Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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  Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy: A Constructive-Engagement Account

  Bo Mou

  This book presents a systematic unifying-pluralist account—a "constructive-engagement" account—of how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is possible. The goal of this "constructive-engagement" account is, by way of reflective criticism, argumentation, and methodological guiding principles, to inquire into how distinct approaches from different philosophical traditions can talk to and learn from each other for the sake of making joint contributions to the contemporary development of philosophy.

  In Part I of the book, Bo Mou explores a range of fundamental theoretic and methodological issues in cross-tradition philosophical engagement and philosophical interpretation. In Part II, he analyzes several representative case studies that demonstrate how relevant resources in the Western and Chinese philosophical traditions can constructively engage with each other. These studies cover issues in philosophical methodology, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and logic, and ethics. The book’s theoretical and practical approaches expand the vision, coverage, and agenda of doing philosophy comparatively, and promote worldwide joint efforts of cross-tradition philosophical inquiries.

  Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy will be of interest to graduate students and scholars interested in comparative philosophy and the intersection of Chinese and Western philosophy. It will also appeal to those who are interested in the ways in which cross-tradition philosophical engagement can enhance contemporary philosophical debates in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and logic, and ethics.

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  Roads in You

  Yoon Chung Han

  Roads in You (previously named as Roads of your veins) is an interactive biometric-data artwork that allows participants to scan their veins and find the roads that match their vein lines. The vein data as one of the fascinating forms of biometric data contain uniquely complicated lines that resemble the roads and paths surrounding us. The roads resemble how our vein lines are interconnected and how the blood circulates in our bodies in various directions, at various speeds, and in different conditions. This new artwork explores the line segmentation and the structure of veins and compares them to roads in the real world. The participants can also export the data and keep them as a personalized souvenir (3d printed sculptures) as part of the artistic experience. Through this project, users can explore the correlation between individuals and environments using the hidden patterns under the skin and the vein recognition techniques, image processing and artificial intelligence. This project also has the potential to lead the way in the interpretation of complicated datasets while providing aesthetically beautiful and mesmerizing visualizations.

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  Stand Up and Shout Out: Women’s Fight for Equal Pay, Equal Rights, and Equal Opportunities in Sports

  Joan Steidinger

  Today, women have greater opportunities to participate in sport than ever before, particularly due to the passage of Title IX in 1972. Yet, despite all this growth, women still struggle to hold leadership positions, become coaches of both girls and boys teams, receive equal pay, and get even adequate coverage in the media.

  In Stand Up and Shout Out: Women's Fight for Equality in Sports, Joan Steidinger explores the three crucial areas in sport that remain huge concerns for women: leadership, money, and media. Steidinger looks at the number of ways in which women experience vast inequalities by examining topics such as the politics of sport, sexual assault, the #MeToo movement, pay equity, women in coaching positions, and the experiences of women of color and LGBTQ athletes. Interviews with leading authorities in the field and prominent female athletes are interwoven throughout to add both expert and personal perspectives to the conversation.

  Stand Up and Shout Out does more than justinform readers about these important issues; its purpose is to create enlightened discussions around the unequal treatment of women and present readers with “action steps” so we can all become active contributors toward improving this situation. This is an ideal time to fight for women’s equality in sport, as it draws attention to the growing need for advocacy for girls and women around the world in all areas of life.

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  Wall of Song's FEELING GOOD (V.2)

  Mel Day and Akilah R. Carter-Francique

  Since 2019, San Jose State University’s renowned Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change and The Wall of Song Project have been inviting athletes, fans, students and community supporters to sing FEELING GOOD—the song made famous by Nina Simone—as an anthem of solidarity and a call to action for women’s sport and a more equitable, racially just community. At heart a collaborative project, hundreds have already added their voices to our growing, inclusive video chorus.

  This ongoing art, film, performance, and sports stadia singing project of FEELING GOOD acknowledges, celebrates, and builds upon the deep legacy of Black athlete activism at SJSU, the birthplace of The Olympic Project for Human Rights. Through it, we explore the ways in which art and collective singing rituals can, despite our social realities, embolden our voices to support women’s athletics and work towards a more inclusive community—particularly for Black and Indigenous women, girls, and non-binary athletes of color, who live at the intersection of racial injustice and gender inequity.

  FEELING GOOD launched in February 2020, as part of a San Jose State women’s basketball game halftime sports stadium flash singing event in concert with National Girls & Women in Sports Day in collaboration with a number of campus and community partners. See this highlight reel to learn more about our inaugural event.

  Add your voice to the Wall of Song Project.

  Credits: Virtual multi-channel video installation (3-D animation, 2021)
  Directed and produced by: Mel Day, artist, SJSU Interdisciplinary Art Lecturer, Wall of Song Project co-founder
  3-D modeling and video editing: SJSU Digital Media Arts graduate student, Kiki Wu
  After effects, sound: Justin Edwards
  Soprano soloist: Danielle Marie
  Musical arrangement: Dr. Craig McKenzie, SJSU Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Director of Bands, Director of Athleteic Bands, School of Music & Dance

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  Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering

  Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu

  Historicizing Fear is a historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history. The book examines fear and Othering from a historical context, providing a better understanding of how power and oppression are used in the present day.

  Contributors ground their work in the theory of Othering—the reductive action of labeling a person as someone who belongs to a subordinate social category defined as the Other—in relation to historical events, demonstrating that fear of the Other is universal, timeless, and interconnected. Chapters address the music of neo-Nazi white power groups, fear perpetuated through the social construct of black masculinity in a racially hegemonic society, the terror and racial cleansing in early twentieth-century Arkansas, the fear of drug-addicted Vietnam War veterans, the creation of fear by the Tang Dynasty, and more.

  Timely, provocative, and rigorously researched, Historicizing Fear shows how the Othering of members of different ethnic groups has been used to propagate fear and social tension, justify state violence, and prevent groups or individuals from gaining equality. Broadening the context of how fear of the Other can be used as a propaganda tool, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, anthropology, political science, popular culture, critical race issues, social justice, and ethnic studies, as well as the general reader concerned with the fearful framing prevalent in politics.

  To learn more about Dr. Boyce's work, watch this video from NBCLX, Your Fear Response Is Powerful and Easily Manipulated.

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  Structural Concrete: Theory and Design

  M. Nadim Hassoun and Akthem Al-Manaseer

  The leading structural concrete design reference for over two decades—updated to reflect the latest ACI 318-19 code

  A go-to resource for structural engineering students and professionals for over twenty years, this newly updated text on concrete structural design and analysis reflects the most recent ACI 318-19 code. It emphasizes student comprehension by presenting design methods alongside relevant codes and standards. It also offers numerous examples (presented using SI units and US-SI conversion factors) and practice problems to guide students through the analysis and design of each type of structural member.

  New to Structural Concrete: Theory and Design, Seventh Edition are code provisions for transverse reinforcement and shear in wide beams, hanger reinforcement, and bi-directional interaction of one-way shear. This edition also includes the latest information on two-way shear strength, ordinary walls, seismic loads, reinforcement detailing and analysis, and materials requirements. This book covers the historical background of structural concrete; advantages and disadvantages; codes and practice; and design philosophy and concepts. It then launches into a discussion of the properties of reinforced concrete, and continues with chapters on flexural analysis and design; deflection and control of cracking; development length of reinforcing bars; designing with the strut-and-tie method; one-way slabs; axially loaded columns; and more.

  • Updated to align with the new ACI 318-19 code with new code provisions to include: transverse reinforcement and shear in wide beams, hanger reinforcement, bi-directional interaction of one-way shear, and reference to ACI certifications
  • Includes dozens of worked examples that explain the analysis and design of structural members
  • Offers updated information on two-way shear strength, seismic loads, materials requirements, and more
  • Improves the design ability of students by explaining code requirements and restrictions
  • Provides examples in SI units in every chapter as well as conversion factors from customary units to SI
  • Offers instructors access to a solutions manual via the book's companion website

  Structural Concrete: Theory and Design, Seventh Edition is an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate students in civil and structural engineering programs. It will also benefit concrete designers, structural engineers, and civil engineers focused on structures.

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  The Map to Wholeness: Real-Life Stories of Crisis, Change, and Reinvention--Your Guide through the 13 Phases of Transformation

  Suzy Ross

  Author provided description: "We need only talk to neighbors, overhear conversations at a coffee shop, or chat with colleagues to be reminded that transformation is happening within all around us. In our own social circle, there is always someone and something that is that is catalyzed by a major turn of events: sending a child off to college, returning from military duty, changing careers, benefiting from a housing bubble, or surviving the pandemic. Impactful happenings like these constitute the visible half of transformation and this book brings the hidden half that most people are likely experiencing right now.

  The Map to Wholeness mobilizes Suzy Ross’ doctoral research by leading the reader through the intimate details of two ordinary individuals’ lives as they progress through the 13-phases of transformation. Radha Stern and Kenny Johnson’s rousing stories will inspire you through the Figure-8 Map as you grow, despite extraordinary challenges, and are re-created as a happier, healthier, and entirely new you."

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  Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments

  Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers

  Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities is a peer-reviewed, curated collection of reusable and remixable resources for teaching and research. Organized by keyword, the annotated artifacts can be saved in collections for future reference or sharing. Each keyword includes a curatorial statement and artifacts that exemplify that keyword. You can read the keywords comprehensively, as you would a printed collection, and browse artifacts, exploring certain types or subject matter. For other ideas about using this collection, see the introduction, Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.

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  Tools and Techniques for Software Development in Large Organizations: Emerging Research and Opportunities

  Vishnu Pendyala

  The development of software has expanded substantially in recent years. As these technologies continue to advance, well-known organizations have begun implementing these programs into the ways they conduct business. These large companies play a vital role in the economic environment, so understanding the software that they utilize is pertinent in many aspects. Researching and analyzing the tools that these corporations use will assist in the practice of software engineering and give other organizations an outline of how to successfully implement their own computational methods.

  Tools and Techniques for Software Development in Large Organizations: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that discusses advanced software methods that prominent companies have adopted to develop high quality products. This book will examine the various devices that organizations such as Google, Cisco, and Facebook have implemented into their production and development processes. Featuring research on topics such as database management, quality assurance, and machine learning, this book is ideally designed for software engineers, data scientists, developers, programmers, professors, researchers, and students seeking coverage on the advancement of software devices in today’s major corporations.

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  The Surrogate

  Amy Glazer

  Shot entirely on location in the Bay Area incorporating many SJSU students and alumni in front of and behind the camera, The Surrogate was written, directed, and produced by women. It is a contemporary look at a Bay Area group of diverse 40-something friends as they grapple with life’s next chapter, surrogacy, parenthood, and the ramifications of hiring a surrogate to have their next child. The Surrogate explores the messy secrets and complicated nature of parenthood and the modern family, all the while testing the boundaries of love and friendship and the bioethics of surrogacy.

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  Advances in Global Leadership Vol: 12

  Joyce S. Osland, B. Sebastian Reiche, Betina Szkudlarek, 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.

  Part I brings together conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative work to present innovative foundational research on the concept and processes of global leadership and global competence development.

  Part II, the Practitioner's Corner, features chapters and interviews with pioneers in the field and the lessons they learned from decades of global leadership development in university, corporate and government settings.

  The editors conclude with an analysis of the global leadership research published in 2018 and its implications. 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.

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  Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy

  Ahmet Atay and Deanna L. Fassett

  Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy explores the role of both traditional and new media in critical communication pedagogy. This edited volume addresses not only how new and other forms of media serve as tools towards social justice in the communication classroom, but also how those media transform the classroom interaction itself in empowering and disempowering ways. Contributors describe and assess how particular instances of media use—particularly the use of new media technologies—support or challenge critical communication pedagogy. Each chapter engages in critical analysis of how to effectively use particular mediums in the classroom, how classroom communication is affected by uses of new media, and particular instances of critical communication pedagogy in teaching. Scholars of communication and education will find this book particularly useful.

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  Recommender System for Improving Customer Loyalty

  Katarzyna Tarnowska, Zbigniew W. Ras, and Lynn Daniel

  New and innovative products have begun appearing from a wide variety of countries, which has increased the need to improve the customer experience. This book presents the Recommender System for Improving Customer Loyalty. This is only one of many studies that illustrate the measurable value of providing a better service experience.

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  A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture

  Carlos Alberto Sánchez

  Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture that appears to feed on murder and brutality while being fed by a romanticism about power and capital. Carlos Alberto Sánchez uses Mexican narco-culture as a point of departure for thinking about the nature and limits of violence, culture, and personhood. A Sense of Brutality argues that violent cultural modalities, of which narco-culture is but one, call into question our understanding of “violence” as a concept. The reality of narco-violence suggests that “violence” itself is insufficient to capture it, that we need to redeploy and reconceptualize “brutality” as a concept that better captures this reality. Brutality is more than violence, other to cruelty, and distinct from horror and terror—all concepts that are normally used interchangeably with brutality, but which, as the analysis suggests, ought not to be. In narco-culture, the normalization of brutality into everyday life is a condition upon which the absolute erasure or derealization of people is made possible.

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  Color + Shape

  Kim Uhlik

  KIM S. UHLIK: ARTIST STATEMENT

  As a trained cARTographer, I adhere to the principles of simplification, generalization, and selection, and thus to the use of (most often two-dimensional) "pure" geographic forms (point, line, triangles, quadrangles, and arcs / circles), alone and in combination.

  When expressed using a palette comprised of the three primary colors foundational both to the additive and to the subtractive schema - and black and white - the resulting artwork exhibits crisp lines, well defined figures, distinctive colors, and ample "space" in which to roam, explore, and play.

  Exclusive of my digital photography prints, my career-long preference has been for oil paint (and, more recently, acrylic) on large canvasses - reminiscent of the modernist painters - to produce contemporary works that "breathe," and are more human in scale: visually intriguing, yet accessible.

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  A Doll's House

  Henrik Ibsen, Kirsten Brandt, and Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey

  Nora’s life is on the upswing. Her husband got a promotion, and their financial struggles are over at last. But when a man from her past reappears, bent on bringing a dangerous secret to light, everything changes: her marriage, her family, even her relationship to the world around her. This new adaptation of the play brings audiences closer than ever to Ibsen’s spellbinding masterwork.

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  Building Enterprise IoT Applications

  Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

  McKinsey Global Institute predicts Internet of Things (IoT) could generate up to $11.1 trillion a year in economic value by 2025. Gartner Research Company expects 20 billion inter-connected devices by 2020 and, as per Gartner, the IoT will have a significant impact on the economy by transforming many enterprises into digital businesses and facilitating new business models, improving efficiency and increasing employee and customer engagement. It is clear from above and the research conducted in this work that the IoT is a game changer and will have huge positive impact in the foreseeable future. In order to harvest the benefits of the IoT revolution, the traditional software development paradigms must be fully upgraded. The mission of this book is to prepare current and future software engineering teams with the skills and tools to fully utilize IoT capabilities.

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  Militarization: A Reader

  Roberto J. González, Hugh Gusterson, and Gustaaf Houtman

  This book offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon. It portrays militarism as the condition in which military values and frameworks come to dominate state structures and public culture, both in foreign relations and the domestic sphere. Featuring short, readable essays by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, cultural theorists, and media commentators, the Reader probes militarism's ideologies, including those that valorize warriors, armed conflict, and weaponry. Outlining contemporary militarization processes at work around the world, the book offers a wide-ranging examination of a phenomenon that touches the lives of billions of people.

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  Profiles of Academic Library Efforts to Develop Information Literacy Tutorials

  Anamika Megwalu

  The study depicts the efforts of 4 university libraries– Georgetown University Law School Library, Yale University’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Arizona State University Library and Florida State University Libraries.

  Each highly detailed profile portrays how the library plans for, chooses, develops, implements, markets and evaluates their information literacy tutorials, focusing on tools used, strategies deployed, and lessons learned. Each participant gives their advice on how to develop tutorials, helping to answer questions such as: What are the library’s most frequently used tutorials? How does the library determine when to develop a tutorial? When does the library develop its own and when does it turn to other sources? How are tutorial design objectives adjusted to meet the needs of various schools and programs? To what extent can resources and strategies be shared among many libraries on a major university campus and what are the rewards – and pitfalls – of doing so? What programs are used for voice over, storyline development, testing and distribution? How can tutorials serve the needs of international students, distance learning students and other groups that may have specialized needs? What means are used to assure that tutorials are compliant with the American Disabilities Act standards? How are tutorials evaluated and what changes can result when they are?

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  Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies: Essays in Honor of Sharon Crowley

  Ryan Skinnell, Andrea Alden, Kendall Gerdes, and Judy Holiday

  Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies collects original scholarship that adopt the practices of inventive theorizing that characterize Sharon Crowley’s work. Doing theory, in this sense, entails surveying the common sense of a community and discovering available means of persuasion. Reinventing (with) Theory shows that doing theory is a continual process that is indispensable for understanding situations and their potential significance, the ultimate goal of which is not to prescribe certain actions but to ascertain what options exist to see the world differently, to discover new possibilities for thought and action, and to effect change in the world.

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  Unleash the Dragon Within: Transform Your Life with the Kung-Fu Animals of Ch’ien-Lung

  Steven Macramalla

  A cognitive psychologist and respected martial art instructor brings to life the Animals of Ch’ien-lung, and how to live the martial art philosophy on and off the mat. The martial art offers not only self-defense but promotes psychological health and well-being. Keen on detail, big in scope, Unleash the Dragon Within shows how to tap into the Cat and Snake archetypes and the aspects of mind and body they represent.

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  Housing Recovery After Disasters

  Frances Edwards

  Recent disasters have demonstrated the critical role that re-housing victims plays in communities’ long term disaster recovery. Scholars have examined the stages of re-housing and comprehensive recovery for over forty years, yet few communities have plans for reestablishing the “whole community” following a disaster. Recent studies of landscape-level disasters have shown that debris removal, bonding social capital, housing production, return of services, economic revitalization and reestablishing permanent residency are intertwined. This book examines the history and theories of rehousing, the role of bonding social capital, applies systems theory to understanding the stages of recovery, then presents case studies of long term housing recovery.

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  Enterprise and Application Frameworks

  Mohamed Fayad

  Object-Oriented Enterprise and Application Frameworks are designed to reduce the complexity and cost of enterprise systems. Therefore, applications have become strategic assets for organizations across all business sectors. Evidence of this is reflected in the many enterprise and application frameworks of flexible and extensible products.

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  Modern Panama: From Occupation to Crossroads of the Americas

  Michael Conniff and Gene L. Bigler

  The 1977 Panama Canal Treaty began a process of turning the Canal over to Panama by 1999, setting the stage for the country to finally control all its territory and benefit fully from its geographical location. This book portrays just how Panamanians took advantage of this newfound independence. Panamanians gained a deeper sense of their own nationhood and identity after the transfer of the Canal. Since the year 2000, Panamanians have managed the Canal with great efficiency and turned it into an engine of economic growth and national integration. In the 40 years covered by this book Panama has become a mature and prosperous nation.

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  Reproductive Justice and Sexual Rights: Transnational Perspectives

  Tanya Saroj Bakhru

  This book takes an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and transnational approach, presenting work that will provide the reader with a nuanced and in-depth understanding of the role of globalization in the sexual and reproductive lives of gendered bodies in the 21st century. Reproductive Justice and Sexual Rights: Transnational Perspectives draws on reproductive justice and transnational feminism as frameworks to explore and make sense of the reproductive and sexual experiences of various groups of women and marginalized people around the world.