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Arts, Science + Culture Initiative Staff
Julie Marie Lemon
Former Senior Director and Curator
Julie Marie Lemon was the Senior Director & Curator of the University-wide Arts, Science + Culture Initiative from 2010 to 2023, developing the strategic and intellectual direction of programming in collaboration with of the Arts, Science + Culture Faculty Advisory Committee.
Naomi Blumberg
Associate Director
nblumberg@uchicago.edu | 773.702.2510
Naomi Blumberg is Associate Director of the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative. Before coming to UChicago, Naomi was an editor of arts and culture at Encyclopaedia Britannica, following many years working as a curator and exhibition coordinator at art and history museums including the Chicago History Museum, the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College. She holds a BA from Barnard College in art history and a Master's from Tufts University in art history and museum studies. Naomi is also Managing Editor of Portable Gray magazine, published by the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.
Patrick Jagoda
ASCI Faculty Advisor
Program Director, Media Arts and Design; Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College
Faculty Advisory Committee
Jessica Stockholder, Professor, Visual Arts, Department of Visual Arts
Matthew Jesse Jackson, Professor (on leave), Art History, Chair Department of Visual Arts
Orianna Cacchione, PhD, Curator of Global Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art; Lecturer in Art History
Ian Foster, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in Computer Science; Associate Director, Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory
Giulia Galli, Liew Family Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Patrick Jagoda, Associate Professor, Department of English, Department of Cinema + Media Studies; Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry
Ellen MacKay, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Chair TAPS
W.J.T Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of Art History, Department of Visual Arts; Editor, Critical Inquiry
Laura Letinsky, Artist, Professor, Department of Visual Arts
Sabina Shaikh, Director, Program on Global Environment; Senior Lecturer, Environmental and Urban Studies in the College; Faculty, Committee on Geographical Sciences; Faculty Director, Chicago Studies
Paul Sereno, Professor, Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy and Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Jennifer Scappettone, Associate Professor, English, Romance Languages and Literatures, Creative Writing; Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality