The ADE/s Team

Katie Anania

ADES/s Director

Katie Anania is an art historian and a Special Personnel member on the STOICH project. She specializes in modern and contemporary art of the Americas, with a focus on ephemeral and transitory materials like drawings, letters, tents, packaging, and food. Her research and teaching merge queer and feminist theory with the environmental humanities. Katie will contribute a program to STOICH called Art, Data, and Environment/s (ADEs), which will create new methods for graphic communication related to ecological stoichiometry.

Dorota Biczel

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dorota Biczel is a Polish-born art historian, curator, and writer. Her research, texts, and exhibition projects focus on contemporary art of Latin America and its diasporas, particularly at the intersections of material experimentation, social practice, and spatial politics. She has published widely in academic journals such as Buildings & Landscapes, Art Journal, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Caiana, and alter/nativas, and in exhibition catalogs published in the US, Latin America, and Europe by Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Museo de Arte de Lima, MALBA Buenos Aires, and JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, among others. Her curatorial projects include Mercosur Biennial 12 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2020 (with Andrea Giunta, Fabiana Lopes, and Igor Simoes), Beyond the Record at Houston Center for Photography in 2022, Moving Mountains: Extractive Landscapes of Peru at the Visual Arts Center in Austin in 2016, and Teresa Burga’s Chronology: Reports, Diagrams, Intervals at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart in 2011 (with Miguel López and Emilio Tarazona). Biczel holds a Ph.D. in art history from The University of Texas at Austin, dual M.A. in art history and arts administration & policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an M.F.A. in graphic arts from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Precarious Subjects: Non-object-based Art, Migrations, and Political Transitions in Peru, 1968–1990. Her new research project is a series of essays on women artists working with water and rocks on the Pacific Coast of the Americas.

Jessica Santone

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Jessica Santone is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2022-23) and an Associate Professor of Art History & Visual Studies at Cal State East Bay. Her current research on pedagogical art addresses the use of teaching and learning as forms in contemporary performance and social practice, as well as the ways that artists have used such forms to challenge dominant epistemologies and broaden knowledge about gender, race, and climate science. Dr. Santone has previously delivered a number of professional presentations and published articles on this developing work in Performance Research, Visual Resources, CSPA Quarterly, and RACAR.

Cooper Stiglitz is completing his M.A. in art history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He earned his B.A. from the California State University, Fullerton. With a focus in modern and contemporary art, Cooper’s research encompasses a diverse variety of topics, including his work on the ADE/s team. His current thesis project analyzes the mature works of the abstract resin artist, Florence Miller Pierce and her mirrored wall sculptures.

Cooper Stiglitz

Graduate Research Assistant

Jadezl Bartolome

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Jadezl Bartolome is an undergraduate student at Cal State East Bay. She is in the process of completing a BA in Art with a concentration in Art History and Visual Studies. Currently, she is interested in researching how marginalized groups in the Philippines are using art, specifically indigenous Filipino art and figures, to reverse post-colonial mentality. After graduation, she has plans to get a terminal masters in Art History.

Anthony Tran

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Anthony Tran is attending California State University East Bay completing his BA in Art with a Concentration in Art History and Visual Studies. He is currently working on his Senior Project researching artworks by children of Vietnamese refugees and how they translate postmemory and trauma into art to navigate their identity as Vietnamese Americans. He was the Curatorial Student Assistant at the CSUEB Art Gallery and plans on becoming a Gallery Curator.