Scholar

Margaret Crawford

Director of Urban Design, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
Margaret Crawford was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2013.

Margaret Crawford holds degrees in architectural history, housing, and urban planning. Before coming to Berkeley, Crawford chaired the History, Theory, and Humanities Program at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and, from 2000–2009, was professor of urban design and planning theory at the Harvard GSD, teaching history and design workshops and studios. Her scholarly work includes Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The History of...

Maxe Crandall

Poet, Playwright, Director, Associate Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University
Maxe Crandall gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

Maxe Crandall is Associate Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University. Maxe works at the intersections of transgender studies and experimental poetics and performance. His performance novel about AIDS archives and intergenerational memory The Nancy Reagan Collection (Futurepoem) was on the New York Public Library’s Best 10 Poetry Books of 2020, LitHub’s 65 Favorite Books of 2020, and was a...

Cindy Cox

Professor, Former Chair of the Music Department
Cindy Cox was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.

Transparent yet richly multifaceted, Cindy Cox’s compositions synthesize old and new musical designs through linked strands of association, timbral fluctuation, and cyclic temporal processes. The natural world, ecology, and the concept of emergence inspire many of the special harmonies and textural colorations in her compositions, as in her piano trio la mar amarga, the octet Cañon, and the string...

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...

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...

Michael Mark Cohen

Professor of African American Studies
Michael Mark Cohen gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2017.

Michael Mark Cohen was born in Denver, Colorado, the child of two public school teachers. He holds a BA in History from the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University (2004). He is currently an Associate Teaching Professor at UCB with a joint appointment in American Studies and African American Studies. His general research and teaching areas cover the cultural and political history of the United States from the Civil War to the Present....

Susanne Cockrell

Artist, Educator
Susanne Cockrell was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

Susanne Cockrell is an artist and educator who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her social and documentary projects consider the ways people live into specific places over time, amplifying the emergent choreography of landscape, shared experience, and participatory actions in shaping collective and civic life. Early research in experimental dance, environmental studies, and eastern philosophy continue to...

Irene Chien

Assistant Professor of Media & Communication at Muhlenberg College
Irene Chein was an Organizer/Moderator at the Reimagining the Urban Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 30, 2013.

Irene Chien writes about the politics of race and gender in digital media, with a focus on videogames. She is writing a book manuscript based on her dissertation titled Programmed Moves: Race and Embodiment in Fighting and Dancing Videogames. Programmed Moves examines the intertwined history and transnational circulation of two major videogame genres, martial arts fighting games and rhythm dancing games. Dr. Chien...

Yao Chen

Composer, Professor of Composition at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing
Yao Chen was a Visiting Artist Lecturer Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.

In works of various dimensions, Yao Chen seeks paths toward transcendence. His music, always ritual in nature, eschews contemporary vogues and instead aims at a timelessness and an otherness that exists beyond the standard categories – music for the moment, but also music for then and music for what lies ahead. Whether his work is brittle or forceful, or often both in coexistence, melancholy and a sense of wonder are recurring...

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,...