CHSS Connection

Six new tenure-track faculty members have joined the College as assistant professors this year:

(Top row, left to right)

• Erica Bosque, School of Social Work
• Yeram Cheong, Department of Child & Adolescent Development
• Ruvani Fonseka, Department of Public Health

(Bottom row, left to right)

• Navi Kaur, Department of Criminal Justice Studies
• Juliana Parma, Department of Kinesiology
• Shubhi Sachdeva, Department of Child & Adolescent Development

We also extend a warm welcome to recently hired staff:

• Golda Dinsay, AOC, Department of Physical Therapy
• Ocèan LaLuce d'Luna, AOC, Department of Public Health
• Vaneza Espino, Admissions Lead Coordinator, School of Nursing
• Kylie Johanson, ASC, Department of Kinesiology

At the College's Fall '23 Opening Meeting, Interim Dean Andreana Clay congratulated and presented gifts to newly tenured and promoted faculty:

• Leia Bagesteiro, Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology
• Nicole Bolter, Professor, Department of Kinesiology
• Therese Doan, Professor, School of Nursing
• Carina Gallo, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice Studies
• Jung Eun Kim, Associate Professor, School of Nursing
• Carole Kulik, Associate Professor, School of Nursing (not pictured)
• Jet Lee, Professor, Department of Physical Therapy
• Zubaida Qamar, Associate Professor, Nutrition & Dietetics (Family, Interiors, Nutrition & Apparel Department)
• Jasper Rubin, Professor, Urban Studies & Planning (School of Public Affairs & Civic Engagement) 
• Emiko Takagi, Associate Professor, Gerontology (School of Public Affairs & Civic Engagement) 

At the August 17 CHSS Fall '23 Opening Meeting, Associate Dean John Elia presented award certificates to the 2023 Circle of Excellence Award winners, who were announced last spring:

Excellence in Teaching, Tenure-Track:
Sherria Taylor, Department of Child & Adolescent Development

Excellence in Teaching, Lecturer
Martin Dixon, Department of Kinesiology

Excellence in Service
Sonja Lenz-Rashid, School of Social Work

Excellence in Scholarship
Julie Chronister, Department of Counseling

The latest episode of the CHSS Teaching Academy Podcast is now available. In this episode, titled, “Canvas: What You Need to Know!,” Associate Professor of Nursing Carrie Holschuh engages with Cristina Zuniga, lecturer in the School of Nursing, and Sherria Taylor, associate professor of Child & Adolescent Development, to discuss the CSU-wide transition to using Canvas. They also provide tips and tricks on how to navigate the infrastructure and optimize your Canvas site.

This fall, the CHSS RACE Collective will once again be starting up the Healing Circles Initiative to focus on racial justice through collective learning, unlearning and radical community care. Healing Circles are open to all CHSS faculty, staff and students.

The creation of Healing Circles intentionally centers well-being and caring as a foundation for racial justice. Healing Circles recognize the trauma and pain of racism and racial injustice and uphold the hope for healing and growth that comes from connections and community.

Healing Circles will start approximately in mid-to-late September. They will be structured and racial identity-specific. Each group will choose a book to walk through from a selection of books and the group will determine how long and how often their group will meet.

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Assistant Professor of Child & Adolescent Development Molly McManus and colleagues were awarded a research grant from the Spencer Foundation to study and support early childhood teachers in Texas and California learning from and integrating Latine immigrant parents’ knowledge about bilingual and bicultural development into their everyday classroom practice. Teacher education does not systematically cover critical perspectives of parent engagement and marginalized communities. This leaves many teachers’ negative biases about minoritized families to inform classroom practice. This also excludes Latine immigrant parents from informing curriculum and pedagogy in the same way white, middle-class parents do. Unchallenged teacher bias and absent parent voices means children from immigrant families encounter subtractive educational experiences that diminish academic achievement. This study aims to reverse these outcomes by centering Latine immigrant parents’ voices as a stimulus to engage teachers in dialogue aimed at sowing the seeds of conscientization in their attitudes and practice to ultimately develop more equitable and culturally sustaining learning opportunities.

Associate Professor of Counseling Tiffany O’Shaughnessy helped facilitate a dialogue about gender inclusivity and racial justice in feminist psychology and co-presented the poster, “Initial Development and Validation of the Attitudes Towards Telesupervision Scale,” at the American Psychological Association’s 2023 Annual Convention. The meeting was held August 3-5 in Washington, D.C.

Professor Erik Peper (Institute for Holistic Health Studies/Department of Recreation, Parks & Tourism) was interviewed for the Premus, WDPI & Myopain International Scientific Conference, held September 20-26 in Bengaluru, India, The interview, “Balancing Tech and Health: Insights from Dr. Erik Peper,” is available on YouTube (embedded below), Apple Podcasts and LinkedIn.

An article coauthored by Peper and former SF State student Pamela Jertberg was republished in the August 27, 2023 issue of Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine. The article, “Healing from vulvodynia,” was originally published in Biofeedback.