Announcements

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

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