Shannon Jackson is the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and is a Faculty Affiliate in History of Art, Art Practice, and Berkeley Center for New Media. She currently co-leads three major research projects at UC Berkeley 1) as Faculty Director of the Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative 2) as co-PI of the Cities of Awe Lab, with Dacher Keltner, and 3) as co-PI of A Counter Imaginary in Authoritarian Times, with Judith Butler and Debarati Sanyal.
Jackson’s research focuses on two overlapping domains: 1) collaborations across...