ARC Fellows

Alenda Y. Chang

ARC Fellow and Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara
Alenda Y. Chang was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Alenda Y. Chang is an Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. With a multidisciplinary background in biology, literature, and film, she specializes in merging ecocritical theory with the analysis of contemporary media. Her writing has been featured in numerous journals, including Feminist Media Histories, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, and Resilience...

Mel Y. Chen

ARC Fellow and Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at UC Berkeley
Mel Y. Chen was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 – they were chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Mel Y. Chen (they/them+) is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California, Berkeley as well as Director of the Disability Studies Minor. Mel is also an affiliate of the Center for Race and Gender, the Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Science, the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, and the Haas Disability Studies and LGBTQ Citizenship Research Clusters. Previously,...

최 Lindsay | Lindsay Choi

ARC Fellow, Poet, and Translator
최 Lindsay was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

최 Lindsay is a poet and translator working between English, Korean, and Swedish. They are the author of Transverse (Futurepoem, 2021), as well as a chapbook, Matrices (speCt! books, 2017). More of their work can be found in Omniverse, Aster(ix) Journal, and elsewhere, including a forthcoming sound piece for amatter. They are a...

Cianga

ARC Fellow and Artist
Cianga was an ARC Fellow in Spring & Fall 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Cianga (cha-nga) is a Congolese artist based in California, by way of South Africa. A recipient of the Cave Canem + EcoTheo’s Starshine & Clay Fellowship, Cianga creates interdisciplinary work that seeks to decolonize and disrupt language. They are currently an MFA candidate and have received residency and fellowship support from UC Berkeley’s Arts & Research Center, Brooklyn Poets, and Atlantic...

Catherine Cole

ARC Fellow and Professor of Dance and English at the University of Washington
Catherine M. Cole was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2024 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Catherine M. Cole is Professor of Dance and English at the University of Washington, where she served as Divisional Dean of the Arts from 2016-2022. Her book Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice(2020),on dance and live art in contemporary South Africa and beyond, received a 2021 Special Citation for the Dance Studies...

Majel Connery

ARC Fellow, Scholar, Vocalist, and Composer
Majel Connery was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Majel Connery is an unclassifiable artist who rarely says no to anything. Her music ranges from the guttural to the sublime, appearing in punk rock clubs at night and by day at major destinations from The Kennedy Center to The Kitchen.

A vocalist and composer, Connery combines Classical influences with electronic mentality. Her singing has been called “superb” by the New York Times and her composition “thoroughly Schubertian” by the Wall Street Journal...

Jason Corburn

ARC Fellow and Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and School of Public Health at UC Berkeley
Jason Corburn was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Jason Corburn is a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and School of Public Health. He directs the Center for Global Healthy Cities and co-directs the joint Master of City Planning (MCP) and Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the links between environmental health and social justice in cities, notions of expertise in...

Michael Craig

2009 ARC Fellow
Michael Craig was a ARC Fellow in Spring 2009 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Michael Craig (East Asian Languages and Cultures) argues in his dissertation, "Beauty in / and / vs. Action: The Question of Aesthetics in 1990s Japanese Role-Playing Games," that Japanese Role-Playing Games (JRPGs) of the late 1990s, contrary to scholarly assumptions, value extended periods of inaction. Much current academic video game theory begins from the assumption that games are designed to engage players in states of constant, fluid activity. Craig views the emphasis...

Maura Adela Cruz

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Maura Adela Cruz (she/her) is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley pursuing a degree in English with a minor in Creative Writing. She was raised in California’s Central Valley to an Indigenous farmworker community and is of Zapotec and Mixtec descent. Maura’s poetry focuses on Zapotec language revitalization while also examining the circumstances imposed by settler-colonial nation-states like the U.S. and Mexico. Her poetic work seeks to document and preserve the cultural histories and worldviews embedded within her Indigenous Zapotec...

C. Greig Crysler

2014 ARC Fellow
C. Greig Crysler was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

C. Greig Crysler completed his professional training in architecture at the University of Waterloo, Canada and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, UK. He teaches courses in the History, Theory and Society of Architecture. Through his leadership as Arcus Chair (2012-2022) and his role as Program Director of the CED’s Arcus Endowment, Crysler has translated his commitment to equity and social justice in design education into frameworks for student and...