ARC Fellows

Sierra Edd

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Sierra Edd (she / her) is a Diné writer and artist who grew up in Durango, Colorado. She is Tł’ógi, born for the Kinłichii’nii people. She is currently an Ethnic Studies doctoral student and resides in Ohlone Territory. Her research examines the political significance of listening, creating, and connecting through Indigenous music across various U.S. contexts. Recently, she has been collaborating and working on zine projects (“...

Ugo Edu

2015 ARC Fellow

Ugo Edu is a medical anthropologist working at the intersection of medical anthropology, public health, black feminism, and science, technology, and society studies (STS). Using interdisciplinary approaches, her scholarship focuses on reproductive and sexual health, gender, race, aesthetics, body knowledge, and body modifications. Her book project: The “Family Planned”: Racial Aesthetics, Sterilization, and Reproductive Fugitivity in Brazil, traces the influence of an economy of race, aesthetics, and sexuality on reproductive and sterilization practices of women in...

Penny Edwards

2013 ARC Fellow
Penny Edwards is the Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. She received her BA Hons in Chinese from SOAR, London University, her MPhil in International Relations from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, and her PhD in History from Monash University. She has held a Fulbright Scholarship at Cornell University, and a British Council Scholarship at Beijing Normal University.

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Amanda Eicher

2012 ARC Fellow

Amanda Eicher is an artist, educator, and arts administrator who has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 1999. Currently the Executive Director at NIAD Art Center, Amanda has also worked at Creativity Explored as a teaching artist. In 2001, she collaborated with Andrew McKinley and the Adobe Books community (which includes many CE artists) to open The Back Room Gallery, a one-room project space dedicated to installation work by emerging artists, where Amanda was a curator through 2003 before passing curatorial duties to a series of collaborative and cooperative...

Joey Enos

2014 ARC Fellow

Joey Enos (b. Berkeley, California, 1981) is a sculptor who started by studding at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. In 2014 he received his MFA degree at the University of California, Berkeley. At his time in Berkeley Enos focused his studies on large-scale artworks, history of Bay Area sculpture, and the profession of art handling. His work has recently been exhibited at Ever Gold Gallery and Alterspace in San Francisco.

Joey was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – he was chosen in the Graduate...

Maria Faini

2016 ARC Fellow

Maria Faini is the Program Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UC Berkeley Arts & Humanities. In 2012, she wrote her dissertation in Ethnic Studies and Critical Theory, titled The Art of Occupation: Moral Injury, Artisanal Destruction, and a Politics of Non-Arrival. Her academic publications include pieces in Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies and Ada: A Journal of Gender, Technology, and New Media, and upcoming in a/b:Auto/Biography Studies. She is co-executive editor of nineteen sixty nine: an ethnic studies...

Kris Fallon

2011 ARC Fellow

Kris Fallon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema & Digital Media at UC Davis where he was also a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures. He completed his PhD in Film and Media with a Designated Emphasis in New Media in 2013.

Fallon’s work analyzes the documentary impulse across a range of sites, from film and photography through data visualization and other digital platforms. His first book, Where Truth Lies: Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11 was published on the University of...

Marisha Farnsworth

2011 ARC Fellow

Marisha Farnsworth is an artist and an architect whose large-scale public space interventions explore future ecosystems, infrastructural utopias and the social and ecological implications of materiality in the built environment. Her work has been exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Venice Biennale and is in the collection of the Nevada Museum of Art.

Marisha was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – she was chosen in Faculty Fellow category.

Keith Feldman

2016 ARC Fellow

Keith Feldman is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies. At its core, his research program takes cultural studies approaches to theorize and narrate the interface between race, culture, knowledge, and state power. His work explores race as a “master category” (following Omi and Winant) and as a “medium” (following WJT Mitchell) by crafting comparative, relational, intersectional, and transnational analyses situated in localized and embodied contexts. By turning to the domain of culture, he investigates how power differentials become sedimented and...

José Figueroa

2016 ARC Fellow

Caracas, Venezuelan-born and currently based in Oakland, California, José Figueroa is an artist working in drawing, photography, video and sculpture. He has studied at the Skowhegan School, Cooper Union (BFA) and recently received his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. Best known for his map-like drawings that document (in playful detail) his surroundings, Figueroa is a keen observer of life. He is interested in the role colonization and imperialism have played in collapsing geography onto itself and seeks to revise these spaces and histories by...