Amy Randall
History, Director
Amy is Professor of History with a courtesy appointment in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is a historian and gender and genocide studies scholar whose teaching and scholarship focus on European and Soviet history as well as genocides in the twentieth century. She has published a monograph and many articles and essays on the Soviet Union, including "socialist" retail trade and consumer culture in the Stalinist 1930s, gender and sexuality during the Stalin era, and more recently, reproductive politics and Soviet masculinities in the post-Stalin era. She is also the editor of and contributing author to the first volumes of Genocide and Genocide in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey (2015) and its updated and expanded second edition (2022). Amy enjoys working with colleagues across and beyond SCU to promote CAH initiatives, and she strongly believes in the transformative power of the arts and humanities to build a better and more just world.
Danielle Fuentes Morgan
English, Associate Director
Dr. Danielle Fuentes Morgan is an associate professor in the Department of English with a courtesy appointment in Ethnic Studies. Her work and experiences are at the intersection of arts and humanities. She is the author of Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century which engages literature, film, television, and visual art. Her writing has also appeared in or is forthcoming in a variety of venues, including Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, Journal of Science Fiction, Vulture, Racialicious, and Al Jazeera, as well as with Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. She is currently working on a second book on twenty-first-century artistic production and is also co-editing an interdisciplinary volume on African American humor for Oxford University Press. In addition, she has a background in vocal technique and musical theater performance and continues to sing in a choir. She is very excited to bring her experiences with and love for both the arts and the humanities to the Center.
Fernando Rojas
Web Design and Engineering, Website Intern
Fernando is a Web Design and Engineering student currently helping to build and maintain the CAH website throughout the year. Check it frequently to find out what we’re up to, how you can become involved, and to see Fernando's excellent UX/UI ideas at work.
Britt Cain
Academic Department Manager
Britt supports the Center for the Arts and Humanities by coordinating the CAH budget, events, social media, fellowships, public relations, and website content. She enjoys working with the CAH team, advisors, and fellows to help plan future CAH opportunities, projects, and programs. Britt understands the value of supporting the arts and humanities and is excited to continue bringing dynamic programming to the university that resonates with students, faculty, staff, and the community.
Ryan Carrington
Urgency of Now Series Coordinator
Ryan Carrington (Art and Art History Department) is a Teaching Professor at Santa Clara University, where he has been teaching sculpture, 3-D design, site-specific art, and professional practice courses since 2012. He earned his BFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and after undergraduate school, he spent 18 months as an artist-in-residence at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. He went on to receive his MFA from San Jose State University, and was an artist-in-residence at the both the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and the Tech Shop in San Jose. He exhibits his work nationally, and has produced multiple large-scale public art commissions. In 2014 he received the Silicon Valley Creates Emerging Artist Laureate Award, and he was selected for the 2021 Center for Arts and Humanities Fellowship at Santa Clara University.