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Christopher M Sterba

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Lecturer
Humanities Department, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Email:
cmsterba@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
Location:

At SF State Since:

2008

Office Hours:

Bio:

I've been teaching at State for over fifteen years. My courses focus on 20th century U.S. popular culture and history, with special interest in American Cities and California. Right now, I am completing my second book, Not a Lost Generation: The Great War Veterans Who Transformed American Popular Culture. 

In 2012-13, I was the Fulbright Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway.

 

Education
Ph.D. Brandeis University
M.A. Yale University
B.A. Bucknell University

 

Research Interests -- American Studies & U.S. History
Politics, Labor, and Immigration
Popular Culture
Cities
California Studies
U.S. Foreign Relations

 

Courses Taught at SFSU
HUM 225: Values in American Life
HUM 376: San Francisco
HUM 375: Biography of a City: New York
HUM 375: Biography of a City: Chicago
HUM 375: Biography of a City: Boston
HUM 450/AMST 410: California Culture
HUM 485: Arts in American Culture
HUM 490: American Images: Photography & Literature

Website:

https://humcwl.sfsu.edu/people/christopher-sterba 

Ornella Mattei

Ornella Mattei

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Assistant Professor
Mathematics, College of Science and Engineering

Email:
mattei@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
Location:
TH 950

At SF State Since:

2019

Office Hours:

Bio:

In August 2019 I joined the Department of Mathematics at San Francisco State University as an Assistant Professor. I received my PhD in Methods and Mathematical Models for Engineering from the University of Brescia, Italy, in 2016. Before moving to San Francisco, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, where my mentor was Graeme W. Milton. I have broad interests in the Mathematics of Materials Science, with special emphasis on electromagnetics and composites.

 

For further info visit my website.

 

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Katynka Z Martinez

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Professor
Latino/Latina Studies, College of Ethnic Studies

Email:
katynka@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-6104
Location:
EP 103A

At SF State Since:

2007

Office Hours:

Bio:

Katynka Z. Martínez is Professor of Latina/Latino Studies in the College of Ethnic Studies. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a PhD in Communication from the University of California at San Diego.

 

Martínez’s research areas include cultural studies, media studies, community journalism, visual culture, community-generated artwork related to día de los muertos.

 

Here in the Latina/Latino Studies Department, she teaches courses on film, television, journalism, media studies, the ethnic press and visual culture. The students in her Latina/Latino Journalism class research the history of the U.S. Latino press and contribute articles, photography and artwork to the Mission District bilingual newspaper El Tecolote. Martínez is a board member of Acción Latina, the nonprofit organization that publishes El Tecolote.

 

Publications by Martínez include:

  • Special Issue of Latino Studies: "The Art of Latina and Latino Elderhood." Co-editor with Mérida M. Rúa. Volume 19, Number 4, 2021.
  • “Hairpiece: a photo essay featuring Yolanda Lopez” in Latino Studies. Volume 19, Number 4, 2021.
  • “‘I Exist Because You Exist:’ Teaching History and Supporting Student Engagement through Bilingual Community Journalism” in Civic Engagement in Diverse Latina/o
  • Communities: Learning from Social Justice Partnerships in Action. Edited by Mari Castañeda and Joseph Krupczynski. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 2018.
  • “Latina/Latino Community Journalism: Surviving the ‘Crisis in Journalism’” in The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media. Edited by María Elena Cepeda and Dolores Inés Casillas. 2017.
  • “Translating Telenovelas in a Neo-Network Era: Finding an Online Home for MyNetwork Soaps” in Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future. Edited by Denise Mann. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2014.
  • “RBD” in Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. Edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.
  • “Regional Mexican Music” in Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. Edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.
  • “Pac-Man Meets the Minutemen: Video Games by Los Angeles Latino Youth” in National Civic Review. Fall 2011.
  • Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media. 2010. Ito, Mizuko, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martínez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp (with Judd Antin, Megan Finn, Arthur Law, Annie Manion, Sarai Mitnick, Dan Schlossberg and Sarita Yardi). Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project. 2009. Ito, Mizuko, Heather Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C.J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson (with Sonja Baumer, Rachel Cody, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martínez, Dan Perkel, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp). Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • “Real Women and Their Curves: Letters to the Editor and a Magazine’s Celebration of the ‘Latina body’” in Latina/o Communication Studies Today. Edited by Angharad N. Valdivia. New York: Peter Lang Press. 2008.
  • “Girls, Digital Culture, and New Media” in Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh. Portsmouth: Greenwood Press. 2008.
  • “Quinceañera” in Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh. Portsmouth: Greenwood Press. 2008.
  • “Monolingualism, Biculturalism, and Cable TV: HBO Latino and the Promise of the Multiplex” in Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting.  Edited by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris, and Anthony Freitas. New York: New York University Press.  2007.
  • “American Idols with Caribbean Soul: Cubanidad and the Latin Grammys” in Latino Studies. Volume 4, Number 4, 2006.

Website:

https://ltns.sfsu.edu/katynka-martinez 

Paul Steward

Paul Steward

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Lecturer
College of Ethnic Studies

Email:
steward@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-6174
Location:
EP 407

At SF State Since:

2019

Office Hours:

Bio:

Professor, Businessman, Musician,

Lecturer of Native American/American Indian Studies for CSU since 2016; Paul specializes in the history of California and the local history and culture of the Bay Area and North Bay. Professor Steward is a tribal member of Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians of the Sulphur Bank Rancheria near Clearlake Oaks, CA. Raised on the reservation from birth until age 10, he learned his tribal culture from his father and paternal grandparents.

Academically, Paul studied Business Administration at Santa Rosa Junior College, Sonoma State University, and was in a doctoral program at Saint Mary's College of California. His learning of social, history, and ethnic studies came from professors Dr. Dianne Smith, William Spires, Dr. Leny Strobel, and under the guidance of Dr. Greg Sarris.

In practice, Paul experienced tribal business operations and the crossroads of culture through apprenticing under his father, Richard Steward, a tribal officer of Elem and a board member of such Native organizations as Lake County Tribal Health, Sonoma County Tribal Health, Ya-Ka-Ama Indian Education and Development Inc, California Indian Manpower Consortium, California Rural Indian Health Board, and working for tribes Stewart's Point Rancheria, and Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe.

Paul has also contracted for the Native organization California Consortium for Urban Indian Health. Other business ventures include marketing in the english language for a Japanese cryptocurrency and blockchain tech company Bexam/Early Works ltd; marketing for Digital Prints & Imaging company of Santa Rosa CA; and community outreach for Pacific Gas & Electric.

Yet, Paul's first passion is music. Playing guitar and singing since he was 14, he has performed professionally as the leader of Twice As Good, a multi-award winning Blues/R&B band he founded with his father. Proudly the 2010 Native American Music Awards Blues Album of the Year. They have released 8 albums and continue to tour and perform. Recently, Paul is venturing into a solo artist project with a more modern Pop sound. He has released a new album and is on an intermittent world tour.

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Website(s):

SF State News Article Interview, Musical Persona, Notable Native Band
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Dawn Elissa Fischer

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Professor
Anthropology, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Email:
def@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-7532
Location:
FA 541

At SF State Since:

2008

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 15:05-15:35
Thursday: Closed
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Bio:

Dawn-Elissa Fischer, also known as the “DEF Professor,” is a Professor at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses on black popular culture, information technology and virtual ethnography.

Awards of note include the NSF Equitable Collaboration in STEM Fellowship (2021-22), the Educator of the Year (2017) from the National Council of Negro Women, Golden Gate Chapter, the Nasir Jones Fellowship (2016), and the Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship (2011-12). Having published on the topics of race in cyberspace, popular culture and globalization, her manuscript reviews Blackness, race, gender and transnationalism in Japanese Hiphop and anime. 

A founding staff member of Dr. Marcyliena Morgan’s Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard University in 2001, Fischer continues to consult in an advisory role. The Hiphop Archive houses Fischer’s Japanese Hiphop collection, including Nihon Style, a film about an annual Hiphop festival in Japan that she co-produced with filmmaker Bianca White. Dr. Fischer has published articles about her research concerning race and gender politics in both global and local Hiphop (see  http://faculty.sfsu.edu/~def/content/publications-0).

At SF State, Dr. Fischer co-directed the BAHHRS (Bay Area Hip Hop Research and Scholarship) project with Dave “Davey D” Cook, which was awarded the Cesar Chavez Institute’s Community-University Empowerment grant. 

Prior to joining the faculty at SF State, Fischer traveled within and outside of the United States utilizing Hiphop as part of a social movement strategy. Fischer co-founded the National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC) with Bakari Kitwana and many others in 2002, and the NHHPC held national political conventions in 2004, 2006 and 2008.

The academic perspective from which Fischer writes is unique in that she has had the opportunity to experience Hiphop's heterogeneity as window to understanding racism and globalization. She has extended family members that have been professional and renowned artists, and her youth activism was inspired by Hiphop art. Fischer was part of a pioneering group of scholars to write dissertations on subjects that included Hiphop as part of their analytic interest.  For Fischer, Hiphop is professional as well as personal and political.

Website(s):

Schedule Office Hours, Anthropology Department - Faculty, Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, Blackness in Anime Podcast w/ The Intersection, Dr. Fischer on Blackademics TV (PBS), Virtual Office Link

Publications

Publications, Public Scholarship and Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Selected Publications (Print):

These pubs are available via university library article databases and at SFSU Library. Click the hyperlink to access.

Fischer, D-E. (2021). “I Can’t Live without My Radio” by LL Cool J, In Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. 

Fischer, D-E. (2021). “The Symphony” by Marley Marl et al, In Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. 

Fischer, D-E. (2021). “Pocket Full of Stones” by UGK. In Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. 

Fischer, D-E. (2021). “Coming Out Hard” by Eightball & MJG, In Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. 

Fischer, D-E. (2018). “Anthropology and (the) Black Experience—Revisited.” In Michael T. Tillotson (Ed.), Whispering Out Loud: Voices of Africana (pp. 81-107). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. 

McDougal, S. & Fischer, D-E. (2018). Ku komena nyundo: The Africana studies effect. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 22-40. 

Fischer, D-E. (2014). “Teaching Us to See: How Hiphop Renders Race Visible.” Proceedings of the International Symposium of Engaging Race and Racism in the New Millennium: Exploring Visibilities and Invisibilities (pp. 64-77). Edited by Yasuko Takezawa. Published by the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. Printed by Hokuto Print, co. Ltd: Kyoto, Japan.

Fischer, D-E. [2014- backdated to 2013]. This bridge called Hiphop: Samples of percussion, piracy and politics from Brazil and Colombia. Fire!!!, Vol2, No. 1, 3-25. 

Fischer, D-E. (2013). Blackness, race and language politics in Japanese Hiphop. Transforming Anthropology.21 (2), 135-152. 

Fischer, D-E. (2012). Hiphop within a womanist lens. The Western Journal of Black Studies. 36 (1), 86-96. 

Fischer, D-E. (2011). Wannabe startin’ somethin’: Michael Jackson’s critical race representation. Journal of Popular Music Studies. 23 (1), 96-107.

Morgan, M., & Fischer, D-E. (2010). Hiphop and race: Blackness, language and creativity. In H. Markus & P. Moya (Eds.), Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century (pp. 509-27). New York, NY: Norton.

Fischer, D.-E. T. I. (2007). “Kobushi ageroo!” (=Pump ya fist!)) Blackness, "race" and politics in Japanese Hiphop. (PhD thesis, University of Florida). 

Fischer, D. (2005). Literacy education. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. New York: Macmillan.  

Fischer Banks, D. (2002). Hip-hop as critical pedagogy. Anthropology News 43 (8): 46-47.

 

Selected Public Scholarship and Media:

Fischer, D-E. The Poetry of Kendrick Lamar.  Theme: Kendrick Lamar and the Body: Lungs. (Prof Sarah Byrne)  The Well Review. October 26, 2022.

Fischer, D-E. (with Michael Payton, Davey D Cook, Dina Ibrahim) The Murder Inc Story Q & A with Director Michael Payton  CSU Entertainment Alliance. Septemebr 1, 2022.

Fischer's “Hiphop through a Womanist Lens” (2012) article from the Western Journal of Black Studies was cited in Pendarvis Harshaw's "How Hip-Hop Talks About Abortion in Ways Other Art Forms Can't" article (2022) that also was reposted in SFSU Campus News as, “Associate Professor of Anthropology Dawn-Elissa Fischer discussed hip-hop artists who have addressed abortion with thoughtfulness and nuance. KQED-FM 6/30/2022”

Fischer, D-E. Juneteeth “Black California Freedom Dreamin” Keynote, inspired my previous work with Clyde Woods. Cal Maritime. June 17, 2022.

Fischer, D-E. Greg Tate Symposium at Stanford University Institute for Diversity Arts (with Shelley Nicole, dream hampton, Mark Anthony Neal and Adam Banks). June 1, 2022.

Fischer. D-E. “Hiphop and the Law” ( with andre douglas pond cummings, Atiba Ellis and Todd Clark, moderated by Jeff Prystowsky). Roger Williams University Law School. March 31, 2022. Post-Event Guide

Fischer, D-E. (moderating) Krip-Hop Panel with the Longmore Instittue and Poetry Center, March 5, 2022.

Fischer, D-E. “Asian & Black Unity & Division.” TrueSkool Radio hosted by Renthe Vinyl Archaeologist. Twitch.tv/trueskool. March 26, 2021.

Fischer, D-E. “Representation and Cultural Exchange in Anime and Animation.” The Intersection Podcast(Georgia State University). March 22, 2021.

Fischer, D-E. “Afrofuturism in Literature and Film.” African Studies Association Annual Teachers Workshop. November 14, 2020

Fischer, D-E. “Black, Femme and Animated!: Movements, Manga, Music” Chabot College Ethnic Studies Summit. April 29, 2020.

Fischer, D-E. “Representing the Unseen: Blackness in Anime, Manga.” Council on East AsianStudies Colloquium Series. Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut. November 18, 2019.

Fischer, D-E. “Dr. Dawn-Elissa Fischer on Hip Hop, Education and Global Feminism.” (with DJ Kuttin Kandi). Hiphop Bruha: Bruha Politics on Hip Hop, Pop-Culture and Feminism. Podcast Webpage.Transcript. Spotify. July 6, 2019. [In this interview, we reference our NCORE presentation]

Fischer, D-E. “Hip Hop and Imperialism.” (with Aisha Fukushima, Rocky Rivera, DJ Kuttin Kandi and Geo [of the award-winning ‘Blu Scholars’ Hip Hop Group]). National Conference of Race and Ethnicity. Portland, Oregan. May 2019.

Fischer, D-E. “Black History Month Hip Hop Lecture.” Chegg. Santa Clara, California. February 2019.

Fischer, D-E. “’Mask Off So We Can See’: Courage, Conscience and Coalitions in Hip Hop.” Courage,Conscience and Coalitions: MLK Youth Conference. The Thacher School. Ojai, California. January 20, 2019.

Fischer, D-E. “Look Back to Move Forward: 50 Years of Black Studies,” Plenary Lecture, College ofInterdisciplinary Studies, Purdue University, November 30, 2018

Fischer, D-E. “50 Years of Black Studies: Intellectual Histories and Institutional Demands,” ClosingRoundtable with Greg Carr and Valerie Grimm, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Purdue University, December 1, 2018

Fischer, D-E. “Black Arts, Black Music, Black Studies: A Special Panel Honoring the 50th Anniversary ofBlack Studies in the Bay Area,” Roundtable with Jakeya Caruthers, Adam Banks, Greg Tate, Shelley Nicole, Andre LaSalle and Vernon Reid, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, October 30, 2018

Fischer, D-E. Post-Screening Dialogue (with Mahalet Gezachew and Boots Riley). Sorry to Bother You: Black Studies 50th Anniversary Advance Screening of Film for SF State Community and Friends atthe Roxy Theatre with support from Annapurna Pictures, San Francisco, California. May 17, 201

Fischer, D-E. “African American Digital Scholarship,” Symposium, Wallenberg Learning Theater: Building160, Stanford University, Stanford, California. April 28, 2018

Fischer, D-E. “This is How We Win…” Black History Month Kick Off Keynote. City Hall Rotunda. Society forAfrican American Culture and History (SFAACHS). February 1, 2018.

Fischer, D-E. “Crisis of the Black Intellectual: The Legacy of Harold Cruse, 1967-2017.” Presentation at theSymposium, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California. November 18, 2017.

Fischer, D-E. “Mbongi Talk: Harlem2Tokyo,” with Cheryl Fischer, Department of Africana Studies. SanFrancisco State University, San Francisco. California, September 19, 2017.

Fischer, D-E. “Mbongi Talk: Decoding AfroAsia in Anime and Manga,” Department of Africana Studies. SanFrancisco State University, San Francisco, California. February 28, 2017

Fischer, D-E. “Hip Hop’s Critical Gender Politics,” Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, November 10, 2016.

Fischer, D-E. “Anthropology and #BlackLivesMatter,” with Gina Athena Ulysse and Bianca Williams. WesleyanUniversity, Middleton, Connecticut. November 1, 2016.

Fischer, D-E. “Love and Hiphop: New Orleans (Title IX and Sexuality Rights),” Dillard University, New Orleans,Louisiana. October 28, 2016.

Fischer, D-E. “Blackademics TV,” Season Two, Episode One. KLRU (PBS) University of Texas- Austin, Austin,Texas. October 17, 2015.

Fischer, D-E. “Blackness and Race Politics in Japanese Hip-Hop,” Presented at the University of Arizona.Tucson, AZ. February 6, 2014.

 

​Selected Peer-Reviewed Presentations:

Fischer, D-E. 2022. “Anime Rap: Revisiting the work of Representation.” To be presented at the panel, “Are You Unsettled?” Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Seattle, WA. November 9. 

Fischer, D-E. 2021b “ABA@50: A Roundtable Conversation on the Association of Black Anthropologists and its Impact on the Discipline of Anthropology.” Sponsored by the Association of Black Anthropologists. Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Baltimore, MD:  November 20.

Fischer, D-E. 2021a. “Actualized Truths, Global Inheritances: Black Youth Practice Digital Diaspora” Co-sponsored/reviewed by the Association of Black Anthropologists & Association for Africanist Anthropology. Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Baltimore, MD: November 17. 

Fischer, D-E. 2019c “Battling for My Black Baby (and Yours): Black California Dreams and Nightmares from the Frontline of Educational Equity in the Far West.” Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Vancouver, BC. November 21. 

Fischer, D-E. 2019b “Black Buddhists: Justice, Value-Creating Pedagogy and Diaspora” Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African Diaspora (ASWAD). Williamsburg, VA. November 7. 

Fischer, D-E. 2019a. “Representing the Unseen: Black Femme and Animated.” Feminist World-Building in Japanese Cinema / Building Feminist Worlds in Japanese Cinema. University of California, San Diego. May 3. 

Fischer, D-E. 2018c “We The People? Feeling Racism in Hip Hop,” Paper presented for a Thematic Session at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA. August 13. 

Fischer, D-E. 2018b “Hiphop Language Ideology and Movements for Black Studies - 50 Years Later,” Paper presented for “We Got It From Here”: Language, Identity, and Global Hiphop.” Annual meetings of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Chicago, IL. March 24. 

Fischer, D-E. 2018a “Black Buddhists: Hiphop, Value Creation and Social Justice in African Diasporic Communities,” Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Council for Black Studies.  Atlanta, GA. March 17. 

Fischer, D-E. 2017b. Making Anthropology Matter--Teaching Race as an Act of Resistance. Roudtable convened by Dr. Nicole Truesdell. Peer-reviewed Roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC. December

Fischer, D-E. 2017a.  Manga, Music, Media: An AfroAsian Remix? “In Media’s Race: Black Embodiments Present and Future,” Paper Presented as Part of Peer-reviewed Roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC. December 1. 

Fischer, D-E. 2016 “Home Away from Home: African American Migration Abroad” for ASA International Committee:  Talkshop at the annual meetings of the American Studies Association, Denver, Colorado. November 17.

Fischer, D-E. 015b. “Hiphop Womanist Inquiry,” Paper presented at the annual conference for the Association for the Study of African Life and History, Atlanta, Georgia. September 24. 

Fischer, D-E. 2015a. “Doing Feminist Work.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Council of Black Studies. Los Angeles, CA. March.

Fischer, D-E. 2014b. “Place, Memory, and Preservation in Post-Civil Rights Black Philadelphia.” Discussant, Chair, Paper for the annual conference for the Association for the Study of African Life and History, Memphis, TN. September 27. 

Fischer, D-E. 2014a. “How Hiphop Renders Race and Racism.” In Engaging Race and Racism in the New Millineum: exploring visibilities and invisibilities (IUAES/ JASCA joint panel) Convened by Yasuko Takezawa and Faye Harrison with John G Russell as Discussant/ Respondent. May 17, 2014.

 Fischer, D-E. 2013.“This Bridge Called Hiphop: Emic Perspectives of Global Hiphop Organizing for Equity and Social Justice.” International Symposium for Hip Hop and Social Justice. Organizers: Heike Raphael-Henrandez and Eva Kimminich. VW Foundation. Hannover, Germany, September 11-14, 2013.

Transformative Conversations Kick Off: Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop in the Academy, John N. Gardner Institute hosted by Monica Flippin Wynn (AVP)

 

Sana

Sana Hussaini

( She/Her/Hers )

Assistant Professor
College of Liberal and Creative Arts Building

Email:
skhan08@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 405-0314
Location:
FA 429

At SF State Since:

2022

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: 13:00-15:00
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: Closed
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Bio:

Sana Khan Hussaini is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design at the School of Design. Her design experience has developed in tandem with pursuits in the advertising industry. As an Associate Creative Director at Ogilvy, Hussaini received a strong foundation in utilizing design thinking techniques to generate creative and culturally relevant design solutions. Hussaini's experience in the advertising industry drives her design research and motivates her to pursue projects that give under-represented users and communities a voice. Before joining SF State, Hussaini was a Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor and a BFA Coordinator at the University of Notre Dame. She taught Fundamentals of Visual Communication Design, Digital Media Design, Motion Design, Interaction Design, BFA Thesis Seminar, and Adobe Software Labs.

Hussaini is also a recipient of Notre Dame's Liu Institute for Asian Studies Research Grant and Snite Museum's Director's Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts. She continues to pursue design for social good through her classroom and ongoing design projects.

Hussaini received her MFA in visual design with a concentration in Gender Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

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Vance Thomas Vredenburg

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Professor/Chair
BiologyCollege of Science and Engineering

Email:
vancev@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-7296
Location:
HH 227

At SF State Since:

2007

Office Hours:

Bio:

Vance Vredenburg is a Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Biology at San Francisco State University, Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, and Research Associate at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at University of California Berkeley. He grew up in Mexico, received his bachelor's degree from the University of California Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D. from University of California Berkeley. His Ph.D. research showed it is possible to reverse the decline of a threatened frog in the wild (Vredenburg 2004). This conservation approach has been implemented in montane areas globally. His current research focuses on the impacts of an emerging infectious disease (chytridiomycosis) on amphibians and the role of the amphibian skin microbiome in health and disease.

Website:

https://www.vredenburglab.com/ 

Research Description

Vance Vredenburg was raised in Mexico and the United States. His scientific training began as an undergraduate at the University of California Santa Barbara where he worked on ecological research projects in coastal California, Alaska, the Caribbean and Antarctica. His Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (2002) included whole-lake experiments that showed that recovery of threatened frogs in the Sierra Nevada, California is possible with the removal of introduced fish predators (trout).

Research in the Vredenburg lab focuses broadly on ecology, evolution and conservation in the context of climate change. Most projects in my lab focus on amphibians, though we also study bird behavior and communication. My lab incorporates elements of population, community, and behavioral ecology to investigate hypotheses that can explain vertebrate species loss as our climate changes. These include studies of the impacts of emerging infectious disease, introduced predators, and habitat destruction. Our approach uses a combination of field and lab-based experiments as well as comparative methods (using museum specimens).

Publications

https://www.vredenburglab.com/publications 

Charli Sakari

Charli Sakari

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Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy, College of Science and Engineering

Email:
sakaricm@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
Location:
TH 532

At SF State Since:

2019

Office Hours:

Bio:

Charli Sakari is an Assistant Professor in the Physics & Astronomy Department at San Francisco State University. Originally from Springfield, OR, Dr. Sakari attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, graduating cum laude with a BA in Physics-Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, with honors in Physics-Astronomy. She then completed her PhD at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada in 2014, where she was a Vanier Scholar. Her PhD thesis was entitled, “Chemical Abundances of Local Group Globular Clusters.” Dr. Sakari then completed her post-doctoral research at the University ofWashington, in Seattle. Dr. Sakari’s research interests include chemical abundances of stars in globular clusters and galaxy field stars, including metal-poor stars. She is also interested in stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis (the creation of the elements), and galaxy formation and evolution.

My research use spectra of stars and globular clusters (GCs) to understand the assembly histories of galaxies, a process sometimes referred to as "Galactic Archaeology."  Stellar spectra reveal the chemical fingerprints of atoms that are present in the stellar atmospheres.  The abundances of these elements can reveal valuable information about how galaxies and star clusters form over time!

I am a core member of the R-Process Alliance, an interdisciplinary collaboration with the goal of studying the formation of the heaviest elements in the periodic table.

I am also a co-lead for the Chemical Nucleosynthesis working group for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, a planned upgrade to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT).

For an introduction to my research check out some of my papers or my book!

Check out my papers on ADS!

Find my book at Morgan & Claypool.

 

Here are the community agreements we have created for our Research Group:

  • Be nice to each other, which includes being respectful, considerate, and compassionate
  • Build off of each other's ideas
  • Have fun thinking about new possibilities and ideas
  • Don't feel embarrassed to share thoughts!  On the other side, don't judge each other!  Remember that an outside perspective can be very valuable!
  • Work as a team, collaborate, and ask questions of each other
  • Do research!  Research includes a lot of things, including reading, installing programs, getting ready to work with data, struggling... It's a process!
  • Help motivate each other
  • Pass along wisdom and make suggestions.
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Alexis Martinez

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Vice Chair and Associate Professor
Sociology, College of Health and Social Sciences

Email:
alexisnm@sfsu.edu
Phone Number:
(415) 338-2269
Location:
HSS 367C

At SF State Since:

2007

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Alexis Martinez, Associate Professor of Sociology, joined the SFSU faculty in 2007. She is a UCSF-trained medical sociologist with a background in community-based research with structurally vulnerable populations. Dr. Martinez uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study space, place, and the spatial analysis of health outcomes in the United States, focusing on opioid prescribing, opioid overdoses, and racial disparities in jail populations. In addition, she previously served as Vice Chair of the Department (2020 - 2024) and Graduate Coordinator of the MA program in Sexuality Studies (2016 - 2020).  

Previously Offered Courses

  • SOC 392 Introduction to Research Methods
  • SOC 375 Sociology of Drugs and Drug Use in the United States
  • Soc 393 Quantitative Analysis of Social Data
  • Soc 476 Medical Sociology
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Shahrukh Humayoun

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Assistant Professor
Computer Science, College of Science and Engineering

Email:
humayoun@sfsu.edu
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