ARC Fellow

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sarah Hennessey

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Sarah Hennessey was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Sarah Hennessey is Nimíipuu and she is a poet, performer, playwright, and youth empowerment theater practitioner. Her work highlights the symbiosis of storytelling and language reclamation. By integrating her penchant for literature and performance into her educational outreach, Sarah infuses her instruction with not just interdisciplinary pedagogy, but also both traditional and contemporary...

Lyn Hejinian

Spring 2011 ARC Fellow, Essayist, Translator, and Publisher
Lyn Hejinian was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – she was chosen in the Faculty category.

Poet, essayist, translator, and publisher Lyn Hejinian was a founding figure of the Language poetry movement of the 1970s and an influential force in the world of experimental and avant-garde poetics. Her poetry is characterized by an unusual lyricism and descriptive engagement with the everyday. She authored many poetry collections, including ...

Alex Harvey

2008-2009 Fellow
Alex Harvey was an ARC Fellow in 2008-2009.

Alex Harvey is a director, writer, filmmaker, musician, teacher and producer based out of Brooklyn. Regional live theatre credits include O Lovely Glowworm (A.C.T.), Underneath the Lintel (The Alley), premieres of Will Eno’s Oh, The Humanity and Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade (Stages Rep.), I Am My Own Wife (Stages Rep), and his own radical adaptation of The Mock-Tempest (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). In New York, he helmed the 5-person staging of Macbeth for Mirror Rep and co-directed Balm in Gilead with the acclaimed Lake Lucille...

Björn Hartmann

Spring 2015 Faculty Fellow
Björn Hartmann was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Björn Hartmann is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Hartmann is broadly interested in tools to support human ingenuity, across a number of domains including design, programming and engineering. He is also interested in embodied cognition, especially in AR/VR. Methodologically, his group predominantly focuses on systems research: they contribute complex, working interactive systems that embody their research...

Melanie Gudesblatt

Spring 2016 Graudate Fellow
Melanie Gudesblatt was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Melanie Gudesblatt is a Lecturer in Music History and Literature at the San Francisco Conservatory, having received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. Before coming to Berkeley, she earned an M.Mus. from King’s College London (2012) and a B.A. in Music from Cornell University (2009). Her research examines the relationship between vocal sound and metaphorical conceptions of voice around 1900, with special focus on how Euro-American listening...

Andrew Griebeler

2018 ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University
Andrew Griebeler was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Andrew Griebeler studies the intersections of art, science, and the natural world in the medieval Mediterranean. He received a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies and the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean (University of Chicago Press, 2024...