Announcements

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

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.

https://publishingperspectives.com/2024/03/aaps-prose-awards-the-2024-to...

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, European Art, American Art, Asian Art and the art of other Non-Western regions, Reading and Composition and Digital Humanities.

Apply Now.

https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04343

Congratulations to Aglaya Glebova. Her book Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin has won the Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize, the most coveted prize for modernists and open to all disciplines, not just art history.

The department is pleased to announce the publication of Eclipse and Revelation, Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts, edited by Henrike Lange and Tom McLeish.

The department congratulates PhD student Michele D’Aurizio for securing a Spring 2024 appointment as a predoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, at Max Planck Institute for Art History in Florence, Italy. While in residence at the Max Planck Institute, Michele will be at work on the research project “Alighieri Boetti’s tecnica povera.” Read more about it here: https://www.biblhertz.it/3467711/D_Aurizio_Michele