsletter by the UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools.

Surfing For Closed Captions Materials

Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Student With Disabilities

Using Federal Education Legislation in Moving Towards a Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approach to Addressing Barriers to Learning. An information resource by the UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools.

 

A Sample of Relevant Publications

Howard Adelamn and Linda Taylor, The Implementation Guide to Student Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning (Corwin Press, 2005). 

William Neil Bender, Differentiating Instruction for Student With Learning Disabilities: Best Teaching Practices for General and Special Educators (Corwin Press, 2008).

Frank G. Bowe, Universal Design in Education: Teaching Non-Traditional Students (Bergen and Garvey, 2000).

Council for Exceptional Children, Universal Design in Learning (Prentice Hall, 2005).

Stacey Pellechia Dean, Lesson Plan Book for the Diverse Classroom: Planning for Accessibility Through Universal Design For Learning (Dude Publishing/ National Professional Resources, 2007).

David H. Rose and Anne Meyer, Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (Association for Supervison & Curriculum Development, 2002). 

 

Grants

… And Captions for All: A Case Study of the Enabling Components of Subtitles. This  (Accessible Instructional Media) AIM – currently housed on the MERLOT website (see http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=547234) and funded by EnAct Sonoma, Merlot, and the Department of Education - demonstrates how closed captions are beneficial to all students, not just those who are hearing impaired. In addition to depicting the effective use of captions in the classroom, research was conducted on the impact of using captions with my students over the last two years. IRB Approved (Total Budget $3000.00).

… And Captions for All: The Relevance of Universal Design in Learning in All Higher Education Classrooms. This on-going study – fund by an EnAct Faculty Learning Community Grant - examines the use of captions as an effective tool for reducing barriers to learning in college classroom among officially and un-officially diagnosed student populations. 2006-present. IRB Approved (Total Budget $3000.00).

Study Abroad!

Study Abroad & Fulfill AIS Complimentary Studies!

 

American Indians Studies (AIS) majors, like all SF State Students, can study abroad and make degree progress while enjoying a cheaper cost of living and using financial aid! SF State has been very successful in helping students apply for scholarships, such as the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. The top program for American Indians at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany!

 

Studying American Indians abroad at Goethe University is highly recommended, as it is a prestigious university in Frankfurt, Germany. Goethe is ideal because of the unique American Indian course offerings that would fulfill complementary studies.  Furthermore, American Indian Studies majors can further their knowledge of the study of American Indians at Goethe University through an ethnological (comparative cultures approach) lens and under the guidance of Dr. Markus Lindner. Dr. Lindner is faculty in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology with expertise and research foci that include Native North America (Plains, particularly Lakota), contemporary situation, representation, material culture, historical photography, museum anthropology, tourism, contemporary native art, and repatriation.

 

The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Goethe’s regional expertise is based on anthropological fieldwork mainaly in Africa, Central and South Asia (India), and the Americas. The empirical and comparative research particularly studies the close interconnections – but also the lines of demarcation – between religion, kinship, economy, politics and law, culinary culture, material culture and museums, and migration. Another field of research is the history of the discipline.

 

As a colleague of mine for over a decade, Dr. Lindner and I have collaborated on various conference panels and research projects that use ethnography to center American Indian narrative and voices in museum anthropology.

 

For more information, please contact Dr. Collins at rkc@sfsu.edu and visit SF State Study Abroad at studyabroad.sfsu.edu.

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Kim Schwartz

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Professor/Chair
Theatre ArtsCollege of Liberal and Creative Arts

Email:
Phone Number:
(415) 338-7895
Location:
CA 103

At SF State Since:

2007

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: 10:00-12:00Calendly
Tuesday: 14:00-15:00Calendly
Wednesday: 10:00-12:00Calendly
Thursday: Closed
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Bio:

Currently, I am serving as the Director of the School of Theatre & Dance. I am also the technical director for the Department of Theatre Arts. Previously, I taught in the Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film at Purchase College, SUNY. Before that I was part of the Technical Department team at the Metropolitan Opera, where I also worked as a liaison with companies like American Ballet Theatre, Kirov Opera and Kirov Ballet during their events at the Met. I have freelanced as a technical consultant, CAD draftsman, and technical director in Los Angeles, New York City, and the SF Bay Area. I am an ETCP certified rigger in Theatrical Rigging.

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Nasser Jalali

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Emeritus Faculty/Lecturer
School of Design, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Phone Number:
Location:
FA 121

At SF State Since:

2004

Office Hours:

Bio

Prior embarking on his academic career, Dr. Jalali Led, Co-founded several Silicon Valley organizations in the Hi-Tech industry serving as a President, Chief Operation Officer, VP of Research and Development and Manufacturing from 1988 – 2004. 

He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering, a MS in Computer Science and MBA from University of San Francisco (USF), and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from ODTU.

Dr. Jalali joined to School of Design (formally DAI) at SFSU in 2004, where he has taught a wide range of courses in the Industrial Manufacturing, Design & Materials, Model-development, Product Development, Rapid-Prototyping and manufacturing system, and Design Processes. Over nearly 20 years, he has demonstrated exceptional teaching effectiveness, professionalism, and collegial service to the program and the university.

He had made significant contributions to applied learning environments for students, educators, and professionals in the field of Industrial Design and Manufacturing. He has been a mainstay in instructing our core and intermediate-level Product Design skill development, technology, and studio courses. He has been requested to instruct a broader range of Product Design and Manufacturing curricula more than any other faculty member, which includes both full-time and adjunct faculty in this area. He not only instructed, but as a Lecturer Faculty Member, had also designed, and revised the curriculum within the context of curriculum consolidations and newly-formed courses in response to program changes since the closure of our former Industrial Technology courses, and the introduction of our BSID degree program in 2010. 

Dr. Jalali has been at the forefront of introducing and guiding students in the critical area of sustainable design and materials applications relative to the social impact of design in consumer and manufacturing environments, such as DES 340 Design & Materials. Within this course, he has also incorporated state-of-the-art online sustainable design learning tools and methodologies, such as analyzing LCA and reduction of carbon emission in product design. He also elevated the applied
material technology innovation and learning experiences in his DES 310 Product Design-1 course, such as in the advancement of his motion vehicle project of exercising sustainable energy. Finally, Dr. Jalali successfully took on the primary core-level task of leading the critical instruction of our required Product Design development Lab, “DES 305 Lab Safety Basics” course.

Dr. Jalali consistent, and outstanding (SETE) student evaluations and teaching record among the highest in DES program throughout his teaching career. He has also contributed to the SFSU community as a two-term (six-years) member of the university Academic Senate, a collegial service most impactful was his diligent and empathic contributions as the California Faculty Association representation on behalf of the School of Design Lecturer Faculty Members for years, and served as a member of Department Chair review committee. He is a member of Epsilon Pi Tau the international honor society in technology.

Dr. Jalali has been rewarded an Emeritus status at San Francisco State University in Spring of 2024.

 

Websites:

https://design.sfsu.edu/people/dr-nasser-jalali

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Instructor
Information Systems, Lam Family College of Business

Phone Number:
Location:
BUS 209B

At SF State Since:

2012

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 15:00-17:00Via Zoom
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 12:30-13:30In-Person at BUS 209B
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Bio

Lam-Larsen Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award (2021-2023)

Quality Learning & Teaching (QLT) Certificate (2022)

​Transformative Teaching Through Transitions (TTTT) Pedagogies for Inclusive Excellence (PIE) Certificate (2022)

Center for Ethical & Sustainable Business (CESB) Teaching Award (2022)

 

Websites:

Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification

Information Systems Department

Mundo de Niños e.V.

Kiva - Loans that change lives

Electronic Frontier Foundation

NutritionFacts.org

The Game Changers

Eating Our Way To Extinction

 

ISYS 363

Information Systems for Management (ISYS 363) - Course Describtion:

Examine the Management Information Systems (MIS) and Information Technology (IT), assess their benefits and risks to gain competitive advantage by optimizing processes, communication and collaboration across the enterprise. Discuss contemporary IS topics such as database management systems, data analytics, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and ethics in emerging technologies. Provides hands-on experience in Microsoft Excel and database management systems and prepares for the optional Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exam.

 

Information Systems for Management (ISYS 363) - Enrollment:

  • Prerequisites: ACCT 100 and ISYS 263 need to be completed before. No concurrent enrollment.
  • ISYS 363 section 1 and section 2 are part of the same hybrid class, it does not matter if you are enrolled in section 1 or 2 for the hybrid class.  It is not an on-demand course; the class has a weekly schedule of activities and weekly due dates! Please the see the detailled description in the course bulletin. 
     

Information Systems for Management (ISYS 363) - Class Material:

All class information, the syllabus, and any other course documents are provided via Canvas in your course section.

You can find a few class related tutorials in the 'Tutorials' tab and some important resources in the 'Help & Support' tab. The course material is usually a heavily discounted customized digital package with ebook and software for around $99. The information will be provided via Canvas/Syllabus the first week of class. The class now uses "Inclusive Access", which means you will automatically be enrolled and charged for the course material when the semester starts, and get your money back if you drop during the first few weeks. Please do not buy any external material otherwise for the course, it won't be the correct custom bundle.

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  • LinkedIn Learning Training Videos (free with SF Public Library)

    You can access this for free from home as a student with a (free for all CA residents) library account from the San Francisco Public Library.

  1. Get a free account (free for CA residents): https://sfpl.libanswers.com/faq/65116
  2. LinkedIn Learning FAQ: https://sfpl.libanswers.com/faq/270525
  3. Login: https://www.linkedin.com/learning-login/go/sfpl
  4. SFPL also offers Welcome, Digital Access, and Visitor cards for those who don't have CA ID. Visitor cards cost $10 and are valid for 3 months.
  5. Once you have an account, get the Libby app (https://libbyapp.com/) and the Kanopy app (https://www.kanopy.com/en). 

 

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Microsoft Office Specialist Certification

Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) 2021/365 provides industry-leading assessments of skills and knowledge through project-based testing, giving students and professionals real-world exercises to appraise their understanding of Microsoft Office. This guarantees that every certified user has demonstrated the ability to command the full features and functionality of Microsoft Office, preparing them for future academic or workforce opportunities.
 

The MOS Certification is a proctored 50-min live in the application test that can be taken for the various MS Office applications, such as Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The test is Windows PC based, you will need to know the Windows version of Excel 2021/365, for example (2019/365 is still optiom). Passing grade is 70%. It is an official Microsoft certification with a digital badge for LinkedIn and very good for your resume.

 

San Francisco State University, based on the initiative of Daniel Ciomek and the Information Systems Department in the Lam Family College of Business, has obtained the status of a Certiport Authorized Test Center for Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) testing. The Information Systems Department is able to offer students on-site testing at the main campus in BUS 214 and remote for the time being (future charges have been indicated). After a successfull pilot program during Fall 2018, the Information Systems Department has arranged for the exams to be available on campus so students can take the MS Excel and MS Access exams during or after their ISYS 363 semester for free - while supply lasts. ($100 retail value)

MOS tests at SF State are only offered for SFSU students currently taking ISYS 363, or those who recently passed the ISYS 363 class, but are still enrolled at SF State. Test days on campus will only be offered limited times during the Spring and Fall semester, depending on the test lab and instructor availability. 

 

Since 2020 there is also the possibility (pilot program) to take the Apple SWIFT Developer Certification through the Certiport platform for students who complete the Mobile Application Development course with Prof. Leigh Jin. Please contact Prof. Leigh Jin if you are interested to learn more about that.

 

To learn more about MOS certification at SF State, please review the MOS registration site and sign-up for the mailing list (Mailchimp):

https://mos.dcio.tech

 

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Karen Crow

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Professor
Biology, College of Science and Engineering

Email:
Phone Number:
(415) 405-2760
Location:
HH 214

At SF State Since:

2007

Office Hours:

Bio

In FishLab, we use molecular approaches to understand the evolutionary forces that generate biological diversity, novelty, reproductive strategies and reproductive isolation in fishes. 

Much of our work focuses on Hox genes-a family of genes that specify body plan features. We are interested in understanding the role of the posterior HoxA and HoxD genes in the evolution and development of appendages and adornments that contribute to morphological diversity in fishes. We have found that Hox genes structure a variety of fin modifications, such as claspers in cartilagenous fishes, cephalic lobes in manta rays and their relatives, barbels in paddlefish, and the cloaca/vent in jawed vertebrates. We are currently looking at the role of Hox genes in the development of derived features in the Catalina goby, surfperches,  and the evolution of male pregnancy in Syngnathids. We are also interested in the role duplicated Hox genes in paddlefish and teleosts, and the putative relationship between genome duplication and the evolution of complexity and diversity in vertebrates.  

While previous work has focused on questions varying in scale from paternity to genomics, including reproductive isolation, mechanisms of speciation, estimating phylogenetic relationships, and alternative life history strategies such as parental care, variation in courtship rituals, and sexual selection, the underlying theme is to understand the evolutionary processes that contribute to the evolution of novelty and diversity in fishes.

 

Websites:

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Biology Department Faculty Website

FishLab Website

 

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Lecturer
Creative WritingCollege of Liberal and Creative Arts

Phone Number:
Location:
HUM 451

At SF State Since:

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