Our Team
Joanna Brooks, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Faculty Advancement and Student Success
[email protected]
Joanna Brooks joined Faculty Advancement in July 2015. She earned her Ph.D. in English
from the University of California, Los Angeles. She joined the SDSU faculty in 2006
as an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and has served as
department chair and Associate Dean of Graduate and Research Affairs. An award-winning
scholar of religion, race, gender, and American culture, she is the author or editor
of ten books including American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American
and Native American Literatures (Oxford UP, 2003), Transatlantic Feminisms in the
Age of Revolutions (Oxford UP, 2012), and Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings (Oxford
UP, 2015). Her commentaries about religion and American life and politics have been
featured in venues from National Public Radio and the BBC to the Daily Show and the
Washington Post.
- Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion
- Periodic Evaluations
- Tenure-Track Faculty Recruitment
- Personal and Professional Leave Processes
- Resignation & Retirement Procedures
Faculty-Scholar Immigration and Awards
[email protected]- J-1 Exchange Visitor Program
- H-1B Visas for Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty
Our Mission
Foster alignment and coordination, dismantle deficit models, and promote strength based approaches to supporting faculty, students, and staff in meaningful academic cooperative effort.