Jason Ferreira
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Associate Professor
Ethnic Studies Program, College of Ethnic Studies
Bio
Jason Ferreira is Associate Professor and Chair of Race & Resistance Studies in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (1992) and both an M.A. and PhD in Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley (2003). He is also a recipient of the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship (2003-2005).
Dr. Ferreira's teaching and scholarship focus on the history of radicalism within and across communities of color. Recent scholarship includes "With the Soul of a Human Rainbow: Los Siete, Black Panthers, and Third Worldism in San Francisco," published in the award-winning anthology Ten Years that Shook the City: San Francisco, 1968-1978. He is also published in Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, Latino Studies, and internationally in the Doshisha American Studies Journal. Drawing upon dozens of oral histories and extensive archival research, he is currently working on the first social history of the multiracial struggle that culminated in the momentous Third World Strike at San Francisco State, giving birth to the first Department of Black Studies and (still) only College of Ethnic Studies in the nation. In 2008, Dr. Ferreira joined with veterans of this defining struggle and with current students to formally establish the All Power to the People Archive Project, an initiative dedicated to both preserving the history of the diverse social movements for self-determination that existed at the heart of the strike and laboring to make them available to future generations in struggle. On campus, he has served on the Labor Studies Advisory Board and on the Academic Senate. Currently Dr. Ferreira sits on the Community Service Learning Advisory Board of the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement. Additionally, he serves on an advisory committee for the Latino Educational Achievement Partnership (LEAP), a project of the Cesar E. Chavez Institute.
Along with Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez and Phil Hutchings, Ferreira co-founded the Institute for MultiRacial Justice, a resource center dedicated to promoting and strengthening solidarity among communities of color. He also joined in the creation of the Center for Political Education in San Francisco's Mission District. It's ongoing mission has been to provide a space dedicated to building strong movements and the left through education, analysis, theory, dialogue, and activism. He has also served on the Board of Directors of SpeakOut: Institute for Democratic Education and Culture. Currently, Dr. Ferreira sits on the Board of Directors of the Freedom Archives, the Kendra Alexander Foundation, and is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Howard Zinn Book Fair. He is also the Project Director of the Eyes on Arizona Project, an initiative dedicated to providing political education, encouraging civic engagement, and developing leadership skills in youth in pursuit of immigrant justice.
Courses
FALL 2020
RRS 240: All Power to the People: Comparative Freedom Movements of the Sixties
ETHS 710: Theories and Issues in Ethnic Studies
PREVIOUS SEMESTERS
Undergraduate:
RRS 100: Introduction to Ethnic Studies
RRS 240: All Power to the People: Comparative Freedom Movements of the Sixties
RRS 250: Race, Ethnicity, and Power in America
RRS 252: Beyond Bars and Borders: Race and the Carceral State
RRS 350: Race, Labor, and the Class Struggle
RRS 520: Race, Radicalism, and Revolution
RRS 600: History of People of Color in the United States
RRS 694: Community Service Learning: Praxis in Race and Resistance Studies
Graduate:
ETHS 710: Theories and Issues in Ethnic Studies
Jonathon Stillman
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Professor
Biology, College of Science and Engineering
Bio:
The Stillman Laboratory in the Department of Biology studies the effects of climate change and human impacts on marine and aquatic organisms in response to warming, increasing frequency and severity of heat waves, carbon dioxide acidification, salinity gradients, hypoxia and other environmental stressors.
We study the environmental physiology of marine and aquatic organisms in order to better understand the ecological consequences of physiological responses to climate change. We study a diversity of marine organisms, including crabs, sea hares, coccolithophores, clams, and freshwater crustaceans and insects. We adopt an integrative approach, with laboratory and field-based studies across levels of biological organization from ecosystems to organisms to genomes.
Our work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and a number of other public and private funders.
To learn more about what we do, please visit our laboratory website.
Website
Ravinder Sehgal
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Professor
Biology, College of Science and Engineering
Bio:
Ravinder Sehgal is a Professor in the Dept. of Biology at San Francisco State University where he teaches courses in parasitology and emerging infectious diseases. His research focuses on the ecology of diseases in birds. For example, he studies how deforestation affects the prevalence and diversity of avian malaria in African rainforest birds. More recently he has begun studying how global climate change may affect the spread of avian malaria in Alaska and throughout the world. With a PhD in cell biology from UCSF, he takes advantage of current advances in molecular biology to address large questions in disease emergence. Since an early age, he was fascinated and saddened by the extinction of species, from dinosaurs to dodos. Through research and teaching he strives to make an impact in conservation biology. He is a vegan activist, and also an accomplished musician, playing bassoon and piano.
Research Description:
My research program focuses on the biology of avian blood parasites. The work encompasses many aspects including molecular parasitology, ecology, evolution, and conservation genetics. We have ongoing research projects in Africa, California, and Central America and significant collaborations with the Center for Tropical Research at UCLA, the Institute of Ecology at Vilnius University, and the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory. There are projects amenable to both graduate and undergraduate research. I teach General Parasitology, Parasitology Lab and Emerging Infectious Diseases at San Francisco State University.
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Bridget James
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Lecturer, Earth Sciences
College of Science and Engineering - School of the Environment
Christopher Chekuri
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Associate Professor
History, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Bio:
My research interests include the study of states and families, early modern empires in the Indo-Islamic World, comparative colonialisms and nationalisms, modern Telugu literary criticism and globalization.
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
Courses Recently Taught
Undergraduate:
- India and the British Empire
- India since Gandhi
- Classical Forms of South Asian Culture
- The University: Promise and Politics
Graduate:
- Decolonizing History
- History beyond Nation
- Historiography of World History
Research Interests
- Politics of empire in precolonial India
- Identity and cultural modernity in Telugu literature
Selected Publications
Books:
Book Manuscripts under preparation:
- The Men Who Would Be King: The Nayakas of Vijayanagara, 1480-1620.
- A translation with critical commentary of the Tanjavuri Andhra Rajula Charitra, a 17th century Telugu court chronicle produced in Tanjavur, India.
Rita Melendez
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Associate Professor
Sociology, College of Health and Social Sciences
Evelyn Jean Pine
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Lecturer
Communication Studies, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
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Rachele Kanigel
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Professor
Journalism, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Bio:
Rachele Kanigel (she/her) is a professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, where she teaches reporting, writing and media entrepreneurship classes and serves as faculty adviser to the award-winning student newspaper, Golden Gate Xpress. She served as chair of the Journalism Department from 2019 to 2022.
After earning her bachelor's degree in journalism at SF State, she worked as a reporter for 15 years for daily newspapers, including The Oakland Tribune and The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina and was a freelance correspondent for TIME magazine. She has also written for U.S. News & World Report, Health, San Francisco, Prevention, People, Reader's Digest and other magazines and was a frequent contributor to MediaShift.
She is the editor of The Diversity Style Guide, a website designed to help media professionals write with accuracy and authority about a complex, multicultural world. She published a companion book, also called The Diversity Style Guide, in 2019. She consults with media organizations about inclusive content and has created diversity style guides and led training sessions for WebMD, Freddie Mac, KUOW radio in Seattle, Children's National Hospital, Lockheed Martin, Rabobank Research, the Public Relations Society of America, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and other organizations.
She is also the author of The Student Newspaper Survival Guide, which is used as a reference guide in college newsrooms around the world. She was on the board of College Media Association for eight years and served as the organization's president 2013-2015.
In 2019, she was a Fulbright Specialist stationed in Bhutan, where she taught and trained faculty in the new mass communication program at Royal Thimphu College. She has directed study-abroad programs for the Institute for Education in International Media (ieiMedia) in Italy, France and Israel.
She holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
In her free time (what free time?!) she likes to hike, cook, travel and make stained glass mosaics.
Websites:
Laura Garcia Moreno
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Professor
Humanities Department, College of Liberal and Creative Arts
Chris McCarthy
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lecturer
Physics and Astronomy, College of Science and Engineering