Scholar

Raquel Gutiérrez

Critic, Essayist, Poet, Performer, and Educator

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Raquel Gutiérrez is a critic, essayist, poet, performer, and educator. Gutiérrez's first book Brown Neon (Coffee House Press) was named as one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and listed in The Best Art Books of 2022 by Hyperallergic...

Jocelyne Guilbault

Ethnomusicologist and Professor of Popular Music Studies at UC Berkeley

Jocelyne Guilbault is an ethnomusicologist and popular music studies scholar teaching at Berkeley since 1999. From 1984 to 1998 Guilbault taught at the University of Ottawa. Her educational background includes bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Université de Montréal in her native Quebec, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Stressing a multidisciplinary approach, her research and teaching engages critical theoretical and methodological issues in ethnomusicology and popular music studies. She locates these issues in the scholarly intersections...

Suzanne Guerlac

Distinguished Professor Emerita of French at UC Berkeley

Suzanna Guerlac’s principal areas of research include 19th- and 20th-century literature and thought. Her interests include the examination of cultural ideologies and articulations between literature and philosophy, and literature and the visual arts. Her most recent project, Proust and Photography (2020), examines time, vision and the production of experience in A La Recherche du Temps Perdu.

Yi Gu

Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at University of Toronto

Yi Gu is an associate professor of modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a focus on Asia, especially China. Her current research interests lie in the agrarian imaginary and various extractive regimes including those of historical socialism. Her previous work examines epistemic shifts and perception, landscape and nation-building, and Chinese photography. Her book Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting (Harvard University Press Asia Center, 2020) points out an ocular turn of China’s twentieth century as a foundation for a...

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Professor of Art History at UC Berkeley

Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby specializes in 18th- through early 20th-century French and American art and visual and material culture, particularly in relation to the politics of race and colonialism. Grigsby writes on painting, sculpture, photography and engineering as well as the relationships among reproductive media and new technologies from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.

Grigsby is the author of...

Talinn Grigor

Professor of Art History Modern, Contemporary Global Architecture, and Art Critical and (post)Colonial Theory at UC Davis

Talinn Grigor’s research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century art and architectural histories through the framework of postcolonial and critical theories, grounded in Iran, Armeno-Iran, and Parsi India. Her books include a winner of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies, The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture (Penn State Univ., 2021); Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio (Reaktion, 2014); and Building Iran: Modernism,...

Andrew Griebeler

2018 ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University

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).

Andrew was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow...

Mark Greif

Author, Cultural Critic, Co-Founder of n+1, and Professor of English at Stanford

Mark Greif covers popular culture and political thought for the journal n+1, which he co-founded. His books include the essay collection Against Everything, and a study of mid-20th century American literature and thought, The Age of the Crisis of Man. Greif’s scholarly work looks at the connections of literature to intellectual and cultural history, the popular arts, aesthetics and everyday ethics. He taught at the New School and Brown before coming to Stanford.

Jonathan Green

Director of the UCR/California Museum of Photography, Professor of Studio Art and Art History

Jonathan Green is Director of the UCR/California Museum of Photography and professor in the departments of Studio Art and Art History. Green was associate editor of Aperture Quarterly, 1974-1976. His book American Photography: A Critical History (Abrams 1984, reprinted 1996) was selected as the Nikon Book of the Year, 1984, and received the Benjamin Citation from the American Photographic Historical Society. Other books include Camera Work: A Critical Anthology, 1973; The Snapshot, 1974; and with Minor White, Celebrations, 1974. In 1999, MIT Press published Continuous...

Terra Graziani

Researcher, Tenant Organizer

Terra Graziani is a researcher and tenant organizer whose work focuses on property and personhood. She helps run the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), a digital storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance in solidarity with gentrifying communities through research, oral history, and data work, and...