Announcements

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 here.

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). Congratulations Aglaya.

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. 

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. 

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 Dissertation Fellowship

Ramon de Santiago

- Mentored Research Award

Elizabeth Fair 

- Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art

Emily Kang

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.

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 Australia. 

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 Rise. https://tippetrise.org/relevance-of-place?dm_i=4QE7,MLL1,5P3FVU,2LIBZ,1

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
Access will provide $350,000 over the next three years to develop the Mediterranean Antiquities
Provenance Research Alliance (MAPRA). MAPRA brings together subject matter experts,
including academics, museum professionals, and data scientists, to establish standards and create