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Department of Human Development and Women’s Studies |

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HDEV
Regular Faculty Members (available for Major advising & Major check)
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Godwin
Ashiabi (2005), Assistant Professor |
| B.A., University
of Ghana, M.A., Wilfred Laurier University |
| Ph.D.,
University of Tennessee (Child and Family Studies) |
| godwin.ashiabi@csueastbay.edu |
Professor
Ashiabi, a child development specialist, thinks of himself as “the
man from everywhere and nowhere in particular.” He was born and
raised in Ghana; moved to Canada for his graduate education, and then
left for Knoxville and the University of Tennessee, where in addition
to focusing on his doctoral studies in child development/family studies
and statistics, he became an avid college football and basketball fan.
Dr. Ashiabi’s publications include articles in Children and
Poverty, Adolescence, Early Childhood Education, Western Journal of
Black Studies, and Canadian Journal of Development Studies. He
serves as an ad hoc reviewer for Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent
Medicine, Child Development, and Health Education and Behavior.
Professor Ashiabi's research centers on the effects of poverty and material
hardship on children and adolescents’ physical and social-emotional
well-being. He teaches courses on child development, children in families
and communities, cognitive development, language acquisition, and research
methods.
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Rainer
Bauer (1989), Associate Professor |
| B.A., University of Chicago,
M.A.and Ph.D., Stanford University (Anthropology) |
| rainer.bauer@csueastbay.edu |
Professor
Bauer’s experiences as an immigrant from Germany and his years
of travel in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia strongly
influenced his decision to become a cultural anthropologist. He has
done ethnographic fieldwork on migration patterns, family dynamics,
cultural identities, and local politics in Spain and Mexico. His current
research focuses on the effects of tourism on a rural community in the
Spanish region of Galicia. Dr. Bauer was a Fulbright Fellow and received
research grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development, and other agencies. He often
presents his work at national conferences. His publications include
articles in American Ethnologist, Ethnohistory, and Social
Science History. Professor Bauer teaches courses that emphasize
social and cultural aspects of human development
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Steven
Borish (2006), Assistant Professor |
| B.A., Carlton College,
M.S. and Ph.D., Stanford University (Anthropology) |
| steven.borish@csueastbay.edu |
Steven
Borish has multiple interests, including anthropology, biology, human
language, and human evolution. Inspired by living in an Israeli agricultural
commune and later a hippie commune in Northern California, he went on
to study communal living in the alternative educational systems of Norway,
Denmark, and Sweden. Borish is the author of many articles and several
books including: Danish Social Movements in a Time of Global Destabilization,
The Land of the Living: The Danish Folk High Schools and Denmark's Non-Violent
Path to Modernization, and With Open Eyes: A Meeting
with the Danish Folk High School. Borish, who speaks eight languages,
held several teaching positions before arriving at CSUEB, including
at Swarthmore College and the University of Stockholm. He has twice
served as a Fulbright Scholar, once at the University of Copenhagen,
in Denmark, and once at the University of Trondheim, in Norway. He has
also done field research in East Africa, in Somalia, and in Israel,
on an Israeli kibbutzim. |
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Christina
Chin-Newman (2005), Assistant Professor |
| B.A., University of California, Berkeley,
Ed.M., Harvard University |
| M.S. and Ph.D.,University of
California, Santa Cruz (Developmental Psychology) |
| christina.chin-newman@csueastbay.edu |
Christina Chin-Newman,
a developmental psychologist, specializes in music and child development.
A Bay Area native, she was just another Chinese American kid who grew
up playing the piano and planning to go to medical school after graduating
from UC Berkeley. Instead, she discovered that she loved the science
of studying human behavior. She happily spent her days as a graduate
student at Harvard and UC Santa Cruz learning about how cultural context
affects human development, while also learning how to play the harp
and the Indonesian musical instruments of a Javanese gamelan ensemble.
Dr. Chin-Newman’s research on the development of musical talent
has been published in Gifted Child Today, and Psychology
of Music. She regularly presents her work at conferences such as
the Society for Research in Child Development, and the International
Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Dr. Chin-Newman teaches
courses on child development, intimate relationships, social and emotional
development, and cognitive development. She also coordinates the Alameda
County Every Child Counts scholarship program for students studying
Early Childhood Development at the Hayward Hills campus. |
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Lynn
Comerford (2001), Associate Professor |
| B.A. and M.A., Fordham University |
| Ph.D., State University of New
York, Albany ( Sociology) |
| lynn.comerford@csueastbay.edu |
Lynn Comerford, a sociologist,
grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts during the feminist revolution.
She specializes in social theory and sociology of the family. Prior
to finishing her dissertation (on gender inequality and child custody
law), Comerford taught college-level courses at three medium-security
prisons in New York. Her experiences led her to write an article (with
Michael Huspek) entitled "The subversion of science: The new penology
and the counter discourse of prison inmates" which appeared in Communication Theory. Since arriving at CSU East Bay, she initiated
department-wide curriculum reform and developed four foundational courses
for the department of Human Development/Women’s Studies. Her publications
include articles on child custody, divorce mediation, lone-parent households,
rape, and feminist theory. Her writings include work published in Contemporary
Sociology, Human Systems, Journal of Marriage & the Family, Encyclopedia
of Gender & Society, Battleground: Women, Gender and Sexuality (eds. Amy Lind and Stephanie Brzuzy), and Journal of Family Theory
& Review (forthcoming).
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E.
Maxwell Davis (2008), Assistant Professor |
| B.A., Smith College, M.S.S.A.,
Case Western Reserve University |
| Ph.D. and Graduate Certificate,
University of Southern California (Social Work and Gender Studies) |
emaxwell.davis@csueastbay.edu
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Maxwell Davis began her career as a medical social worker, providing direct services to individuals, families and groups living with HIV/AIDS in a variety of community health settings. She later worked in research positions at the USC Center for Child Welfare and the Drew Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services, where her research examined alcohol use among HIV-positive ethnic minorities. She received an NIH dissertation fellowship for her analysis of "Gendered issues in Alcohol Abuse and Dependence among HIV-positive African Americans." After completing her graduate studies, Dr. Davis was a postdoctoral fellow in the NIMH AIDS Research Training Program at UCLA and taught as adjunct faculty in the MSW program at CSU Dominguez Hills. Dr. Davis is currently involved with a study by AIDS Project Los Angeles and CSU Dominguez Hills to examine the impact of the Medicare Part D prescription drug program on health care access and utilization among HIV-positive consumers in California. Informed by her experiences as an HIV/AIDS social worker, her research interests focus on HIV/AIDS and substance abuse, as well as health care disparities shaped by gender, sexuality, race, culture and socioeconomic status. Her academic interests also include interdisciplinary scholarship, qualitative and mixed research methods, community-based and participatory action research and the integration of critical theory into applied social science research.She has published scholarly articles and book chapters in Home Health Care Services Quarterly and AIDS Patient Care and STDs.
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Patricia
Drew (2008), Assistant Professor |
| B.A., University of Oregon, M.S.,
Portland State University |
| Ph.D, University of California,
Santa Barbara (Sociology) |
| Patricia.drew@csueastbay.edu |
Patricia Drew, a sociologist, was raised in Portland, Oregon. After graduating from college, she moved to rural Bluff, Utah to volunteer in Americorps VISTA. As she worked with schoolchildren, she became interested in how social institutions and locations help to shape individuals' lives. She further developed sociological interests in gender, sexuality, social psychology, and health during her graduate studies at Portland State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In her research, Professor Drew has examined the development of weight loss surgery and related identity transformation among surgery patients. She has also studied gendered messages in contemporary sex education films. She has published in Research in the Sociology of Health Care, The Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality and Women and Therapy.
She has frequently presented her work at annual meetings of the American Sociological Association and the Pacific Sociological Association. Professor Drew teaches courses on women’s studies, gender development, embodiment and the life course.
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Jiansheng
Guo (1999), Associate Professor |
| B.A., Beijing Insitute, China,
M.A., University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Ph.D., University of California,
Berkeley (Developmental Psychology) |
| jsh.guo@csueastbay.edu |
Professor
Jiansheng Guo, a developmental psychologist, specializes in child language
development. He was born, raised and educated in Beijing, China and
spent his late-teens living in a yurt in Inner Mongolia as a shepherd
during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Dr. Guo’s research interests
include child developmental pragmatics with particular interest in language
and cognition, language and culture, language and emotion, and language
and gender. He teaches courses on child development, cognitive development,
language development, and social development. The author or coauthor
of over 20 articles and book chapters, Prof. Guo’s publications
include articles in Journal of Pragmatics, New Zealand Journal of
Psychology, and Journal of Asian Pacific Communication.
He is currently completing a 40-chapter, co-edited book on crosslinguistic
approaches to the psychology of language which is under contract with
Taylor and Francis Group. Prof. Guo regularly presents his research
at international conferences, including International Congress for the
Study of Child Language, International Pragmatics Conference, and Conference
of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. He also coordinates
the Contra Costa First 5 Early Childhood Development scholarship program
at the Concord campus which offers full tuition to over 20 CSUEB students
annually.
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Patricia
Guthrie (1989) Professor; Chair; Director - Women's Development |
| B.S., Springfield College,
M.S., State University of New York, Buffalo |
| Ph.D., University of
Rochester (Anthropology) |
| patricia.guthrie@csueastbay.edu |
A Social Anthropologist by training, Patricia “Pat” Guthrie
focuses on several research areas:
African-Americans, life history, South Carolina Sea Islands, online teaching
and learning, feminist studies, kinship and the family, religion/spirituality,
and homelessness. Currently Pat is interested in researching some area
of African American Women and the tradition of quilting. To prepare
herself for the research Pat is now taking quilting classes. She has served
as Human Development department chair since 2004. Her major
publications include: "Catching Sense and the Meaning of Belonging on a
South Carolina Sea Island," in African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in
the Creation of the Americas; "Mother Mary Ann Wright: African American Women, Spirituality and Social Activism," Women & Therapy, Vol. 16, No.2/3; Catching Sense: African American Communities on a South Carolina Sea Island, Greenwood Publishing Group; and "The Impact of Perceptions on Interpersonal Interaction in an African-American/Asian American San Francisco Housing Project," The Journal of Black Studies. Pat teaches “Girls and Women Across the Lifespan” (HDEV 3304) and “Senior Research Seminar II.” For more information about her, please see http://class.csueastbay.edu/faculty/pguthrie/pguthrie.html |
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Keri
O'Neal (2005) Assistant Professor |
| B.S., Northern
Arizona University, M.S., Arizona State |
| Ph.D.,
Texas Tech University (Human Development) |
| keri.oneal@csueastbay.edu |
Professor Keri O’Neal,
a specialist in adolescent development, has a soft spot for rebellious
teenagers. Her research interests focus on adolescent risk-taking behaviors,
prevention and intervention programs, and gender. After finishing her
doctorate, Keri spent two years as a post-doc at the Center for Developmental
Science, University of North Carolina, where she continued her research
on the developing adolescent. Born in Massachusetts, Keri was raised
in Arizona and although no longer a resident she remains loyal to the
Arizona Cardinals and Phoenix Suns. Keri’s publications include
articles in Children and Poverty, American Journal of Public Health,
American Journal of Community Psychology, and Developmental
Psychology. She teaches courses that emphasize the developing adolescent,
cross-cultural human development, and gay and lesbian development. |
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Xeno
Rasmusson (1998) Assistant Professor |
| B.A., Augustana
College |
| M.S., Ph.D.,
University of Georgia |
| xeno.rasmusson@csueastbay.edu |
Xeno Rasmusson, the son
of an artist and musician, spent his formative childhood years in Greenwich
Village, New York City, where his parents were active in the counter-culture
folk scene. His interest in neuroscience began as an undergraduate and
continued through graduate school. Dr. Rasmusson’s expertise in
age-related brain changes was developed during six years of post-doctoral
research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, National Institute on
Aging, and the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging. He has published
work on cognitive and brain changes in aging and Alzheimer’s in
journals such as: Neurology; Psychiatry Research; Brain and Cognition;
Applied Cognitive Psychology; Brain Injury; Aging, Neuropsychology,
and Cognition; and the Journal of the International Neuropsychological
Society; among others. At CSUEB, Dr. Rasmusson is on the advisory
board for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and lectures for them
regularly. He has also served as Director of Liberal Studies, Chair
of Faculty Affairs Committee, Chair of Committee on Research, and actively
participates in student recruitment and advising, including current
membership in the University Undergraduate Advising Council. Since arriving
at CSUEB in 1998, Dr. Rasmusson has taught 20 different courses for
the Department of Human Development. His teaching and research interests
include risk factors for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, lifelong
learning, and healthy aging. |
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HDEV
- Lecturer Faculty Members (not available for student academic advising) |
| Chandra,
Vibha |
Lecturer
MI 3087; (510) 885-3170; vibha.chandra@csueastbay.edu |
| Davis, Carmen |
Lecturer
Online Only; carmen.davis@csueastbay.edu |
| Felton,
Lori |
Lecturer
MI 4003 (510) 885-7537; lori.felton@csueastbay.edu |
| Gharib,
Afshin |
Lecturer
KPE 121; (510) 885-2961; afshin.gharib@csueastbay.edu |
| Handwerker,
Lisa |
Lecturer
MI 3087; (510) 885-7536; lisahand@csueastbay.edu |
| Hoag,
Peter |
Lecturer
MI 4003; (510) 885-7536; peter.hoag@csueastbay.edu |
| Sprott,
Richard |
Lecturer
MI 4003;
(510) 885-7536; richard.sprott@csueastbay.edu |
Sutton, Karen
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Lecturer
Online only; karen.sutton@csueastbay.edu |
| Younos, Farid |
Lecturer
MI 4003;
(510) 885-7536; farid.younos@csueastbay.edu |
WOST-
Lecturer Faculty Members (not available for student academic advising) |
| Barnes,
Donna |
Lecturer |
MI 4039; (510) 885-2843; donna.barnes@csueastbay.edu |
| Belzer,
Beth |
Lecturer |
beth.belzer@cuseastbay.edu |
| Chandra,
Vibha |
Lecturer |
MI 3087; (510) 885-3170; vibha.chandra@csueastbay.edu
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| Huggins,
Ericka |
Lecturer |
MI 3087; (510) 885-4512; ericka.huggins@csueastbay.edu |
| Jarrah,
Dina |
Lecturer |
Online only; dina.jarrah@csueastbay.edu
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| Williams,
Judith |
Lecturer |
MI 3087; (510) 885-4512; judy.williams@csueastbay.edu |
Faculty
with No Teaching/Advising Responsibilities |
| Becker,
Carol S. |
Professor Emerita (with
no teaching or advising responsibilities) |
| Dien,
Dora Shu-fang |
Professor Emerita (with no teaching or advising responsibilities) |
| Kovacs,
Ivan |
Professor Emeritus (with no teaching or advising responsibilities) |
ivan.kovacs@csueastbay.edu |
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