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Global & Community Health
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Undergraduate
Jes Dunnaville is a choreographer and visual artist using site-specific performance as a radical locus of repair. Inspired by dance anthropologist Katherine Dunham's public health advocacy across Caribbean landscapes, it is through countercolonial research, speculative storytelling, and abolitionist dreaming that Jes navigates critical thresholds between behavioral health and spatial justice. Jes is interrogating how sociocultural determinants inform biological responses at points of dysregulation, epigenetic inheritance, and adaptive community resilience. Their events, installations, wellness interventions, and public performances are scaffolded by a Certificate of Integrative Health and Healing (UCSF), a Certificate of EcoTherapy (EarthBody Institute), and a Permaculture Design Certification (Occidental Arts & Ecology). Jes is a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, Performing Arts Medicine Association, and the American Circus Alliance.
History of Social Medicine, Critical Spatial Practice, Postmodern Performance, Decolonial Agrarian Danceforms, Transnational Ecofeminist Theologies, Environmental Humanities, and Land-Based Pedagogies.
- Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship 2024
- Humanities Dean's Excellence Award 2024
- Project Bandaloop Artist in Residence
- Buckminster Fuller Institute Design Science Studio Fellowship
Z Space. (2023). Forgetting Tree. San Francisco.
(2024) An Embodied Earth: An Inquiry into Ayahuasca and the Arts as Social Medicine. UCSC Journal of Social Medicine, 1.
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