ARC Fellow

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...

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...

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...

Vethea Cerna Cole

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Vethea Cerna Cole was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Vethea Cerna Cole is a queer, Filipinx writer, artist, and lover in their final year of pursuing a BA in Gender & Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. Her research analyzes the intergenerational trauma passed between mothers who have emigrated from the Philippines and queer, trans, first generation children adapting to life in the settler colony that is the U.S. Centering decolonization in their art and scholarship, Vethea...

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...

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,...

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...

Greg Castillo

ARC Fellow and Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley
Greg Castillo was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Greg Castillo, who is also a Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney in Australia, specializes in the architectural history of Interwar and Postwar America and Europe. His course offerings include seminars on spaces of consumption, countercultural design in the ‘60s, transatlantic transfers of architectural practices, a global survey of modernist architecture, architectural history research methods, and a writing and publication workshop...

Phillip Cash Cash

ARC Fellow, Scholar, Artist, Writer, and Traditional Healer
Phillip Cash Cash was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – he was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Phillip Cash Cash is a niimíipuu (Nez Perce)/weyíiletpuu (Cayuse) human, an award winning Indigenous scholar, artist, writer, and traditional healer. He is a younger speaker of nimiipuutímt, the Nez Perce language, a severely endangered language. Cash Cash holds doctoral degrees in linguistics and anthropology. His creativity and inquiry are life-centered endeavors...

Delia Casadei

ARC Fellow, Scholar, Critic, and Translator
Delia Casadei was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Delia Casadei is a scholar, critic, and translator. She was Assistant Professor of Musicology at UC Berkeley from 2017-2023, and is now based in Pisa, Italy, where she works as a freelance music critic, lecturer, and translator. She obtained her PhD in Musicology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 with a thesis entitled The Crowded Voice: Speech, Music and Community in Milan, 1955-1974. Between 2015-...