Announcements

The South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce the opening of Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War, an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive bringing together work by Naeem Mohaiemen, Prajakta Potnis, TJ Shin, and Tiffany Sia.

The Department of History of Art is delighted to announce the appointment of Yingxue Wang as Assistant Professor of Japanese Art. Wang will join the department in Fall 2027 after two years at Yale as a Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and a 2025 PhD in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard. 

Berkeley News published a story on the Etruscan artifacts held at UC Berkeley, which are currently on display in Doe Library. The display will be up until Aug. 31. 

Read the entire job description here: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05462

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

Lily Callender: Outstanding GSI Award

Kiko del Rosario: John L. Simpson Pre-dissertation Research Fellowship in International & Area Studies.

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!

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. 

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 sciences.

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

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, "The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy," which opened on May 2nd to a large crowd.