Scholar

Glenda Drew

Media Artist and Professor of Design at UC Davis
Glenda Drew gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 13, 2015.

Glenda Drew is a critical maker whose research is based at the intersections of visual culture and social change, with a particular emphasis on the working class. The content of her work is rooted in creating messaging with greater social implications, fostering innovation and encouraging behavior change. Her subjects include country musicians, waitresses, feminists and precarious workers. In addition, she has recently created a few projects that consider climate change through user...

Erin Doughton

Part-time Faculty, Intermedia; BFA Thesis Mentor; Assistant Professor at Willamette University
Erin Doughton was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Curating People: Panel Discussion at the Arts Research Center on April 29, 2011.

Erin Doughton teaches performance and professional practice at PNCA as an Assistant Professor and Mentor. She is Artistic Director and Curator of Performance for PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art) curating and producing PICA‘s performance programs including dance, music, theatre and multi-disciplinary forms as part of PICA‘s annual TBA (Time-Based Art)...

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...

T.J. Demos

Art Historian, Cultural Critic, and Chair in Art History in the Department of the History of Art at UC Santa Cruz
T. J. Demos was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018.

T. J. Demos is the Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and founding Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. Demos is the author of several books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017); Decolonizing Nature:...

Nicholas de Monchaux

Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT
Nicholas de Monchaux gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 17, 2016.

Nicholas de Monchaux is Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT. Until 2020 he was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, and Craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media at UC Berkeley, where he also served as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. De Monchaux is the author of ...

Jen de los Reyes

Artist, Educator Community Arts Organizer
Jen de los Reyes was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

Jen de los Reyes was born in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and educated first in its local music scene of the mid-90’s infused with the energy of Riot grrrl and DIY, and then in its university. [1] How she works today is rooted in what she learned in her formative years as a show organizer, listener, creator of zines, and band member. Graduate work at the University of Regina made the space possible for her to see her...

Janet Delaney

Photographer, Educator
Janet Delaney gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

Janet Delaney uses research, interviews and photography to record the untold stories of cities in transition. Her first project bore witness to the 1980s gentrification of a working-class neighborhood in San Francisco and was published as South of Market (MACK, 2013). In Public Matters (MACK, 2018), Delaney documented daily life as it unfolded alongside protests and parades in Reagan-era San Francisco. Her color photographs of New York City in the 1980s were...

Whitney Davis

ARC Fellow and Helen Pardee Professor of History of Art at UC Berkeley
Whitney Davis was an ARC Fellow in Spring of 2009 and 2017 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Whitney Davis is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art. He has taught at UC Berkeley since 2001. He is also Honorary Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of York, UK, where he leads the annual York Summer Theory Institute in Art History (YSTI). Previously he taught at Northwestern University, where he was John Evans Professor of Art History, Director of the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, and a...

Sharon Daniel

Multimedia Artist, Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
Sharon Daniel was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

Sharon Daniel is a media artist who produces interactive and participatory documentaries focused on issues of social, economic, environmental and criminal justice. She builds online archives and interfaces that make the stories of marginalized and disenfranchised communities available across social, cultural and economic boundaries. Daniel's work has been exhibited internationally as well as on the internet. Most recently, a solo...