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Celebrating Graduate And Undergraduate Students 2018-2019
Undergraduate Achievements
Jamie Danis, Class of 2020
Guggenheim Curatorial Internship (NYC, Summer 2019)Nada Hosking (BA 2014)
Executive Director of Global Heritage FundGabriella Wellons (BA 2018)
A paid summer internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards
J.G. Bailey
European Research Council Consolidator Grant: Global Horizonte in der Kunst des Mittelaters, Universität BernRamón de Santiago
Tinker Foundation grant
Center for Latin American Studies Summer Field Research Grant
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Nahuatl Language Study
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
Scholarship, Rare Book School, "The Art & Science of Cartography, 200–1550 CE," University of VirginiaKarine Douplitzky
France–Berkeley Fund Fellowship with Professor Todd Olson to collaborate with Ann Lafont (Director of Studies EHESS, France) (2018–19)Susan Eberhard
CASVA Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral FellowshipE. C. Feiss
Ellen Holzman Fellow, Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art
Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum [Declined]
Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation FellowshipStephanie Hohlios
Dissertation research fellowship for 2019–20 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceClaire Ittner
UC Cuba Academic Initiative GrantRiad Kherdeen
Long-Term Research Grant from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
Andrew Mellon Foundation Research Grant from Berkeley’s Center for Middle Eastern StudiesRebecca Levitan
Edward Capps Advanced (predoctoral) Fellowship for 2019/20 at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) Travel GrantVerónica Muñoz-Nájar
Marilynn Thoma Pre-doctoral Fellow in Spanish Colonial Art, Carl & Marilynn Thoma Collection
Fellow of Cátedra del Prado: “De la pintura a la era de la imagen,” Museo del Prado, Madrid
Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge
Thoma Visiting Scholar in Spanish Colonial Art, Blanton Museum of Art, AustinYessica Porras
SSRC (Social Science Research Council) Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) 2019–2020 (Andrew Mellon Foundation)Lesdi Goussen Robleto
Mentored Research Award
Graduate Postdoctoral Fellowships/Awards
Andrew Griebeler
Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow at the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities, at the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, 2019–2021Ollie O'Donnell
A five-year research postdoctoral fellowship in the Bilderfahrzeuge project of the Warburg Institute, University of London, beginning in fall 2018
2018 Willibald Sauerländer Prize of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich for his book Meyer Schapiro: Critical DebatesJessica Stair
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in History of Art and Architecture at Brown University
Job Placements
William Coleman
Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Olana [New York] State Historic Site [home, studio, and landscape designed by Frederic Edwin Church]Sarah Louise Cowan
Assistant Professor of American Art at DePauw UniversityKristopher Kersey
Assistant Professor at UCLARebecca Martin
Associate Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at BUKappy Mintie
The John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Research Fellow in Photography, Harvard University MuseumsSasha Rossman
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter at the University of Bern, Switzerland, starting fall 2019
Berkeley–Erlangen/Nuremberg Research Fellowship
Jessica Stevenson Stewart
Associate Director at the Social Science Matrix at UC BerkeleyJustin Underhill
Academic Coordinator of the Visual Resources Center/V-Lab at UC Berkeley, starting spring 2019 -
Commencement 2019
History of Art Commencement exercises will take place on Tuesday, May 21st at 9:00 a.m. in the auditorium at The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Save the date!
This year's commencement speaker is Ellie Hughes, Deputy Director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, and an alumna of the department (2001).
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Celebrating Graduate And Undergraduate Students 2017-2018
Undergraduate Awards
Tobias Rosen
Honorable Mention from the Undergraduate Library Research Prize for his essay “Decapitating the Academie”Gabriella Wellons
A paid summer internship in the Museum Voices program at the Princeton University Art GalleryGraduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards
Sarah Louise Cowan
Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation FellowshipRamón de Santiago
Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for intensive study of Nahuatl at the University of UtahThadeus Dowad
CASVA’s three-year Paul Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to complete an intensive Ottoman language program in TurkeySusan Eberhard
CLIR Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
Terra Foundation International Research travel grant
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) grantEllen Feiss
Chester Dale fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum (declined)
Terra Foundation for American Art Summer Residency, Giverny, France
Outstanding GSI AwardJessica (Jez) Flores García
University of California Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2018–19Lesdi Goussen Robleto
Tinker Foundation Field Research GrantRebecca Levitan
CAORC Traveling fellowship, 2018–2019, to research her dissertation on the "Pasquino" group
Outstanding GSI AwardYessica Porras
Mentored Research Award – a prize for students whose backgrounds, life experiences, and/or work contribute to diversity – for 2018–19Miriam Said
CASVA’s Ittleson Fellowship to research her dissertation on Lamaštu and Pazuzu apotropaia in ancient AssyriaAndrew Sears
CASVA’s David E. Finley FellowshipDelphine Sims
SFMOMA Curatorial Photography Internship, Summer 2018Shivani Sud
Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellowship
American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship
Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Award
Social Science and Research Council International Dissertation Research FellowshipGraduate Postdoctoral Fellowships/Awards
Grace Harpster
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University, Department of Art History & ArchaeologyElaine Yau
NEH Summer Research GrantJob Placements
Grace Harpster
Tenure Track Position, Georgia State UniversityRosaline Kyo
Assistant Professor of Asian Art and Chinese Studies at Davidson College in North CarolinaLaure Marest-Caffey
Cornelius and Emily Vermeule Assistant Curator of Greek and Roman Art, Museum of Fine Arts, BostonKappy Mintie
2-year Visiting Assistant Professor of American Art at DePauw UniversityEmma Silverman
2-Year Visiting Assistant Professor of American Art and Architecture at Smith CollegeJennifer Stager
Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Art at Johns Hopkins University -
Commencement 2018
History of Art Commencement exercises will take place on Tuesday, May 15th at 9:00 a.m. in the auditorium at BAMPFA. Save the date!
This year's commencement speaker is Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs at SFMOMA.
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Return of Ten Thousand Dharmas: A Celebration in Honor of Patricia Berger
Please join us for "Return of Ten Thousand Dharmas: A Celebration in Honor of Patricia Berger" on May 5–6, 2017.
Patricia Berger served as the curator of Chinese art at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco from 1982 to 1994. She then returned to her alma mater to mentor another generation of graduate students as Professor of Chinese Art at the University of California at Berkeley. In celebration of her well-deserved retirement, we invite you to join her current and former students and colleagues to honor her contributions to the field. Professor Berger will deliver a keynote lecture on Friday, May 5 at the David Brower Center, followed by a one-day symposium on Saturday, May 6, 2017 in the Heyns Room at the Faculty Club. This event is free and open to the public.
The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies, Department of History of Art, Institute of East Asian Studies, and Mongolia Initiative.
For more information, please visit Return of Ten Thousand Dharmas: A Celebration in Honor of Patricia Berger, or if you have further questions, contact tenthousanddharmas@berkeley.edu.
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Julia Bryan-Wilson Contributes to Award-Winning Volume
Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator (Getty Research Institute), which includes Julia Bryan-Wilson's contribution "The Present Complex: Lawrence Alloway and the Currency of Museums," received the Historians of British Art Book Award for best multi-authored work in 2015.
The award citation reads:
Lucy Bradnock, Courtney J. Martin, and Rebecca Peabody, eds., Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator, Getty Research Institute.
Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990) was a key figure in the development of modern art in Europe and America from the 1950s to the 1980s. He is credited with coining the term pop art and with championing conceptual art and feminist artists in America. His interests as a critic and as a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York were wide-ranging, however, and included architecture, design, earthworks, film, neorealism, science fiction, and public sculpture. Early in his career he was associated with the Independent Group in London and although he was largely self-taught, he was a noted educator and lecturer. A prolific writer, Alloway sought to escape the conventions of art-historical discourse. This volume illuminates how he often shaped the field and anticipated approaches such as social art history and visual and cultural studies. Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator provides the first critical analysis of the multiple facets of Alloway’s life and career, exploring his formative influence on the disciplines of art history, art criticism, and museum studies. The nine essays in this volume depend on primary archival research, much of it conducted in the Lawrence Alloway Papers held by the Getty Research Institute. Each author addresses a distinct aspect of Alloway’s eclectic professional interests and endeavors. -
Commencement 2017
History of Art Commencement exercises will take place on Tuesday, May 16 at 9:00 a.m. in the auditorium at BAMPFA. Save the date!
We are excited to announce that our 2017 Commencement Speaker will be Tirza Latimer, Chair of Visual and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts.
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Gallery Talk with Students at BAM
Students who participated in a special curatorial component of the course Contemporary Art in the Americas, co-taught by Curator Constance Lewallen and Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson, discussed works on view at the Berkeley Art Museum. See the exhibit's online "booklet" here.
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Rubens Professor in Residence Spring 2017
The Department is pleased to announce the appointment of Koenraad Van Cleempoel to the visiting Pieter Paul Rubens Chair for Spring 2017. Koenraad Van Cleempoel is one of the world’s foremost experts on Flemish scientific instruments of the Renaissance period, having completed his PhD at the Warburg Institute in the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London in 1998 with a dissertation entitled Aspects of Scientific Instruments Production in Louvain between 1550 and 1600. He is also the co-author of Spheres: The Arts of the Celestial Mechanics (Paris: J. Kugel). Specifically art historical perspectives undertaken in his work include attention to the iconography of scientific instruments in Flemish and Dutch art—in such works as Gossaert’s portrait of a young girl, the Five Senses series of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Vermeer’s Astronomer. That Van Cleempoel is an avid pursuer of yet-undiscovered scientific instruments can be seen in his substantive 2003 co-authored article, “A Recently Discovered Sixteenth-Century Spanish Astrolabe” published in Annals of Science, and in 2015, “A Newly Discovered Medieval Astrolabe with Gear Mechanism,” in Medieval Encounters (proceedings of a conference at the Warburg Institute). He holds the position of Full Professor in Art History and Vice-dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of Hasselt University, the youngest and most innovative of universities in Belgium.
While at Berkeley, Professor Van Cleempoel will teach a seminar on “Sixteenth-Century Scientific Instruments as Materialized Knowledge.” We are fortunate to have the rare opportunity for such a course. It will combine notions and methods of the history of science, art and ideas with a focus on Louvain and Antwerp as centers of production of scientific instruments such as astrolabes, armillary spheres, astronomical rings and sundials in specific intellectual milieux.
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Celebrating Graduate And Undergraduate Students 2015-2016
Undergraduate Awards
Verenice Ramirez
Getty Undergraduate Multicultural InternshipRamon de Santiago
Haas Scholar - twenty highly qualified, academically talented undergraduates come together to build a supportive intellectual community during their final year at UC-Berkeley
McNair Scholar - prepares selected UC Berkeley undergraduates for graduate studyRyan Serpa
Summer Undergraduate Research Award - to conduct research in the eastern United States for an honors thesis on Bay Area Figurative Painting, advised by Darcy Grimaldo GrigsbyGabriella (Nunez) Wellons
George A. Miller Scholar - provides outstanding community college transfer students with a research and community service stipendJessy Bell
Mathilde Andrews
Berkeley's Institute of International Studies (IIS) Undergraduate Merit Scholarship supports undergraduate research in any area of international studies.Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowships/Awards
Sarah Cowan
Fellowship for Research at Emory College; Mellon Curatorial Internship AwardJessica (Jez) Flores
CASVA Summer Travel Award for American Art HistoriansAndrew Griebeler
Dumbarton Oaks Dissertation Fellowship
Townsend Fellowship
CASVA Finley AwardElizabeth McFadden
Kress Institutional Fellowship: will be in residence for two years at the Courtauld Institute, LondonKatherine (Kappy) Mintie
Peter Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research
Junior Fellow Program at the Library of CongressAleksandr (Sasha) Rossman
Konstanz Three Year Dissertation FellowshipAndrew Sears
John Boswell Dissertation Grant from the Medieval Academy of America
Fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut in the "Ethics and Architecture Research Group"Miriam Said
Frances Markoe Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hosted in the Department of Near Eastern ArtEmma Silverman
Henry Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art
Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship in American ArtGrace Harpster
Getty Predoctoral Fellowship
RSA Rensselaer W. Lee Research GrantGraduate Postdoctoral Fellowships/Awards
Charles (Ollie) O'Donnell
Kunsthistorisches Institut Postdoctoral AwardStephanie Pearson
Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)Justin Underhill
U.C. Berkeley, Digital Humanities Postdoctoral AwardElaine Yau
Connecticut College, C3 Postdoctoral AwardJob Placements
William Ma
Lewis and Clark College, One year appointment as Visiting Assistant ProfessorStephanie Pearson
Curatorial Assistant, Institut fur Klassische Archaologie der Freien Universitat BerlinKailani Polzak
Williams College, Tenure Track Position, initially a two-year C3 Postdoctoral FellowshipJordan Rose
UC San Diego, Tenure Track Position