Faculty Experts
From the discovery of new planets to the work of noted criminologists, SF State offers a wide variety of scholars who are the most distinguished in their fields. This directory identifies academics who possess insight and knowledge of diverse subjects and who are willing to work with journalists whenever possible. The faculty experts directory is compiled by the Office of Strategic Marketing and Communications.
If you need immediate assistance finding an expert, please call (415) 338-1665 or email pubcom@sfsu.edu.
Leticia Márquez-Magaña
Professor of Biology
Office Phone: (415) 338-3289
Email: marquez@sfsu.edu
As a Professor of Biology and Director of the Health Equity Research Lab and SF BUILD project, Leticia Márquez-Magaña works with transdisciplinary teams of scientists, health professionals and policy makers to make changes aimed at achieving equity and inclusion in health and science.
Areas of Expertise:
Educational and health disparities
Structural racism
STEM workforce development
Highest Degree: Ph.D., Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Marc Martin
Lecturer of Communication Studies
Office Phone: (415) 338-1597
Email: mamartin@sfsu.edu
Marc Martin is an expert in the fields of family, workplace, organizational mediation, arbitration and negotiation and meeting facilitation.
Areas of Expertise:
Conflict resolution
Highest Degree: Ph.D., Humanistic Psychology, Saybrook University
David Matsumoto
Professor of Psychology
Office Phone: (415) 338-1114
Email: dm@sfsu.edu
David Matsumoto's work on emotion and facial expressions includes research that suggests facial expressions are innate. His research on how emotion can be used to incite hostility among ideologically-based groups is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense's Minerva Initiative.
Areas of Expertise:
Facial expressions of emotion
Non-verbal behavior and gestures
Cross-cultural communication and cultural adjustment
Highest Degree: Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph McBride
Professor of Cinema
Office Phone: (415) 405-2169
Email: joemac809@gmail.com
Joseph McBride is an internationally recognized film historian, journalist and screenwriter. He has written or edited 17 books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg and John Ford. He has written three books on Orson Welles, and co-wrote the part for and appeared as a film critic in Welles' film "The Other Side of the Wind." His book on screenwriting, "Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless" was published in 2012. His most recent book, "Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit," is the result of McBride's more than three decades of personal investigation into the 1963 Kennedy assassination and the fatal shooting that same day of Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit. McBride served as a reporter, reviewer and columnist for "Daily Variety in Hollywood" for many years. His screenwriting credits include co-writing the cult-classic punk rock musical "Rock 'n' Roll High School" and five American Film Institute Life Achievement Award specials on CBS-TV. He has received a Writers Guild of America Award and four other WGA nominations, two Emmy Award nominations and a Canadian Film Awards Nomination.
Areas of Expertise:
Film history
Screenwriting
Orson Welles
Highest Degree: Ph.D. equivalency, San Francisco State University
Jason McDaniel
Associate Professor of Political Science
Office Phone: (415) 338-2736
Email: mcdaniel@sfsu.edu
Jason McDaniel is an expert in urban politics and voting behavior, with a particular emphasis on the influence of contextual effects on political behavior. McDaniel frequently comments in the media on issues surrounding political elections and electoral reform.
Areas of Expertise:
Urban politics
San Francisco politics
California state politics
Highest Degree: Ph.D., Political Science, University of Southern California
Jan Millsapps
Professor Emerita of Cinema
Office Phone: (415) 338-2518
Email: janm@sfsu.edu
Jan Millsapps is an expert in online and digital cinema. Millsapps' films have been shown at the Smithsonian Institute and de Young Museum among others.
Areas of Expertise:
Digital cinema
Interactive cinema
Animation
Highest Degree: Ph.D. Composition and Discourse, University of South Carolina
Masahiko Minami
Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures
Office Phone: (415) 338-7451
Email: mminami@sfsu.edu
Masahiko Minami is an expert in first and second language acquisition and learning and socio-cultural and computer-assisted approaches to language.
Areas of Expertise:
Japanese
Psycho- and socio- linguistics
Narrative and discourse
Highest Degree: Ph.D., Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University
Julia Miyaoka
Professor of Decision Sciences
Office Phone: (415) 338-6082
Email: jmiyaoka@sfsu.edu
Julia Miyaoka is an expert in supply chain management, who worked in manufacturing and industrial engineering positions at Applied Imaging, Baxter International and Raychem Corporation prior to coming to SF State.
Areas of Expertise:
Supply chain management
Highest Degree: Ph.D. Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University