Highlighting our Faculty's Honors and Prizes
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Svetlana Alpers
Professor Emerita,
Honored
at CAA Distinguished Scholar Session
Los Angeles, February 2009
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The 2009 Distinguished Scholar Session, entitled "Paintings/Problems/ Possibilities," centered on the art of painting. The panel, which included Svetlana Alpers, Mariet Westermann, Carol Armstrong, Thomas Crow, James Hyde, and Stephen Melville, focused on six pictorial images proposed by Alpers. "An openness to the strangeness of pictures as things made for seeing bound Alpers to the late Michael Baxandall. With him she shared intellectual origins in the study of literature, as well as a central concern for the distance between words and paintings. The pleasures of France gave common ground to their different and complementary styles of being in the world."
--Mariet Westermann, November 2008 CAA News
Photo: Michael Baxandall. |
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Patricia Berger
Associate Professor
Chinese Art |
Pat Berger's Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003), was awarded the Shimada Prize for Best Book in Asian Art in 2008.
Read more about Patricia Berger. |
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Whitney Davis
Professor,
Ancient, Modern & Theory
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Whitney Davis has been appointed Visiting Research Professor in the
Ludwig-Maximilian University at Munich in the framework of the LMU/UC
Berkeley exchange program in the humanities. He will be a resident scholar
at the international scientific center in Munich in spring, 2011.
In August, Davis gave the plenary opening lecture (entitled "Pictures of
Images and Images of Pictures") at the 33rd International Congress on
Wittgenstein in Kirchberg-am-Wechsel, lower Austria. It will be published
in the proceedings of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society.
His "Commentary: World Without Art" (on so-called world art studies) helps
inaugurate such statements in Art History, the journal of the Association
of Art Historians (UK), where he has joined the International Advisory
Board.
Davis has been invited to join the core editorial team of the 2nd edition
of the multi-volume Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, published by Oxford
University Press and edited by Michael Kelly.
New books by Davis have been generously supported. "Queer Beauty:
Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond" (Columbia
University Press, 2010) has been supported by a subvention from the
Amblyornis Foundation. "A General Theory of Visual Culture" (Princeton
University Press, 2011) has been supported by the Humanities Research Fund
of UC Berkeley.
Read more about Whitney Davis. |
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T.J. Clark
Professor Emeritus
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T.J. Clark received the prestigious three-year Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in 2006.
Read more about T.J. Clark. |
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Marian H. Feldman
Associate Professor
Department of Near Eastern Studies,
History of Art
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Marian Feldman is currently the Burkhardt Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Studies at Stanford University.
Read more about Marian Feldman. |
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Beate Fricke
Assistant Professor
Medieval Art
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In 2010 Beate Fricke was elected together with Alexei Yurchak to run
a "Strategic Working Group" at the Townsend Center for the Humanities
working on "Inflections. A critical inquiry of moments of radical
transformation". She was awarded a Research Grant by the Swiss
National Research Foundation for her research project "The Essence
of Life. Blood, Color and Animation at the junction of science,
theology and art in the late Middle Ages" in 2011.
Read more about Beate Fricke. |
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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Professor
European Art Since 1700
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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby received a second Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship, 2008-9.
Read more about Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby. |
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Christopher Hallett
Professor and Department Chair
Roman Art |
Chris Hallett won a Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and a Loeb Fellowship to support his sabbatical year, 2008-2009.
He was also elected a corresponding member of the Deutsches Archaologisches Institut in Berlin.
Read more about Chris Hallett. |
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Gregory Levine
Associate Professor
Japanese Art |
Gregory Levine has been awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for the project, "Buddha Heads: Sculptural Fragments in Devotional and Modern-Contemporary Imaginations."
Read more about Gregory Levine. |
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Margaretta Lovell
Jay D. McEvoy, Jr., Professor
American Art & Architecture |
Professor Margaretta Lovell is a winner of the 2009 Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award! Read more about the award.
Her book, Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) was awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize "for outstanding scholarship in American art."
Read more about Margaretta Lovell. |
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Todd P. Olson
Associate Professor
European Art, c.a. 1400-1800 |
Todd Olson was awarded a Mellon Project Grant, 2009-2010.
Read more about Todd Olson. |
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Loren Partridge
Professor Emeritus
Early Modern Art |
Loren Partridge won the U.C. Berkeley 2009 Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award from the Graduate Assembly and the Graduate Division! Read more about the award.
Loren Partridge, Professor of Early Modern Art, with his student Rebekah Compton, after receiving the Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award. April 2009. Photo: Meryl Bailey
Read more about Loren Partridge. |
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Anne Wagner
Professor Emerita
Modern and Contemporary Art |
Anne Wagner was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Helsinki Collegium, Finland.
Read more about Anne Wagner. |
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