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September 25, 2024

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. 

August 30, 2024

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. 

July 17, 2024

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

July 15, 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.

June 3, 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 Australia. 

You can read the first issue of see/saw here: https://www.hartberkeley.com/seesaw

May 14, 2024

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

Doctoral Degree

Joseph Albanese

Claire Ittner

Riad Kherdeen

Yessica L. Porras

Delphine Sims

Joel M. Thielen

Bachelor of Arts Degree

Khoo Zi Yun (Geraldine) Ang

Cecilia Ascione

Hannah Brooks

Jack Campbell

Angelique Echeveste

Stacy Gomez

Cloris Guo

Emma Hackathorn

Teddi Haynes

Ashley Heng

Carter Holbrook

Min-Chi Hung

April 25, 2024

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

April 19, 2024

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

April 5, 2024

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...

March 14, 2024

Be a shining star!