Scholar

Benjamin Grant

City Planner, Urban Designer, Curator, Teacher
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...

Maria Gough

Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University
Maria Gough gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 21, 2014.

Maria Gough’s primary area of research and teaching is early 20thC European art, with special attention to the Russian and Soviet avant-gardes, Weimar aesthetics, and French modernism.Tackling problems in the history of abstraction, drawing, para-architecture, photography, print media, propaganda, exhibition design, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics, Gough’s research has appeared in journals such as ...

Rama Gottfried

2014 ARC Fellow
Rama Gottfried was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Rama Gottfried's recent works aim to increase our sensitivity to the web of relations that connect humans and the other animate and inanimate entities that surround us. His pieces are conceived as scenographic worlds — bodies with voices that move and interact in physical and immaterial environments, constructed from the medias of acoustic and electronic instrumental performance, puppet-, object-, material-theater, live-cinema, and the site-specific performance context. Brought...

Philip Kan Gotanda

Playwright, Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Philip Kan Gotanda was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011.

Over the last four decades, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has been a major influence in the broadening of our definition of theater in America. The author of one of the largest bodies of Asian American-themed works, he has been instrumental in bringing stories of Asians in the United States to mainstream American theater as well as to Europe and Asia. Gotanda has specialized in investigating the Japanese American family, writing a...

Caroline Goodwin

Professor, Poet, Former Stegner fellow
Caroline Goodwin gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in November 2021, part of the Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Caroline Goodwin moved from Sitka, Alaska to the San Francisco Area to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry in 1999. Her most recent collections are Old Snow, White Sun (JackLeg Press, 2021), Madrigals (Big Yes Press, 2021), and Matanuska (Aquifer Press, Wales, UK, 2022). She lives on the San Mateo coast and teaches at the California College of the Arts, Stanford Continuing Studies, and UC Berkeley Extension. From...

Joe Goode

2012 ARC Fellow
Joe Goode was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Joe Goode is a Professor Emeritus in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. He is the Artistic Director of Joe Goode Performance Group with whom he has performed in the United States, Canada, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. His performance installations have been commissioned by the Krannert Art Museum, the M. H. DeYoung Museum, Capp Street Project, and The Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA. Awarded a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”)...

Anna Goodman

2014 ARC Fellow
Anna Goodman was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Anna Goodman teaches urban and architectural history, design research, and design studios within PSU's undergraduate and graduate architecture and Urban Design Certificate programs. She earned a B.Arch from Rice University and a Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Her forthcoming book (with the University of Texas Press), titled Citizen Architects, documents the political ramifications of architecture students' work in full-scale building...

Ken Goldberg

2011 & 2015 ARC Fellow
Ken Goldberg was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 & 2015 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Ken Goldberg is the William S. Floyd Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley and an award-winning roboticist, filmmaker, and artist. He holds secondary appointments in EECS, Art Practice, the School of Information and the Dept of Radiation Oncology, The University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). He is Director of the CITRIS "People and Robots" Initiative with over 60 affiliated UC faculty, and Director of the UC Berkeley AUTOLAB, where he...

Peter Glazer

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 ...

C.S. Giscombe

Poet, Essayist, Robert Hass Chair in English at UC Berkeley
C.S. Giscombe gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

C.S. Giscombe was born in 1950 in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated with degrees in English from University at Albany and Cornell University. At Cornell, he edited Epoch magazine.

Giscombe’s books include Negro Mountain (University of Chicago Press, 2023); Similarly (Dalkey Archive, 2020); Border Towns (Dalkey Archive, 2016); Ohio Railroads (Omnidawn, 2014); Prairie Style (Dalkey Archive...