ARC Fellow

Penny Edwards

ARC Fellow and Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley
Penny Edwards was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. 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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Ugo Edu

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA
Ugo Edu was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow Category.

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...

Natalia Duong

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and Science and Technology Studies at UC Davis
Natalia Duong was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Natalia Duong is a scholar, teacher, director/choreographer, and performer. Her interdisciplinary research weaves performance studies, transnational Asian American studies, disability studies, and studies of the environment in a project about the chemical compound Agent Orange. She received a Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley....

Anthony Dubovsky

ARC Fellow and Professor Emeritus of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley
Anthony Dubovsky was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Anthony Dubovsky's is CED Professor Emeritus of Architecture. His work exhibitions include solo exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation and Light Gallery (New York), the Yeshiva University Museum (New York), and the Hayden Gallery (MIT); group exhibitions at the United States Embassy in Israel, and the Stephen Rosenberg Gallery (New York). Published in Zyzzyva, Tikkun, and exhibition catalogs of the Jewish Musuem (San Francisco), the Corcoran Gallery (Washington D.C.) and The Judah...

Caitlin Dolan

ARC Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in the Philosophy Department at UC Berkeley, and Lecturer at San Francisco State University
Caitlin Dolan was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Caitlin Dolan (B.A., summa cum laude, NYU, 2009) works primarily on the philosophy perception, mostly by asking questions about its epistemology and its aesthetic nature. She is interested in contemporary debates on these topics, as well as their roots in the early Modern and early analytic traditions. Her dissertation explores the sense in which depiction is a distinctively visual form of representation.

Ahmad Diab

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Cinema at UC Berkeley
Ahmad Diab was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Ahmad Diab is a Palestinian writer and academic. He is assistant professor of modern Arabic literature and cinema (20th and 21st centuries) at University of California, Berkeley. His work contemplates the relationship between displacement and representation. He received his B.A. from Damascus University. He was awarded a Ph.D. from the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is currently...

Al-An deSouza

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Al-An deSouza was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Al-An deSouza works across photo-media, installation, text and performance works as staging grounds for historical memory and its legacies upon the present. Their works draw upon formal and informal archives, remaking them through strategies of humor, fabulation, and (mis)translation. deSouza’s work has been shown extensively in the US and internationally, including at the Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY, Krannert Museum, IL; Phillips...

Manuel Cuellar

ARC Fellow and Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures & Cultures at George Washington University
Manuel R. Cuellar was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 – he was selected in the Graduate Fellow category.

Manuel R. Cuellar focuses on Mexican literary and cultural studies with an emphasis on race, gender, and sexuality. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. His research engages questions of performance, especially as they concern dance, indigeneity, and Afro-mestizo imaginaries in Mexico, combining ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and studies of contemporary and classical Nahuatl, Mexico’s most widely...

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...

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...