ARC Fellows

Richard Koci Hernandez

ARC Spring 2017 Fellow, Visual Journalist, Author, Photojournalist, and Associate Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley
Richard Koci Hernandez was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Richard Koci Hernandez is an internationally recognized, award-winning innovator in journalism and multimedia. Koci Hernandez published The Principles of Multimedia Journalism: Packaging Digital News, Taylor & Francis, 2015. In this much-needed examination of the principles of multimedia journalism, experienced journalists Koci Hernandez and co-author Jeremy Rue systemize and categorize the characteristics of the new, often experimental story forms...

Roberto D. Hernández

ARC Spring 2010 Fellow, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University
Roberto D. Hernández was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Dr. Roberto D. Hernández (Xicano) is a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University and an actively engaged, community-based researcher, scholar, teacher and writer. Born in Mexico, but raised in San Ysidro, within blocks of the busiest port of entry in the world, the U-S///Mexico border has figured prominently in his intellectual, political and professional development and commitments. He earned a Chicana/o Studies Honors BA (with an emphasis in...

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle

2019 ARC Fellow
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (Olomidara Yaya) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, writer, performer and healer. Her practice fluctuates between collaborations and participatory projects with alternative gallery spaces within various communities to projects that are intimate and based upon her private experiences in relationship to historical events and contexts. Her practice serves as a bridge, merging the intersections of art, activism, spirituality and healing as tools for...

Chris Hoshnic

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Chris Hoshnic is Diné from Sweetwater, Arizona. He is currently earning his B.A. in English at Arizona State University. In 2013, he graduated with an Associates in Video Production at Glendale Community College. His short film “Ozzy” premiered at the 2018 Jerome International Film Festival. He was a finalist in screenplay competitions at Austin Micro Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival and Shore Scripts. In 2022, he was a Writing Fellow with the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute (EDWI). He was a Special Projects Intern for Thousand Languages Project and...

Noura Howell

ARC Spring 2018 Fellow and Assistant Professor in Digital Media & the School of Literature Media and Communication at Georgia Tech
Noura Howell was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Noura Howell is an assistant professor in Digital Media, in the School of Literature Media and Communication, at Georgia Tech, with an adjunct assistant professor appointment in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.

Her research has been funded by an NSF CAREER award, a Google TensorFlow Faculty Award, and a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, among other sources.

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Jen Chen-su Huang

Spring 2012 ARC Fellow, Artist, Writer, and Part-time Lecturer at Parsons School of Design
Jen Chen-su Huang was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Jen Chen-su Huang is a multidisciplinary artist, whose process-driven works interweave elements of craft tradition, language, history, and memoir. Her practice has been supported by fellowships through the Fulbright Commission in Taiwan, Luminarts, and the Textile Society of America, among others. She is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU Tisch, a part-time lecturer at Parsons School of Design, and an editor for the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of...

Claudia Iron Hawk

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab
Claudia Iron Hawk was the 2023-2024 ARC Indigenous Poetics Lab Fellow.

Claudia Iron Hawk / Thaopi Waste Win (she/her) is a D/Lakota linguist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) in South Dakota. She has a bachelor’s in Anthropology & Native American and Indigenous studies from UMN and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at UC Berkeley. She is an Indigenous language revitalization advocate who speaks and works with her heritage language D/Lakotiya.

Sabrina Jaszi

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Sabrina Jaszi (she / her)

In her work as a translator, editor, and PhD student in UC Berkeley’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Sabrina brings attention to the indigenous languages of Central Asia. She is a co-founder of Turkoslavia, a translation collective devoted to Turkic and Slavic literature, and a co-editor of Turkoslavia journal.

Nathan John

ARC Fellow, Designer, Writer and Visual artist
Nathan John was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Nathan John is a designer, writer and visual artist based in Oakland, California. As Head of Architecture at Google R+D for the Built Environment, Nathan is a leader in the development of flexible systems for architecture, iterative approaches to design and construction, and innovative strategies for community and stakeholder engagement. Leveraging the methods of the hacker/maker...

Erin Johnson

ARC Fellow, Visual Artist, and Filmmaker
Erin Johnson was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 –she was chosen in the Graduate category.

Erin Johnson is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her immersive installations and short films explore notions of collectivity, dissent, and queer identity. In her shape-shifting videos, constellations of artists, biologists, and film extras address the imbrication of science and nationalism.

Johnson is a current Working Artist Fellow at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY) and a Winter Resident at Wave Hill (Bronx, NY).

Johnson received an MFA and Certificate in New Media from UC...