ARC Fellows

Maw Shein Win

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Maw Shein Win was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Maw Shein Win is a poet, editor, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito, California (2016 –...

Kim Shelton

ARC Fellow and Professor of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies at UC Berkeley
Kim Shelton was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Kim Shelton is a professor in the Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and the Director of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology. She directs three excavation programs in Greece: Petsas House at the prehistoric site of Mycenae, the classical sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea, and the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Aidonia. As a specialist in ceramics, she works with material culture and involves many students in her research, here and abroad. Currently, she works on...

Jeffrey Skoller

ARC Fellow, Filmmaker, Writer, and Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley
Jeffrey Skoller was an ARC Fellow in Spring of 2009 and 2013 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Jeffrey Skoller is a filmmaker and writer. He teaches film/video production and courses on the histories and theories of experimental/avant-garde film and video art, documentary/non-fiction film, Third Cinema, activist and other counter-media practices. “In research and image-making, I explore relationships between film and contemporary art, the radical aesthetics and praxis of the political avant-garde; representations of history and time in experimental film and video,...

Mary Ann Smart

ARC Fellow, Musicologist, and Professor in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley
Mary Ann Smart was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 - she was chosen in the Faculty fellow category.

Mary Ann Smart's research has focused on social dimensions of opera in nineteenth-century Europe. Her first book, Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera(link is external) (2004), drew on textual sources (treatises on acting, staging manuals) and musical evidence to...

Angel Sobotta

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Angel Sobotta was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Angel Sobotta is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe. She has worked for the Nez Perce Language since 1998, serving as a coordinator and teaching language at Lapwai schools, the mamayá’snim hitéemenwees – Children’s Learning place, Kamiah and Clearwater Valley schools, Northwest Indian College, Lewis-Clark State College, the University of Idaho, and Washington State University. Sobotta’s...

Ioanna Sotiriou

ARC Fellow and Interdisciplinary Designer
Ioanna Sotiriou was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 - she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Ioanna Sotiriou studies the impact of global information systems on architectural thinking and production. Her work spans from strictly technical to purely absurd and speculative, including projects related to provoking errors in LiDAR scans, a digital cemetery for cold data, and an advanced interferometer for detecting gravitational waves in space. Her projects have been exhibited, published, and awarded in the US, Europe, and Australia. She holds an M.Arch. from UC...

Aimee Suzara

ARC Fellow, Writer, Performer, and Educator
Aimee Suzara was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Oakland-Based Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and performer whose mission is to create poetic and theatrical work about race, gender, and the body to provoke dialogue and social change. As a playwright, her new work THE REAL SAPPHO was commissioned by Cutting Ball Theater and awarded by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation New Works fund and National Endowment for the Arts, and...

Tierra Sydnor

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Tierra Sydnor was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with University of Hawaiʻi – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow Category.

Tierra Sydnor (she/her) is currently earning her bachelors in French, English, and German. Her work focuses on how her experience as an African American woman and how that has affected her spiritual and life journey. The daughter of two army veterans, she spent most of her childhood in Fishers, Indiana. She has a strong passion for religious tolerance and cross-community cooperation....

Stephanie Syjuco

ARC Fellow, Conceptual Artist, and Professor of Sculpture at UC Berkeley
Stephanie Syjuco was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 - she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship. Born in the Philippines in 1974, Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She...

Jennif(f)er Tamayo

ARC Fellow, Poet, Essayist, and Performer
Jenni(f)fer Tamayo was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Jennif(f)er Tamayo is a queer, migrant, formerly undocumented poet, essayist, and performer. Her poetry collections include [Red Missed Aches] (Switchback, 2011), YOU DA ONE (Noemi 2017) and her latest publication, TO KILL THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT (Green Lantern Press, 2018). Currently, JT lives and works on Ohlone and Patwin lands and is pursuing her PhD in Performance Studies at the University of...