Scholar

Shayna Silverstein

Scholar, Artist, and Associate professorof Performance Studies & Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Northwestern University
Shayna Silverstein gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 19, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Shayna Silverstein is an associate professor in the Department of Performance Studies and a faculty member of the Middle Eastern and North African Studies program at Northwestern University. Her teaching and scholarship broadly examine the politics and aesthetics of sound, movement, and performance in contemporary SWANA/Middle Eastern cultural production.

Silverstein's first book,...

Kim Shelton

ARC Fellow and Professor of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies at UC Berkeley
Kim Shelton was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kim Shelton is a professor in the Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and the Director of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology. She directs three excavation programs in Greece: Petsas House at the prehistoric site of Mycenae, the classical sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea, and the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Aidonia. As a specialist in ceramics, she works with material culture and...

Gregory Sholette

Artist, Writer, Teacher, Activist, and Professor of Professor of Sculpture and Social Practice at CUNY Queens College
Gregory Sholette was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher and activist. He is a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), as well as Co-Director with Professor Chloë Bass of the Andrew A. Mellon Foundation funded project Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY) headquartered in the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate...

Solmaz Sharif

Poet and Professor of English at UC Berkeley
Solmaz Sharif gave a Visiting Writer/Scholar Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 22, 2024. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in ...

Edward Shanken

Art Historian and Professor of Digital Art and New Media at UC Santa Cruz
Edward A. Shanken was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Edward A. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. He is Professor at UC Santa Cruz, where he has served as Director of the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program. Prior academic posts include: Associate Professor, Digital + Media MFA...

Tonika Sealy-Thompson

Ambassador of Barbados to Brazil
Tonika Sealy-Thompson was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Movement as Research Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 18, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Tonika Sealy-Thompson is a diplomat, academic, social justice and education activist from Barbados. She was appointed ambassador to Brazil in 2019, and also now serves concurrently as Barbados’ Ambassador to Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Her research explores the links between the women in politics and performing arts across...

Susan Schweik

Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities and Emeritus Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley
Susan Schweik was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the City, Arts and Public Spaces Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Susan Schweik's last book was The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. She is completing a book tentatively titled Unfixed: How the Women of Glenwood Asylum Overturned Ideas about IQ, & Why You Don't Know About Their Work. A recipient of Berkeley's Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and U.C.'...

Kim Sauberlich

ARC Fellow Assistant Professor of Musicology at the College of Charleston
Kim Sauberlich was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kim Sauberlich is an Atlantic Music scholar who focuses on the intersection of embodied performance and racialized knowledge production. Sauberlich's dissertation and book project entitled Black Orpheus: Musical Scenarios in Atlantic Rio de Janeiro (1808-1888) examines Atlantic performances in the city of Rio de Janeiro, from the 1808 transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil’s 1888...

Ellen Samuels

Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Ellen Samuels was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ellen Samuels is an associate professor and a founding member of the UW Disability Studies Initiative. She is the author of Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race (NYU, 2014) and her critical work has appeared in numerous journals and...

Warren Sack

Media Theorist, Software Designer, Artist, Chair and Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
Warren Sack gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center and Berkeley Center for New Media on Mar 14, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Warren Sack is a media theorist, software designer, and artist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. He is Professor of the Software Arts in the Film + Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he teaches digital arts and digital studies. He has been a visiting professor in France...