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Department News
_____________________________________________________________________________________ *March 2007: Professor Andreana Clay's two new publications: Clay, A. 2006. "All I Need is One Mic: Mobilizing Youth for Social Change in the Post-Civil Rights Era," in Social Justice, v. 33, no. 2. Clay, A. 2007. "I Used to be Scared of the Dick: Queer Women, Hip-Hop Culture, and Black Masculinity," in Home Girls Make Some Noise!: A Hip-Hop Feminist Anthology, edited by G. Pough, E. Richardson, A. Durham, and R. Raimist. Mira Loma, CA: Parker Publishing. _________________________________________________________ March 2007: Dr. Karen Hossfeld, Associate Professor's A.S.A.'s (American Sociological Association) journal, Teaching Sociology News: I'm now on the editorial board of the A.S.A.'s (American Sociological Association) journal, Teaching Sociology; I'm also a member of the A.S.A.'s Jessie Bernard Awards Committee, which each year selects and awards a sociologist who has made outstanding contributions to the study of women and gender. The last week of March 2007, I will present a paper at the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association (P.S.A.), entitled: "Still Small, Foreign, and Female After All These Years: An Update on Immigrant Women Workers in Silicon Valley." At this same conference, I will also serve as the commentator at a showing of a new documentary film about how urban "renewal" in California is displacing immigrant communities. _______________________________________________ March 2007: Congratulations to Sociology majors Michael Grasso and Francisco Reyes, this year’s recipients of the Generation to Generation Graduate School Award! Sociology Professor Emerita Rachel Kahn-Hut established this award in memory of her mother, Caroline Rosen, to assist our majors with the costs of application to graduate school. _______________________________________________ March 2007: Two faculty members will be joining the department as Assistant Professors for the Fall 2007: Clare Sears Clare Sears received a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests include queer theory, gender studies, critical legal studies, California historiography and urban studies. Her dissertation, A Dress Not Belonging to His or Her Sex: Cross-Dressing Law in San Francisco, 1860-1900, explores the operations of cross-dressing law in multiple cultural sites in nineteenth century San Francisco, including the street, freak-show, newspaper scandal and courtroom. Her central argument is that cross-dressing law was a technique of spatial regulation that mediated the production of governable city space and modern sexual, gender, racial and national identities. Alexis Martinez Alexis Martinez received a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC San Francisco and an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from Yale University. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UCSF. Her research has focused on four major themes in medical sociology and public health: criminalization of drug use, social structural factors, urban environments, and HIV/AIDS. ________________________________________________________________
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| Department Of Sociology | College of BSS | San Francisco State University | 1600 Holloway Avenue | San Francisco,
CA 94132 Last updated: September 10, 2007 |
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