Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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  Introduction to Quantum Computing

  Ahmed Banafa

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  Management Across Cultures: Challenges, Strategies and Skills (5th Edition)

  Joyce Osland

  The 5th revision of this textbook presents the latest and most important theories, research, and practices in global management. The textbook is designed for courses in cross-cultural and international management at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It contains a rich assortment of management applications that feature the experiences of one hundred companies and fifty global managers from thirty different countries. The book emphasizes a skill development model that enhances students' acquisition of global knowledge as well as key global competencies. The extensive Instructor's Manual is designed to help professors be as well-prepared and effective as possible in the classroom -- no matter what didactic approach they prefer.

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  Singular Spaces II: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments

  Jo Farb Hernandez

  This groundbreaking study of art environments created by self-taught artists across Spain introduces 99 sites featuring idiosyncratic sculptures, homes, and gardens, most of which have never been previously published and analyzed. Detailed case studies of each are contextualized with historical and theoretical references to a broad range of interlocking fields, including art history, anthropology, vernacular architecture, Spanish area studies, and folklore; each chapter is complemented with compelling visuals. Breaking down the standard compartmentalization of genres, Hernández reveals how these creators fuse their work with their daily life in a way generally unmatched in any other circumstances of making art.

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  The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication, Second Edition

  Rona Tamiko Halualani and Thomas K. Nakayama

  The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication stands as the premier collection of contemporary and relevant readings that define, delineate, and inhabit what it means to “do critical intercultural communication.” This handbook features the latest research and contributions from leading scholars in the field, covering core theoretical, methodological, and applied works that give shape to the arena of critical intercultural communication studies. This is the only handbook to cover the state and nature of critical intercultural communication studies.

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  Public Art as Resistance in San Jose

  Katherine D. Harris, Kerri J. Malloy, and Alena Sauzade

  Public Art as Resistance in San José, an ongoing project with a series of activities that investigates the history of resistance embedded in downtown San José public art. The research required to create a walking tour, panel of art experts, and community exhibit each act as sites of community dialogue and engagement that can afford agency through art. The primary resulting activity, a guided walking tour, begins on the urban campus of San José State University and continues through downtown San José, highlighting a history of resistance and community empowerment through twelve unique works of public art. While the art works that make up this tour are among the many murals, monuments, sculptures and ephemeral pieces of pieces of public art in this area and in the city at large, this particular walking tour takes a singular approach by considering how San José’s communities actively challenge narrow and exclusionary interpretations of local history through public art creation. The digital footprint for this project as a static website and a self-guided tour using a free mobile app, will be amplified with proposed funding requests to the National Endowment for the Humanities to create an augmented reality version in a unique mobile app that will create a sustainable digital representation of this tour and all of its collaborative partnerships. We continue to add works of art (and unfortunately retire some due to demolition of murals on buildings) with each successful funding. The activities inherent to building this project may become one of the future HonorsX courses and continue the tradition of our SJSU students becoming tour guides and experts about the social justice of public art.

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  Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems: ICCCES 2022

  Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

  This book includes high-quality research papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems (ICCCES 2022), held at the PPG Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India, on September 15–16, 2022. The book focuses mainly on the research trends in cloud computing, mobile computing, artificial intelligence and advanced electronics systems. The topics covered are automation, VLSI, embedded systems, optical communication, RF communication, microwave engineering, artificial intelligence, deep learning, pattern recognition, communication networks, Internet of things, cyber-physical systems and healthcare informatics.

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  Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging

  Binh Danh

  Binh Danh was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the US in 1979. Early in his career, Danh pioneered printing images directly onto plant matter, activating the plants’ chlorophyll with sunlight. Using this process, Danh printed images associated with the war in Vietnam onto the leaves of tropical plants and grasses. Danh has traveled across the American West for almost a decade, making daguerreotypes of scenic. Danh imbues this scenery with his distinctly personal perspective—an attempt to negotiate his connection as a Vietnamese American with the landscape and history of the United States. This monograph features two volumes, bringing together bodies of work and a separate book of essays and memorabilia that contextualizes Danh's work.

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  Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics for Food Security

  Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

  Climate change, increasing population, food-versus-fuel economics, pandemics, etc. pose a threat to food security to unprecedented levels. It has fallen upon the practitioners of agriculture and technologists of the world to innovate and become more productive to address the multi-pronged food security challenges. Agricultural innovation is key to managing food security concerns. The infusion of data science, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics, satellites data, geospatial data, climatology, sensor technologies, and climate modeling with traditional agricultural practices such as soil engineering, fertilizers use, and agronomy are some of the best ways to achieve this. Data science helps farmers to unravel patterns in fertilizer pricing, equipment usage, transportation and storage costs, yield per hectare, and weather trends to better plan and spend resources. AI enables farmers to learn from fellow farmers to apply best techniques that are transferred learning from AI to improve agricultural productivity and to achieve financial sustainability. Sensor technologies play an important role in getting real-time farm field data and provide feedback loops to improve overall agricultural practices and can yield huge productivity gains. Advanced Analytics modeling is essential software technique that codifies farmers’ tacit knowledge such as better seed per soil, better feed for dairy cattle breed, or production practices to match weather pattern that was acquired over years of their hard work to share with worldwide farmers to improve overall production efficiencies, the best antidote to food security issue. In addition to the paradigm shift, economic sustainability of small farms is a major enabler of food security. The book reviews all these technological advances and proposes macroeconomic pricing models that data mines macroeconomic signals and the influence of global economic trends on small farm sustainability to provide actionable insights to farmers to avert any financial disasters due to recurrent economic crises.

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

  Carrie Holmberg and Brent Duckor

  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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  Lightweight, High-Torque, and Cost-Effective Hip Exoskeleton

  Mojtaba Sharifi

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  Steady and Measured: Benner C. Turner, A Black College President in the Jim Crow South

  Travis D. Boyce

  Steady and Measured chronicles the life, and reassesses the career, of Benner C. Turner, an African American collegiate president at South Carolina State College, a historically black college in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Although critical of civil rights activism on campus, he championed black education through the pragmatic leadership of his struggling institution.

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  Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

  Christopher Smallwood

  This book provides an introduction to optical multidimensional coherent spectroscopy, a relatively new method of studying materials based on using ultrashort light pulses to perform spectroscopy. The technique has been developed and perfected over the last 25 years, resulting in multiple experimental approaches and applications to a broad array of systems ranging from atoms and molecules to solids and biological systems.

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  Public Obsceneties

  Sukanya Chakrabarti

  When Choton returns to Kolkata on a research trip with his Black American boyfriend Raheem, his grandfather’s photograph stares down at him from the walls of his family home. Choton loves being the translator, toggling nimbly between Bangla and English, interviewing queer locals, showing Raheem his world. But through the lens of Choton’s grandfather’s old camera, Raheem begins to notice things Choton can’t. 'Public Obscenities' is a bilingual play about the things we see, the things we miss, and the things that turn us on.

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  San Jose.STL

  Yoon Chung Han

  San José.STL is the culmination of a San José State University-based project that included two creative learning workshops intended to introduce community members to the technology and creative potential of 3D printing. Offered in partnership with Chopsticks Alley Art and the San José Museum of Art, the first workshop took place at the Olinder Community Center in March 2023, and was led by artist Behnaz Farahi. The second workshop, led by UK-based artist Michael Eden, was held at the San José Museum of Art a month later. The free workshops were organized by SJSU Professor Yoon Chung Han, and served a broad cross section of San José’s diverse community. The exhibition is not only a celebration of the outcome, but of curiosity and creativity, community connections, and the power of collaboration.

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  Scenic design for "Fannie - The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer"

  Andrea Bechert

  I was the Scenic Designer for the production of "Fannie - The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer" at the TheatreWorks which opened at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto on March 8, 2023. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor). I can provide a ¼”=1’-0” scale color model, paint elevations, and drafting.

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  Specialty Crops for Climate Change Adaptation: Strategies for Enhanced Food Security by Using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

  Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

  Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops including floriculture. The value of specialty crop production in the United States accounted for 18.44 % of the $433.569 billion in agriculture cash receipts collected in 2021. In 2020, that ratio was 21.47% of the $363.464 billion. Specialty crops are gaining increasing attention across nation as demonstrated in the 2018 farm bill (Agricultural Act of the 2018 Farm Bill (P.L. 115-334)) with the increased number of provisions addressing specialty crop issues, reflecting their growing role in the global economy. The cultivation of Specialty crops, nevertheless, has its own challenges. Specialty crops are generally more sensitive to climatic stressors and require more comprehensive management compared to traditional row crops. Specialty crops face significant financial risks threatening US$1.6 Trillion global market due to their higher water demand. The mission of the book is to prepare current and future software engineering teams, agriculture students, economists, macroeconomists with the skills and tools to fully utilize advanced data science, artificial intelligence, climate patterns, and economic models to develop software capabilities that help to achieve Specialty crops and economic sustainability, through improved productivity for years to come and ensure enough food for the future of the planet and generations to come!

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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."