Rachel Carson College Faculty Fellows
Sikina Jinnah is Rachel Carson College's new faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
Dr. Jinnah is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department, an affiliated faculty member in the Environmental Studies Department, and a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research focuses on the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, and in particular the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making. Her most recent projects examine how key norms in global climate politics shape power relations, the role of U.S. preferential trade agreements in shaping environmental policy in trading partner nations, and the politics of climate engineering governance.
- Pronouns Use my name
- Title
- Professor
- Division Arts Division
- Department
- Art Department
- Affiliations Feminist Studies Department, Digital Arts and New Media
- Phone 831-502-7312
- Website
- Office Location
- Digital Arts Research Center, DARC 341
- Office Hours DARC 229
- Mail Stop Art Department
- Mailing Address
- E-104 Baskin Visual Arts, 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Art, Film, Environmental Justice, Social Justice
- Courses Art 220, 80E
Summary of Expertise
- Film
- Environmental Art and Social Practice
- Performance Art
Research Interests
Developing the field of Ecosexuality.
Environmental Art and Social Practice
Environmental Justice
Queer Art
Postporn
Walking
Biography, Education and Training
Beth Stephens is an artist, and filmmaker with a Ph.D. in Performance Studies.
Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021) for her current film project with Annie Sprinkle, Playing with Fire, an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission (2022), a Fleishhacker Foundation grant (2022) and the publication of Assuming the Ecosexual Position— the Earth as Lover published by the University of Minnesota Press. In 2021 the Library of Congress Subject Heading created an “authority record” for “ecosexuality,”
Stephens’ work has been featured in the Sierra Club Magazine, eco/art/scot/land,CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle and in books such as WANWU I, by Zheng Bo, and The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change. Harvard University’s Schlessinger Library acquired Stephens’ archives in 2022. She teaches, lectures, exhibits art, screens films, and performs nationally and internationally most recently in exhibitions such as the Midwest Biennale in Minnesota, Manifesta 14 in Kosovo, the Kansas City Art Institute, Performance Space, New York and at the Salzburg Summer Art Academy.
Ph.D. UC Davis, 2015
M.F.A., Rutgers University
B.F.A Tufts University
Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Honors, Awards and Grants
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Eureka Fellowship
- Rydel Fellowship
Selected Recordings
Water Makes Us Wet: an Ecosexual Adventure
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: an Ecosexual Love Story
Teaching Interests
- Environmental Art and Social Practice
- Queer Arts
- Postporns
