Cal Poly Experts Directory - Culture
Contemporary American Culture • Cross-Cultural Issues • World Culture
Contemporary American Culture
Kevin Clark, Ph.D.
Professor of English
(805) 756-2506/2596 e-mail: kclark@calpoly.edu
Web: www.calpoly.edu/~kclark
Author of poems published in The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, College English, Kansas Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, California Quarterly, The Georgia Review, Black Warrior Review, and several anthologies.
Author of one full-length book of poetry: tentatively titled The Near World (2001); author of three chapbooks of poetry: Granting the Wolf (1984), Widow Under a New Moon (1990), and One of Us (2000).
Author of numerous articles on contemporary American poetry and numerous poems published in national journals.
Member, Modern Language Association and Associated Writing Programs.
Areas of expertise:
* contemporary American poetry
* teaching of poetry writing
* poetry readings
* love and sex in contemporary poetry and literature
* poets T.S. Eliot, Adrienne Rich and John Ashbery
* modern American literature
* the pedagogy of creative writing
* literature and poetry of baseball
Bruno Giberti, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Architecture
(805) 756-2036/1316 e-mail: bgiberti@calpoly.edu
Contributor to national survey of churches and church properties, Partners for Sacred Places, an advocacy group for historic preservation.
Member, Society of Architectural Historians, College Art Association, American Studies Association, Vernacular Architecture Forum, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
Author of numerous articles on architecture and design-related subjects for popular audiences in Arts and Architecture, San Francisco Examiner.
Author of book Classified Landscape about the design of taxonomic systems in relationship to the built environment of 19th century world's fairs.
Areas of expertise:
* theory of architecture
* architecture criticism
* history of American art and architecture
* history of modern architecture (1750-present)
* cultural studies
* consumerism
* world's fairs
Douglas Keesey, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of English
(805) 756-2596 e-mail: dkeesey@calpoly.edu
Author of several essays on film.
Areas of expertise:
* film
* television
Alyson McLamore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Music
(805) 756-2612/2406 e-mail: amclamor@calpoly.edu
Member, American Musicological Society, College Music Society, and Music Library Association.
Co-editor of Renaissance Essays in Honor of Frank D'Accone.
Editor of section in anthology Women Composers: Music by Women Through the Ages; section deals with symphony written by an 18th-century princess of Saxony.
Areas of expertise:
* Classical music
* concerts
* women in music
* music history
* music education
* music skills
* band performance
* musical theater
* jazz
* American music
Craig Russell, Ph.D.
Professor of Music
(805) 756-1547/2406 e-mail: crussell@calpoly.edu
Director of the Mozart Akademie program for young people, part of the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival.
California State University Outstanding Professor (1994-95). Recipient, California State University Wang Family Award for Excellence (2007). Composer, music historian, and master of guitar and lute. His teaching spans the musical field from introductory survey classes, to Mozart, to '60s pop. Trained in classical guitar at the University of New Mexico, he earned his doctorate in musicology from the University of North Carolina before going on to do groundbreaking work which brought to light the forgotten musical heritage of 17th and 18th century Mexican and Californian culture. His original compositions have been recorded and performed nationally as well as at international festivals.
Areas of expertise:
* California mission music
* Mexican music
* cathedral music in the Baroque period
* rock music of the 1960s
* protest music
* Chicano music
* the Beatles
* Bob Dylan
Cross-Cultural Issues
Allan Bird, Ph.D.
Professor of Global Strategy and Law
(805) 756-7344/2704 e-mail: abird@calpoly.edu
Fellow, Fulbright graduate research, Japan (1987).
Author of three books including Executive no Kenkyu (research on Japanese executives, 1988, in Japanese).
Author of 21 articles on Japanese business and management.
Member, Academy of International Business and Academy of Management.
Member and vice president, Association of Japanese Business Studies.
Member, editorial board, Journal of Management Inquiry and Venture Japan.
Co-author of international assignment software "Expatriate Profile."
Areas of expertise:
* Japanese business and management
* Japanese human resources management
* foreign subsidiary human resources
* top management careers and compensation
* Japan-U.S. trade issues
* cross-cultural management
* international negotiations
* business-government relations
* expatriate selection and management
* overseas subsidiaries
* executive teams
* careers and new science perspectives
Steven T. McDermott, Ph.D.
Professor of Speech Communication
(805) 756-1158/2553 e-mail: smcdermo@calpoly.edu
Author of nearly 20 book chapters and articles on communications. Author of "Communication Factors in Alienation Among Foreign College Students" in World Communication. Co-author of the book "Communication Research." Associate editor of The Western Journal of Communication.
Recipient, Distinguished Scholarship Award, International and Intercultural Division, National Communication Association (1987).
Areas of expertise:
* intercultural communication patterns
* adaptation of immigrants to U.S. society
* ethnic communication in the U.S.
Don Ryujin, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
(805) 756-2023/2033 e-mail: dryujin@calpoly.edu
Areas of expertise:
* racial issues
* racial prejudice and processes to reduce it
* demographic information on counseling diverse groups
* running disorders
* eating disorders
World Cultures
Shawn Burn, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology & Child Development
(805) 756-2934/2033 e-mail: sburn@calpoly.edu
Author of Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective (2000) and The Social Psychology of Gender (1996) and numerous articles in publications including Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Social Psychology, Sex Roles, and Political Psychology.
Member, American Psychological Association and Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Areas of expertise:
* gender issues
* sex differences
* household labor
* women and work
* global women's issues
* changes in the male gender role
* limitations of traditional gender roles
* sex role socialization of children
* creating environmentally responsible behavior
* group conflict and dynamics
Brian C. Hampson, Ph.D.
Professor of Food Science
(805) 756-6127/2660 e-mail: bhampson@calpoly.edu
Member, Institute of Food Technologists, International Ozone Association, International Fresh-cut Produce Association.
Principal investigator, USDA-funded research into the use of ozone as a food-sanitizing agent.
Previously, scientific advisor to International EcoSciences Inc. to design water and decontamination systems for NASA and the U.S. armed forces.
Consultant to Air Liquide Corporation, DEL Industries, BOC Gases, Louis/Tresser Co., Basic Vegetable Products, Rogers Foods, and others.
Participant, Japan Agriculture Exchange Program. Speaks some Japanese.
Scientific advisor to the California Egg Commission.
Scientific peer-reviewer for the USDA Food Safety Programs and various scientific journals.
Conducting collaborative food safety research with the Technological Institute of Culiacan, Mexico.
Areas of expertise:
* food microbiology
* food safety
* sanitation and HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control point) systems
* ozone as a sanitizing agent
* quality assurance
* food processing--fruits and vegetables
* food composition and product development
* home brewing
* biotechnology and microbial genetics
* Japanese culture and society
Robert L. Hoover, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
(805) 756-2260 e-mail: rhoover@calpoly.edu
Member, Archaeological Institute of America, Society for American Archaeology, American Society for Ethnohistory, California Mission Studies Association (past president), Society for California Archaeology, California Academy of Sciences, and Royal Anthropology Institute (United Kingdom).
Research on Spanish California, Brazil, and Mexico.
Author of numerous articles, monographs, and books, including the Smithsonian Institution's Columbian Consequences.
Recipient, Annual Award, California Council for the Promotion of History.
Speaks Portuguese.
Areas of expertise:
* California Indians
* Hispanic period (pre-1850)
* Central Coast excavations
* excavations of Spanish missions and presidios
* historic preservation laws and administration
* Indians and colonial culture of Brazil
* prehistoric archaeology
* Spanish colonial archaeology
* Chumash Indians
* ethnobotany
* early technology
William Martinez, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
(805) 756-2889/1205 e-mail: wmartine@calpoly.edu
Contributing author to four articles on Venezuelan poetry.
Co-author of language acquisition textbook and author of second-year Spanish textbook.
Resident director, Mexico summer program.
Areas of expertise:
* Venezuelan literature -- 1958 to present (Trafico & Guaire)
* Latin American literature
* Mexican culture (biculturality and bilinguality)
* second-language acquisition theory and teaching methodologies
* Chicano and Latino culture and literature
* "center-margin" theory
* literature of women
* literature of the Mexican Revolution
* theory of the lyric--historization as a need to analyze texts
* cultural diversity
John A. McKinstry, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
(805) 756-2097/2260 e-mail: jmckinst@calpoly.edu
Fulbright scholar, Japan (1982-83).
Visiting professor, University of Kyushu, Japan (1982-83).
Resident director, CSU International Program--Japan ('88-89).
Fulbright scholar and instructor, Sophia University, Tokyo. Author of Jinsei Annai: Glimpses of Japan Through a Popular Advice Column (1991).
Co-author of Who Rules Japan? The Inner Circles of Economic and Political Power (1995).
Author of "Fortune telling in Japan" in Mangajin (May 1994).
Author of nine entries for The Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management (forthcoming).
Areas of expertise:
* Japanese culture and society
* Japanese industry and economy
* Japanese social institutions (family, education and religion)
* effects of technical innovations in modern societies
* social change and industrial society
* global ethnic and race relations and conflict (including in the states of the former Yugoslavia)
Barbara Mori, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
(805) 756-2729/2260 e-mail: bmori@calpoly.edu
Web: www.cla.calpoly.edu/~bmori
Author of books and articles on Japanese traditional arts.
Current research on higher education for women in China, Korea and Japan, and on East Indian immigrants to the Central Coast.
Educational consultant on teaching in China.
Secretary/treasurer, Association for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast.
Founding member, SLO White Heron Sangha.
Areas of expertise:
* Japanese traditional arts - tea ceremony
* education in Asia - China and Japan
* women in East Asia - China, Korea, Japan
* East Indian immigration to the Central Coast of California
* Buddhism
Bianca Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Modern Languages & Literatures
(805) 756-1205 e-mail: brosenth@calpoly.edu
Author of Pathways to Paul Celan: A History of Critical Responses as a Chorus of Discordant Voices (1995).
Areas of expertise:
* German and French
* language acquisition
* German literature -- 18th century to present
* French literature -- 20th century
* German, French and Russian cultures
* literature of women
* values and technology
Johanna Rubba, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
(805) 756-2184/2596 e-mail: jrubba@calpoly.edu
Member, Linguistic Society of America and International Cognitive Linguistics Association.
Author of several articles in theoretical and descriptive linguistics.
Areas of expertise:
* linguistics and theories of language acquisition
* grammar and correct vs. incorrect English
* general facts about human language
* language and society
* standard and nonstandard dialects
* English-only laws and policies
* minority languages and dialects
* language and gender
* endangered languages and language rights
* history of language in the United States
* teaching English and other languages
* bilingualism and bilingual education
* modern Aramaic and Aramaic-speaking communities in the United States