Chuck Darrah (Anthropology)

Austen Warburton Award 2012

Chuck Darrah is a cultural anthropologist and chair of the Department of Anthropology at San José State University. His research has focused on work and workplaces, families, and technology. He co-founded the Silicon Valley Cultures Project and the Human Aspiration and Design Laboratory (HADLab), both at San José State University. His book, Learning and Work: An Exploration in Industrial Ethnography, is based on fieldwork in two manufacturing plants and focuses on how people become incorporated into communities of practice through work. Busier Than Ever! (with J. M. Freeman and J. A. English-Lueck) discusses busyness in American life. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the John and James Knight Foundation, and Kaiser Permanente. He is a co-founder of Design Practices Collaborative and consults in both the public and private sectors.

Dayana Salazar (Urban and Regional Planning)

CoSS Meritorious Service Award 2012 and
SJSU Distinguished Service Award

Dayana Salazar is a Professor at San José State University’s Urban Planning Department specializing in participatory community planning and development. She leads students out of the classroom to work with the community towards improving the quality of life in local neighborhoods. Under her leadership, teams of faculty and students have developed neighborhood improvement plans in close partnership with more than 12 diverse, low-income neighborhoods in the South San Francisco Bay area. The neighborhoods and local government agencies have used the neighborhood improvement plans to direct well over 30 million in public funds towards implementing community-identified priorities. Professor Salazar also serves as Executive Director for a multisector team of faculty, community residents, community benefit organizations, and city agencies that power CommUniverCity San José, a unique partnership between a neighborhood near the campus (community), San José State (university), and the City of San José (city) focusing collective resources, knowledge, and expertise on neighborhood-driven priorities. Read about Dayana Salazar at SJSU Today.

Kenneth Peter (Political Science)

CoSS Teaching Excellence Award 2012

Kenneth Peter was raised in Idaho and educated at Stanford, Chicago, and Princeton. He was fortunate to have been influenced by several truly gifted teachers of political theory, including Nan Keohane, Brian Barry, Joe Cropsey, Sheldon Wolin, and Dennis Thompson. One could hardly pick a more diverse set of teachers, and Ken turned into a methodological eclectic. After finishing his Ph.D., Ken returned to his undergraduate roots and taught for two years in Stanford's program in Structured Liberal Education (SLE), a residential great books program. Following, he earned a permanent position at San José State, where he has taught all of our political theory courses as well as introductory American politics. Recently he has also taught for the Humanities Honors sequence, which has been one of the great intellectual challenges of his life. Ken agrees with Aristotle that “teaching is the highest form of scholarship.”

Genelle Austin-Lett (Communications Studies)

SJSU Outstanding Lecturer 2012

Read about Genelle Austin-Lett at SJSU Today.

Kevin Jordan (Psychology)

Principal Investigator in a $73.3 Million NASA Research Award 

Read about the NASA research award granted to Kevin Jordan at SJSU Today.

DAYANA SALAZAR (URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING)

CommUniverCity Receives National Award for
Innovative Partnership That Reduced Crime

Read about the national MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Award for CommUniverCity at SJSU Today.

Peter Haas (Political Science)

Austen Warburton Award 2011

Jan English-Lueck (Anthropology)

Meritorious Service Award 2011

Mary Pickering (History)

University Outstanding Scholar 2011

Faculty Awards 2010

CoSS Meritorious Service Award 2010

Maria Luisa Alaniz (Social Science Department)

Austen D. Warburton Award 2010

Mary Pickering (History)

FACULTY AWARDS 2009

CoSS Meritorious Service Award 2009

Mark Van Selst (Psychology)

Austen D. Warburton Award 2009

William Reckmeyer (Anthropology)