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The Cal Alumni Association's latest magazine issue, California, has published a wonderful article about our alums who have become curators.

Read the story, written by Dano Nissen'18...Read more about History of Art Alumni Spotlighted in California Magazine

Aglaya Glebova's book, Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin (Yale UP, 2022), has been shortlisted for the 2024 Best First Book Award by The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)....Read more about Aglaya Glebova's book is shortlisted for the 2024 Best First Book Award

The Historic New England’s Book Prize Committee has selected our own Margaretta Lovell’s book, Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America, as an Honor Book for the 2024 Historic New England Book Prize.

"Historic New England is the oldest...Read more about Margaretta Lovell Honored by Historic New England's 2024 Book Prize

Faith Enemark, Department Manager & Academic HR Analyst for the Departments of Rhetoric, Film & Media Studies, has received the 2023–24 Golden Bear Staff Achievement Award in the Letters and Science Division.

The L&S Golden Bear Staff Achievement Awards...Read more about Faith Enemark Receives Golden Bear Staff Achievement Award

We are proud to celebrate recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by our spectacular graduate students. Congratulations, all!!!

Fellowships and Grants

Michele D'Aurizio

- Townsend...Read more about Celebrating Graduate Student Achievements in 2023-2024

The annual newsletter is now here! Thanks to everyone who contributed texts and photographs, and thanks to editors Shannon Jackson, Henrike Lange, Atreyee Gupta, Gudny Gunnarsdottir, and designer Julie Wolf.Read more about Art History Newsletter 2024

H.Art, the History of Art Undergraduate Association at UC Berkeley, has launched a new undergraduate art history journal, see/saw. The inaugural issue features original research and artwork by thirteen students from universities across the United States as well as Ireland and...Read more about Announcing a new undergraduate art history journal

Congratulations to the Class of 2024 who participated in our Commencement ceremony!

We are delighted to share six new episodes as part of Relevance of Place, an online film series that invites artists, architects, designers, and creative thinkers to explore the meaning of “place” as a global, local, and personal concept, as well as “place” as it refers specifically to Tippet...Read more about Shannon Jackson hosts six new artist interviews with Tippet Rise Art Center

The Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage (FESCH) has won a major grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support provenance research on ancient art
and artifacts. The Phase II Research and Development grant from the Division of Preservation and
...Read more about Lisa Pieraccini, Advisory Council Member for MAPRA announces a major grant from the NEH to The Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage

Congratulations to Henrike on her award!

After winning, a few weeks, ago the category Art History / Criticism, Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility has now also won the PROSE award for excellence in Humanities, as one of four top winners across all categories of the year....Read more about Henrike Lange has received the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award for excellence in Humanities

Be a shining star!

The Department of History of Art at UC Berkeley invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary non-tenure track Lecturer positions to teach courses in History of Art. These courses include, but are not limited to, courses in Contemporary Art, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture,...Read more about Lecture position open for History of Art

Congratulations to Elizabeth Fair for being chosen for the 2024 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art award.

See details here: https://www.acls.org/news/acls-...Read more about Elizabeth Fair is 2024 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellow in American Art

Henrike Lange’s book, Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility (Cambridge University Press), has won the 2024 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award in Art History and Criticism. The AAP’s annual PROSE Awards recognize significant contributions in scholarly...Read more about Henrike Lange has received the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award in Art History and Criticism