College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Highlights of Faculty Academic Accomplishments
since fall 2008
Dianne Rush Woods, Associate Professor, Social Work; Academic Senate Chair
Fall 2010: selected co-chair of the Bay Area Social Services Consortium, an angency-universityfoundation partnership that promotes social service research, trains, and does policy development in
response to changes in public social services in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her co-chair for the twoyear term is Joe Valentine, director of Employment and Human Services of Contra Costa County.
Steve Gutierrez, Professor, English
• Received an “American Book Award” in September 2010 for his collection, “Live From Fresno Y
Los” (Bear Star Press, 2009).
• Anthology Publications: “Clownpants Molina,” Sudden Fiction Latino (W.W. Norton, 2010); “At
the Drive-In with My Brother,” The River Teeth Reader (10th Anniversary Anthology, University
of Nebraska Press, 2009); “Who’s TJ, Who’s What?” Hunger and Thirst – Food Literature (San
Diego City Works Press, 2008); “Clownpants Molina,” Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of
Contemporary Southern California Literature (Bilingual Press, 2008)
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Stories and Essays in Literary Journals (selected): “Sticky Sheets Reyes,” PALABRA 5 (2009);
“Walter on The Esplanade,” Fiction International 42 (2009); “A Trip Home,” Under the Sun 14 (2009);
“The Holdup,” Fiction International 41 (2008); “The Genius,” PALABRA 4 (2008); “The Margin
King,” ZYZZYVA 24 (Fall 2008); “Pterodactyls in the Sky,” Watchword 10 (Spring 2008)
Iliana Holbrook, Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures
• Recipient of a $170,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for her project:
“’Dialogues in the Americas: Mexican Literature and Culture in Context” (2010-2011)
• “New Historical Novel in Mexico: Llanto, novelas imposibles by Carmen Boullosa”: University of
Cambridge, Fifth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, August 2010.
• “Pre-Colombian Mythology in ‘Piedra de sol’” by Octavio Paz. Hawaii International Conference
on Arts and the Humanities, January 2009. • Organized and hosted the Foreign Language Council Forum on World Languages at CSUEB,
2009.
Steven Borish, Assistant Professor, Human Development
• Co-wrote, “2010 Visiting National Parks for Health: A Case Study at Point Reyes National
Seashore in Northern California, USA. Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress Proceedings”
April 2010 (www.healthyparkshealthypeoplecongress.org/proceedings), Melbourne, Australia, 88102.
• Review of S.A.J. Bradley, N.F.S. Grundtvig: A life recalled, in Grundtvig-Studier 2010 (edited by
Ulrik Overgaard, S. A. J. Bradley, Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen,), Copenhagen 2010, 154-176;
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“The Achievement Mask: Accountability, Moral Panics and System Fraud in Standards-Based
Education,” has been accepted for presentation at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, November 19, 2010 in session sponsored by
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness: The Social Life of Achievement.
“Hal Koch, Grundtvig and the rescue of the Danish Jews: A case study in the democratic
mobilisation for non-violent resistance,” in Grundtvig-Studier 2009 (edited by Kim Arne
Pedersen, S. A. J. Bradley, Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen, Ulrik Overgaard), Copenhagen 2009, 86119; 268; 272.
“Homeless in Third Grade: The Consequences of the Mortgage Crisis for Public Education in
California.” Paper presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 4, 2009, in session sponsored by the Council on
Anthropology and Education: The End(s) of the World: Youth in Global Contexts.
Presented, “The Use of Online Rubrics in Grading and Assessment of Student Essays: A Progress
Report.” at the 12th CSU Regional Symposium on University Teaching, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo,
May 2009.
Presented, “An Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure: A Proxemic Analysis of Climate
Adaptations in Two North Norwegian Kindergartens” at the Annual Meeting of the California
Sociological Association, Session on Sociology of Education. Berkeley, CA, November 2009.
Presented, “Failure as a Growth Industry: Standardized testing and Other Forms of Educational
Shock Therapy,” at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San
Francisco, CA , November 20, 2008, in the panel Engaging in Ethnography to Inform Educational
Policy for Equity.
Julie Beck, Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice Administration
• Published, “Victims’ Rights and Public Safety? Unmasking Racial Politics in Crime Discourses
Surrounding Parole Revocation for ‘Lifers’ in California,” Western Criminology Review, Special
Issue: Discourse, Race and the State, Guest Editors: Karen S. Glover, Chris Curtis, and Stuart
Henry, Volume 11, No. 1, April 2010.
• Presented, “Alcohol and Drug Use Among Low-Income College Students: Rethinking Dilemmas
of ‘Emerging Adulthood’,” with Sarah Taylor, at the Pacific Sociological Association, April 2010,
Oakland.
• Presented, “Victims’ Rights and Public Safety? A San Quentin Prison Symposium on California’s
Proposition 9, and the Politics of Victimology,” at the Critical Criminology & Justice Studies
Conference, Feb. 5-8 2009, San Diego, CA.
• Presented, “Figuring Gender into Addiction Discourse: Women in a Therapeutic Community
Talk about Love, Violence and Drugs,” at the Western Society of Criminology, Feb. 5-8 2009, San
Diego.
Jacqueline Doyle, Professor, English
• Published, “Thinking Back Through Her Mothers: Judith Ortiz Cofer and Virginia Woolf,” Woolf
Studies Annual, Vol. 15, 2009; “Story as Sacrament: An Interview with Dorothy Allison,” Arroyo
Literary Review, Vol. 2, 2010
• Presented, “Memory’s Home in Sigrid Nunez’s ‘A Feather on the Breath of God,’” Annual
Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Francisco State
University, November 2009
• Published, Creative (Creative Nonfiction, Lyric Prose, Flash Fiction): Flashquake (Spring 2009),
Six Sentences (May 2009), Oakland Tribune ( June 2009), SoMa Literary Review (August 2009),
JuiceBox (Summer 2009), Glossolalia (Fall 2009), The Power of Memoir, ed. Linda Joy Myers
( Jossey-Bass, 2010), Glossolalia (Winter 2010), SNReview (Winter 2010).
Toni Fogarty, Associate Professor & Chair, Public Affairs and Administration
• Authored and worked corroboratively with TWLK Knowledge Group to create an online course
on the application of Lean Six Sigma in the health care sector, which may be used as education
credits for the American College of Health care Executives (ACHE), continuing medical education
(CME) credits, and continuing nursing education (CNE) credits.
• Coauthored, “Sarbanes-Oxley for Non profits: A Guide to Building Competitive Advantage” which received an honorable mentioned from The Alliance for Nonprofit Management.
• As Master of Science in Health Care Administration Coordinator, advised student Thelma Regan
who was selected for the “Careers in Cancer Control Research” Summer Institute through the
University of California, San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of
California, Los Angeles School of Public Health; and advised Vickye Robinson who will enter the
Master of Divinity program at the Berkeley Pacific School of Religion. Benjamin P. Bowser, Professor and Interim Chair, Sociology and Social Services
Co-wrote: (2010) Drug Treatment Clients and their Community Peers: How They Differ, Journal of
Ethnicity in Substance Abuse; (2009) Harm Reduction for Drug Abusing Ex-Offenders: Outcome of
the Cal-Pep MORE Project. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work.
Karina Garbesi, Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies
Professor Garbesi is leading research on two DOE-funded projects at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory: (1) Max Tech and Beyond—lead (defining technology options, cost curves, and technical
innovations for ultra-high efficiency appliances and energy service systems), and (2) Direct DC
Power Systems for Efficiency and Renewable Energy Integration – co-lead (exploring DC products,
renewable energy systems technologies, and the energy and cost implications of using RE system
power in direct DC form). The two project teams are involving about 15 LBNL staff scientists, visiting
researchers, post docs, and students in various aspects of data collection, analysis, and modeling.
In addition, Professor Garbesi has been collaborating with the leadership of the Energy Efficiency
Standards Group on the future development of efficiency standards, prioritizing products for coverage,
and attracting funding for appliance efficiency research.
Marc Jacobs, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
• Received a $6000 Kurt Weill Foundation grant to produce Weill’s “The 7 Deadly Sins” in Spring
2011 at CSUEB in conjunction with Dance (Choreographer - Eric Kupers) and Music (Buddy
James and CSUEB Orchestra).
• Received a 2009 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Meritorious Achievement
Award for writing and directing “The Iago Syndrome” at CSUEB in fall 2009.
• His musical, “All the More to Love,” which premiered in April 2010 received a $34,000 grant from
the Edgerton Foundation (category: New American Play Awards).
• Directed “Jerry Herman’s Divas,” a tribute to the Broadway composer who wrote “Hello, Dolly!,”
“Mame,” and “La Cage aux Folles” in May 2009.
Nina Haft, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
• Took her namesake company, including three alumni, on a two-week tour of Jordan, Palestine and
Israel to perform, teach and meet with other dance artists in April 2010. The company did two
performances at the Amman Contemporary Dance Festival, a workshop at the Al-Hussein Cultural
Center in Amman, Jordan, a workshop and performance at Ibdaa Cultural Center, Dheisheh
Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, a lecture demonstration at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance,
and a performance at the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival.
• Received a $2,000 grant, and organizational development services from the Zellerbach Family
Foundation, and has completed a month-long, summer artist residency at the Djerassi Resident
Artist Program in Woodside, CA, and a summer residency to rehearse at Shawl-Anderson Dance
Center in Berkeley.
• World premiere of “Skin: One Becomes Two,” an evening-length dance travelogue about borders
and the Middle East. Bay Area run sold out two weekends, and will tour next year to the Middle
East.
Michael Moon, Assistant Professor, Public Affairs and Administration
• The article, “Making sense of common sense for change management buy-In,” published in
Management Decision, has been chosen as a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati
Network Awards for Excellence 2010.
• (2009). Making sense of common sense for change management buy-in. Management Decision,
47(3), 518-532.
• (2008). Bottom-Up Instigated Organization Change Through Constructionist Conversation.
Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, 9(4).
Evaon C. Wong-Kim, Professor & Chair, Social Work
* Received a W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s community-based racial healing work grant for $10,000
for 2010-11. The project focuses on racial healing and emotional well-being of foster care youth in
the child welfare system through coalition community engagement/partnerships and training, to
address and correct the problem of over-representation of African American youth in the foster care
system
* Cowrote (2009) Breast Health Issues of Undocumented Women in California and Texas. Journal
of Cancer Education. 24(S2), S64-S67.
Dee Andrews , Professor, History
• Together with Bridget Ford and Jessica Weiss of the History Department, participated in an August
2009 institute with the Alameda County Office of Education. The three CLASS faculty were
consultants with ACOE’s History Coordinator Avi Black and 14 Middle School history teachers
on a tour of Underground Railroad sites from New York State to Cincinnati, Ohio, concentrating
on the intersections of the abolition movement with the emerging women’s movement before the
Civil War.
• Chair of the Board for the William and Mary Quarterly, the leading journal in early American
history.
• Published a book review on religion and race in Nat Turner’s Virginia in April 2009 issue.
Clayton Bailey, Art Professor Emeritus
Received the California Artist of the Year Award from the California State Fair Aug. 29, 2009. He
taught ceramic sculpture from 1968-1996 at then-California State University, Hayward, and was
advisor to the Art Department Stone Soup Club, a group of students who met weekly for a soup dinner
around a large table they had made from ceramic tiles. Recently, the Port Costa resident has focused on
creating life-sized robot sculptures from found objects, first incorporating ceramics, then switching to
lighter materials that can be cut with tin snips and hacksaws.
Eileen Barrett, Professor, English
• Coedited book, “Approaches to Teaching Woolf ’s Mrs. Dalloway,” Modern Language Association
of America, 2009.
• Published article, “The Value of Three Guineas in the Twentieth Century” in The Theme of Peace
and War in Virginia Woolf ’s Writings: Essays in Her Political Philosophy Edited by Wood, Jane M.
Mellon Press, 2010.
Wesley Broadnax, Assistant Professor, Music
“Ensemble Intonation: Concepts & Strategies,” article in “School Band & Orchestra Magazine (SBO),
May 2010; conductor/clinician: North Bend High School Wind Ensemble (Oregon), Chestermere
High School Wind Ensemble at CSUEB, Fresno-Madera Counties Music Educators Association
Honor Intermediate Orchestra, and Tracy Area Honor Band, all this spring.
Lynn Comerford, Associate Professor, Human Development and Women’s Studies
• Appointed Director of Women’s Studies in 2009 after designing the Women’s Studies curriculum
and writing the proposal for the major in 2008. With Pat Guthrie, shepherded the major through
to a unanimous vote of approval by the Academic Senate; and the Chancellor’s Office gave approval
for the BA in Women’s Studies to begin Fall Quarter, 2009. Recent Publications:
• “Catherine MacKinnon on the paradox of legal sex equality guarantees and persistent inequality.”
Journal of Family Theory & Review 1, (2009), pp. 56-68. • “State power and the reconstitution of parental rights in U.S. child custody mediation.”
Oppositional Discourses and Democracies, editor Michael Huspek (Routledge Press, 2009), pp.
103-117.
• “Single-parent households.” In Jodi O’Brien, editor, Encyclopedia of Gender & Society, Volume 1
(Sage Publications, 2009), pp. 794-799.
• “Fatherhood movements.” In Jodi O’Brien, editor, Encyclopedia of Gender & Society, Volume 2
(Sage Publications, 2009), pp. 283-288.
• “Custody and parental rights.” In Amy Lind and Stephanie Bruzy, editors.
• Battleground: Women, Gender and Sexuality (Greenwood Press, 2008), pp. 67-73.
Craig Derksen, Lecturer, Philosophy
Published: “Performance Hero” (coauthored with Darren Hudson Hick) Contemporary Aesthetics,
Vol. 7, 2009.
Jennifer Eagan, Professor & Chair, Philosophy
• Published, “The Deformation of Decentered Subjects: Foucault and Postmodern Public
Administration” International Journal of Organizational Theory and Behavior, 12 (1), February
2009.
• Presented, “The Nature of Foreclosure: PA, Marcuse, and Feminist Possibilities” at the 22nd
Annual Public Administration Theory Network Conference, Kentucky State University, May
2009.
• Presented, “The Sovereignty of Art?: Problems of Public Art Administration” at the Annual
Radical Philosophy Association Conference, San Francisco State University, November 2008.
John Eros, Assistant Professor, Music Education
Coauthored summers-only master of music degree: Perceptions of program graduates. Bulletin of the
Council for Research in Music Education (2008, no. 179).
Bridget Ford, Assistant Professor, History
“Beyond Cane Ridge: The ‘Great Western Revivals’ in Louisville and Cincinnati, 1828-1845,” Ohio
Valley History, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Winter 2008): 17-37.
Jiansheng Guo, Interim Associate Dean & Professor, Human Development and Women’s
Studies
Edited the 40-chapter book, “Cross Linguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language: Research in
the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin”
Gerald Henig, Professor Emeritus, History
• “William Tillman,” in African American National Biography, ed. By Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and
Evelyn Brooks (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009))
• “Glory at Fort Wagner: William H. Carney, the First Black Soldier to Earn the Medal of Honor,”
Civil War Times ( June 2009), “Marines Fighting Marines: The Battle of Drewry’s Bluff, May 1862,”
Naval History ( June 2009)
• “Susie King Taylor,” in African American National Biography, ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and
Evelyn Brooks (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
• “Ellamae Simmons,” in African American National Biography, ed. by Henry Louis gates, Jr., and
Evelyn Brooks (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Nicole Howard, Associate Professor, History
“The Book: The Life Story of a Technology” was issued in paperback in October by Johns Hopkins
UP. Previously, it was issued in its first foreign-language translation, in Korean.
Darryl V. Jones, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
• Directed the Oakland Opera Theatre production of “Dark River,” a new opera, (music by Mary
Watkins, libretto by Mary Watkins and Darryl V. Jones) on the life of civil rights leader Fannie Lou
Hamer in fall 2009.
• Directed August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean” for the Sacramento Theatre Company, 2009.
Grant Kien, Assistant Professor, Communication
• “An Actor Network Theory Translation of the Bush Legacy and the Obama Collectif ”. Cultural
Studies/Critical Methodologies, 9:6, pp. 796 - 802; Global Technography: Ethnography in the
Mobile Field. New York: Peter Lang Publishing; “Hybrid Networks, Relational Materiality”.
• Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches. Phillip Vannini
(ed). New York: Peter Lang Publishing, pp.27-44.
• Presented, “Plenary Session: The Post-Human Condition?” Invited panelist. Fifth International
Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2009; and “Private Lives and Web 2.0: Managed Presence, Everywhere, Every time”. Paper presentation. Annual
Conference of the International Communication Association, Chicago, May 2009.
Eric Kupers, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
Princess Grace Foundation awarded a 2-week residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and a $15,000
grant for the new work, “49 Days with Mutt 49,” an experiment in finding new models for presenting
dance/theater incorporating the internet, Facebook, twitter, cell phones, etc. The first draft will occur
at the residency, the premiere of the full piece in summer 2011.
Gary Li, Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies
“Preliminary Study of the Interference of Surface Objects and Rainfall in Overland Flow Resistance”,
Catena, 78 (2), 154-158, August 2009.
Patricia Lohman-Hawk, Associate Professor & Chair, Communicative Sciences and
Disorders
• (November 2008). Stuttering Simulation Assignments: Do they Have Merit for SLP Students?
American Speech-language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
• (March 2009). Effects of English Pronunciation Training on Oral Cavity Awareness in Nonnative
Speakers. California Speech-Language-Hearing (CSHA) Annual Convention, Long Beach, CA
• (April 2009). Tools for Working with Children who Stutter. National Student Speech-LanguageHearing Association (NSSLHA) 2nd Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, (Invited
presentation).
Nidhi Mahendra, Assistant Professor, Communicative Sciences and Disorders
• Cowrote, “Effects of vascular dementia on cognition and linguistic communication: A case study.”
Perspectives - ASHA Special Interest Division 2: Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and
Language Disorders, 107-116, 2009.
• Cowrote the chapter, “Neurological Disorders In D. Ruscello (Ed). Mosby’s Review Questions
for the Speech-Language Pathology PRAXIS Examination” (pp. 148-197). Maryland Heights,
Missouri: Elsevier/Mosby, 2009
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of an international scientific journal “Nonpharmacological
Interventions for Dementia” (Nova Publishers)
Monique Manopoulos, Assistant Professor & Chair, Modern Languages and Literatures
• Organized and chaired the session, “Le Roman noir au féminin”, at the Modern Language
Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, December 2008,
• Marseille, (Im) migration et Identité”, presented at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages
Association Annual Conference, Pomona, CA, November 2008
• Chair of Francophone Session at the Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, Reno, NV, October
2008.
Peter K. Marsh, Assistant Professor, Music
• Authored, “The Horse-head Fiddle and the Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia” (New York:
Routledge Press, 2009a); “Sounds from Nature: Music of the Mongols,” in Genghis Khan and
the Mongol Empire, (University of Washington Press, 2009b); “We’ve Started a Revolution!: A
Survey of Rap, Hip-Hop, and the Pop Music Industry in Mongolia,” in Musik und Kulturellen
Identität, (Weimar: Baerenreiter-Verlag Kassel, 2008); compact disk review, Tribal Zakhchin Music
of Western Mongolia: Zastiin Nogoodoi, by Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar, International Council of
Traditional Music Yearbook 40 (2008); coauthored: “I Conquer Like a Barbarian!: Genghis Khan
in the Western Popular Imagination,” in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, (University of
Washington Press, 2009c)
• Chaired panel, “Mongolian Culture” at the Annual Meeting of the Mongolia Society, Chicago,
28 March 2009; “Re-centering the Nation on the Peripheries of East Asia: Music and Cultural
Renaissance,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 2008
• Presented, “We’re Falling Behind: The Horse-head Fiddle, Authenticity, and Cold War Politics in
Mongolia,” Crossroads of Asian Music & Poetry: China and Inner Asia, University of Washington,
October 2009; “Contesting the Past in Contemporary Mongolian Folk Music,” Visible Power: Art
in National Life, Summer Teacher’s World History Institute, University of California, Berkeley,
July 2000; “Mongolian Music,” Mongol Zurag: Reviving the Art of Mongol Zurag, UCB, May
2009; Lecture-Recital, “From Steppe to Stage: An Exploration of 800 Years of Mongolian Music,”
Humanities West Program, Empire on Horseback: Genghis Khan and the Mongols, San Francisco,
February 2008; “The Power of Musical Discourse in a Period of Cultural Renaissance: The
Reinvention of the Mongolian Horse-head Fiddle,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, Georgia, April 2008
Melissa Michelson, Associate Professor, Political Sciences
• Coauthored 2009. “ACORN Experiments in Minority Voter Mobilization.” In Robert Fisher, ed.,
‘The People Shall Rule’: ACORN, Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Economic Justice,
(Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press), pp. 235-248.
• Coauthored, “Heeding the Call: The Effect of Targeted Two-Round Phone Banks on Voter
Turnout,” The Journal of Politics, Vol. 71, No. 4, October 2009, Pp. 1549–1563.
• $40,000 James Irvine Foundation grant to continue minority voter mobilization work.
• Visiting fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity for 2009-10
academic year.
• Coauthored “What Do Voters Need to Know? Testing the Role of Cognitive Information in Asian
American Voter Mobilization.” American Politics Research 37, 2 (March 2009): 254-274.
• “Transforming Racial Identity, Transforming Racial Politics.” Book review in Journal of American
Ethnic History 29, 3 (Spring): 94-98, of Jane Junn and Kerry L. Haynie, eds., (2008)
• “New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics” (New York:
Cambridge University Press) and Robin Dale Jacobson (2008)
• “The New Natives: Proposition 187 and the Debate Over Immigration” (Minneapolis, MN:
University of Minnesota Press).
Christopher Moreman, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
• Presented, “Shrouding the Dead: The Hollywood Obfuscation of Eastern Spirituality in Richard
Matheson’s I Am Legend,” at the Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, New
Orleans, Louisiana (2009).
• Authored Beyond the Threshold: Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2008)
• Edited Teaching Death and Dying (Oxford UP, 2008)
• Authored, “A Modern Meditation on Death: Identifying Buddhist Teachings in George A.
Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.” Contemporary Buddhism 9.2 (2008): 151-165.
Grace Munakata, Professor, Art
• Two-page profile with statement, biography and images in, “100 Artists of the West Coast II,”
Schiffer Books, 2009
• Solo Exhibit: B. Sakato Garo Gallery, Sacramento
• Group shows: Museum of Art and History, “Assemblage + Collage + Construction,” Santa Cruz;
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, Group Show, San Francisco; JFK University Art Gallery, “Balancing
Perspectives: East Asian Influences in Contemporary Art”, Berkeley;
• Center for Contemporary Art, “Contemporary Drawings and Works on Paper,” Sacramento
Richard Olmsted, Lecturer, Theatre and Dance
Designed lighting for the world premiere of Marcus Gardley’s play, “This World in a Woman’s Hands,”
about the women who helped build Liberty Ships at the Kaiser/Richmond shipyards during World
War II. Produced by Berkeley’s Shotgun Players, it featured three Labor Day weekend performances at
the Nevin Community Center in Richmond, blocks from the site of the shipyards.
Janet Patterson, Associate Professor, Communicative Sciences and Disorders
• Guest Editor California Speech and Hearing Magazine, BLAST: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and
the Challenge of Cognitive-Communicative Rehabilitation
• Co-wrote (2009) Reciprocal scaffolding treatment: A person with aphasia as clinical teacher.
Aphasiology, 23, 110-119
Vida Pavesich, Lecturer, Philosophy
• “Hans Blumenberg’s Philosophical Anthropology: After Heidegger and Cassirer,” published in The
Journal of the History of Philosophy, July 2008.
• “Philosophical Anthropology, Gender, and Power,” presented at the University of Sydney, with
Lenny Moss, July 2009.
Robert Phelps, Associate Professor, History
Appointed Director of the CSUEB Honor’s Program.
Wendy Sarvasy, Lecturer, Political Science
“A Global ‘Common Table:’ Jane Addams’ Theory of Democratic Cosmopolitanism and World Social
Citizenship” in Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Theory
and Practice, edited by Marilyn Fischer, Carol Nackenoff, and Wendy Chmielewski (University of
Illinois Press, 2009): 183-202.
Khal Schneider, Assistant Professor, History
Organized, “Meet the Scholars,” a series of public lectures by prominent historians at the Oakland
Museum, as part of the Department’s federal Teaching American History grant with Alameda Co.
Office of Education.
Valerie Smith, Lecturer, Communication
Published, “Ethical and Effective Ethnographic Research Methods: A Case Study with Afghan
Refugees in California” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 4 (3), September
2009.
Jessica Weiss, Professor, History
Published a feminist perspective on the first issue of Playboy Magazine in that magazine’s January 2009
issue.