Guh FACULTY GREIG CRYSLER RECEIVES CHANCELLOR'S AWARD FOR ADVANCING INSTITUTIONAL EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY (CAAIEE)
19 December 2017
Original article by Will Kane; available at Berkeley News.
A professor of architecture at the College of Environmental Design, Greig Crysler was honored for his work with the Arcus Endowment for Gender, Sexuality and the Built Environment. “While his manner is fair and earnest, he often elevates debates to a clear yet conceptually charged plane,” Tom Buresh, the chair of the architecture department, wrote in a nomination letter. “Crysler’s work on equity and inclusion in the built environment is in my view, one of a kind, both within and outside the university.”
Beyond his research, Crysler, who is also the Arcus Chair for Gender, Sexuality and the Built Environment, has devoted countless hours to the Arcus Endowment, a program he founded to bring together research, teaching and service relating to LGBTQ issues, architecture, urban planning and social justice.
Through the endowment, Crysler has put on well-attended lectures by social theorists, filmmakers, artists and novelists that examine the relationship between queer culture and design.
These lectures “address some of the most difficult and timely social issues of our day and do so with sophistication, creativity and sensitivity,” said Andrew Shanken, a professor of architecture. “Crysler produces this array of programs over and above his teaching load and, it should be noted, they go beyond his other service obligations, which are significant. It is clearly a labor of love.”
Crysler plans to use his $10,000 to develop new initiatives at the College of Environmental Design concerned with equity and inclusion.