Sonoma State University is a public university in Sonoma County,California,that is one of the smallest members of the California State University (CSU) system. Sonoma State offers 92 bachelor's degree programs,19 master's degree programs,and 11 teaching credentials. The university is a Hispanic-serving institution.
Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University. It is one of the oldest academic presses in the United States and the first university press to be established on the West Coast. It is currently a member of the Association of University Presses. The press publishes 130 books per year across the humanities,social sciences,and business,and has more than 3,500 titles in print.
St. Stephen's University is a graduate studies university with an emphasis on theology,peace and reconciliation located in the town of St. Stephen,New Brunswick,Canada that offers mostly hybrid-distance master's degrees and graduate certificates. "The Mission of St. Stephen's University is to prepare people,through academic,personal,and spiritual development,for a life of justice,beauty,and compassion,enabling a humble,creative engagement with their world."
Carol Tecla Christ is an American academic administrator. In March 2017,she was named the 11th Chancellor of the University of California,Berkeley,the first woman to hold that position. She succeeded outgoing Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks on July 1,2017.
Gerald William Haslam was an author focused on rural and small towns in California's Great Central Valley including its poor and working-class people of all colors. A native of Oildale,California,Haslam has received numerous literary awards.
Ruben Armiñana is a political scientist who served as the sixth president of Sonoma State University from 1992 to 2016. He is the first Cuban-American to head a campus in the California State University system.
Gregory Michael Sarris is the Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and the current Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Until 2022,Sarris was the Graton Rancheria Endowed Chair in Creative Writing and Native American Studies at Sonoma State University,where he taught classes in Native American Literature,American Literature,and Creative Writing. He is also President of the Graton Economic Development Authority. Sarris is currently the Distinguished Chair Emeritus at Sonoma State University.
Paul Yu was a Chinese-American academic who was the President of State University of New York at Brockport between 1997–2004.
Roberta Fernández is a Tejana novelist,scholar,critic and arts advocate. She is known for her novel Intaglio and for her work editing several award-winning women writers. She was a professor in Romance languages &literatures and women's studies at the University of Georgia.
David Walls is an activist and academic who has made significant contributions to Appalachian studies and to the popular understanding of social movements. He is professor emeritus of sociology at Sonoma State University (SSU) in California,where he was dean of extended education from 1984 to 2000.
Luz María "Luzma" Umpierre-Herrera is a Puerto Rican advocate for human rights,a New-Humanist educator,poet,and scholar. Her work addresses a range of critical social issues,including activism and social equality,the immigrant experience,bilingualism in the United States,and LGBT matters. Luzma authored six poetry collections and two books on literary criticism,in addition to having essays featured in academic journals.
Karen L. Gould is a scholar of French-Canadian literature,and an academic administrator who has been a dean at Old Dominion University and the University of Cincinnati,provost and senior vice president at California State University,Long Beach,and the ninth president of Brooklyn College,the first woman to hold that position.
Wendy Wilkins was provost and executive vice president at New Mexico State University until November 2012. She took the post in mid-July 2010 after resigning from the University of North Texas at the end of business day,July 1,2010. Prior to beginning her service as the University of North Texas Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs in 2007,Wilkins has served as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University and as Associate Dean for Academic Personnel in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. Her work in academic administration began with service as Associate Chair,and then Chair,of the Department of English at ASU.
Noël Ritter Valis is a writer,scholar and translator. She is a Professor of Spanish at Yale University.
Judy K. Sakaki is a former American academic administrator,who previously served as the seventh president of Sonoma State University (SSU). She spent most of her previous academic career as a student affairs administrator in the University of California system. She is the first Japanese-American woman to head a four-year college or university in the United States,as well as the first Asian American woman hired as a university president in California and the second woman to serve as president of SSU.
Lynn Cominsky is an American astrophysicist and educator. She was the Chair of Astronomy and Physics at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park,California from August 2004 through August 2019. She is currently the Project Director for the NASA Education and Public Outreach Group.
Julia Chinyere Oparah,formerly Julia Sudbury,is a faculty member at the University of San Francisco. She is also the founder of the Center for Liberated Leadership in Oakland,California. Oparah is an activist-scholar,a community organizer,and an intellectual focused on producing relevant scholarship in accompaniment to social justice movements. She has worked at University of California - Berkeley,University of Toronto and Mills College prior to the University of San Francisco.
Barbara Jean Morris is an American academic administrator who currently serves as the 18th president of Prescott College.
Ana Celia Zentella is an American linguist known for her "anthro-political" approach to linguistic research and expertise on multilingualism,linguistic diversity,and language intolerance,especially in relation to U.S. Latino languages and communities. She is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at the University of California,San Diego.
Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán was a Spanish playwright of the Spanish Golden Age and one of the first women to write a play in Spanish. She is known for a two part play Los jardines y campos sabeos with several comic interludes. Its second print edition includes theoretical texts in which she asserts her position within the world of theatre.
