Tools and Tips: Engaging and Supporting Faculty in Research, Scholarly & Creative Activity
Mar 22, 2024 3:00pm Eastern/noon Pacific-4:00pm Eastern/1:00pm Pacific
In this presentation, Annie Buckley, the Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement at San Diego State University’s College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts, will share the processes she used to support faculty in our College in their research, scholarly, and creative activities efforts, with a focus on engaging interested faculty in external funding. Buckley’s diverse College includes seven Schools in disciplines spanning the arts and professional studies, and she is the first person appointed to a role specifically designed to support research, scholarly, and creative activities. Since starting this work two years ago, the College’s external grants have expanded significantly each year. Buckley will be joined by Yin Yu, Assistant Professor and Head of Interior Architecture in the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts, to discuss a specific project that was supported by Buckley’s efforts.
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Speakers
Annie Buckley
Annie Buckley is an artist, writer, curator, and award-winning educator and leader with an emphasis on art and social justice. Her work embraces image, text, and social practice and has been including in exhibitions for three decades. She is the author of more than 250 reviews and essays in leading publications including Artforum, Art in America, The Huffington Post, and Los Angeles Review of Books, for which she is a contributing editor, numerous books for youth, and three works of fiction published with collaborative multidisciplinary art projects. She is the curator of exhibitions including, “Disruption! Art and the Prison Industrial Complex” at Pitzer College, and co-founder and co-editor of the online publication, “Radical Actions: From Teaching Artists to Social Practice.”
Buckley is the founder and director of Prison Arts Collective (PAC), a statewide university-prison partnership in California dedicated to expanding access to the arts and leadership opportunities to people experiencing incarceration. PAC engages students, alumni, and faculty co-facilitate arts programming in 12 state prisons and is based at SDSU with chapters at CSU Fullerton and Cal Poly Humboldt and an interdisciplinary research team with CSUSB and UC Irvine. PAC has taught over 5000 participants since 2013 and has been featured in numerous publications, including The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times. Buckley has been awarded numerous internal and external grants and contracts for this work, including continuous funding since 2016 from the California Arts Council and three highly competitive Grants for Arts Projects from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2019, Buckley was named Outstanding Faculty, the highest faculty honor, at California State University, San Bernardino; and also received formal recognition in the California State Senate for her leadership of PAC. She joined SDSU in 2019 as Director of the School of Art and Design and Professor of Visual Studies. In 2022, she took on leadership as the founding Director of the Institute for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Justice in the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts (PSFA) in collaboration with the College of Arts and Letters and Research Advancement Fellow for PSFA with the SDSU Division of Research and Innovation.
Buckley is faculty member of the national honor society, Phi Kappa Phi, and received a BA with Honors from UC Berkeley and a Masters in Fine Arts from Otis College of Art and Design. She holds a California Teaching Credential with specialization in Bilingual/Bicultural (English/Spanish) and Art Education and completed the Women’s Executive Leadership Training from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business in 2019.
Yin Yu
Dr. Yin Yu is an artist, designer, and engineer. Her research investigates the potential of interactive multimedia environments and the intersection of architecture, music, and emerging technologies. Her practice covers a broad spectrum, including product design, furniture design, architectural design, interactive design, haptics, wearable technology, and art installation. She has won several awards, including the Oregon BEST Red List Design Challenge, the Academic Excellence Design & Paper Award, and Lyman and Judith Johnson Interior Architecture Award. She was the recipient of the Olivia Long Converse Fellowship and the Nascence and UO Hong Kong Alumni Scholarship.
Dr. Yu’s works have been published and exhibited in international venues, such as the Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) conference (US), the Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID) workshop (FR), the Wearable Technology Exhibition (ES), the Expanded Animation Symposium at Ars Electronica (AT), and the Xenakis22 Symposium (GR).
She practiced in both technology firms and architectural design companies, such as Fortune 500 Global No.1 Design Firm AECOM, where she worked as the interior architect of the Apple China Campus project. She has also worked at local and international companies, such as BENOY (Europe Top 50 UK Design Firm), Optoplex (Top 13 in the Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley Telecommunication), Group 70 International (A Hawaii Top 3 Architecture Design Firm), and SDC Solutions (a System Development Company based in Manchester, New Hampshire).
She has a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering (SMU, CN), a Master of Science in Information Technology (SNUH, US), and a Master of Science in Interior Architecture (UO, US). She received a Doctorate in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.