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Roni W Abusaad |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Julia A Baltrip Interdisciplinary Studies Department Multimedia Studies Program |
Professor Baltrip has been teaching at CCSF since 2001.
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Lynn R Byk Interdisciplinary Studies Department B.A., City University of New York |
Professor Byk has been teaching at CCSF since 2003.
She believes strongly in experiential learning best captured by the words of the great educator, Dewey: "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
In addition to teaching Human Sexuality at City College of San Francisco, Professor Byk is in private practice as a licensed psychologist.
She is an active hiker and enjoys all the wonders of living in such a beautiful environment.
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Barbara A Cabral Interdisciplinary Studies Department B.S., M.S., University of California, San Francisco |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Beth E Cataldo Interdisciplinary Studies Department Multimedia Studies Program |
Professor Cataldo has been teaching at CCSF since 2001.
During 2007-2008, Professor Cataldo has been the chair of the Web Advisory Subcommittee and a resource for the Communications Committee. She is acting as the project manager for the web site redesign. She is also on the Academic Senate.
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Ali-Reza Chavoshian |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Christopher A Clark |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Felita J Clark African American Scholastic Program (AASP) Interdisciplinary Studies Department |
Professor Clark has been counseling and teaching at CCSF since 2006.
Her educational philosophy is "Each One, Teach One!"
Professor Clark is co-advisor of the Black Student Union.
Professor Clark is a Life Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the NAACP, and is a board member of various community organizations.
Professor Clark is a martial arts instructor (sifu) and personal trainer.
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Elissa A. Cline Interdisciplinary Studies Department B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University; M.A., Academy of Art College |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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David A Cox Interdisciplinary Studies Department Multimedia Studies |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Shelley M Davis |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Frederick B Dyer Interdisciplinary Studies Department B.A., University of New York |
Professor Dyer has been teaching at CCSF since 1967.
He enjoys Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, the 18th and 19th Century English Novel (especially the Brontës and Thomas Hardy).
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Wendy M Fong Interdisciplinary Studies Department Multimedia Studies Program |
Professor Fong has been an instructor in the Multimedia Studies Program since 2001
Instructional/educational philosophy and goals:
CMS Website Migration Project Coordinator
CCSF Hiring Committee
Faculty Sponsor for the Peer Mentoring Program
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Erika Y Gentry Interdisciplinary Studies Department |
Professor Gentry has been teaching at CCSF since 2001.
Her goal in teaching is to help students push their creative vision, learn good technique and celebrate their own ideas.
Professor Gentry is an Imaging Artist and Educator. She owns and operates Time Flies Productions, an intimate, hands-on digital imaging, photography and print studio serving clients throughout the Bay Area. An early advocate of the creative digital domain, she has been teaching and presenting Photoshop, photography and multimedia at the institutional, organizational and individual levels nationwide since 1996.
She has been an independent project director and digital consultant for corporate clients such as Apple, Kodak, Business 2.0 Magazine and industry-celebrated photography books: John Sperling’s politically divisive The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro (2004) and most recently renowned documentary photographer Colin Finlay’s Testify (2006).
Professor Gentry completed her master of fine arts degree in The School of Imaging Arts and Sciences at New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology. Her personal photographic projects explore issues of identity as expressed through the use of technology. By collaborating with members of the community, she creates installation portraiture in an interpretive and docunarrative format using stills, video and sound. She exhibits her art work nationally.
Professor Gentry is on the Board of Directors of Fotovision, www.fotovision.org; and
Co-Chair, Western Region, of the Society of Photographic Education, www.spewest.org.
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David Allen Hurwich Interdisciplinary Studies Department Multimedia Studies |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Jean T Ishibashi Interdisciplinary Studies Department B.A., University of Wisconsin Madison |
Professor Ishibashi has been teaching at CCSF since 2004.
Professor Ishibashi's instructional/educational philosophy:
We are all experts in our own lived experiences. Those re-searched experiences can empower us to relate differently to ourselves and others. That re-search, documented and retold in stories, can be a powerful transformative agent moving mountains and systems like water, the lifeblood of mother earth, teaching us life's lessons and providing wisdom for generations to come.
All our relations.
Kodomonotameni.
Professor Ishibashi is Faculty Advisor for the following:
Women's Resource Center
Women United
Ourstories Club
Intersecting Identities Conference Service Learning Students
Dr. Ish has had various articles published in books and journals about the transformative power of our stories. She is a member of various community based organizations.
One of her interests is midwifing her, his, and our stories!
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Kinneret R Israel |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Abdul Jabbar Interdisciplinary Studies Department Multimedia Studies Department |
Prof. Jabbar has been teaching at CCSF since 1968:
Full-time: from 1968 to 2003 in English and Interdisciplinary Studies Departments
Since 2003: Professor Emeritus, Interdisciplinary Studies and Social Sciences Departments.
Professor Jabbar's instructional/educational philosophy and goals:
"Education is the only equalizer. To build a truly democratic and egalitarian society, community colleges, with their open-door policies, embrace all segments of society to provide high-quality education. Community college students often don't have the luxury to be full-time students. They have to juggle jobs, family responsibilities, activism for reform, and studies simultaneously. They deserve all avenues of support and incentives to achieve their educational goals in a supportive environmment that, at the same time, upholds high academic standards."
Professor Jabbar has been a Member and Chair of the Personnel Committee of the English Department, for several years. He was also chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, for 6 years. He is a Member and Chair of several hiring committees. He is Faculty Advisor to several students' clubs: General Union of Palestinian Students; Muslim Students Association; South Asian Cultural Association.
Professor Jabbar's Publications:
Book: "Reading and Writing with Multicultural Literature" -- a textbook for English 1B -- is in the process of plublication and is scheduled to be published before the end of 2009.
Chapter in a book: "A Mirror to Our Faces: The Short Stories of Khushwant Singh," Chapter 10 of "Sikh Art and Literature," ed. Kerry Brown (Routledge, 1999)
Articles:
"Solving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," "The Journal of America," American Institute of International Studies, January 5, 2009.
"Beyond Stereotypes: E. M. Forster's Vision of Global Unity in 'A Passage to India'," "Humanities Journal" (Spring 1989)
Review of "The True Subject: Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz," "Journal of South Asian Literature," Michigan State University, Vol. 26, 1991, Nos. 1 & 2, 156-170
"Varieties of Love in D. H. Lawrence's 'Women in Love'." My lecture is available as audio cassette No. 0-A from Cassette Productions Unlimited, Pasadena, California 91105.
Professor Jabbar is Chair, Board of Directors of the Central Asia Institute, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization that opens and operates schools in remote regions of neglected areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
He enjoys tennis, walking, and activism for political and social justice.
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Ameena K Jandali |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Maxine Kelly |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Steven E Klot Interdisciplinary Studies Department A.B., Hunter College, New York; A.M., University of Hawaii, Honolulu; A.B.D., Cornell University |
Prof. Klot has been teaching at CCSF since 1991
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Bizhan Monavarian |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Lauren Stuart Muller |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Daniela Nikolaeva Interdisciplinary Studies Department Multimedia Studies Program |
Professor Nikolaeva has been teaching at CCSF since 2008.
She teaches Digital Animation, Drawing and Painting, Graphic Design, Web Design and Multimedia.
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David G Palaita |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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John Perryman |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Penny Rosenwasser |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Jorge Sanchez Interdisciplinary Studies Department B.A. from UCLA in Anthropology and Geography |
Professor Sanchez has been teaching at CCSF since 1997.
His educational philosophy and goal is to be an effective role model.
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Moazzam A Sheikh |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Jean Marilyn Sieper |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Leslie B Simon Chair, Women's Studies Department Interdisciplinary Studies Department |
Professor Simon has been teaching at CCSF since 1975.
She believes in a student-centered classroom where all students feel empowered to speak and debate with each other and the instructor. Her goal is for students to establish life-time learning habits along with critical thinking skills to enrich their personal lives and to enable them to contribute to their communities.
Professor Simon coordinates Project SURVIVE, the CCSF sexual violence prevention program and serves on the Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Committee.
She is a member of the National Women's Studies Association nad the Community College Humanities Association.
Professor Simon has published "Collisions and Transformations", Coffee House Press, 1992; "High Desire", Wingbow Press, 1983; "i rise/ you riz/ we born", Artaud's Elbow, 1981; "Jazz/ is for the white girls, too", Poetry for the People, 1977; "The Caged Collective", coeditor, Aldebaran Review, 1978 and has co-authored "A Music I No Longer Heard: The Early Death of a Parent", Simon and Schuster, 1998.
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Tien R Wang Interdisciplinary Studies Department |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Kevin J Williams |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Rene M. Yung Interdisciplinary Studies Department B.A. Art, Stanford University |
Professor Yung has been teaching at CCSF since 2007
Lead Artist and Project Director, "Our Oakland: Eastside Stories," an integrated public art project and civic engagement project for the new East Oakland Community Library which will include architectural art glass, community-building and a web archive of community narratives.
Project Director, "Chinese Whispers," a California Humanities Council California Story Fund project about contemporary folk memories of the Chinese who worked on the Continental Railroad. “Community Cultural Development: The Next Generation,” in GIA Reader (Seattle: Grantmakers in the Arts, 2007)
Trustee, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, 2000-2005; Chair, Art Committee, 2001-2003.
Member, Organization of Women Architects and Design Professionals