ARC Fellow and Helen Pardee Professor of History of Art at UC Berkeley
Whitney Davis was an ARC Fellow in Spring of 2009 and 2017 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.
Whitney Davis is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art. He has taught at UC Berkeley since 2001. He is also Honorary Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of York, UK, where he leads the annual York Summer Theory Institute in Art History (YSTI). Previously he taught at Northwestern University, where he was John Evans Professor of Art History, Director of the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, and a...
Tarek Elhaik was a Moderator at the Artist & Curator Silvia Gruner Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2019. Tarek Elhaik's work is based on participant observation in several domains of practice related to contemporary art and experimental media worlds, with a special interest in the different modes of curatorial practice that animate those worlds. The aim of his fieldwork-based inquiries is both to problematize the mediatory role and increasing influence of curatorial practice in contemporary life and to evaluate the ethical, political...
Former ARC Director, Professor of African American Studies
Chiyuma Elliott is Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly work and teaching focus on poetry and poetics and African American intellectual history from the 1920s to the present. Elliott was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and Assistant Professor of English, Creative Writing, and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. A Cave Canem Alumni Fellow, she has also received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center. She...
Assistant Professor of Art History at Providence College
E.C. Feiss was a Moderator at the Art Against Housework Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 4, 2018.
E.C. Feiss, scholar of modern and contemporary art, shows her students how art is involved in the world we live in, not solely decorative or rarefied but as a field that intersects with many others they might be studying or will work in. She incorporates hands on learning in her classroom through seeing works of art up close, both in museums and elsewhere (in the public realm for example) and through meeting working artists.
Deborah Fisher was a Moderator at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.
Deborah Fisher is the founding Executive Director of A Blade of Grass, and a strategic and philanthropic advisor to Shelley and Donald Rubin. She also currently serves on the board of the Center for Artistic Activism.
Fisher is a practicing artist and creative leader working to expand the roles art and artists play within communities. She has worked in many capacities at the intersection of art and civic life in New York City, including as studio manager at...
Professor Emeritus in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Peter Glazer was a Moderator at the Revisions in Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 20, 2015.
Peter Glazer is a professional director and playwright whose adaptations and collaborations include Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Heart of Spain: A Musical of the Spanish Civil War, O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music, Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate, and Foe, his adaptation of Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s novel, which had its world premiere at UC Berkeley. Other TDPS directing credits include Shakespeare’s ...
Benjamin Grant was a Moderator at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.
Benjamin Grant is a city planner, urban designer, curator and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent over a decade at SPUR, the urban policy research organization, where he served as Urban Design Policy Director, leading research on physical planning, public space and urban design.
He is the author of numerous reports and studies on subjects that include retrofitting suburbs for walkability, the innovation-sector workplace, accommodating regional...
Richard H. & Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley
Wen-hsin Yeh was a Visiting Moderator at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.
Wen-hsin Yeh is the Richard H. & Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History. She is a social and political historian of culture and knowledge in late imperial and modern China, Taiwan, and maritime East Asia. Her research examines Sino-Western engagement in 19th- and 20th-century China and the consequences of systemic disequilibrium. Her areas of research include higher education (...
