If you are interested in becoming an affiliated faculty member of ARC, please reach out to Director Beth Piatote.
ARC Affiliates are faculty with interdisciplinary, arts-related research interests who often participate in ARC-sponsored programs such as the fellowships, lectures, The Loft Hour, readings, and symposia.
These activities build community and connection among faculty, and what begin as informal conversations often grow into concrete, ARC-sponsored projects. ARC currently has over 60 affiliated faculty, drawn from over 22 depts across the campus.
Architecture
Greg Castillo | Professor of Architecture
C. Greig Crysler | Professor of Architecture
Ronald Rael | Professor of Architecture, Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture
Andrew Shanken | Professor of Architecture
Art History
Lauren Kroiz | Associate Professor of History of Art
Anneka Lenssen | Associate Professor of Global Modern Art
Art Practice
Al-An deSouza | Professor of Photography
Asma Kazmi | Assistant Professor of Art Practice
Greg Niemeyer | Professor of Media Innovation
Brody Reiman | Associate Professor of Sculpture
Stephanie Syjuco | Associate Professor of Sculpture
Anne Walsh | Professor of Time-based Art
City & Regional Planning
Timothy Hampton | Professor, Comparative Literature
Michael Lucey | Professor, Comparative Literature and French
Beth Piatote (*current Director) | Associate Professor, Comparative Literature & English
Miryam Sas | Professor of Film Studies and Comparative Literature
Sophie Volpp | Professor, Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages & Cultures
Computer Science
Ken Goldberg | Professor of Engineering and Computer Science
Eric Paulos | Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Berkeley Center for New Media, Co-Director, CITRIS Invention Lab
East Asian Languages & Culture
Nadia Ellis | Associate Professor of English
Sara Guyer | Dean, Arts & Humanities, Professor of English, President, International Consortium of Humanities Centers & Institutes
Poulomi Saha | Associate Professor of English
Stephen M. Best | Professor of English; affiliated in the Department of Film and Media; member of the Critical Theory designated emphasis
Scott Saul | Professor of English
Ethnic Studies
Shari Huhndorf | Class of 1938 Professor of Native American Studies
Juana María Rodríguez | Professor, Comparative Ethnic Studies
Salar Mameni | Assistant Professor, Comparative Ethnic Studies
Laura Pérez | Professor Chicana/o and Latina/o & Chair, Latinx Research Center
Film and Media
Weihong Bao | Associate Professor, Film and Media & East Asian Languages and Cultures
Rizvana Bradley | Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies
Natalia Brizuela | Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Film & Media
French
Mel Y. Chen | Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies
Courtney D. Morris | Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies
Eric A. Stanley | Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Pedagogy, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
German
Brandi Thompson Summers| Assistant Professor of Geography, Global Metropolitan Studies
Clancy Wilmott | Assistant Professor in Critical Cartography, Geovisualisation and Design
Journalism
Edmund Campion | Professor of Music Composition and Director, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
Myra Melford | Professor of Music
Mary Ann Smart | Professor of Music
Ken Ueno | Professor of Music
Philosophy
Sonia Katyal | Professor, Associate Dean,Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Carla Shapreau | Lecturer, School of Law (art and cultural property/heritage law), Curator, Ansley K. Salz Collection Department of Music, Senior Fellow, Institute of European Studies
Spanish and Portuguese
Anthony Cascardi (Founding Member) | Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish & Portuguese, and Rhetoric
Alex Saum-Pascual |Associate Professor of Spanish and New Media
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Brandi Catanese | Associate Professor of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Abigail De Kosnik | Associate Professor of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Shannon Jackson (Founding Member) | Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Chair of History of Art
SanSan Kwan | Associate Professor, Dance and Performance Studies, and Chair of TDPS
Angela Marino | Associate Professor, Latin American and U.S. Theater and Performance
Lisa Wymore | Professor of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Campus Arts Affiliates
Jeremy Geffen | Executive and Artistic Director, Cal Performances
Katy Tucker | Associate Director of Administration and Programming, Cal Performances
Julie Rodrigues Widholm | Director, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive