San Francisco State University is a public research university in San Francisco. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is part of the California State University system.
Asian American Studies is an academic field originating in the 1960s,which critically examines the history,issues,sociology,religion,experiences,culture,and policies relevant to Asian Americans. It is closely related to other Ethnic Studies fields,such as African American Studies,Latino Studies,and Native American Studies.
Charles Warren Stoddard was an American author and editor best known for his travel books about Polynesian life.
YonejirōNoguchi was an influential Japanese writer of poetry,fiction,essays and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He is known in the west as Yone Noguchi. He was the father of noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
Paul K. Longmore was a professor of history,an author,and a notable disability activist who taught at San Francisco State University.
Margaret Rhee is a feminist experimental poet,new media artist,and scholar. Her research focuses on technology,and intersections with feminist,queer,and ethnic studies. She has a special interest on digital participatory action research and pedagogy.
The Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) rose in 1968 as a coalition of ethnic student groups on college campuses in California in response to the Eurocentric education and lack of diversity at San Francisco State College and University of California,Berkeley. The TWLF was instrumental in creating and establishing Ethnic Studies and other identity studies as majors in their respective schools and universities across the United States.
Lavender Phoenix,formerly known as API Equality –Northern California is an American social justice advocacy non-profit headquartered in San Francisco,California. Its mission is to build the power and increase the visibility of the lesbian,gay,bisexual,transgender,and queer Asian Pacific Islander community.
The Intercollegiate Chinese for Social Action (ICSA) was a student organization formed in 1967 at San Francisco State College. The group organized various community-oriented events and service projects,particularly in the Chinatown community in San Francisco. In 1968,the ICSA joined the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF),a coalition of different student groups advocating for campus reform at SFSU. The ICSA also actively protested traditional Chinese leadership,in particular the Six Companies in San Francisco.
Juana María Rodríguez is a Cuban-American professor of Ethnic Studies,Gender and Women's Studies,and Performance Studies at the University of California,Berkeley. Her scholarly writing in queer theory,critical race theory,and performance studies highlights the intersection of race,gender,sexuality and embodiment in constructing subjectivity.
Việt Lê is a Vietnamese-born American artist,writer,and curator. Lêis an associate professor at the California College of the Arts.
Rev. Trinity Ordoña is a lesbian Filipino-American college teacher,activist,community organizer,and ordained minister currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is notable for her grassroots work on intersectional social justice. Her activism includes issues of voice and visibility for Asian/Pacific gay,lesbian,bisexual,transgender and queer individuals and their families,Lesbians of color,and survivors of sexual abuse. Her works include her dissertation Coming Out Together:an ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander queer women's and transgendered people's movement of San Francisco, as well as various interviews and articles published in anthologies like Filipino Americans:Transformation and Identity and Asian/Pacific Islander American Women:A Historical Anthology. She co-founded Asian and Pacific Islander Family Pride (APIFP),which "[sustains] support networks for API families with members who are LGBTQ," founded Healing for Change,"a CCSF student organization that sponsors campus-community healing events directed to survivors of violence and abuse," and is currently an instructor in the Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual and Transgender Studies Department at City College of San Francisco.
John Paul De Cecco was an American academic. He was a professor of psychology at San Francisco State University,the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Homosexuality from 1975 to 2009,and a "pioneer of sexuality studies."
Juanita Tamayo Lott is a Filipina-American author and activist. A chronicler of the Filipino experience in America,Lott has authored several popular and scholarly works on Asian Americans. She has also contributed to the establishment of several Asian American studies departments. As a college student in 1969,Lott co-founded the first U.S. Filipino American Studies Program at San Francisco State;in 2007,she developed the Filipino American Studies Program at the University of Maryland,College Park. Trained as a statistician and demographer,she spent her career as a policy analyst for the federal government.
Joanne Barker became a faculty member within the American Indian Studies Department at San Francisco State University,in 2003. Much of her work focuses on indigenous feminism and the sovereignty and self determination of indigenous peoples. Her work takes a transnational approach,making connections between and across the borders of countries. Barker makes historical and scholarly connections between the oppression and resistance of marginalized communities. An example of this transnational approach can be seen by the work that Barker has done to show connections in the struggles of Palestinians in Israel and indigenous communities in the United States.
The University of California,Los Angeles Asian American Studies Center (AASC) is an organization that educates students and the general public about the history of Asian American and Pacific Islanders and their experiences. The AASC is one of the leading and groundbreaking organizations to have substantial and credible resources for their research. Located in Campbell Hall,the AASC quickly became a center for resource-gathering and scholarship for the Asian American movement. Asian American student organizations at CSULA,Occidental,USC,and other colleges soon followed. It was a vital hub and training ground for young activists,a place where they could earn a salary while doing community work.
Lynn Mahoney is an American university president,author,and social historian. Mahoney is the president of San Francisco State University (SFSU) since July 2019,and is the first woman to hold this role. Her scholarly work has focused on United States history,women's history,feminism,race studies,and ethnicity. She is the author of Elizabeth Stoddard and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture;a book about novelist and poet Elizabeth Stoddard.
The history of San Francisco State University began in 1857,with a teacher-training program at a high school,which led to the creation of San Francisco State Normal School. It became San Francisco State Teachers College,San Francisco State College,and California State University,San Francisco before becoming San Francisco State University as it's known today.
Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi is a Palestinian-born American scholar,activist,educator,editor,and an academic director. She is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies,Race and Resistance Studies,and the founding Director of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) at San Francisco State University (SFSU). She is a controversial political figure which is in part due to larger political issues around her field of study and to her pro-Palestinian activism and broader criticisms of ethnic studies as an academic discipline.
Laureen Chew is an American academic and actress. She is Professor Emerita of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. She acted in two Wayne Wang films in the 1980s,both of which were shot in San Francisco.
