Jennifer Arin
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Lecturer
English Language & Literature, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Bio:
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.
RA Travel Grant, San Francisco State University, 2023.
College of Health and Social Sciences Travel Award, San Francisco State University, 2021.
Solas Culture and Ideas Adventure Travel Award, Travelers' Tales, 2020.
Solas Culture and Ideas Funny Travel Award, Traveler's Tales, 2020.
Extraordinary Ideas Grant, San Francisco State University, 2019.
2019 Global Awards Certificate of Merit, NACADA (The National Academic Advising Association).
2018 Region 9 (Pacific) Excellence in Advising Award, NACADA (The National Academic Advising Association).
2018 Faculty Travel Grant, San Francisco State University.
2018 California Collaborative Advising & Counseling Conference Scholarship.
Lecturer Travel Grant, English Department, San Francisco State University, 2016.
X.J. Kennedy Award for Nonfiction, Rosebud, 2015.
Distingushed Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, San Francisco State University, 2015.
Spanish Ministry of Culture Award, 2013.
Solas Culture and Ideas Award, Travelers’ Tales, 2010.
The Roots of Desire selected for the Women’s Leadership Institute Literary Salon, Mills College, 2009.
Prix Poésie de Paris Ouest, France, 2006, 2007, 2008.
Center for the Enhancement of Teaching Technology Award, San Francisco State University, 2004.
Summer Technology Institute Award, Instructional Technologies Department,
College of Education, San Francisco State University, 2003.
Say the Word National Poetry Competition Prize, Washington, D.C., 2002.
Grant to Integrate Technology into the Classroom, Instructional Technologies
Department, College of Education, San Francisco State University, 2002.
Faculty Course Development Grant, University of San Francisco, 2001.
Valedictory Speaker at Commencement, Mills College, 2000.
Ardella Mills Critical Essay Award, Mills College, 2000 and 1999.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, 1999.
Writers On Site Residency, Oakland Museum of California and Oakland Public Library,1999.
Mills Alumnae Scholarship, San Francisco, 1999.
Villa Montalvo Poetry Competition Award, California, 1998.
PEN Writers Fund Grant, PEN International, New York, 1997.
Prix Poésie de Paris Ouest, Paris, France, 1997
Prix Poésie de Paris Ouest, Paris, France, 1996.
"How do we stay rooted in a world of flux? 'Oh, to keep ourselves / from falling,' Jennifer Arin exclaims, and here is a poet who understands and celebrates the complexity of this impossible wish. Meditating on ancient languages and cityscapes, flow charts and romance, Arin brings an awareness of time's ineluctable passage and poetry's power to stop it, however briefly. Brilliant and resonant, one illumination following another, WAYS WE HOLD delivers on its promises because for Arin, poetry 'is one / small way we hold on.' You will want to hold onto this book, like a lost friend rediscovered." — Elisabeth Frost
"'Nothing comes without a history,' Jennifer Arin reminds us in 'A Portion,' her penultimate poem from this extraordinary collection. Deftly moving between the playful and the lyrical, the serious and the subversive, Arin parses the etymology of phrases from Aztec kings, affectionately refers to time as 'an escape artist anyway,' and fearlessly explores the tragic accident that befell a beloved mentor 'riding / the unplanned / curve.' With sparkling wit and clarity that provokes and seduces her lucky readers, Arin's poetry celebrates the quirky coincidences of our shared humanity, the tenderness that ultimately connects us in the WAYS WE HOLD."
— Mary Winegarden
"In WAYS WE HOLD, Jennifer Arin takes the long view—from prehuman history to pumpkins in the state of Delaware, from a Sumerian scribe to her own Russian-Jewish grandparents. Confronting time, death, and chaos, she finds solace in human connection, the 'way[s] we hold on, or try to.' Her thoughtfully-shaped poems, 'planting word rows / across the page,' reveal a lively curiosity, a wry sense of humor and a levelheaded understanding of the human condition."
— Chana Bloch
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"The Missing Link in Academic Advising: The Faculty Perspective," selected for inclusion in The Future of Advising: Strategies for Student Success, Chronicle of Higher Education (2022).
"The Missing Link in Academic Advising: The Faculty Perspective," Chronicle of Higher Education (2021).
"Ten Camels and a Passport," Travelers' Tales / Adventure Travel Award (2020).
"A Weight-Watching American in Paris," Travelers' Tales / Funny Travel Award (2020).
"Tribute to Raymond Leblanc," Moulinsart (2018).
“La Vie de Château / The Château Life,” Le Journal Tintin, Fall 2016, http://fr.tintin.com/news/index/rub/0/id/4739.
"Pure Luck," "The Zigzag of Light," Realms of the Mother: Ten Years of Dos Madres Press (2016).
"Ten Camels and a Passport," "A Day without Complaint" (the latter co-authored with Eileen Ross), Rosebud (Spring/Summer 2016).
“¡ Bienvenidos and Shalom to Our Dear Jewish Friends!,” Jewish Currents (July 2016).
"Xocolatl," Dark as a Hazel Eye, Ragged Sky Press (Spring 2016).
“Adrián de Sevilla,” Rosebud (Winter 2015).
“Bastille Day Parade,” “The Eternal Dunderhead,” “Keeping Time,” “Love Poem for the
Larger Scheme of Things,” “Missing Links,” “The Myth of Love,” “Nature Studies,”
“Reasons for Being an Emperor on Horseback,” “Root,” “Ways We Hold,” “The Zigzag
of Light,” Occupation II: Talisman Press Anthology (Spring 2015).
“The Origin of Peace,” Blanket Stories (Spring 2014).
“Sevilla, No Hay Más Que Una,” Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary
Anthology of Women and Place (February 2014).
“Means of Support,” So to Speak (Summer 2013).
“Precipitation,” Construction (July 2013).
“Ways We Hold,” The Waiting Room Reader, CavanKerry Press (Spring
2013).
“The Difficult Art of Love and Flamenco,” Spicy Letter (July 2012).
Ways We Hold, Dos Madres Press (2012).
“Squash,” American Society: What Poets See (January 2012).
“In the Beginning, In the End,” “Bastille Day Parade,” Shot Glass Journal (Winter 2011)
“Olé, the Rhythms of Sevilla,” Serving House Journal (Fall 2011)
“Force of Nature,” Crow Talking Anthology (Winter 2011).
“Never Mind Samson,” Adanna, Issue 1 (Summer 2011).
“Writer’s Blocks: New York City’s Library Way,” The AWP Writer’s Chronicle
(February 2011).
“The Gold Purse,” Poetica (Fall 2010)
“The Marvel of Sevilla,” Travelers’ Tales: Editor’s Choice (May-June 2010).
“Arts & Letters Revisited,” Teaching Creative Writing to Undergraduates:
A Resource and Guide for Fountainhead Press (Spring 2010).
“A Portion,” Gastronomica (Summer 2009).
“Eustace Tilley Comes to Class,” The Chronicle of Higher Education/Chronicle Review
V. LV, No. 36 (May 15, 2009).
“Arts & Letters Revisited,” Best of the AWP Papers (Spring 2009).
“Floe Chart,” Best of ZYZZYVA (Spring 2009).
“The Myth of Love,” Tuesday: An Art Project (Fourth Issue: Fall 2008).
“Love Poem for the Larger Scheme of Things,” Sow’s Ear (Winter 2007).
“Character,” Tuesday; An Art Project (Premier Issue: Spring 2007).
“Floe Chart,” ZYZZYVA (Spring 2006).
The Roots of Desire, Thicket Press (Spring 2005).
“Self-Defense,” Cloud View Poets Anthology (Spring 2005).
“Obstructed Eavesdropping at an Outdoor Café,” Caffeine Society (November 2004).
“San Franciscans: A Unique Breed,” Virgin Atlantic Magazine (Fall 2004).
“Nature Studies,” Puerto del Sol (Spring 2004).
“Unified Theory,” San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Section (September 2003).
Tangle Vine, Thicket Press (Spring 2003).
“Ways We Hold,” “Flamenco Class,” “About Watching the World from the Edge.”
PoetryMagazine.com (March 2003).
“Bastille Day Parade,” Poet Lore, (Spring 2002).
“How to Play Basketball,” “The Proposal.” San Francisco Chronicle (October 2002).
“Aftermath,” “Revisiting Paris,” “Self-Defense,” “Shared Strengths,” “Sightseeing,” “Transformations.” PoetryMagazine.com (March 2002).
“An Interview with Chana Bloch.” The Writers’ Chronicle (March /April 2001).
“December in an Apartment Complex.” Bridges (Spring 2001).
“Homing In,” “Relationship.” Ignatian Literary Magazine, V. 13 (Fall 2000).
“Squash.” Oxygen (Fall 2000).
Ed., Transformations and the Art of Joan Brown, Book/Audiotape, Poets & Writers,
1999.
"End of the Line." Humanities Magazine (Fall 1999).
"What We’re Cut Out For." Coracle (Fall 1999).
"Poem as Painting as Prayer," "American Dream." Wordwrights (Spring 1999).
"Ways We Hold Life," "Rain." The Noe Valley Voice: V. XXII (October 1998).
"The Spanish Dancer's Siesta"; "A Puerto Vallarta Sunset from Seat 24E,
Aeromexico." Lucero: V. IX (Spring 1998).
“Taking Heart,” Belonging to California (1997).
"Five Paint Chips." California Poets: V. 2 (1997).
Reviews of work by Donald Hall & Marjorie Agosin. Poetry News: V. 13 (1997).
"Les Elements." Paris/Atlantic: V. XVI (Fall 1996).
"Persephone." Chain: V. 1 (Spring/Summer 1995).
"The Clementine," "La Pluie." Paris/Atlantic: V. XI (Fall 1993).
"The Importance of Watching Late Night Horror Movies with the Right Person."
Ina Coolbrith Anthology (1991).
Review of Ways We Hold
Dennis Daly @ Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene
Mitra Ara
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Professor
College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Bio:
Dr. Mitra Ara is a cultural historian, professor, and founding director of the Persian 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, Cinema, International Relations, and Middle East Studies. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies, her M.A. in South Asian studies with a concentration 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. In addition to her philanthropic efforts, her research interests have taken her all over the globe. She is an artist, photographer, translator, and single author of the books entitled 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 & 2nd editions); Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, Astronomer-Poet of Persian: Metamorphosis of Nothingness; Do You See What I See (Volumes I & II); and Ancient Roots of Creation and Afterlife Beliefs, in addition to various articles, conference presentations, workshops, colloquies, and public speaking.
By establishing the first and only multidisciplinary Persian Studies Minor program in the California State University system, Dr. Ara has provided a uniquely designed academic resource for understanding, studying, and appreciating world cultural heritage. This minor program allows students and faculty to explore history, religions, languages, literatures, arts, and cultures in all their manifestations. It exposes students to a broad vision that spans and includes the diverse geographic and linguistic landscape of Asia's historic and modern Persianate societies. She is the recipient and principal investigator of grants from various US institutions, including the Department of Education, Parsa Community Foundation, Startalk, and Strategic Language Initiative, for establishing and expanding the Persian and Iranian studies program at California State University and San Francisco State University. In 2011, she was the faculty recipient of the Office of International Program Special Recognition Award for Outstanding Contributions, Support, and Service to the International Student Community. The same year, she received the Strategic Language Initiative Consortium Special Award for Leadership, Dedication, and Excellence. In 2012, the Institute of International Education awarded her the Certificate of Appreciation for Teaching and Mentorship. In 2020, she was selected 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 various academic boards, including SF State’s Academic Senate Committee, Curriculum Review & Appeal Committee, and Fellowships Office Committee. She continues to serve on the Advisors Committee of the Society for Asian Art.
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
Michael A Anderson
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Professor/Chair
Classics, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
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Bio:
Michael Anderson received a B.A. in history and an M.A. in Archaeology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997 and 2001, respectively. In 2005, he received a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge, where his dissertation was entitled, ‘Visitors, Inhabitants, Space and Power in the Roman House.’ He has worked at the site of Pompeii since 1996 and has been the Director of the Via Consolare Project since 2006. He has published numerous articles and chapters on Roman urbanism and domestic space, and is currently completing the publication of excavations undertaken in the Casa del Chirurgo (House of the Surgeon), Pompeii by the University of Bradford betweeen 2002-2006.
Olivia Albiero
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Assistant Professor
College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Bio:
I am Associate Professor of Italian and German at San Francisco State University, where I teach a wide range of language, literature, and culture courses in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. I am also the Program Coordinator and Undergraduate Advisor of the Italian Program. I strongly believe in the value of the humanities and the possibilities that foreign languages and cultures offer in leading to creative and critical encounters among individuals and groups. I am convinced that anyone can learn a foreign language if driven by motivation and provided with the adequate tools and support. I am excited to guide students in their exploration of Italian and German and I look forward to welcoming new students in my courses.
Research
My primary research focuses on storytelling in contemporary German-language literature, which I explore through the lens of narratology. I am particularly interested in the narrative representation of “moments of rupture,” which often ensue from crucial experiences of physical and metaphorical mobility or lack thereof. I also research the way comics and graphic novels portray individual and collective stories, in particular related to issues of mobility, migration and the (re)definition of identity. I also enjoy exploring how contemporary German literature and culture expand to encompass multimodal projects and what writing in the digital age means. My work has been published in Colloquia Germanica, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DIEGESIS, Pacific Coast Philology, and literatur für leser:innen.
About me
I grew up in Italy, where I received a Laurea Triennale (B.A.) in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (German, English, and Spanish) and a Laurea Specialistica (M.A.) in Modern Euro-American Languages, Literatures and Cultures (German and English). In 2009 I moved to Seattle, where I completed an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Germanics at the University of Washington. I also spent time at the Universität Wien (Vienna) and the Humboldt Universität Berlin, and I taught Italian in two Austrian high-schools. In my free time, I enjoy baking, running and hiking.
Nan Alamilla Boyd
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Emeritus Faculty/Instructional Faculty
Women & Gender Studies, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Bio:
Hello! I've been teaching in the Women and Gender Studies department at SFSU since 2007, and I've been a Women and Gender Studies professor since 1994. I'm a historian, and I teach courses on research methods, writing, and feminist and queer theory. I wrote a book about San Francisco's early-twentieth-century LGBTQ history called Wide Open Town and another book on queer oral history methods called Bodies of Evidence. I'm currently studying tourism and its relationship to gentrification in SF, and I’ve almost completed writing a book with maps on the gay/queer/trans history of eight San Francisco neighborhoods. Meanwhile, I've been active, over the years, as a volunteer at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. I founded the Historical Society's oral history project in 1992, served as the co-chair of the Archives Committee from 2004-2008, and served several terms on the Board of Directors.
Teaching at SF State
WGS 300: Gender, Race, Nation (GWAR writing seminar)
WGS 400: "That's Not What I Said": Feminism, Oral History, and Research Methods in WGS
WGS 601/801 Cultures of Consumption: Gender, Race, and Neoliberalism
WGS 698 Work Study in Feminist Projects (Nonprofit Industrial Complex)
WGS 690 Senior Seminar
WGS 700 Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
WGS 712 Graduate Seminar in Queer Theories
WGS 820 Graduate Seminar in Feminist Research Methods
WGS 898 MA Thesis writing workshop
HUM 376 San Francisco
Selected Publications
Books
Nan Alamilla Boyd and Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, eds. Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 (University of California Press, 2003).
Articles and Book Chapters
"History as Social Change: Queer Archives and Oral History Projects," in Understanding and Teaching LGBT History, Leila Rupp and Susan Freeman, eds. (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014)
"The History of 'the Lesbian' as a Kind of Person," Feminist Studies 39:2 (Summer 2013): 1-4.
Nan Alamilla Boyd and Jillian Sandell, “Unpaid and Critically Engaged: Feminist Interns in the Non-Profit Industrial Complex,” Feminist Teacher 22:3 (Spring 2013) 251-265.
“Elizabeth Kennedy’s Oral History Intervention,” Feminist Formations 24:3 (December 2012) 84-91.
"San Francisco's Castro District: From Gay Liberation to Tourist Destination," Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 9:3 (September 2011) 228-239.
"Sex, Race, and Tourism: The Making of San Francisco's Queer Urban Scene," in Amy Scott and Kathy Brosnan, eds., City Dreams, Country Schemes: Community and Identity in the Twentieth-Century American West (University of Nevada Press, 2011).
"Who is the Subject? Queer Theory Meets Oral History," Journal of the History of Sexuality 17:2 (May 2008) 177-189.
"Sex and Tourism: The Economic Implications of Gay Marriage Movement," Radical History Review 100 (Winter 2008) 223-250.
"What Does Queer Studies Offer Women's Studies?: The Problem and Promise of Instability," in Elizabeth L. Kennedy, ed., Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005) 97-108.
"Same-Sex Sexuality in Western Women's History," Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies 22:3 (2001) 11-21.
"Policing Queers: San Francisco's History of Repression and Resistance," Radical Philosophy Review 3:1 (2000) 20-27.
"The Materiality of Gender: Looking for Lesbian Bodies in Transgender History," Journal of Lesbian Studies 3:3 (1999). Reprinted in Lesbian Sex Scandals: Sexual Practices, Identities, and Politics, Dawn Atkins, ed. (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1999) 73-80.
"Shopping for Rights: Gays, Lesbians, and Visibility Politics," Denver University Law Review 75:4 (Fall 1998) 1361-1373.
"Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transsexual Histories," A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Martin Duberman, ed. (New York: New York University Press, 1997) 134-152. Reprinted in Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, eds., The Transgender Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 2006) 420-433; Vicki L. Ruiz ed., Unequal Sisters,4th edition (New York: Routledge, 2007) 15-28.
"'Homos Invade S.F.!': San Francisco's History as a Wide Open Town," Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community Histories, Brett Beemyn, ed. (New York: Routledge, 1997) 73-95.
Media Presentations
“Historian Nan Alamilla Boyd & the Ghosts of Queer Old North Beach” (9 June 2014) http://www.radarproductions.org/historian-nan-boyd-the-gay-ghosts-of-queer-old-north-beach/
“Professor Nan Alamilla Boyd ‘follows the money’ in research on San Francisco tourism, gentrification” (24 September 2013) http://lca.sfsu.edu/blog/2013/09/24/13381-professor-nan-alamilla-boyd-follows-money-research-san-francisco-tourism-gentr
“Gay Rights: Part One” and “Gay Power: Part Two,” interview with Cicely Gilkey for Mad Men Season Six, DVD documentary extras (2014)
"Out in the Bay." Interview with Marilyn Pittman, KALW Public Radio (91.7 FM, San Francisco), aired July 31, 2008
"Gay Los Angeles vs. Gay San Francisco." Panel discussion, Zócalo Radio, KPCC (89.3 FM, Los Angeles), aired July 27, 2008. Also aired on Los Angeles public television, Channel 36, July 2008. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/category/events/video-archive/
"Why San Francisco?" Radio interview broadcast on Weekend America, National Public Radio (KBEZ, Chicago), aired June 23, 2007. http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/06/23/why_san_fra...
Interview with Nan Alamilla Boyd and Susan Stryker, discussing "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria," KPFA Radio (94.1 FM, Berkeley, CA), aired live June 16, 2007 (http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/15501)
Interview about the legalization of same-sex marriage in San Francisco on News 50 (KFTY, Sonoma County), aired live March 4, 2004.
"Morning Show." Interview with Henry Tenenbaum, discussing the publication of Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965, News 4 (KRON, San Francisco), aired live July 2003.
Academic Presentations and Public Talks (2010-2017)
"Gay Rights, Gender, and the Gentrifying City," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women," Hofstra University, New York, June 1-4, 2017.
“Queer Oral History: the Impossible Desire to Hold and Honor Collective Grief and Loss,” plenary speaker, Oral History Association Meetings, Long Beach, CA, October 14-16, 2016.
“Queer Tourism and Late Capitalism,” Gay American History at 40 Conference, New School, New York City, May 4-6, 2016.
“Cruisin’ the Castro: Tourism and Neoliberal Consumption in San Francisco,” University of San Francisco, Department of History Distinguished Lecture Series, November 11, 2015.
“Sexuality, Space, and Metropolitan Development in California,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Los Angeles, November 5-8, 2015.
“Talking and Taboo: Challenges in Interviewing around Intimate Topics,” Oral History Association, Tampa, Florida, October 14-18, 2015.
“The G-Spot: Tourism and Gentrification in San Francisco,” Worlds of Desire: The Eroticization of Tourist Sites, Université de Genève, Switzerland, June 24-26, 2015.
“Queer Tourism and Late Capitalism,” Sonoma State University, Queer Lecture Series, April 27, 2015.
“Step Back: A Walking Tour of Queer Old North Beach,” Radar Productions, tour guide, June 2014.
“Cruisin’ the Castro: From Gay Liberation to Tourist Destination,” Western American Women’s History conference, keynote, Pomona, CA, May 5, 2014.
“Death and Taxes: Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times,” Berkshire Women’s History Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2014.
“What’s Love Got to Do with It?: New Feminisms and Queer Histories,” Re-Reading the Feminist Sixties, one-day conference, University of California Santa Barbara, February 2014.
“Changing the Subjects: Remaking the Futures of the Feminist Past,” National Women’s Studies Association, plenary, November 2013.
“Queer Tourism and Late Capitalism,” American Studies Association, Washington DC, November 2013.
“Cruisin the Castro’: Tourism and Neoliberal Consumption in San Francisco,” University of Chicago, May 2013.
“Eating the Other: Tourism and Commodification in San Francisco,” Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, April 2013.
Commentator on a panel entitled Queer Transfrancisco: Pasts, Presents, and Futures of the ‘Sodom by the Sea’, American Anthropology Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2012.
“Rethinking Gentrification” National Women Studies Association, Oakland, CA, November 2012.
“Book Spotlight: Bodies of Evidence, the Practice of Queer Oral History,” Oral History Association, Cleveland, OH, October 2012.
“Cashing In: Race, Sex, and Tourism in San Francisco,” at The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb 2012.
"Talking About Sex" at a panel on Queer Oral History Methods at the American Historical Association meetings, Chicago, IL, January 5-8, 2012.
"Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy's Interdisciplinary, Queer Career" at the American Studies Association meetings, Baltimore, MD, October 20-23, 2011.
"Cashing In: Sex, Race, and Tourism in San Francisco" at a panel entitled Sex, Race, and Migration in the U.S. West at the Western History Association Annual Conference, Oakland, CA, October 13-16, 2011.
"What's So Gay about San Francisco?" invited guest lecture at Santa Clara University, October 11, 2011.
"Lesbian Generations," a roundtable at the Berkshire Women's History Conference, Amherst, MA, June 9-12, 2011.
"San Francisco's Castro: Gay Liberation to Tourist Destination" at Tourism Imaginaries/ Imaginaires Touristique, Conference, Université Paris, Sorbonne, and UC Berkeley, February 18-20, 2011.
"Liz Kennedy: Lesbian/Queer Oral History Pioneer" on a panel entitled Women's Studies Legacies and Futures: A Tribute to the Work of Elizabeth Kennedy at the National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 10-14, 2010.
Participant on a panel entitled "When Monarchs Meet Queens" as part of Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City series at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 17, 2010.
Participant on a panel entitled "From Free Love to Folsom Street" at the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), 564 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, June 22, 2010.
Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi
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Associate Professor
Ethnic Studies Program, College of Ethnic Studies
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Rabab Abdulhadi, founding Director/Senior scholar of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program at SFSU, is co-founding Editorial Board member of Islamophobia Studies Journal, lead editor of book volumes and author of over 80 articles and book chapters in seven languages. She received her PhD from Yale University (2000) and scholarly awards and community honors, including Sterling Fellowship, New Century Scholarship, best non-fiction book award, and American Association of University Professors, National Women’s Studies Association. She is compiling critical oral histories of Palestinian activism and editing an anthology on Teaching Palestine; and roundtables on Black Liberation; Abolition and Reparations; and Whose Narrative? Gender, Justice and Palestine.
She is the recipient of several awards by AAUP; ADC; IFCO; Al-Awda; American Muslims for Palestine; Arab Feminist Union; and was named Bay Area Visionary by the National Women’s Studies Association. A Policy Advisor for Al-Shabaka; she serves on the Board of Afro-Middle East Center (Johannesburg, South Africa); International Advisory Board of World Congress of Middle East Studies and co-chairs (with Simona Sharoni) Feminists for Justice in/for Palestine, NWSA. A public intellectual, she serves on the Executive Committee of California Scholars for Academic Freedom; the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel; and the recently formed CSU Coalition to Disarm and Defund. She is faculty advisor to Afghan Student Association; General Union of Palestinian Students; Muslim Student Association and Muslim Women Student Association. She co-organized and led several delegations to Palestine, including the Indigenous and Women of Color Feminist Delegation, US Prisoner, Academic, Labor Solidarity and Teaching Palestine, including Birzeit, AN-Najah, Seville, and South Africa.
Ashley D Aaron
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Lecturer
Africana StudiesCollege of Ethnic Studies
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Ashley D. Aaron is Lecturer Faculty at San Francisco State University in the College of Ethnic Studies, where she lectures in the Department of Africana Studies, and in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies. Her current teaching and research interests are the history and current manifestation of racism in the Americas, Global Black Liberation Movements, enslavement and resistance in the Americas, Black women's responses and organizing strategies to state sanctioned violence, Black art and culture, and Culturally Responsive Education in public and private schools.
William Mac
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Professor
Chemistry, College of Science Engineering
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Tram Tong
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Professor
Biology, College of Science and Engineering
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City College 2001-2002