Scholar

Tarek Elhaik

Professor of Anthropology at UC Davis
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...

Amanda Eicher

ARC Fellow, Artist, Educator, and Arts Administrator
Amanda Eicher was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Amanda Eicher is an artist, educator, and arts administrator who has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 1999. Currently the Executive Director at NIAD Art Center, Amanda has also worked at Creativity Explored as a teaching artist. In 2001, she collaborated with Andrew McKinley and the Adobe Books community (which includes many CE artists) to open The Back Room Gallery, a one-room project space dedicated to installation work by emerging artists, where Amanda was a...

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk

Dramturg, Professor of Drama at Oslo Metropolitan University
Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk is a practicing dramaturg within the scope of interdisciplinary performing arts. Her research concerns new dramaturgies, staging of documentary material, Applied theatre, and ethics and artistic research. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and a PhD from Roehampton University/ London where she developed the concept 'Theatre-ting', which is a meeting between the possibilities...

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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Adrienne Edwards

Scholar, Writer, and Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Adrienne Edwards was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices roundtable conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Adrienne Edwards is a curator, scholar and writer whose work concerns visual, performance and cross-boundary art as well as histories, concepts, modes and methods of blackness.

Currently the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Edwards has realised a number of interdisciplinary projects and commissions with a wide...

Cornelius Eady

Poet, Professor, Co-Founder of Cave Canem
Cornelius Eady was a Visiting Writer Panel Participant at the Celebrating Cave Canem Conversation at the Arts Research Center on October 20, 2021.

Born on January 7, 1954, Cornelius Eady was raised in Rochester, New York. He attended Monroe Community College and Empire State College.

Eady is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hardheaded Weather (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008); Brutal Imagination (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001), which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; The Gathering of My Name (Carnegie...

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...

Jesse Drew

Professor of Technocultural Studies at UC Davis
Jesse Drew gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 13, 2015.

Jesse Drew is Professor of Technocultural Studies at UC Davis, where his research and practice centers on alternative and community media technologies and their impact on democratic societies, with a particular emphasis on the global working class. A teenage runaway at age 15, Drew lived in remote wilderness communes as well as inner-city urban communes in New England and California, participating in collective and cooperative projects involving food distribution, community media,...