Madeline Baer, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine (2011)
Department of Political Science
Madeline Baer received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Irvine. Her primary interests are international relations, human rights, and water policy in developing countries with a regional focus on Latin America. Prior to beginning graduate school, Madeline spent several years traveling and working for human rights organizations in Central America. She conducted her dissertation research in Chile and Bolivia, where she examined the impact of water privatization on access to water services. Her current research examines the politics of water privatization, the emergence of a global movement for the human right to water, and the role of transnational actors in governing natural resources.
Pablo Ben, Ph.D.
University of Chicago (2009)
Department of History
Dr. Ben holds his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and comes to San Diego State from the University of Northern Iowa, where he was an assistant professor. His research focuses on the history of sexuality and urban social history, and his dissertation was a study of male same-sex sexual relationships in the city of Buenos Aires from 1870 to 1940. This was a period of massive European immigration to Argentina, bringing significant demographic change that impacted family life and sexual relations in Buenos Aires particularly as Argentina sought to pursue modernizing policies. Dr. Ben will teach courses in modern Latin American history and the history of the Atlantic world.
Douglas Bigham, Ph.D.
University of Texas (2008)
Department of Linguistics
Professor Bigham received his PhD in Linguistics from University of Texas at Austin. His research in sociolinguistics investigates the mechanisms of dialect contact and accommodation among speakers in the emerging adulthood stage of life. He focuses on the ways that intergroup cooperation and conflict can give rise to linguistic variation and on the importance of recognizing sexuality as an aspect of speaker gender. He specializes in phonetics, the social-psychology of language, and queer linguistics. He is also the current Editor-in-Chief of Popular Linguistics Magazine, a bimonthly online magazine that aims to bring linguistics and language-focused research to the general public.
Todd Braje, Ph.D.
University of Oregon (2007)
Department of Anthropology
The newest member of the SDSU Anthropology Department faculty, archaeologist Dr. Todd Braje, received his PhD from the University of Oregon in 2007. His research focuses on maritime adaptations, human impacts on marine ecosystems, the peopling of the New World, and the historical ecology of marine habitats from southern California to the Caribbean. He has published numerous articles on the historical ecology of maritime hunter-gatherers in such journals as Ecological Applications, American Antiquity, Quaternary International, and the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. In addition, he has published a book on his Channel Islands research, Modern Oceans, Ancient Sites: Archaeology and Marine Conservation on San Miguel Island, California and an edited volume on the history of Pacific Coast marine mammal exploitation, Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters: Integrating Archaeology, History, and Ecology in the Northeast Pacific.
Anne-Marie Debbané, Ph.D.
York University, Toronto (2010)
Department of Geography
Anne-Marie Debbané received her PhD in Geography from York University. Her research interests center on political ecology, political economy, and cultural politics. She has pursued her interests through an empirical focus on the governance and politics of water in the Global South, primarily in South Africa . Her doctoral work examined the relationships between post-apartheid water policy reforms and agrarian change in one of South Africa`s major fruit growing regions, looking specifically at the role of water in shaping sociospatial dynamics affecting marginalized and racialized social actors. She is currently interested in exploring relationships between geographies of water and extractive industries, indigenous communities, and social movements.
Kathryn Farris, MFA
Brown University (2010)
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Katie Farris is the author of boysgirls, a collection of short-short fictions published in 2011 by Marick Press, as well as the co-translator of several books of poetry from the French and the Russian. Her translations and original work have been published in many literary journals, including Virginia Quarterly Review, Triquarterly, Hayden’s Ferry, and others. She received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2010, where she focused primarily on experimental and short-form fiction. At SDSU, she looks forward to sharing her passion for international literatures, including fairy tales and mythology from around the world, and the writing of fiction and poetry.
Sara Giordano, Ph.D.
Emory University (2008)
Department of Women's Studies
Assistant Professor Sara Giordano’s area of focus is feminist science studies. She is interested in democratization of science and questions of scientific accountability more generally. Her recent work has focused on synthetic biology and bioethics. She is also interested in critically examining scientific assumptions and claims about race, gender, sexuality, disability and other socially salient categories of difference. Sara completed her Ph.D in Neuroscience at Emory University in 2008 and has worked as a research fellow and ethics consultant at the Centers for Disease Control, consulting on ethical issues in genomics research.
Kelly Hansen, Ph.D.
University of Hawaii (2009)
Department of Linguistics
Kelly Hansen received a BA in English and French from Willamette University, an MA in linguistics from Michigan State University, and an MA and PhD in Japanese from the University of Hawaii. She has taught at universities in both the U.S and Japan, including the University of Hawaii, Hawaii Pacific University, the Michigan Center in Hikone, Japan, and Tokyo Jogakkan Women's College and most recently, completed a two-year position as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Her current research focuses on the intersection of shifts in Japanese literary and linguistic discourse leading to the rise of a modern, vernacular-based written language in the late nineteenth century, and the implications of these transformations for the modern Japanese literary tradition. She also has a keen interest in writing shifts reflected through social media, particularly the manner in which internet-based writing conventions are impacting conventional literary genres and written styles of Japanese.
Roberto D. Hernández, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley (2011)
Department of Chicana/o Studies
Dr. Roberto D. Hernández received a BA in Chicana/o Studies and a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. His dissertation examined multiple manifestations of violence on the U.S-Mexico border, including the 1984 McDonalds Massacre and recent anti-immigrant vigilante efforts. His current research, teaching and publication areas include urban and border violence, comparative social movements and radical political thought. His future projects include work on Black-Latina/o relations, critical hemispheric indigeneity, masculinity and decolonial feminism, modernity/coloniality and the geopolitics of knowledge, and the multiple and often competing tendencies of radical politics in the "non-Western world" (cultural, revolutionary and regressive nationalisms, internationalism, feminisms, indigenismo, etc). Lastly, Dr. Hernandez is an accomplished translator of important scholarly works, and has several ongoing translation projects under way.
Yetta Howard, Ph.D.
University of Southern California (2010)
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Yetta Howard received her Ph.D. in English and Gender Studies from the University of Southern California in 2010. Her research and teaching focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American literary and cultural studies, with a specialization in queer studies, gender and sexuality studies, and feminist theories of race. She has articles in or forthcoming in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, The Journal of Popular Culture, and is guest editing a special issue of JLS on the theme "Under Pressure." Howard is currently working on a book manuscript about the anti-aesthetics of sexuality.
Arielle Levine, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley (2006)
Department of Geography
Dr. Arielle Levine received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on human-environment interactions in coastal and marine environments, particularly coral reef ecosystems. Her interests include community involvement in natural resource management, socio-cultural influences on marine protected areas, participatory mapping of human coastal and marine uses and activities, traditional knowledge and changes in marine resource use over time, and natural resource management institutions. She works in the Pacific Islands, Caribbean, and Western Indian Ocean.
Vincent Martin, Ph.D.
New York University (1997)
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Vincent Martin received his Ph.D in Hispanic Studies from New York University in 1997. His scholarship bridges the literature of Spain’s Golden Age –particularly its theatre– and the literary production of Latin America’s colonial period. He brings to the department of Spanish and Portuguese a unique transatlantic perspective of the way in which culture functions between the two sides of the Atlantic in the early modern period.
Joseph J. Sabia, Ph.D.
Cornell University (2004)
Department of Economics
Joseph J. Sabia is an applied microeconomist with interests in the economics of health behaviors and economic demography. His research focuses on the human capital effects of health, the mental and physical health effects of military combat, and the distributional consequences of minimum wage policy. Professor Sabia's work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as the Journal of Human Resources, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the Journal of Health Economics, and Economic Inquiry. His research on minimum wage policy has been cited in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and USAToday. His 2010 Southern Economic Journal article with Cornell University Professor Richard Burkhauser won the Georgescu-Roegen Prize for SEJ article of the year. Professor Sabia is a member of the American Society of Health Economists and the American Economic Association. Prior to his appointment at San Diego State University, he held faculty appointments at the University of Georgia, American University, and the United States Military Academy-West Point.
Emily Schuckman, Ph.D.
University of Washington (2008)
Department of European Studies
Emily Schuckman received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Washington. She completed her dissertation, "Representations of the Prostitute in Contemporary Russian Literature and Film," in 2008. She also holds a Master's Degree in Area Studies from the REECAS program at University of Washington. Her areas of interest include late/post-Soviet Russian literature and culture, cinema, gender and feminist cultural studies in Russia and Eastern Europe, human trafficking and prostitution.
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Among San Diego State University's tenured and tenure-track faculty, more than 25 percent describe themsleves as persons of color and 40 percent are women.
