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Ravi Rajan

Professor

srrajan@ucsc.edu

8314594158


Areas of expertise: Environmental Human Rights, Environmental Justice, Environmental History, World History, South Asian Studies, History of Science, Ethics


Biography, Education and Training

Ravi Rajan is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has served since his appointment in 1997.   He has also served as Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, Visiting Senior Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, and Visiting Professor at TERI University. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Delhi, and his doctorate at the Univ... more »

Mary K Foley

Mary K Foley

Professor, Artsbridge Director, Pavel Machotka Chair

Arts Division, Department of Performance, Play & Design (PPD), Porter College

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Kathy Foley

Professor

foley@ucsc.edu

831-459-4189


Areas of expertise: Theater, Asian Music, Asian Studies, Direction (Theater), Folklore, South Asian Studies, Gamelan, Popular Culture, Dance


Biography, Education and Training

Kathy Foley is a professor of Theatre Arts  and editor of Asian Theatre Journal with expertise in Asian theatre, performance, masks, puppetry and object theatre. She curates exhibitions of Asian masks and puppets. Performs Sundanese Wayang Golek internationally and has taught at Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), Yonsei University (Seoul), University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur), and University of Hawai'i (Manoa), as well as UCSC. She serves on the board of UNIMA (Union International de la Mar... more »


Areas of expertise: Dance, Disability, Queer Studies, South Asian Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Cynthia is a Taiwanese American interdisciplinary artist who creates embodied art steeped in crip, queer, and feminist of color praxis. She is curious about chronic illness as a form of embodied training that contradicts dance's ableism, finding ways of sharing dance that depart from “the show must go on” urgency of theatrical production, and the creative possibilities of eco-crip embodiment, access aesthetics, and crip care webs. Their 2024 dance film moss time, crip time explo... more »

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