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We are proud to celebrate recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by our accomplished graduate students. Wishing all congratulations!

Fellowships and Awards

Isabella Beroutsos: Center for Race and Gender Student Research Grant...Read more about Celebrating Graduate Student Achievements in 2025-2026

Zamansele has won the prestigious Clark Fellowship in the Society of Hellman Fellows to support her book Nostalgia before and After Apartheid: Archival art and the figuration of the Black Subject. Congratulations!

The Society of Hellman Fellows is an endowed program that provides research...Read more about Zamansele Nsele has won a Hellman Foundation fellowship

Greetings to Alumni, Students, Faculty, Staff, Supporters, and Partners,

As we close out another academic year — and as I concluded my three-year term as Chair— I continue to marvel at our department’s ability to remain focused on our mission and responsive to dynamic conditions.

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The South Asian edition of Lineages of the Global City is forthcoming from Sanctum Books. As an imprint of Munshiram Manoharlal (est. 1870), Sanctum Books stands as India's premier publisher for the humanities and social...Read more about Forthcoming: Shiben Banerji’s Lineages of the Global City (South Asian Edition)

Congratulations to Andrea Jung-An Liu, Angela Pastorelli-Sosa, and Michele D’Aurizio, who received their doctoral degrees.Read more about Commencement 2026

Watch the video in the exhibition at the Legion of Honor, which showcases the Curator, Renee Dreyfus, and Lisa Pieraccini talking about the Etruscans as part of the Legion of Honor exhibit,...Read more about Lisa Pieraccini discusses the Etruscans for the The Legion of Honor exhibit

The Etruscans Uncovered is an exhibit in Doe Library’s Bernice Layne Brown Gallery from March 9 until August 31, 2026. The March 11th opening had a record-breaking attendance of over 130 people! (The Consul General of Italy was there). This exhibit presents a sampling of the large...Read more about Etruscans Uncovered: The Phoebe A. Hearst Collection at UC Berkeley

Chancellor Lyons and his cabinet of about 30 people spent 30 minutes with Lisa Pieraccini at the Etruscan exhibition in the Brown Gallery, Doe Library this morning. His staff reached out to Lisa and asked for a personal visit/lecture.

The exhibit presents a sampling of the...Read more about The Chancellor & Etruscans

Shiben Banerji's book, Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy (University of Texas Press, 2025), has won the 2026 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning. The AAP’s annual PROSE Award...Read more about Shiben Banerji received the 2026 PROSE Award for Architecture and Urban Planning

Yale Press has published a blog post about Atreyee Gupta's recent book Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India.

Please read the blog post here:...Read more about New Yale Press blog post on Atreyee Gupta's book

Encountering the Etruscans: Shedding Light on Ancient Italy at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum is a student-led exhibit from Lisa Pieraccini’s Fall 2025 seminar, The Etruscans Museums: Provenance, Collection & Curation. The students not only leaned about the Etruscans, but also about how...Read more about Encountering the Etruscans, a student-led exhibition from Lisa Pieraccini's seminar

Lauren Kroiz just won a publication grant from the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art for her forthcoming book Living Power: Women's Suffrage and Modern American Art (University of California Press, 2026).

Living Power explores the modernist aesthetics of...Read more about Lauren Kroiz wins a grant from Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art

The History of Art Department extends a warm welcome to our newest faculty.

Shiben Banerji, Associate Professor, Architecture and Urbanism, https://arthistory.berkeley.edu/people/shiben-...Read more about Welcome New Faculty