Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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Maryam: A Woman of Bethlehem

Victoria Rue

Maryam: A Woman of Bethlehem is based on thirty interviews with Christians and Muslims who live and work in Bethlehem, Palestine; among them students, theologians, grandmothers, and activists. The interviewees speak of Mary as a protectress, a Palestinian mother, a childhood devotion, and icon of resistance. Performed at Dar Annadwa in Bethlehem, the play toured eight towns in Occupied Palestine, prompting reflection about the diverse perspectives of Mary and the un-interrogated role of gender in Palestinian religious, cultural and political life. The play is performed by two actresses who play twenty-two characters. The published play is in English and Arabic.
Nobody Wants Us

Stephen Morewitz

The documentary film, Nobody Wants Us, examines the impact of the Steamship Quanza controversy in September 1940 on U.S. immigration policy. Based on oral history interviews with Steamship Quanza survivors, analysis of archival documents from ship records, U.S Federal Court in Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. National Archives, U.S. State Department, and U,S. Department of Immigration and Naturalization, Nobody Wants Us shows how the U.S. State Department closed the visa program for political refugees and others fleeing Nazi Europe as a direct result of Steamship Quanza controversy
Secondary Impressions

Aaron Lington, Victoria Lington, and Pablo E. Furman

Secondary Impressions is an album performed and produced by Aaron Lington on baritone saxophone. This album, released on the Seattle-based Origin Classical record label features four contemporary classical works for baritone saxophone and piano. Collaborative artists on this album include San José State University faculty members Victoria Lington on piano and Pablo Furman as recording and mixing engineer. Music critic George W. Harris says of the album "[it is] ambitious in its simplicity and virtuosity."
Friction Stir Welding and Processing X

David Yan, Yuri Havanski, Rajiv S. Mishra, and Yukada Sato

This book is a compilation of the recent progress on friction stir technologies, including high-temperature applications, industrial applications, dissimilar alloy/materials, lightweight alloys, simulation, control, characterization, and derivative technologies. The volume offers a current look at friction stir welding technology from application to characterization and from modeling to R&D. Contributions document advances in application, controls, and simulation of the friction stir process to aid researchers in seeing the current state-of-the-art.
Eyes

Yoon Chung Han

Eyes is an interactive biometric data artwork that transforms human iris data into musical sound and 3D animated images. The idea is to allow the audience to explore their own identities through unique visual and sound generated by their iris patterns. This is based on iris recognition and image processing techniques. Selected iris images are printed in 3D sculptures, and sound generated from the data is replayed. This research-based artwork has an experimental system generating distinct sounds for each different iris data using visual features such as colors, patterns, brightness and size of the iris. It has potential to lead the new way of interpreting complicated datasets with the audiovisual output. More importantly, aesthetically beautiful, mesmerizing and a bit uncanny valley-effected artwork can create personalized art experience and multimodal interaction. Multi-sensory interpretations of the iris data art can lead to a new opportunity to reveal users’ narratives and create their own “sonic signature”, which will be able to trigger a new way of interaction in the fields of art and science.
Supporting Today’s Students in the Library: Strategies for Retaining and Graduating International, Transfer, First-Generation and Re-Entry Students

Ngoc-Yen Tran and Silke Higgins

Supporting Today’s Students in the Library: Strategies for Retaining and Graduating International, Transfer, First-Generation, and Re-Entry Students centers on how academic libraries are addressing the unique struggles of international students, transfer or commuter students, first-generation students, and re-entry or older-adult students. The book, purposefully chosen as an edited volume to represent a large variety of voices, focuses on strategies for retaining and graduating these student populations by exploring methods for overcoming barriers, discussing best practices for engaging students in research and information literacy topics, as well as providing a variety of services that support students beyond the classroom environment.
Keys

Gwendolyn Mok and H. Brent Heisinger

Keys features all solo piano performances composed by San José State University Alumni and Emeritus Professor Brent Heisinger. It includes several different pianists, all former faculty and alumni from the School of Music. Pianist Gwendolyn Mok is featured in 7 out of the 12 pieces, including a work composed for the Sacramento Waldorf School and an arrangement of Woody Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land.
Blockchain (Library Futures Series, Book 3)

Sandra Hirsh and Susan W. Alman

This book in the Library Futures Series examines blockchain technology, a concept with far-reaching implications for the future of record-keeping. Blockchain uses a distributed database (multiple devices not connected to a common processor) that organizes data into records (blocks) that have cryptographic validation. In this book, Hirsh and Alman build on their ongoing research to examine the use of blockchain and its possible consequences for academic, public, school, and special libraries, as well as the information professionals who sustain those institutions.
Wholehearted Librarianship: Finding Hope, Inspiration, and Balance

Michael Stephens

In this text, Stephens encourages curiosity and creativity in his students and all library workers by connecting trends from outside the profession to its bedrock values. With a humanist lens, he reflects on such topics as: how libraries can empower kindness; developing a coterie of kindred spirits at conferences outside libraryland; inspiring creativity in library patrons; the most effective professional development experiences; comfort, joy, and hygge in the library; the characteristics of compassionate leadership; how to contend with a devil's advocate; and mentoring new librarians. Stephens' perspective will reenergize your commitment to librarianship and the important work that libraries are doing every day.
Scenic Design for "The Language Archive"

Andrea Bechert

The Language Archive, written by Julia Cho, tells the whimsical, life-affirming chronicle of a linguist fighting to preserve the dying languages of far-flung cultures, only to neglect the promise and passion of his own. The scenic design for this beautiful piece flows seamlessly throughout the many locations within the play as elements glide on and off the stage. Interesting artifacts, pops of color and a rainbow of light panels are compartmentalized in monochromatic floor to ceiling stacks which line the stage, reflecting the inability of people to speak their hearts and relate to each other.
Introduction to Information Visualization: Transforming Data into Meaningful Information

Gerald Benoit

Introduction to Information Visualization: Transforming Data into Meaningful Information is for anyone interested in the art and science of communicating data to others. It shows readers how to transform data into something meaningful - information. Applying information visualization in research, service, teaching, and professional life requires a solid understanding of graphic design and the aesthetic along with hands-on skills and knowledge of data principles and software. This book is applicable to students in all domains, to researchers who need to understand how to create graphics that explain their data, and to professionals and administrators for professional development training. Website Designers and Human-Computer Interaction researchers will appreciate the backstory of designing interactive visualizations for the web.
Clinical and Psychological Perspectives on Foul Play

Stephen Morewitz

Clinical and Psychological Perspectives on Foul Play examines a wide range of factors that can influence how police determine foul play in possible homicide cases and in other possible crimes. It develops a new theory of uncertainty at micro, meso, and macro levels to explain how law professionals arrive at this decision. Specifically, it examines the extent to which uncertainty in these situations can be influenced by media coverage, family and community pressures, socioeconomic factors, demographic elements of victims, as well as police knowledge and resources. The latest research from the Foul Play Project and the Missing Persons Project are employed to support the recommendations in this book and to point the way toward further research in this area.
Moving Sounds: A Cultural History of Car Radio

Phylis West Johnson and Ian Punnett

Moving Sounds explores the unique animating symbiosis that develops whenever previously unrelated technologies become intertwined and form a mutually invigorating relationship. When "car" and "radio" became permanently inculcated, it changed how both cars and radio were designed and experienced. Moving Sounds is the first book-length study exploring the relationship between the car and the radio.
The Mama Dragon Monologues: Mormon Mothers of LGBTQ Kids Speak Out

Scott Sublett and Sue Bergin

The Mama Dragon Monologues was given a staged reading in Manhattan on June 24, 2019 at The Lounge on Dixon Place. It was directed by Leah Abrams of Undiscovered Works. The work, co-authored by Sue Bergin, uses the verbatim words of Mormon mothers of LGBTQ kids to explore the dramatic, moving stories of women torn between their Mormon faith and their love for a gay child. The play’s first staged reading was this spring at the Hammer4 Theater, co-presented by the San Jose Stage Company.
The Family Acid: California

Kate Steffens and Devon Steffens

The Family Acid: California showcases 50 years of California photography by Roger Steffens. Steffens began photographing while serving in the Vietnam War, and amassed an archive of hundreds of thousands of images. These slides and negatives sat in a closet until 2013, when his daughter and son, Kate and Devon, began scanning them and posting their finds to Instagram. Their Instagram account, The Family Acid, became a runaway success. The images they unearthed and included in the book cover a wealth of historic events and people, from Joan Baez leading anti-war protests at UC Berkeley to Bob Marley hanging out backstage.
Nicholas of Cusa and Times of Transition: Essays in Honor of Gerald Christianson

Jason Aleksander, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Donald Duclow

Nicholas of Cusa and Times of Transition is an edited volume comprising twenty essays that discuss and reflect on the historical context, ideas, and legacy of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464). The first part of the book includes essays addressing institutional issues in the Latin Church, including Schism, conciliarism, indulgences, and the possibility of dialogue with Muslims (particularly subsequent to the fall of Constantinople in 1453). The second part of the book includes essays on theological and philosophical themes, including nominalism, time, faith, religious metaphors, and prediction of the end times.
Advances in Global Leadership Vol: 11

Joyce Osland, Ming Li, and Mark E. Mendenhall

This volume continues to advance both global leadership research and practice by bridging and integrating conceptual, empirical and practitioner perspectives to provide a deeper understanding of this rapidly growing field of study. The work is a wonderful primer for anyone tasked with designing and assessing global leadership development programs for students. The Advances in Global Leadership series, with its finger firmly on the pulse of this exciting field, is a must-read book for scholars and practitioners alike.
Bioprocessing Technology for Production of Biopharmaceuticals and Bioproducts

Claire Komives and Weichang Zhou

Written for industrial and academic researchers and development scientists in the life sciences industry, Bioprocessing Technology for Production of Biopharmaceuticals and Bioproducts is a guide to the tools, approaches, and useful developments in bioprocessing. This important guide:

• Summarizes state-of-the-art bioprocessing methods and reviews applications in life science industries
• Includes illustrative case studies that review six milestone bio-products
• Discuses a wide selection of host strain types and disruptive bioprocess technologies
Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella

Gina Arnold

From Baby Boomers to millennials, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying literature, films, journalism, and other archival detritus of the countercultural era, Arnold looks closely at a number of large and well-known festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival, Woodstock, Altamont, Wattstax, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and others to map their cultural significance in the American experience. She finds that—far from being the utopian and communal spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves—these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market to consumers in its very best light.
Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy: A Unifying Pluralist Account

Bo Mou

This book explains a distinctive pluralist account of truth, jointly-rooted perspectivism (‘JRP’ for short). This explanation unifies various representative while philosophically interesting truth-concern approaches in early Chinese philosophy on the basis of people’s pre-theoretic “way-things-are-capturing” understanding of truth. It explains how JRP provides effective interpretative resources to identify and explain one unifying line that runs through those distinct truth-concern approaches and how they can thus talk with and complement each other and contribute to the contemporary study of the issue of truth. In so doing, the book also engages with some distinct treatments in the modern study of Chinese philosophy.
Secure and Smart Internet of Things: Using Blockchain and AI

Ahmed Banafa

By 2020, experts forecast that up to 28 billion devices will be connected to the Internet with only one third of them being computers, smartphones and tablets. The remaining two thirds will be other "devices"-- sensors, terminals, household appliances, thermostats, televisions, automobiles, production machinery, urban infrastructure and many other "things" -- which traditionally have not been Internet enabled. This "Internet of Things" (IoT) represents a remarkable transformation of the way in which our world will soon interact. Much like the World Wide Web connected computers to networks, and the next evolution connected people to the Internet and other people, IoT looks poised to interconnect devices, people, environments, virtual objects and machines in ways that only science fiction writers could have imagined. In a nutshell, the Internet of Things (IoT) is the convergence of connecting people, things, data and processes. It is transforming our life, business and everything in between. Secure and Smart Internet of Things explores many aspects of the Internet of Things and explains many of the completed principles of IoT and the new advances in IoT including the use of Fog Computing, AI, and Blockchain technology.
Human-Computer Interaction and Cybersecurity Handbook

Abbas Moallem

Cyber security, or information technology security, focuses on protecting computers and data from criminal behavior. The understanding of human performance, capability, and behavior is one of the main areas that experts in cyber security focus on, both from a human computer interaction point of view, and human factors. This handbook is a unique source of information from the human factors perspective that covers all topics related to the discipline. It includes new areas such as smart networking and devices and will be a source of information for IT specialists, as well as other disciplines such as psychology, behavioral science, software engineering, and security management.
Chinese Philosophy

Bo Mou

Chinese philosophy has been shaped over the last 3000 years by various movements, schools of philosophical thought, philosophical ways of thinking and their thinkers. The rich resources of Chinese philosophy and their value and significance to the common philosophical enterprise, especially to the development of contemporary philosophy and contemporary society, have been recognized, captured and elaborated through contemporary philosophical scholarship in studied of Chinese philosophy. Through a comprehensive survey of relevant substantial writings in this scholarship, this collection will provide a systematic, in-depth but accessible, and up-to-date examination of major resources of Chinese philosophy in view of how they can substantially contribute to various topics and issues in philosophy.

The collection will be organized into four distinct but complementary volumes which as a whole give a synoptic view of the major issues, conceptions, approaches, and current engaging exploration in studies of Chinese philosophy. With an introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Chinese Philosophy provides everything a scholar needs to break into the field, and is an invaluable reference work for the expert.
Breaking the Mold: San Jose's Oldest Foundry

Philip Krayna

Featuring portraits and stories of workers at the oldest metal foundry in San Jose, this collection of photographs documents the changing face of manufacturing and heavy industry in rapidly-evolving Silicon Valley.
By the Lemon Tree

Keenan Norris

Set in the Central California countryside and the Southern California desert, By the Lemon Tree's old school stories chronicle the collision of wide-eyed childhood with the end of lives human and animal. In "Twice Good" a downtrodden city administrator shows up for a Black Panther protest forty years too late. "Funeral in Fresno" introduces us to an impatient reverend who is forced to confront his past and his future, while in the title story, a young boy born and raised in East Oakland bears witness to life and death in an ancient rural world.