Faculty
Each year ARC has an open call for faculty participants in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. We accept three to six “ARCistas” who work in collaboration with ARC Director jesikah maria ross and community scholars on a place-based media project.
Participating Scholars 2010 – 2012
| Laurie Glover teaches a wide array of writing courses through the Undergraduate Writing Program. Her own writing spans several genres. Her poems have appeared in Women’s Studies, Terrain, and Nimrod International Journal. She recently co-authored California: On the Road Histories and is developing a work of creative non-fiction called Conversion, a collection of linked essays about recreational spaces: open space preserves, churches, bike trails, ecological reserves. Learn More… |
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| Beth Rose Middleton is an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies. Her research centers on Native environmental policy and Native activism for site protection using conservation tools. She is engaged in participatory action research on Maidu land rights history and contemporary land claims in northeastern California. Learn more… |
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| Michael Smith is a Senior Lecturer in American Studies whose teaching and research center on the intersection of technology and ecology. |
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Participating Scholars 2009 – 2010
| Ryan Galt is an Assistant Professor in Human and Community Development. His research interests include people-environment geography, cultural and political ecology, agricultural and environmental governance, political economy of sustainable agriculture, cartographic design. This is his second year working with ARC. Learn more… |
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| Miroslava Chávez-García is an Associate Professor in the Chicana/o Studies Program. Her current research interests and publications focus on youth, juvenile justice, race, and science in early twentieth-century California reform schools. In addition to her academic responsibilities, she also works with the California Hispanic Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Inc. Learn more… |
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| Robert Irwin is a Professor of Spanish and a Chancellor’s Fellow. His research interests include Mexican Literary and Cultural Studies, with an emphasis on the 19th and early 20th centuries, questions of gender and sexuality, and the cultural production of the US-Mexican borderlands. Learn more… |
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| Patsy Eubanks Owens is an Associate Professor and CDPS Faculty Director for Landscape Architecture. Her research interests include the examination of the exclusion of adolescents from public open spaces, the physical environment and including community participation in design. Her upcoming publication is on skate parks. Learn more… |
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| Louis Warren is a Professor of History. His research interests include the American West as well as environmental, Native American and California histories. This is his first year working with ARC. Learn more… |
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| Mike Ziser is Assistant Professor of English. His scholarly fields are American literature before the Civil War; American nature writing through the present day; ecocritical theory; and Anglophone settlement literature. This is his second year working with ARC. Learn more… |
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Participating scholars 2008 – 2009
| Ryan Galt is an Assistant Professor in Human and Community Development. His research interests include people-environment geography, cultural and political ecology, agricultural and environmental governance, political economy of sustainable agriculture, cartographic design. This is his second year working with ARC. Learn more… |
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| Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at UC Davis as well as the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment. Sze’s research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race, gender and power; and community health and activism. Learn more… |
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| Julie Wyman is an Assistant Professor in Technocultural Studies. She is an award-winning filmmaker whose experimental documentaries investigate gender and the body, seeking to complicate our notions of power, physicality, and gender categories. Learn more… |
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| Mike Ziser is Assistant Professor of English. His scholarly fields are American literature before the Civil War; American nature writing through the present day; ecocritical theory; and Anglophone settlement literature. This is his second year working with ARC. Learn more… |
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