Meet Your Professor

Dr. J. Davis Mannino

Raised in New York, with strong Italian-Sicilian immigrant roots, Dr Mannino worked in his father's Italian bakery and his uncle's butcher shop. One summer, Davis even worked in a candle-making shop, thus giving him the interesting and noteworthy distinction of having been a "baker, a butcher, a candlestick maker!" 

Dr. Mannino is professor of Psychology and past Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences, which includes the disciplines of Anthropology, Sociology, and Psychology. He teaches Human Sexuality, Psychology, and Aging, Dying, & Death. He is a psychologist and licensed psychotherapist in private and consulting practice since 1979 --- yes, that's over three and a half decades, in case you are poor at math. :-)  In January, 2018, Dr. Mannino hits a major milestone! He will have been teaching college level courses for over 46 years, having begun his college teaching career at City College of San Francisco in 1972! He has been teaching at SRJC for 28 years --- began as adjunct in 1990!

Dr. Mannino is the author of six textbooks including: Grieving Days, Healing Days published by  Simon & Schuster (Allyn & Bacon imprint). This interactive workbook hit a textbook publishing milestone by achieving "best seller" status when over 25,000 copies were sold in one year.  His second textbook, Sexually Speaking was published by McGraw-Hill. A third book, Grave Concerns, based on newspaper columns he had written over a decade, came along. A fourth textbook is entitled: Human Sexuality: Exercises and Activities. A fifth book, a major college level textbook --- while under contract with McGraw-Hill --- entitled Sexual Themes and Variations, soon followed. And finally, a sixth book --- a psychology workbook entitled Introduction to Psychology: The PsychAide --- now joins Dr Mannino's publishing accomplishments. All textbooks are revised as needed in an ongoing process of excellence.  

Professor Mannino has taught at several colleges and universities including City College of San Francisco, Lone Mountain College for Girls, The University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University. Internationally he has taught at the University of Malaysia, while serving as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer between the years of 1974-1975. 

Guiding Quote: "Life's short eat dessert first!" 

For a more extensive professor biography see: Dr. J. Davis Mannino