91猎奇

Civic Humanities & Public Arts

Building Informed, Vibrant Communities

91猎奇 faculty engage and foster surrounding communities in research, scholarship, and creative projects.

Through groundbreaking civic arts partnerships and public digital humanities collaborations, diverse populations are empowered to document and broadcast regional history, modelling citizen conservancy of cultural heritage. Below is a rotating selection of our standout investigators in these areas.

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   鈼� Related Strength: Cultural Studies in Action
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• Selected Publications

  • Harris, K., et al (2023). Public Art as Resistance in San Jose. 

    Harris, Y. (2020). . Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, 1(2), 121鈥�131. 

    Luna-Mega, C. (2020). . Edgetone Records.

    Mendoza, V. (2020). . Juried Exhibition, de Young Museum.

    Norris, K. (2022). . Unnamed Press.

    Rael, R. & San Fratello, V. (2018). . Princeton Architectural Press.

• Award Highlights

  • Harris, K., "Abierto Placemaking Grant" 鈥� City of San Jos茅, 2021

    Harris, K., et al., 鈥淧ublic Art as Resistance in San Jose,鈥� for H&A in Action 鈥淕eography of the Arts,鈥� 鈥� California Humanities Council, 2021

    Harris, Y., "Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption" 鈥� Artist in Residence, Art|Sci Center, UCLA, 2020. With exhibition at Getty Initiatives Southern California PST ART 2024

    Holberton, Krishnaswamy, 鈥淗iding in Plain Sight: To Support the Production & Exhibition of Multidisciplinary Interpretative Responses to Historical Archives in Silicon Valley鈥� 鈥� National Endowment for the Arts, 2022

    Luna-Mega, "Abierto Placemaking Grant" 鈥� City of San Jos茅, 2022

    Rael, San Fratello, 鈥淭eeter Totter Wall鈥� at U.S.-Mexico Border, Design of the Year 2020, Design Museum in London

• Affiliates

  • Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies

    Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies

Featured Faculty

Mary Elizabeth Anderson
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Success, College of Humanities and the Arts
Teaching Artists, Theatre Arts, Teaching and Praxis
ORCID: 0000-0001-8903-0238

Katherine D. Harris
Professor of English
Digital Humanities, Public Humanities, Community Engagement, Social Justice, Emerging Technology, Interdisciplinary
ORCID: 0000-0001-9212-0939

Lecturer, Art and Art History
Sound, Listening, Environment, Underwater Sound, Ocean, Whales, Sound Art, Digital Media Art, Video Art
ORCID: 0009-0006-5203-786X

Associate Professor, Digital Media Arts
Multimedia Installations, Digital and Interactive Technologies, Virtual Reality, AI, Political Ecology
ORCID: 0000-0001-9147-8998

Professor of Art
Photography, Video, Sound, Site-Specific Installations, Public Art, Environment, Health, Culture
ORCID: 0000-0001-7740-6381

Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Technology, and Composition
Musical Translation of Environmental Sound
ORCID: 0009-0009-4965-7015

Shannon Miller
Dean, College of Humanities and the Arts
Community Engagement, Social Mobility, Renaissance Literature, 17th Century Women Writers, John Milton
ORCID: 0000-0002-8035-206X

Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Photography, Installation, Artist, Image Maker, Affordable Housing, Social Practice, Photographer, Narrative, Personally Rooted
ORCID: 0000-0002-3176-3575

Associate Professor of Creative Writing
Creative Writing, Fiction, Place, Dystopia, Structural Disadvantage
ORCID: 0000-0001-8522-2750

Professor of Design
3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, Architecture, Interior Design, Design, Art, Activism, Border Wall
ORCID: 0000-0003-3914-2391

Adam Shiverdecker
Associate Professor of Spatial Art
Art, Ceramics, Sculpture, Militarism, Contemporary Culture
ORCID: 0000-0001-8928-6196

Potential collaborators and members of the media may contact us at officeofresearch@sjsu.edu.