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Dr. Brian Beatty is professor of Instructional Design and Technology in the Department of Equity, Leadership Studies and Instructional Technologies at San Francisco State University. Brian’s primary areas of interest and research include social interaction in online learning, developing instructional design theory for Hybrid-Flexible learning environments, and recently the use of GenAI to support student engagement and the design of learning experiences. At SF State, Dr. Beatty pioneered the development and evaluation of the HyFlex course design model for blended learning environments, implementing a “student-directed-hybrid” approach to better support student learning.

Previously (2012 – 2020), Brian was Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Operations at San Francisco State University (SFSU), overseeing the Academic Technology unit and coordinating the use of technology in the academic programs across the university. He worked closely with IT professionals and leaders in other units to coordinate overall information technology strategic management at SFSU. Prior to 2012, Brian was Associate Professor and Chair of the Instructional Technologies department in the Graduate College of Education at SFSU. He received his Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University Bloomington in 2002. Dr. Beatty also holds several CA single-subject teaching credentials, an M.A. in Instructional Technologies from SF State and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. Dr. Beatty has more than 35 years of experience as a classroom teacher, trainer, and instructional designer at schools, businesses, and the US Navy.

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SFSU Professor Emeritus of Biology
UCSF Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Student Enrichment Opportunities Office Leadership Team

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BRIDGES TO THE FUTURE CELEBRATION

I was born in Milford, Massachusetts and graduated from Milford High School in 1989 (Go Scarlet Hawks!). I was fortunate to attend Harvard University (Go Crimson!), from where I earned my B.A. in Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Magna Cum Laude, in 1993. My undergraduate thesis, "Velocity Coherent Structure in the Dense Cores of Dark Molecular Clouds," was done under the guidance of Professor Alyssa A. Goodman. After graduating from Harvard, I worked for two years in the city of Boston as an urban youth worker (assistant director at an after-school tutoring program called Project 21, and a summer day camp called Camp Ozioma; mentor in a gang-intervention program called Gangs Anonymous). In 1995, I started graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley (Go Bears!).  I earned my Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 2004. My Ph.D. thesis, "Theory and Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Vortices in Protoplanetary Disks," was done under the guidance of Professor Philip S. Marcus in the Berkeley Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab. In 2006, my thesis won the Nicholas Metropolis Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Computational Physics from the American Physical Society. I also won a National Science Foundation Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship, which I split between the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Go Gauchos!) and the Institute for Theory & Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Go Crimson, again!). I joined the Department of Physics & Astronomy at San Francisco State University (Go Gaters... errr, Gators!) in the summer of 2007.

Classes taught at SF State

PHYS 701: Classical Mechanics -- F21, F22, F23, F25

Classes taught previously:

PHYS 330: Analytic Mechanics -- F08, F09, F10, F11, F12, F13, F14, F15, F16, F17, F18, F19, F20, F24

PHYS 440/740: Computational Physics -- F12, S14, S16, S18, S20, S22, S24 

PHYS 712: Physics of Plasmas -- S09, S11, S13, S19, S21, S23 

ASTR 400/700: Stellar Astrophysics -- S11, S12, S13, F17

PHYS 220: General Physics with Calculus I -- F07, F08, S09, F09, F10, F11, S12, S14, F14, F15, S16, S17

PHYS 722: Theoretical Astrophysics -- S08

My physics YouTube channel -- some videos where I go over problem-solving techniques

"Flipping Calculus-based Introductory Physics I" -- e-portfolio describing my effort in ``flipping'' Physics 220, as part of the California State University's Course Revision with Technology program.

My field of research is computational astrophysical & geophysical fluid dynamics; that is, I study the motion of fluids on the scale of planets, stars, and interstellar clouds.  Such flows tend to be highly chaotic and turbulent, and so practical solutions of the equations of motion (e.g. the Navier-Stokes equations) require supercomputer simulations.  Here at SF State, we have a small cluster called SF-STAR (Supercomputer Facility for Space & Terrestrial Advanced Research).   I also have allocations through NSF's ACCESS (Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support) (previously XSEDE, eXtreme Science & Engineering Design Environment).

My primary research collaborator is Prof. Philip Marcus at the Berkeley Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley College of Engineering.

My collaborators and I have discovered a new hydrodynamic instability that occurs in stratified, rotating shear flow.  We nicknamed it the "Zombie Vortex Instability" because it occurs in the magnetically "dead zones" of protoplanetary disks, the disks of gas and dust in orbit around newly formed protostars.  It is out of these disks that planets form, somehow growing from micron-sized dust into massive planets in only 10 million years (that's really short on cosmological timescales!).  Another reason we called it the Zombie Vortex Instability is that once one "zombie" vortex is created, it triggers (or infects!) a neighboring region of the flow to go unstable to produce another "zombie" vortex, which then goes on to infect other regions, producing a cascade of "zombie" vortices, which ultimately  makes the "dead zones" of protoplanetary disks no longer dead, but "undead!"

20.) Lesur, G., Flock, M., Ercolano, B., Lin, M., Yang, C., Barranco, J. A., Benitez-Llambay, P., Goodman, J., Johansen, A., Klahr, H., Laibe, G., Lyra, W., Marcus, P. S., Nelson, R. P., Squire, J., Simon, J. B., Turner, N. J., Umurhan, O. M., Youdin, A. N., 2023,“Hydro-, Magnetohydro-, and Dust-Gas Dynamics of Protoplanetary Disks,” Protostars and Planets VII (Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series), 534, 465.

19.) Barranco, J. A., Pei, S., Marcus, P. S., 2018, “Zombie Vortex Instability. III. Persistence with Nonuniform Stratification and Radiative Damping,” The Astrophysical Journal, 869, 127, 10.3847/1538-4357/aaec80.

18.) Marcus, P. S., Pei, S., Jiang, C.-H., Barranco, J. A., 2016, “Zombie Vortex Instability. II. Thresholds to Trigger Instability and the Properties of Zombie Turbulence in the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks,” The Astrophysical Journal, 833, 148, 10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/148.

17.) Marcus, P. S., Pei, S., Jiang, C.-H., Barranco, J. A., Hassanzadeh, P., Lecoanet, D., 2015, “Zombie Vortex Instability. I. A Purely Hydrodynamic Instability to Resurrect the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks,” The Astrophysical Journal, 808, 87, 10.1088/0004-637X/808/1/87.

16.) Penev, K., Barranco, J., Sasselov, D., 2011, “Three-dimensional Spectral Simulations of Anelastic Turbulent Convection,” The Astrophysical Journal, 734, 118, 10.1088/0004-637X/734/2/118.

15.) Lee, A. T., Chiang, E., Asay-Davis, X., Barranco, J., 2010, “Forming Planetesimals by Gravitational Instability. II. How Dust Settles to its Marginally Stable State,” The Astrophysical Journal, 725, 1938-1954, 10.1088/0004-637X/725/2/1938.

14.) Lee, A. T., Chiang, E., Asay-Davis, X., Barranco, J., 2010, “Forming Planetesimals by Gravitational Instability. I. The Role of the Richardson Number in Triggering the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability,” The Astrophysical Journal, 718, 1367-1377, 10.1088/0004-637X/718/2/1367.

13.) Penev, K., Barranco, J., Sasselov, D., 2009, “Direct Calculation of the Turbulent Dissipation Efficiency in Anelastic Convection,” The Astrophysical Journal, 705, 285-297, 10.1088/0004-637X/705/1/285.

12.) Hartman, J. D., Gaudi, B. S., Holman, M. J., McLeod, B. A., Stanek, K. Z., Barranco, J. A., Pinsonneault, M. H., Meibom, S., Kalirai, J. S., 2009, “Deep MMT Transit Survey of the Open Cluster M37 IV: Limit on the Fraction of Stars with Planets as Small as 0.3RJ ,” The Astrophysical Journal, 695, 336-356, 10.1088/0004-637X/695/1/336.

11.) Barranco, J. A., 2009, “Three-Dimensional Simulations of Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in Settled Dust Layers in Protoplanetary Disks,” The Astrophysical Journal, 691, 907-921, 10.1088/0004-637X/691/2/907.

10.) Hartman, J. D., Gaudi, B. S., Pinsonneault, M. H., Stanek, K. Z., Holman, M. J., McLeod, B. A., Meibom, S., Barranco, J. A., Kalirai, J. S., 2009, “Deep MMT Transit Survey of the Open Cluster M37. III. Stellar Rotation at 550 Myr,” The Astrophysical Journal, 691, 342-364, 10.1088/0004-637X/691/1/342.

09.) Hartman, J. D., Gaudi, B. S., Holman, M. J., McLeod, B. A., Stanek, K. Z., Barranco, J. A., Pinsonneault, M. H., Kalirai, J. S., 2008, “Deep MMT Transit Survey of the Open Cluster M37. II. Variable Stars,” The Astrophysical Journal, 675, 1254-1277, 10.1086/527460.

08.) Hartman, J. D., Gaudi, B. S., Holman, M. J., McLeod, B. A., Stanek, K. Z., Barranco, J. A., Pinsonneault, M. H., Meibom, S., Kalirai, J. S., 2008, “Deep MMT Transit Survey of the Open Cluster M37. I. Observations and Cluster Parameters,” The Astrophysical Journal, 675, 1233-1253, 10.1086/527465.

07.) Barranco, J. A., Marcus, P. S., 2006, “A 3D spectral anelastic hydrodynamic code for shearing, stratified flows,” Journal of Computational Physics, 219, 21-46, 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.03.015.

06.) Barranco, J. A., Marcus, P. S., 2005, “Three-dimensional Vortices in Stratified Protoplanetary Disks,” The Astrophysical Journal, 623, 1157-1170, 10.1086/428639.

05.) Barranco, J. A., 2004, “Theory and numerical simulation of three-dimensional vortices in protoplanetary disks,” Ph.D. Thesis.

04.) Barranco, J. A., Marcus, P. S., 2000, “Vortices in Protoplanetary Disks and the Formation of Planetesimals,” Studying Turbulence Using Numerical Simulation Databases, 97. 

03.) Barranco, J., Marcus, P., Umurhan, O. M., 2000, “Scalings and Asymptotics of Coherent Vortices in Protoplanetary Disks,” Studying Turbulence Using Numerical Simulation Databases, 85.

02.) Goodman, A. A., Barranco, J. A., Wilner, D. J., Heyer, M. H., 1998, “Coherence in Dense Cores. II. The Transition to Coherence,” The Astrophysical Journal, 504, 223-246, 10.1086/306045.

01.) Barranco, J. A., Goodman, A. A., 1998, “Coherent Dense Cores. I. NH3 Observations,” The Astrophysical Journal, 504, 207-222, 10.1086/306044.

M.S. Students

12.) Kim Long Le: M.S. Physics/Astro, August 2024. Thesis: "Three-Dimensional Quasi-Geostrophic Simulations of Jupiter’s Zonal Winds and Vortices." Now a PhD candidate in Astronomy at Boston University.

11.) Yan Yan Ley: M.S. Physics/Astro, August 2024. Thesis: "Three-dimensional Simulations of Dust-laden Zombie Vortex Instability."

10.) Lenny Lupin-Jiminez: M.S. Physics, December 2023. Project: "Artificial Intelligence for the Simulation of Highly Nonlinear Physical Systems: Emphasis on Fluid and Geophysical Flows." Now a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics at U.C. Santa Cruz.

9.) Wendy Crumrine: M.S. Physics/Astro, December 2020. Thesis: "Simulating the Birth of Planets: A Spectral Semi-Lagrangian Hydrodynamic Approach." Now: Ph.D. Physics candidate at U. Southern California.

8.) Nicole Rider: M.S. Physics/Astro, August 2020. Now: Ph.D. Physics candidate at U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

7.) Richard McWhirter: M.S. Physics/Astro, December 2018. Thesis: "Application of Thermal Wind Equation to the Jovian Troposphere & Stratosphere." Now: Software Engineer with The Boeing Company in St. Louis, MO.

6.) M. Quinn Parkinson: M.S. Physics/Astro, May 2015. Thesis: "Protoplanet-Planetesimal Interactions in Circumbinary Disks." Now: Haskell Developer with Tokhun.io.

5.) Diana Juarez Madera: M.S. Physics, May 2015. Thesis: "Dust Trapping in Protoplanetary Disk Vortices with a Two-Fluid Terminal Velocity Approach." After SF State: Ph.D. Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University, June 2020. Now: Engineer with Lockheed Martin Corporation in Denver, CO.

4.) Colleen Twitty: M.S. Physics, May 2015. Thesis: "Dust Trapping in Protoplanetary Disk Vortices with a Lagrangian Super-Particle Approach." Now: Software Engineer with Peloton Technology.

3.) Andrew Fittingoff: M.S. Physics, August 2011. Thesis: "Light Curves of Kuiper Belt Objects and a Search for Kuiper Belt Binaries." Now: Adjunct Instructor of Physics with the University of San Francisco, College of Alameda & Laney College.

2.) Samy Kamal: M.S. Physics, August 2011. Thesis: "The Dynamics of Three-Dimensional Vortices in Rotating Stratified Shear Flows." After SF State: Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, May 2015. Now: Senior Scientific Programming Analyst at RedLine Performance Solutions, LLC.

1.) Michael Ryan: M.S. Physics, August 2010. Thesis: "Faint Moons Orbiting Kuiper Belt Objects." Now: High school teacher with Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School in San Francisco, CA.

B.S. Students

7.) Arstanbek Tulekeyev: B.S. Physics, May 2021. Project: Simulation of dust trapping in 2D vortices in protoplanetary disks (joint with Collin Richardson). Now: Ph.D. candidate in Applied Math at U.C. Santa Cruz.

6.) Collin Richardson: B.S. Physics/Astro, May 2021. Project: Simulation of dust trapping in 2D vortices in protoplanetary disks (joint with Arstanbek Tulekeyev). Now: Ph.D. candidate in Earth Systems Science at U.C. Irvine.

5.) Michael Shadchin: B.S. Physics/Astro, December 2018. Project: Numerical simulation of orbits of moons of Uranus with time-dependent obliquity. Now: Private tutor.

4.) David Robinson: B.S. Physics/Astro, May 2015. Project: Numerical simulation of gravitational collapse of dust particles with REBOUND. Now: Ph.D. candidate in Computational Science at Florida State University.

3.) Connor Poland: B.S. Physics/Astro, May 2015. Project: Numerical simulation of gravitational collapse of dust particles with REBOUND. Now: M.S. candidate in Computational Science at U.C. San Diego.

2.) Seth Gossage: B.S. Physics/Astro, May 2014. Project: Numerical simulation of protoplanet collisions with Uranus with GADGET2. After SF State: Ph.D. Astronomy, 2021, Harvard University. Now: CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University.

1.) M. Quinn Parkinson: B.S. Physics/Astro, May 2012. Project: Numerical simulation of dust settling in proto- planetary disks. Enrolled in M.S. program immediately after. M.S. Physics/Astro awarded May 2015 (see above).

I am on the steering committee and am a mentor for Cal-Bridge. The mission of the Cal-Bridge program is to increase the number of California State University (CSU) students completing their bachelor's degree and successfully entering Ph.D. programs to study physics, astronomy, or a closely related field.  The program is open to CSU students of all backgrounds, but we have a focus on students who are from groups historically underrepresented in physics and astronomy, especially Black/African-American, Latinx/Hispanic, Native American/Pacific Islander students and first-generation college students from all backgrounds.

Campus Service

Sloan Science in Cinema Prize for "Don't Look Up"

On January 7, 2022,  I was on an online Q&A with director Adam McKay & actor Leonardo DiCaprio to discuss the film "Don't Look Up", which won the Sloan Foundation Science in Cinema Prize!  (The event was supposed to be live, but the in-person event was canceled because of COVID-Omicron, so I missed an opportunity to meet  McKay & DiCaprio in person... oh well!) 

Key quote from me: “With public debates over our collective response to crises such as COVID or climate change, I wanted to participate in this panel to highlight the crucial difference between the constructive process of peer review, in which scientists submit their analyses to rigorous scrutiny from peer experts with the goal of improving the quality of the results, versus ‘just asking questions’ of pundits and talking heads whose goal is to intentionally sow distrust and spread misinformation,” said Barranco. “Skepticism can be good and productive when it is entered into with good faith arguments, or it can be destructive when it is used solely to create chaos and hinder consensus toward necessary action.”

https://sffilm.org/event/sloan-presents-dont-look-up/

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08/21/2017 – Was in-studio guest scientist on KTVU (Channel 2 Oakland) for live coverage of Great American Solar Eclipse. Answered questions about the eclipse and eclipse safety from hosts of the morning show “The 9.”

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08/01/2013 -- I appeared on an episode of "Distort" which is "the show that distorts time to show you things your eyes might otherwise miss." "Distort" was a webshow on TestTube, a former education and documentary internet and app channel network under Discovery Digital Networks. Episode was posted online on August 1, 2013.

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Joanne Barker is Lenape (a citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians). She is professor of American Indian Studies in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. She serves on The Segorea Te Land Trust Board.

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Selected Publications

Books

Red Scare: State Discourses of the Indigenous Terrorist (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021).

Red Scare was awarded the Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.

Guest Editor, "Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism," a special issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 43.3 (Summer 2020).

Editor, Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2017).

Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011).

Editor, Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005).

Articles and Chapters

Joanne Barker, Jodi Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, and Sandy Grande, "Catastrophe, Care, and All that Remains,” Social Text (2021).

"Sovereignty." In Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Aren Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Karma Chavez, Mishuana Goeman, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Shona N. Jackson, and Amber Jamilla Musser, eds. (New York University Press, forthcoming).

"Confluence: Water as an Analytic of Indigenous Feminisms: An Introduction." Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism. Joanne Barker, guest editor, special issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 43.3 (Summer 2020).

"Decolonizing the Mind," Rethinking Marxism 30, no. 2 (2018), 208-231.

“Territory as Analytic: The Dispossession of Lenapehoking and the Subprime Crisis,” Social Text (June 2018): 19-39.

"The Corporation and the Tribe," American Indian Quarterly 39, no. 3 (Summer 2015), 243-270.

"Self-Determination," Critical Ethnic Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (Spring 2015), 11-26.

“Indigenous Feminisms.” Handbook on Indigenous People’s Politics. José Antonio Lucero, Dale Turner, and Donna Lee VanCott, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming; chapter available on-line as of January 2015).

“The Specters of Recognition.” Formations of United States Colonialism. Alyosha Goldstein, ed. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014).

“Gender.” The Indigenous World of North America. Robert Warrior, ed. (New York: Routledge Press, 2014).

"Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism," Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7, no. 1 (2006), 127-62. Reprinted as: "Women’s Work: Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Indigeneity. John Brown Childs and Guillermo Delgado-P., editors. (Santa Cruz, CA: The Literary Guillotine Press, 2012). "Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History. Sixth Edition. Mona Gleason, Adele Perry, and Tamara Myers, editors. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). "Gender, Sovereignty, Rights: A Note On Native Women's Activism Against Social Inequality and Violence in Canada," American Quarterly 60, no. 2 (2008).

In the interest of free access and the public domain, and for those without library privileges, I have made some of my publications available at academia.edu.

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Michael Bar, Ph.D. is professor of and chair of economics at San Francisco State University.

His main reserach areas are Macroeconomics, Economics of Growth, gender and race inequality.

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Elif Balin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University in the Career Counseling and College Counseling specializations. She is also the Coordinator of the Career Counseling specialization. Dr. Balin received a B.A. from Bogaziçi University and an M.S. from Middle East Technical University in Turkey in the field of Psychological Counseling and Guidance. Before moving to the U.S., she worked as a Professional School Counselor in private and international K-12 schools in Turkey. While in Turkey, Dr. Balin also had professional certification training (GCDF) and experience in the career counseling field. 

Dr. Balin moved to the U.S. as an international student in 2008 and pursued her doctoral studies in the Counselor Education and Supervision field (with a graduate minor in Women’s Studies) at the Pennsylvania State University. Following the completion of her comprehensive doctoral exams, Dr. Balin worked as a full-time career counselor at Penn State Career Services. While at Penn State, she also taught several courses such as Effective Career Decision Making, Counseling Skills and Process, and Introduction to Women’s Studies. 

Dr. Balin’s career priority is to train professional counselors who understand and apply Career Counseling and College Counseling through systemic and culturally competent practices in various service and advocacy areas in the higher education, community mental health settings, and beyond. Additionally, Dr. Balin is interested in the ways that recent immigrants and international students navigate their career development; especially in the context of cultural transition, mobility, and sociopolitical influences. For her research, service, and counseling practice, she integrates transnational feminist, narrative, and strengths-based approaches to support the critical connection between mental health and work experiences. She believes in the transformative value of participatory action research and collaboration with practitioners, administrators, and policymakers. Thus, she’s dedicated to building bridges between her roles and activities as a counselor educator, supervisor, researcher, and community member in two related professional organization committees. Dr. Balin chaired the International Student Services Committee (ISSC) of the National Career Development Association (NCDA), a division of the American Counseling Association (ACA]) for two years. She currently leads the Research and Writing Team under this committee. She also chairs the International Student and Faculty Interest Network of Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) which is another ACA division. 

Websites

Professional Experience and Network, Research/Scholarship

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Tanya Augsburg is a humanities-trained, interdisciplinary feminist performance scholar, educator, arts writer, and curator who can be occasionally persuaded to perform. She teaches at San Francisco State University, where she is Professor in the School of Liberal Studies in the areas of the Creative Arts and Humanities.

Dr. Augsburg is additionally the Associate Editor of Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies and  also serves as an ex officio executive board member of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies. Since February 2022 Dr. Augsburg has been a member of the  College Art Association's Committee for Women in the Arts (CWA). She was the Chair of CWA Picks in 2024. In 2025 she was selected to be the Chair of the College Art Association's Committee for Women in the Arts. She will be serving as the CWA Chair until her term ends in 2027.

Dr. Augsburg is author of Becoming Interdisciplinary: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies, 4th Ed. (Kendall/Hunt, 2025) and co-editor of The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies (McFarland, 2009). Other publications have appeared in TDR: The Drama Review; Text and Performance Quarterly; Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies; n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal; World Futures; The Colorado Critical Review; Woman's Art Journal, and Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture. She is a contributing arts writer for the online arts magazine The Art Section. She was the juror and a co-curator of Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, a large travelling feminist art exhibition sponsored by the Women’s Caucus of Art that showed at SOMARTs in San Francisco and the Kinsey Institute Gallery at Indiana University. She was also editor of the accompanying catalogue. She was Curator of Featured Artists and member of the Executive Exhibition Committee of Northern California Women's Caucus for Art (NCWCA)'s 2016 national exhibition, F*ck U! In the Most Loving Way, which was held at Arc Gallery in San Francisco. She was the lead curator and member of the NCWCA Curatorial Collective for F213, NCWCA's 2019 intersectional feminist protest art exhibition, which was held at Arc Gallery in San Francisco.

Dr. Augsburg is frequently invited to give public lectures on interdisciplinarity and contemporary feminist art and performance. She has also served internationally as a reviewer and consultant for interdisciplinary programs, initiatives, and grants. In 2023, Dr. Augsburg was selected to participate in and present at the CSU International Program faculty workshop in Tokyo, Japan.

Her current projects include completing a book-length volume on the interdisciplinary arts drawing from over two decades of published and unpublished arts writing and a book-length manuscript on what she calls feminist ars eroticas. Her favorite pastime is helping students succeed. 

Her recent major scholarly publications include:

•  “Interdisciplinarians.” Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity. Ed.  Frederic Darbellay. Glasgow: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 290-295.
• “Transdisciplinarians.” Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity. Ed.  Frederic Darbellay. Glasgow: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 542-447.
• “Beyond Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research: Remembering Julie Thompson Klein during the Early Days of Text-Generating AI,” Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 41, no. 1 (2023): 15-30.
• “From “Private Theatres Onstage” to Anti-Hysterical Performances: Reclaiming the Feminist Interest in Hysterical Performances since the 1990s.” Hysterical Methodologies and the Arts: Rising in Revolt. Ed. Johanna Braun.  London: Palgrave, 2021. 105-126.
• “Performing, Again (after Bob).” Rated Rx: Sheree Rose with and after Bob. Ed. Yetta Howard, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2020. 65-77.
• “Ars Eroticas of Their Own Making: Explicit Sexual Imagery in American Feminist Art.” A Companion to Feminist Art. Eds. Hilary Robinson and Maria Elena Buszek. Oxford: Blackwell, 2019. 493-512.
• “Interdisciplinary Arts.” The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, 2^nd Edition. Ed. Robert Froderman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 131-143.

Some of Dr. Augsburg's additional publications, including her many catalogue essays, art writings, and book reviews, can be found on her profiles at Academia.edu, Researchgate.net,  and Medium.

Her personal professional website can be accessed at http://www.tanyaaugsburg.weebly.com

For further information, please contact  Tanya Augsburg at tanya@sfsu.edu.

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Jennifer Arin (M.F.A.) is the recipient of a 2015 Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (from San Francisco State University), and two Excellence in Advising Awards (2019) from NACADA (The National Academic Advising Association).

She is the author of the poetry book Ways We Hold (Dos Madres Press) and the verse chapbook The Roots of Desire (Thicket Press); and her essays and poems have been published in both the U.S. and Europe, including in The AWP Writer’s Chronicle, The San Francisco Chronicle, Gastronomica, Puerto del Sol, Poet Lore, ZYZZYVA, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among many others. She has written and/or hosted poetry segments for diverse television and radio programs, and did the French-to-English translations of documents about Hergé (the Belgian artist who created the comic-strip character Tintin) for the official web site that accompanied the release of Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s Hollywood film, The Adventures of Tintin (2011).

Arin’s literary awards include a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a PEN Writer's Fund grant, Poets & Writers’ Writers-On-Site residency, and funding from the Spanish Ministry of Culture for collaborative research for, and editing of, a book about Spain’s Civil War. She is currently at work on a book of essays about her sojourns in Europe.

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Bio:

Dr. Mitra Ara is a cultural historian, professor, and the founder of the Persian & Iranian Studies program in the College of Liberal & Creative Arts at San Francisco State University. As a cultural historian, she teaches courses for the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Philosophy-Religious Studies, International Relations,  Middle East Studies, and the School of Cinema. She earned her B.A. in Religious Studies, her M.A. in South & Southeast Asian Studies with a focus on Sanskrit and Avestan religious texts, and her Ph.D. in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include Indo-Iranian peoples, religions, mythology, cosmology, and eschatology. Alongside her philanthropic efforts, her research has taken her around the world. She is an artist, photographer, translator, and the author of several books, including Eschatology in the Indo-Iranian Traditions: The Genesis and Transformation of a Doctrine; A Lexicon of the Persian Language of Shiraz; Systematic Guide to Reading and Writing Persian Language (1st and 2nd editions);  Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Astronomer-Poet of Persia, Metamorphosis of Nothingness; Do You See What I See (Volumes I & II); and Ancient Roots of Creation and Afterlife Beliefs; along with numerous articles, conference presentations, workshops, colloquies, and public talks. By establishing the first and only multidisciplinary Persian & Iranian Studies Minor program within the California State University system, Dr. Ara has created a unique academic resource for understanding, studying, and appreciating world cultural heritages. This unique program allows students to explore history, archeology, religions, languages, literatures, arts, and cultures in their various forms. It provides a broad perspective that encompasses the diverse geographic and linguistic landscape of Asia's historic Greater Iran, and contemporary Persianate societies. Professor Ara is the principal investigator and recipient of grants from various U.S. institutions, including the Department of Education, the Parsa Community Foundation, Startalk, and the Strategic Language Initiative to establish and expand Persian and Iranian studies programs at California State University and San Francisco State University. In 2011, she received the faculty's Special Recognition Award from the Office of International Programs for outstanding contributions and service to the international student community. The same year, she was honored with the Strategic Language Initiative Consortium's Special Award for Leadership, Dedication, and Excellence. In 2012, the Institute of International Education awarded her a Certificate of Appreciation for her teaching and mentorship. In 2020, she was chosen by the faculty honors and awards committee to receive the College of Liberal & Creative Arts' Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Service at San Francisco State University. She has served on diverse academic boards, including SF State's Academic Senate Committee, Curriculum Review & Appeal Committee, and Fellowships Office Committee. She also continues to serve on the Society for Asian Art's Advisory Committee. 

Professor Ara's books on Amazon:

• Ancient Roots of Creation and Afterlife Beliefs
• Systematic Guide to Reading and Writing Persian Language (Second Edition)
• Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, Astronomer-Poet of Persia: Metamorphosis of Nothingness
• Do You See What I See - Book I
• Do You See What I See - Book II
• Systematic Guide to Reading and Writing Persian Language: In Naskh & Nasta'liq Styles (First Edition)
• A Lexicon of the Persian Language of Shiraz
• Eschatology in the Indo-Iranian Traditions: The Genesis and Transformation of a Doctrine