Category: About us
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Albert Narath
Albert Narath Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture (Interim 2024-2025) Albert Narath’s research and teaching interests focus on the history of the built environment from the 19th century to the present. His current work operates within the intersection of architectural and environmental history. His first book is Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen…
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Pamela Rodríguez-Montero
Pamela Rodríguez-Montero Acting Assistant Professor of Costume Design, Performance, Play & Design (2023-2026) Pamela Rodríguez-Montero (she/her/ella) is a scenographer, educator, and visual artist from Costa Rica. She earned her BFA degree in Arts and Visual Communications from the National University of Costa Rica and received her MFA in Scenography from The University of Kansas (2017).…
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Enrique Martinez Leal
Enrique Martinez Leal Professor of Art, Director of Graduate Studies (2022-2025) Enrique Leal received his B.F.A. from the Polytechnique University of Valencia, M.F.A. and Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the University of Castilla La Mancha (UCLM). A major body of his work explores photography as a central subject within print media, a vehicle best understood…
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Stacy Kamehiro
Stacy Kamehiro Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture Stacy Kamehiro’s research focuses on colonial Hawaiian visual and material culture. She has published on textiles, architecture and race images in nineteenth-century American trade card lithography, and scientific images produced during Pacific voyaging expeditions. Her book, The Arts of Kingship (University of Hawai’i Press, 2009),…
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Dr. Holly E. Unruh
Dr. Holly E. Unruh Executive Director Holly Unruh is the Executive Director of the Arts Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Prior to joining UCSC, Unruh served as the Associate Director of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC) at CSU Monterey Bay, where she managed a multi-million dollar interdisciplinary grant portfolio,…
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Hannah Jasper
Hannah Jasper Research Development Analyst Hannah Jasper is an arts administrator, curator, researcher, and writer who has worked for the last ten years helping to preserve and uplift critically important and yet unexamined stories. Hannah has contributed to developing new and ongoing projects at many distinguished arts and cultural organizations throughout the United States, including…