Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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  La Lluvia y la Sequía

  Christopher Luna-Mega

  "La Lluvia y la Sequía" is a field recording sound collage in which Christopher Luna-Mega explores the intrusion of the urban in the rural, drought, rain, and a week in the lives of a San Joaquín Valley ranch, in Central Valley, CA. "La Lluvia y la Sequía" continues Luna-Mega’s career-long trajectory of utilizing environmental sound as a primary component of musical fabric, both in orchestral-instrumental and electronic media. Different techniques of microphone recording, sound processing, instrumental performance, and collage are combined to create an intimate portrait of a place, both stark and inviting. Commissioned by the Rural Situationism record label.

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  Advances in Global Leadership (Volume 15)

  Joyce Osland

  Advances in Global Leadership (a blind-reviewed book and journal) collects insights from leading scholars and practitioners, as well as newcomers to the field. In addition to accepting chapters on traditional research, Volume 15 promoted the under-researched topic of power and global leadership. In the final chapter, Dr. Osland and co-editors synthesized the books' insights and identified research directions and gaps for other scholars in "Power and Global Leadership: Marking the Transition and Suggesting Future Directions." For this volume, Dr. Osland also co-authored two chapters with research teams: "Leading Effective Global Change: Three Design Imperatives That Support Success" (Johnson, Ludema & Osland, 2023) and "A Model of Trigger Events and Sensemaking in the Intercultural Context: A Cognitive Approach to Global Leadership Effectiveness" (Osland, Bird, Reiche & Mendenhall, 2023). Furthermore, she interviewed one of the field's founders: "Asking Big Questions That Matter: An Interview with Nancy Adler" (Osland, 2023) and co-edited the book.

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  Magic Within

  Rhoda Shapiro

  Magic Within is an empowering book for women, featuring rituals, meditations, and practices centered around healing the womb. When a woman can forge a deeper connection to her womb, she's able to realize her potential and connect to her own personal magic. In Rhoda Jordan Shapiro's newest book Magic Within, she shares ancient wisdom to support women in owning their feminine power more fully to create joy, peace, and clarity in their lives.

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  Mystical Theology and Renaissance Platonism in the Time of Cusanus: Essays in Honor of Donald F. Duclow

  Jason Aleksander

  Edited by Jason Aleksander, Sean Hannan, Joshua Hollmann, and Michael Moore, "Mystical Theology and Platonism in the Time of Cusanus" engages with the history of mystical theology and Neoplatonic philosophy through the lens of the 15th century philosopher and theologian, Nicholas of Cusa. The volume comprises nineteen essays that break down the barriers between medieval and Renaissance studies, reinterpreting Cusanus’ place in the history of thought by exploring the archive that informed his thinking, while also interrogating his works by exploring them from the standpoint of their later reception by modern philosophers and theologians.

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  Feedback for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom: New Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities

  Brent Duckor and Carrie Holmberg

  Educators Brent Duckor and Carrie Holmberg show you how to plan, enact, and reflect on feedback practices within lessons and across units using an accessible, comprehensive, and innovative framework that illuminates the path towards equity and excellence for all. With evidence-based research and real classroom examples, Feedback for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom answers: What is formative feedback? How does it influence student outcomes and teacher pedagogy? Why are well-defined learning goals, aligned with rich tasks and progress guides, essential to making feedback truly formative? What are essential facets of teacher, peer, and self-driven feedback? How does feedback work best in whole-class, small group, or individual configurations? What can make written, spoken, and nonverbal feedback modalities more effective—for all? How can focusing on feedback improve learning across all subject matter disciplines? Prompts for self-reflection, videos, vignettes, and scaffolds throughout help readers see how effective feedback can be embedded into classrooms and school communities committed to discovery, growth, and deeper learning.

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  The Long Shore: Archaeologies and Social Histories of California's Maritime Cultural Landscapes

  Marco Meniketti

  The book offers insights into cultural landscapes of California that reaches beyond the confines of waterfronts to include Indigenous practices of maritime -oriented tribes to the Portuguese shore whalers, Italian fishermen, Chinese abalone harvesters, ship breakers, and logging schooners. The book uses an archaeological lens to examine the social relationships and material culture the diverse communities that lived on California's long shore.

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  Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico

  Alberto García

  Abandoning Their Beloved Land is a new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the US as seasonal contract farmworkers (braceros) between 1942 and 1964. This book uses national, regional, and local Mexican archival collections to explore the political factors that shaped the administration of the bracero selection process in Mexico, as well as individual decisions to migrate as braceros.

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  Tips for Writing Well: Research-Based Principles

  Scott Alkire

  This handbook for academic writers asks, Do you have something to say? Do you know what you are talking about? Do you have credible sources? Can you say what you have to say as clearly as possible? Can you avoid cliches and ready-made phrases? The principles embedded in these questions, along with 20 more, comprise this book. Two essays putting into action the principles for good writing set forth conclude the volume.

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  Synaptic Array for Field-Training-Capable In-Memory Computing Using Non-Volatile Memory Technologies

  Binh Quang Le

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  Combination Treatment to Prevent or Minimize Chemotheraphy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (Joint w/ Stanford)

  Katherine Wilkinson

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  Plastic Landscape - The Reversible World

  Yoon Chung Han

  My AI-generated 3D animated video design “Plastic Landscape - The Reversible World” was exhibited as a part of Seoul Light Gwanghwamun in Seoul, South Korea from December 15, 2023 to January 21, 2024 on the media facade of the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History. The work shows the apocalyptic and surreal world surrounded by artificial plastic mixtures and objects in the ocean, urban city, antarctica, and forest. Four different scenes are animated, with the camera panning slowly from left to right. Viewers can observe how the plastics are decomposed at a slower speed by looking at particle animations. Surreal objects/buildings in this animation made out of plastic look beautiful and mesmerizing at first glance. However, the viewers can notice that they are the decayed objects and destroyed nature impacted by human beings. This new multi-sensory artwork addresses the awareness of plastic pollution through the apocalyptic lens.

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  Asghar Farhadi: Interviews

  Ehsan Khoshbakht and Drew Todd

  This volume sheds new light on the life and career of celebrated Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, whose roots in theatre and then television greatly inform his movies. Hailed by critics today as one of his generation's great dramatist filmmakers, Farhadi reveals much of his craft in a series of interviews given throughout his career up to the present. Translated from Persian into English exclusively for this publication, the interviews offer unique perspectives into the filmmaker's complicated role as artist and celebrity in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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  In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism

  Sukanya Chakrabarti

  This book examines the performance of Bauls, ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses. Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm, Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and transformational potency of Bauls and their performances. In-Between Worlds argues that the Bauls through their musical, spiritual, and cultural performances offer ‘joy’ and ‘spirituality,’ thus making space for what Dr. Ambedkar in his famous 1942 speech had identified as ‘reclamation of human personality’. Chakrabarti destabilizes the category of ‘folk’ as a fixed classification or an origin point, and fractures homogeneous historical representations of the Baul as a ‘folk’ performer and a wandering mendicant exposing the complex heterogeneity that characterizes this group. Establishing ‘folk-ness’ as a performance category, and ‘folk festivals’ as sites of performing ‘folk-ness,’ contributing to a heritage industry that thrives on imagined and recreated nostalgia, Chakrabarti examines different sites that produce varied performative identities of Bauls, probing the limits of such categories while simultaneously advocating for polyvocality and multifocality.While this project has grounded itself firmly in performance studies, it has borrowed extensively from fields of postcolonial studies and subaltern histories, literature, ethnography and ethnomusicology, and cosmopolitan studies.

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  In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador

  A.J. Faas

  In the Shadow of Tungurahua is about the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua and two resettlement communities built for people displaced following volcanic eruptions in 1999 and 2006. The book challenges prevailing ideas about how disasters are produced and reproduced. The disasters unfolding around Tungurahua also provide lessons in the humanitarian politics of disaster—deservingness, inequality, and bare life. But this is also a story of how people responded to confront hardships and craft new futures, about forms of cooperation in disaster, and the potential for locally derived disaster recovery.

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  We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few

  Robert Ovetz

  Written by 55 of the richest white men, and signed by only 39 of them, the US constitution is the sacred text of American nationalism. Popular perceptions of it are mired in idolatry, myth and misinformation - many Americans have opinions on the constitution but have little idea what it says. This book examines the constitution for what it is – a rulebook for elites to protect capitalism from democracy. Social movements have misplaced faith in the constitution as a tool for achieving justice when it actually impedes social change through the many roadblocks and obstructions we call 'checks and balances'. This stymies urgent progress on issues like labour rights, poverty, public health and climate change, propelling the American people and rest of the world towards destruction.Robert Ovetz's reading of the constitution shows that the system isn't broken. Far from it. It works as it was designed to.

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  Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley

  Anne Marie Todd

  This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley from America's largest fruit-producing region into the technology capital of the world. Extensive archival research and interviews reveal how a sense of place emerges and changes in this evolving agricultural community. A community's sense of place influences a sense of responsibility towards the local environment. Silicon Valley is a non-place, where weakened or disrupted attachment to place threatens the environment and community. The story of the Santa Clara Valley is an American story of the development of agricultural lands and the transformation of rural regions.

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  Artificial Intelligence and Heuristics for Enhanced Food Security

  Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

  "This book introduces readers to advanced data science techniques for signal mining in connection with agriculture. It shows how to apply heuristic modeling to improve farm-level efficiency, and how to use sensors and data intelligence to provide closed-loop feedback, while also providing recommendation techniques that yield actionable insights.
  The book also proposes certain macroeconomic pricing models, which data-mine macroeconomic signals and the influence of global economic trends on small-farm sustainability to provide actionable insights to farmers, helping them avoid financial disasters due to recurrent economic crises.
  The book is intended to equip current and future software engineering teams and operations research experts with the skills and tools they need in order to fully utilize advanced data science, artificial intelligence, heuristics, and economic models to develop software capabilities that help to achieve sustained food security for future generations."

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  From Honolulu to Brooklyn: Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i

  Joel S. Franks

  From 1912 to 1916, a group of baseball players from Hawaiʻ i barnstormed the U.S. mainland. While initially all Chinese, the Travelers became more multiethnic and multiracial with ballplayers possessing Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, and European ancestries. As a group and as individuals the Travelers' experiences represent a still much too marginalized facet of baseball and sport history. Arguably, they traveled more miles and played in more ball parks in the American empire than any other group of ballplayers of their time. Outside of the major leagues, they were likely the most famous nine of the 1910s, dominating their college opponents and more than holding their own against top-flight white and black independent teams. And once the Travelers’ journeys were done, a team leader and star Buck Lai gained fame in independent baseball on the East Coast of the U.S., while former teammates ran base paths and ran for political office as they confronted racism and colonialism in Hawaiʻ i.

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  The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t

  Janet M. Stovall and Kim Clark

  The Conscious Communicator, a #1 Amazon Best Selling title, helps organizations answer the why, what, when, and how to communicate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and social justice subjects. The book introduces The DEPTH Model, a framework and practical tool to help companies craft DEI and social justice and communications aligned with their mission, vision, and values – consistently, proactively, and in ways that are powerful rather than performative.

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  California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom: COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

  Larry N. Gerston, Mary Currin-Percival, and Garrick L. Percival

  Less than two years after California Governor Gavin Newsom’s overwhelming election victory, more than two million Californians signed on to a recall effort, hoping to expel him from office in a special election. This book explains that paradox and, in the process, enlightens readers about the recall process, the challenges of federalism, and the pitfalls of direct democracy. It examines the underlying conditions that expose a state with poorly linked institutions, a bitterly divided society, and a governor who had to act under nearly impossible conditions, demonstrating his strengths and vulnerabilities along the way.

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  Intelligent Communication Technologies and Virtual Mobile Networks: Proceedings of ICICV 2022

  G. Rajakumar, Ke-Lin Du, Chandrasekar Vuppalapati, and Grigorios N. Beligiannis

  The book is a collection of high-quality research papers presented at Intelligent Communication Technologies and Virtual Mobile Networks (ICICV), held at Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India, during February 10–11, 2022. The book shares knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of communication technology and mobile networks. The book covers innovative and cutting-edge work of researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry working in the area of computer networks, network protocols and wireless networks, data communication technologies and network security.

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  Smart IoT for Research and Industry

  Melody Moh, Kanta Prasad Sharma, Rashmi Agrawal, and Vicente Garcia Diaz

  This book covers a variety of smart IoT (Internet of Things) applications for industry and research. For industry, it is a guide for real-time automation of application domains, including real-time tracking and navigation for smart transport systems and GPS domains, modern electric grid control, IoT for modern society, modern medical science, and IoT automation for Industry 4.0. For research, the book underlines enabling technologies such as fog computing, wireless sensor networks, data mining, context awareness, real-time analytics, virtual reality, and cellular communications. The book pertains to researchers, outcome-based academic leaders, as well as industry leaders.

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  Intermediate Dynamics

  Patrick Hamill

  This advanced undergraduate physics textbook presents an accessible treatment of classical mechanics using plain language and clear examples. While comprehensive, the book can be tailored to a one-semester course. An early introduction of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms gives students an opportunity to utilize these important techniques in the easily visualized context of classical mechanics. The inclusion of 321 simple in-chapter exercises, 82 worked examples, 550 more challenging end-of-chapter problems, and 65 computational projects reinforce students' understanding of key physical concepts and give instructors freedom to choose from a wide variety of assessment and support materials. This new edition has been reorganized. Numerous sections were rewritten. New problems, a chapter on fluid dynamics, and brief optional studies of advanced topics such as general relativity and orbital mechanics have been incorporated. Online resources include a solutions manual for instructors, lecture slides, and a set of student-oriented video lectures.

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  Machine Learning for Societal Improvement, Modernization, and Progress

  Vishnu S. Pendyala

  Machine Learning for Societal Improvement, Modernization, and Progress showcases the path-breaking applications of machine learning that are leading to the next generation of computing and living standards. The focus of the book is machine learning and its application to specific domains, which is resulting in substantial civilizational progress. Covering topics such as lifespan prediction, smart transportation networks, and socio-economic data, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for data scientists, industry leaders, practitioners, students and faculty of higher education, sociologists, researchers, and academicians.

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  Introduction to Quantum Computing: From a Layperson to a Programmer in 30 Steps

  Hiu Yung Wong

  This textbook introduces quantum computing to readers who do not have much background in linear algebra and quantum mechanics. The author targets undergraduate and master students who are willing to spend about 60 -90 hours seriously learning quantum computing. Readers will be able to write their program to simulate quantum computing algorithms and run on real quantum computers on IBM-Q. Moreover, unlike books that only give superficial and “hand-waving” explanations, this book uses exact formalism so readers can continue to pursue more advanced topics based on what they learn from this book.